Come here to get assigned to relive one year of your life.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by wutamess

24 would put me at 2000/2001

I had graduated from College in 1999 and was working my first job as Internet Technical Support in Lafayette Indiana (Purdue) making $8.50/hour.

Got laid off by the boss saying, everyone go into the meeting room. In there. the higher ups was like, "we're closing up shop, today is your last day and there's no severance".

I was so green in IT, I'm not sure I'd know any better to do things over. That job built my confidence as up until then, I had insecurity issues when it came to IT in corporate America.

I told my fiance at the time that I'd come back home (to KC) and get things started for us as she had to finish the semester at Purdue.

A couple of weeks earlier I'd gotten a call from HR seasonal in KC. I declined their $11.25/hr offer for seasonal work because I was in love and it would've put us long distance. So I called them back up and asked if the offer was still on the table and YES... They needed bodies.

THE WORST fuggin job of my life! They literally NEEDED BODIES. Long as you could type, you're hired. They just needed call takers. I'd come and go as I pleased while looking for jobs. Finally got a HIT!

Sprint called me back. Longer story short, I got the job after an interview Feb, 2001. Mom's was disappointed in my only getting hired on for $25K/year. However, I was ambitious and just needed an in. That $25K/year became $47K/year in 2-3 years. Since this is my 24th year of existence, I'll keep it to within that time frame. Within 4 months, I was promoted to level II making $28K/year.

That's also the year I was sitting at the command center as a Level II technician when someone came by and said, "Someone flew a plane into the WTC". I thought nothing of it until they said another plane hit the other building. The company instructed all of us to stay off of our phones in order to free up bandwidth.

In summation, I really don't think I'd change anything as that year laid the critical foundation to where I'm at today. I'd probably put everything I had in AAPL but you said we can't use the years for financial gain. Hope this didn't disappoint.

So no changes on your end, apparently. Would it be fun to go back and relive this year? It sounds like there was an equal amount of trauma and triumph.