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I am back here a year since I posted my goodbye.
I wrote a very long goodbye about how I was determined to pursue other things in life. I think I would like the chance to share an update with you all, as this is still the place where I truly grew into the person I am on many levels. I owe a lot of where I am right now to you all.
I wrote about how I had a childhood passion for programming and how I let it fade after being ridiculed by my friend’s mother. I told you that I was moving to Washington, and then enrolling in programming bootcamp soon after.
I guess things don’t always go according to plan. Shortly after moving here, I had to take a huge dose of humility and admit my financial situation to myself, and then to my husband. Telling him where our money stood was nearly marriage-breaking. He placed full trust in me to handle our bills, but I was having a hard time finding motivation to work.
I’d completely eaten through every penny of our savings. We were dangerously close to not making our rent. It was clear – in order to pay for bootcamp, live, and to regain his trust, I had no choice but to get a full-time job and build up our savings again.
I got a job working as an administrative assistant at a tech company. Even though I had a huge gap on my resume, I had no difficulty finding a job. I used my Etsy shop as experience, and I spoke very confidently about my abilities. I started my job three weeks after I started the job hunt.
The pay is alright and the benefits are fine. My coworkers are incredible and the atmosphere at work is fun and laid back. I have been here since the end of July. I’m sitting here on my work laptop writing this right now.
Shortly after starting work, it was clear that my Etsy shop was taking too much time and not bringing in the same money it used to, so I closed the shop.
In December, my niece came to visit for her holiday break. Some of the girls may remember her situation a couple years ago. I had posted about it in Model’s Only. I was trying to gain custody of her. She is a teenager, in high school, and had a very horrible home life. I am so happy to say that in December, I got custody of her! She lives here, goes to school here, and just fucking got accepted to college here! She is incredible and driven and will complete her last two years of high school and an associate’s degree simultaneously!
My household’s monetary situation is now nearly repaired. Things are just about back to normal. All bills are current, we are saving lots of money, and we are paying every single bill on auto-pay without worry of overdraft. Being back in the driver’s seat of life is an amazing feeling.
When my calendar notified me that it was one year since posting this (a reminder I had set) I realized that I thought my life would look very different by now. I thought I would have landed my first software development engineer job, that I would be moving into a nicer apartment, and gearing up for a long vacation overseas.
Now I support a team of software development engineers, live in a modest apartment, and have a short vacation back to my hometown with my niece planned. Although it’s not what I expected, I would not change this last year. Life happens and things change, and I am so happy and lucky to have the life I’m living.
Given all of that, I never lost sights of my goals or my passions. I enrolled in that bootcamp last week. Wish me luck.
I wrote a very long goodbye about how I was determined to pursue other things in life. I think I would like the chance to share an update with you all, as this is still the place where I truly grew into the person I am on many levels. I owe a lot of where I am right now to you all.
I wrote about how I had a childhood passion for programming and how I let it fade after being ridiculed by my friend’s mother. I told you that I was moving to Washington, and then enrolling in programming bootcamp soon after.
I guess things don’t always go according to plan. Shortly after moving here, I had to take a huge dose of humility and admit my financial situation to myself, and then to my husband. Telling him where our money stood was nearly marriage-breaking. He placed full trust in me to handle our bills, but I was having a hard time finding motivation to work.
I’d completely eaten through every penny of our savings. We were dangerously close to not making our rent. It was clear – in order to pay for bootcamp, live, and to regain his trust, I had no choice but to get a full-time job and build up our savings again.
I got a job working as an administrative assistant at a tech company. Even though I had a huge gap on my resume, I had no difficulty finding a job. I used my Etsy shop as experience, and I spoke very confidently about my abilities. I started my job three weeks after I started the job hunt.
The pay is alright and the benefits are fine. My coworkers are incredible and the atmosphere at work is fun and laid back. I have been here since the end of July. I’m sitting here on my work laptop writing this right now.
Shortly after starting work, it was clear that my Etsy shop was taking too much time and not bringing in the same money it used to, so I closed the shop.
In December, my niece came to visit for her holiday break. Some of the girls may remember her situation a couple years ago. I had posted about it in Model’s Only. I was trying to gain custody of her. She is a teenager, in high school, and had a very horrible home life. I am so happy to say that in December, I got custody of her! She lives here, goes to school here, and just fucking got accepted to college here! She is incredible and driven and will complete her last two years of high school and an associate’s degree simultaneously!
My household’s monetary situation is now nearly repaired. Things are just about back to normal. All bills are current, we are saving lots of money, and we are paying every single bill on auto-pay without worry of overdraft. Being back in the driver’s seat of life is an amazing feeling.
When my calendar notified me that it was one year since posting this (a reminder I had set) I realized that I thought my life would look very different by now. I thought I would have landed my first software development engineer job, that I would be moving into a nicer apartment, and gearing up for a long vacation overseas.
Now I support a team of software development engineers, live in a modest apartment, and have a short vacation back to my hometown with my niece planned. Although it’s not what I expected, I would not change this last year. Life happens and things change, and I am so happy and lucky to have the life I’m living.
Given all of that, I never lost sights of my goals or my passions. I enrolled in that bootcamp last week. Wish me luck.
