School
**I Thought I Needed More Hours. Turns Out I Needed Better Choices**
I want to tell you something embarrassing. For most of my twenties I genuinely thought my problem was that I needed more hours. Like if someone could just quietly add a couple extra hours to my day everything would sort itself out. I'd finally get on top of things. Stop feeling like I was always one day behind on everything that mattered.
By M.Changer4 months ago in Confessions
**10 Ways People Are Building Careers From Their Bedroom**
Nobody told me this was possible when I was younger. The message I grew up with was pretty clear: school, then more school, then a degree, then maybe someone gives you a job. That was the path. Deviating from it felt risky in a way nobody could fully explain but everyone seemed to agree on.
By M.Changer4 months ago in Confessions
T-Dub & Me
So let me take you on a trip down memory lane, 25 years in the making. It’s mid to late August of 2001. After a summer of going to the beach multiple times and everyone still reeling from the craze of movies like Rush Hour 2 and The Fast and the Furious, the summer is nearly over and I’ve just started 3rd grade at my new school Seawell elementary in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. My teacher’s name is Ms. Scales and her assistant is Ms. White. My first week at this new school was pretty typical new kid, new playground, new rules type of stuff, but that first Saturday of the school year helped to set the tone for a future I never saw coming.
By Joe Patterson4 months ago in Confessions
My Friends Say They're "Worried About My Body" — I finally realised what they're really protecting.
“You’re not going to eat all of that, are you?” The fork was halfway to my mouth when she said it, her voice wrapped in a laugh that never quite reached her eyes. It was pasta. It was rigatoni, really, with too much sauce, in a bowl too big for it, at a loud Italian place where the waiter kept calling us "ladies", as if we were one person. I remember my hand suspended, the cheese solidifying, the table silent beside me.
By write with shan4 months ago in Confessions
When Did You Realize Men Were Evil?
You know, growing up, I got my history lessons in school, and one thing that really stuck with me was the story of the two World Wars. At first, it all seemed pretty straightforward , just people disagreeing and resorting to violence to sort things out. Honestly, it felt like just another chapter in a long list of conflicts, kind of like the wars that have come before and the ones still happening today. I thought, “Okay, disagreements can lead to violence sometimes.” Simple enough, right?
By real Jema4 months ago in Confessions
