I Wasted 10 Years Of My Life
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4.5 • 840 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:06.5 | So I'm kind of in of a little dilemma to where I feel like I wasted 10 years of my life. |
| 0:16.4 | And so long story short, coming out of high school, I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in my life. |
| 0:27.1 | And, you know, I scrambled. |
| 0:28.7 | I went from nursing, land care, being an entrepreneur. |
| 0:33.3 | I did a whole bunch of things and found myself in trucking. |
| 0:37.8 | Now, I've been in trucking for about four years and throughout me trying to figure myself |
| 0:43.9 | out and going back and forth through college, online courses, and things of that nature. |
| 0:49.4 | I've tackled on a little bit of debt, which is minuscule compared to others, but I also got into a couple of vices |
| 0:57.4 | drinking, smoking, and I guess the biggest one would be gambling. I have two sons and a daughter, |
| 1:05.7 | and I recently popped the question. So now I'm on my last year, my 20s, I turned 30 in November. And now just |
| 1:14.2 | kind of reminiscing of what went wrong in how many years and days, months, and seconds, |
| 1:21.5 | have I really wasted of just not figuring out life. I don't have a savings. I don't have, if it wasn't for my current |
| 1:30.6 | employee, I wouldn't even have health insurance. No 401K, no big plans. Most of my life has been |
| 1:38.8 | basically paycheck to paycheck, just surviving. You're a great place. |
| 1:44.5 | Yeah, I would say so. |
| 1:45.8 | My dad told me growing up 90% of solving a problem is realizing there is one. |
| 1:51.5 | Right, and I just, and I realize that, and I've listened to you, I listened to you guys |
| 1:56.2 | for a while now. |
| 1:57.2 | I just never really had the courage to really call. But speaking to my |
| 2:01.0 | fiance, you know, she said, it would be a good idea. Don't be scared. You know, and from what I've |
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