I'm All Growns Up

[AngelAmy]

<p>There comes a time in everyone's life where you have to make a decision that goes away from your norm or you comfort zone or whatever you want to call it.&nbsp; You realize that this one thing can turn your life upside down but it's going to ultimately change it for the better.&nbsp; </p><p>I have totally gone out of my comfort zone to schedule an interview for another position in my company.&nbsp; I actually called the number, I applied for the job, I e-mailed everyone I could to get a response about scheduling an interview and all the while I am terrified but I am pushing through because it's something I really want.&nbsp; I can't believe how fast it's all happening and a week from today is my interview and I am mentally preparing myself for what I want to say and how I want to come across because I suck at interviews.&nbsp; It is totally not like me to make a decision, to put myself out there but something is driving me, something I've never felt before.&nbsp; For the first time I'm not over thinking it, I'm just doing it.I'm growns up and I'm growns up and&nbsp; I'm growns up.</p><p>What was the point in your life where that one thing happened to you where you realized you weren't in Kansas anymore, Toto.</p>

[ShelleBink]

<p>I'm really, really proud of you dude for taking the initiative and doing something with your job and stuff.&nbsp; Although, I still miss the good ole days.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Good luck on the interview!!!! :O)&nbsp;</p>

[keithy_19]

<p>I was born a man.</p><p>In alls eriousness though, when I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis was probably the point in life when I knew I had responsibility that if not followed would lead to big problems. I'm also very talented with a needle now. </p>

[Furtherman]

<strong>AngelAmy</strong> wrote: <p>What was the point in your life where that one thing happened to you where you realized you weren't in Kansas anymore, Toto.</p><p>When that tornado snatched me up and took me away.</p>

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

<p>I was just about to turn 21 when my dad died. My mom died when I was 10 and my extended family was pretty much useless so I was all on my own. It really hit home I was alone the first Thanksgiving after my dad died. I thought one of my aunts would invite me over for dinner, but no invite.</p><p>It was also weird not having any family at my college graduation. I felt really alone when I went to back to my friends' apt after the ceremony and they were all busy with their families. I quietly slipped out and went back to my apartment. </p><p>Growing up sucks monkey ass sometimes.</p><p>Congrats on taking the steps to make a change, Amy!&nbsp;</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Alice S. Fuzzybutt on 10-5-06 @ 2:43 PM</span>

[Jujubees2]

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: verdana">Jesus Alice, </span></p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: verdana">Sounds like you've had a rough go at things.&nbsp; I guess if&nbsp;what doesn't kill you makes you stronger then you're as strong as an ox.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: black; font-family: verdana"> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: verdana">Congrats on the interview Amy and good luck.</span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: black; font-family: verdana"><p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: verdana">I guess my grow-up moment was moving away to school.&nbsp; I was born and raised in RI and decided to go across the country for college (Southern Cal). I remember my mother at the airport saying I was doing it to get away from her - which was right.&nbsp; When I unpacked at school I realized I was pretty much on my own.&nbsp; After the initial homesickness things were okay.&nbsp; Until I got arrested for buying a six-pack (I was only 17 when i started college) and had the police call my mother from the station.</span></p></span></p></span>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Jujubees2 on 10-5-06 @ 3:24 PM</span>

[Contra]

Good luck Amy!

I don't think I've really taken all the steps to truly "grow up". Someday perhaps.

[Tall_James]

<p>Amy - I hope you were blasting &quot;I'm An Adult Now&quot; by the Pursuit of Happiness while you were typing out this post.</p><p>Best of luck to you in all of this.&nbsp; </p>

[FUNKMAN]

<p>Best Of Luck Amy!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hope everything works out for ya!!</p><p>44FFE</p><p>Funk</p>

[green_bay_jake]

i just recently bought a house and it kind of dawned on me that maybe i was becoming an adult. &nbsp;then when i moved in, i noticed that i was starting to aquire some really nice stuff. &nbsp;i couldn't just pick up and move at a moments notice anymore. &nbsp;i guess that's how it happens. &nbsp;such is life.<br /><br />good luck with your interview!<br />

[Reephdweller]

<p>I better get some outof this.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Good Luck Sugar Snatch!</p>

[riverofpiss]

<table height="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"><tr height="100%" width="100%"><td valign="top" width="100%" height="250"><font size="2">I<font> actually just noticed that I had grown up about 2 weeks ago.&nbsp; I was cleaning and found some assignments and text books from college that I hadn't looked at in a while.&nbsp; One of the things that I seen was this list that I wrote in some life choices class.&nbsp; The prof in the class wanted us all to fantasize and write down our wants and dreams for when we hit 30.&nbsp; I'm 27 now and as I looked over the list I have 90% of the possessions and my life is where I wanted it to be when I wrote the list.&nbsp; At the time, being 18 and quite broke, &nbsp;I could not have imagined ten years down the road that I could have all these things I could only dream of a short while ago.&nbsp; Anyway, I haven't been married yet or had a child(that I know of), so gauging my life by reading a stupid list is all I have to make me realize that I actually seem to have grown up.</font></font></td></tr><tr><td height="1"><div /></td></tr></table>

[boeman]

<strong>AngelAmy</strong> wrote:<br /><p>What was the point in your life where that one thing happened to you where you realized you weren't in Kansas anymore, Toto.</p><p>I crossed the state line back into my home state... actually, I do this numerous times a month.</p>

[Marc with a c]

<img src="http://www.siglandia.net/Immagini/TF%20USA/growing%20pains.jpg" border="0" />

[FUNKMAN]

<p><strong><font size="1">I'm All Growns Up</font></strong> </p><p>i's been Growns Up too long... i's looking to Grown Down...</p>

[El Mudo]

<p>As far as my outlook on life goes now at 23, I don't really feel any
sort of adjustment to being &quot;grown up&quot;.&nbsp; I've been juggling work
and school since I was 16, and the last few years of college have been
working near 30 hours of work a week and going to school for another
12-15.&nbsp; I think I learned a lot early on about personal
responsibility and how the &quot;real world&quot; actually works.&nbsp; Now I'm
23, i'm going to graduate college in December, I have a good internship
with good connects, and I really don't feel a lot of pressure as far as
starting a career goes, or at least a lot of anxiety.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As
far as the sacrifices I had to make,&nbsp; I never got to have any sort
of &quot;college experience&quot;, and in some ways, its made me a much better
person.&nbsp; I don't regret &quot;missing out&quot; on anything in college,
because I learned much better lessons being in a Union job environment
and dealing with real people on a day-to-day basis (and If I stay
there, at 25 I'll be eligible for a pension when i'm
65...yikes!).&nbsp; I hear some of these rich kids on campus who have
spent much of the last 4 years partying bemoaning the fact they'll have
to enter the &quot;real world&quot; soon, and I just have to smile to myself.<br />
</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But anyway, Congratulations AA, hope you get the job.&nbsp;</p>

[Tall_James]

<strong>Marc with a c</strong> wrote:<br /><img src="http://www.siglandia.net/Immagini/TF%20USA/growing%20pains.jpg" border="0" /> <p>Amy, show me that smile again.</p>

[ChrisTheCop]

<p>Congrats Amy, and GOOD LUCK.</p><p>We all have our own idea of what it means to be grown up. I never really thought about it before, but with the exception of my job, I have no responsibilities to anyone or anything ('cept my cat). I handle myself like an adult, but most of the time thats forced.</p><p>I dont think I'm even close to being grown up. Is that a bad thing? I'm happy this way.</p><p>Oh, and flirting at an interview may be fine, but they may frown on sucking.&nbsp;</p>

[Gwen]

<p>Good luck, chick.&nbsp; I'm sure you'll do just fine and like everyone else said: keep us posted on it.</p><p>&nbsp;I think my grown up moment was when I closed on my first house with the manpiece.&nbsp; My mom was all teary-eyed and even I got a lil crazy about it.&nbsp; Good times though especially seeing as I get to be neighbors with Pootertoot and Effmeboobs.<br /></p>

[reeshy]

Being grown up and mature sucks....so I stopped!!!!!<br />

[Pootertoot]

<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><strong>Gwen</strong> wrote:<br /><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>&nbsp;Good times though especially seeing as I get to be neighbors with Pootertoot and Effmeboobs.<br /><p>&nbsp;</p><blockquote /><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Except now I have to worry about where I put my batch blanket.&nbsp;</p>

[Gvac]

<p>HOLY SWEET JUMPIN' JEEZIS!</p><p>A Gwen post followed by a Pootertoot post? &nbsp;</p><p>I just shit myself.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[reeshy]

My underoos just turned yellow!!!!<br />

[FUNKMAN]

i spit shit out my nose

[angrymissy]

I'm scared.

[Big Jim]

<p>I am 2 years away from 30.</p><p>And to think I knew some of you people when I was just a wee lad of 22.</p><p>Remember this little party from like 5 years ago?</p><p><img height="247" src="http://myspace-072.vo.llnwd.net/01260/27/00/1260650072_l.jpg" width="420" border="0" /></p>

[EffMeBoobs]

Wow I remember that night.&nbsp; Time flies, it sucks.<br />

[Tenbatsuzen]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>EffMeBoobs</strong> wrote:<br />Wow I remember that night. Time flies, it sucks.<br /><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Quoted for truth...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I'm watching all my friends get married.&nbsp; I'm the last man standing of all my college friends.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I'm watching my brother be a father.&nbsp; I'm watching my parents retire.&nbsp; I'm watching my future wife sleeping.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[A.J.]

<strong>Gvac</strong> wrote:<br /><p>HOLY SWEET JUMPIN' JEEZIS!</p><p>A Gwen post followed by a Pootertoot post? &nbsp;</p><p>I just shit myself.&nbsp;</p>It's 2001 all over again!

[reeshy]

Big Jim....how the hell are you...I missed you!!!!!!!<br />

[Big Jim]

<p>Hey man!</p><p>been doing well, work is crazy and im getting my demo tape together for a news station so i can become a reporter or anchor in a small market somewhere (to start at least).&nbsp; </p><p>I miss 2002.&nbsp; It was the best.</p>

[Doogie]

It is great to have memories of the good old days. But we do have to grow up a lil bit and get jobs that can carry us to the next level in our life. Good luck in your endeavors, and realizing that there does come a time when this decision hits us all.