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Langland · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 8:31 pm Post subject:

I'm just getting depressed. I haven't been able to get ahead. I don't know where to go right now.

I have an older brother who wants to claim me as a dependent so he can get a bigger house in military housing and he wants to use my disability to exploit that. I feel a bit uncomfortable with it even if I could get a government job.

I'm just depressed because I want to get ahead so badly and I never can catch a break from all the crap that just constantly happens. That's all.

Traegorn · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 12:14 pm Post subject:

I guess it depends on your definition of "get ahead"

I consider any day in which I continue to have a roof over my head and food in my stomach to be a success.
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Langland · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 12:26 pm Post subject:

Trae, You also don't live with your mom, and you have a full time job and benefits with it. And you also have a wife. So you have a good life to be proud of. I don't.

I'm depressed because I don't want to work a dead end job that I only have for 1 half of the year. I want to desperately leave. That's why im depressed. I want to be self sustaining and not relying on anyone else right now. Except the government, I will take their handouts if they offer them.

Traegorn · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 2:29 pm Post subject:

Langland, I'm also eight years older than you.

At your age, I had moved my stuff back into my parents house, was living in a Dorm room (as I was going back to school), and while I was dating someone - it was a miserable, hate filled nightmare of a relationship in which I was anything but happy... and had I been smarter, I'd have exited it.

What I'm saying is that it took a heck of a lot of work for me to get my life in order.

So I'm married - I got lucky and met the right person. Meeting Crysta is, admittedly, the only break I've had. But relationships are a heck of a lot of work, and I got a lot of them wrong before I finally got one right.

I have a job. I also put a lot of work into school, and - y'know - I worked terrible ones, and I had to work my ass off of to get this one.

So you haven't gotten everything right yet. The key word there is yet. And while I use myself as an example, don't use me as a benchmark.

Heck don't use anyone as a benchmark. Just ask yourself "Did I feel happy today?"

If you did, then you're doing fine. If you didn't, figure out what you can do to change that.
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Langland · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 4:16 pm Post subject:

Right now I have been overwhelmed lots and lots of stress and it has taken a toll on me.

I have made the conclusion i want to move from here. I'm not happy here.

Traegorn · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 5:12 pm Post subject:

The key is to just focus on one thing at a time.

If moving away is what you want, then do it. Make it happen.
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Langland · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 7:32 pm Post subject:

Well it's going to tie in with hopefully DVR relocating me somewhere. My counselor brought up your employer as one that might hire disabled people. It apparently has a lot of entry level desk jobs.

Traegorn · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 5:24 pm Post subject:

It's not a bad place to work, depending on what department you're in.
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Langland · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:04 pm Post subject:

I actually wanted to work there a while ago but I told I need to take a keyboarding test and at the time I was intimidated by that.

And also because you also worked there Trae and I was worried at the time you would disapprove of me working there at the same time you are.

Traegorn · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:17 pm Post subject:

Yeah, the testing can be daunting.

Langland · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:07 pm Post subject:

Traegorn · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:53 am Post subject:

(I have a policy of not mentioning my employer by name on this site, so please don't mind the word filter)

Langland, I'm sorry if I ever hurt your feelings. I tease my friends, and if I crossed a line wih you, please know that wasn't my intention and I'm sorry.

Just a few notes:
1. i would never mock anyone for trying to make their life better.
2. I don't think I'm all that important, I just try to be entertaining. Please re-evaluate your opinions of my motives with that in mind.
3. I'm the most underacheiving of all my siblings. My brother and sister do way more important things than I do. My point is, there is always someone doing more or who has more impact on the world... But if you spend your life comparing yourself to them, you'll never be happy. And you'll never appreciate what you DO have.
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Langland · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 8:46 am Post subject:

It's ok Trae.

I have been getting my priorities straightened out more as time goes by.

I am telling you how I used to be. I still look up to you because you're clearly happy with what you do. I want be like that, we I'm living a life where I'm happy. Now that I have an old issue resolved now. I now look at it in a way, that it doesn't matter where I work, as long as I can be happy with it.

And you never gone too far with your jokes. I just sometimes used to be confused about it. Calvsie once mentioned it use to happen to him too. Just the whole confusion part. None of us were ever offended,

calvsie · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:10 am Post subject:

Oh yeah. I can relate, but over time, Trae helped me get my head on straight. Heck I could go so far as to say he is one of the three people that helped me realize how I felt about Alisha. Ah the memories. late nights in KT... or was it putnam?

Anyway.
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Traegorn · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 1:26 am Post subject:

I AM HERE TO GUIDE YOU TO TRUE LOVE AND YOUR BETTER SELF.

AND PIE.
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calvsie · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 3:27 pm Post subject:

Funny you've never guided me to pie.
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Traegorn · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:30 pm Post subject:

IT IS BECAUSE I AM NOT YET DONE TEACHING YOU

PIE IS THE FINAL LESSON.

BECAUSE IT IS A DESSERT.
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calvsie · Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 12:58 am Post subject:

gosh darn it. I'm reading your post in the voice of Ultimate Warrior in my head.
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Traegorn · Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 5:31 am Post subject:

I just had a vivid nightmare about trying to stop a zombie outbreak (almost - people just went insane and started trying to eat other people - no undead). it was caused by a secret society that practiced ritualistic cannibalism and an impossibly fast acting prion disease. There is something wrong with my brain. Also, I should try to sell this as a screenplay.
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calvsie · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 8:38 am Post subject:

Oh the horror... never accidentally go to trahonline.com
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Traegorn · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 8:49 am Post subject:

Langland · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 11:27 am Post subject:

Damn it now I went to see. Why did I make the mistake as well.

But then again I did not experience any trauma in this curious search as I was expecting what I saw.

calvsie · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 6:10 pm Post subject:

oh the horror WHAT HAVE I DONE!!!!!
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Langland · Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 9:47 am Post subject:

Don't worry I'm not going to have PTSD over the search since I am unfazed with the sight of porn.

Traegorn · Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 12:32 am Post subject:

Only one more episode of Being Human UK. That makes me kind of sad.
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