The life story of a dreaming monkey:

TheDayDreamingMonkey:

Hello,

I am going to tell a little about myself to you folks in hopes that I can gain more knowledge through this site. To start things off I want to say thank you all for all your content and post, I've been secretly scrounging around for advice on Wall Street Oasis for a couple months now.

During my time from elementary school to high school I never had the most outstanding grades. My teachers had always told my parents that I had A.D.D. and that they should place me on medication to correct my problem. My parents always refused to put me on medication, especially my father. I had mixed feelings about there decision later on in life but I know they where looking out for my health. As previously mentioned I never had stellar grades and that really took a bite out of my academic confidence. When I got to high school I excelled in all my science and history classes but never really payed attention and therefor; never took school seriously. I have always loved science and history, I practically grew up watching only the history channel and science channel with my father. But, my decisions in high school where not the best. I would skip school to go smoke weed with my friends, I would stay up late on school nights, and party on the weekends. I never did my homework and I barely even showed up to school. My actions took a toll on my high school career. I wasn't going to walk with my class and I was destine to be a super senior. I then decided my best option was to drop out of high school and get my "good enough diploma". Of course being 17 I didn't learn from my actions or decisions and my choices continued after attaining my G.E.D.

After I turned 18 years old and working a couple of odd jobs, I got a job at a warehouse making around 16/hr. I thought I had made it, I was set, nothing could stop me! Once again, I was dead wrong. I started to regret my decisions that I had made during high school. A year flew by on the job and I started to think about how much I f'ed my life up. Envy filled my mind and heart as I saw all my high school classmates completing there diplomas and going to state college and some going to out of state college. I saw them grow into the things I wanted for myself and the sight of all this made it really hard to know what I had done to my own life through my own decisions. I had a job that I hated, picking up and setting down boxes on pallets all day. It is back breaking mindless work and I am at awe to the guys that have stayed their for over 20 years. After about another year on the job I had an at work accident which resulted in a crashed pallet jack and I got drug tested. It took a week to get my results back and I had obviously failed but during that week I had taken a real hard look at my life. The things I saw where not pretty. I had no job, a G.E.D., and no relevant experience in anything outside of warehousing.

Fast forwarding a couple of months after getting fired, I got a job at another warehouse that offered four 10 hour shifts. I decided that I had enough with the bull-spit in my life. I quit doing drugs, I quit hanging out with the people that had a bad influence on me and my life, and I decided to apply at my local community college. I took two course but decided halfway through to drop them because my work and school was just too much to handle. I knew I would have to give up my new warehouse job so after eight months I quit to go to college full time to fulfill my goals and dreams. I had gained an interest in business over my time in warehousing. I always dreamed about what it would be like to be my own boss and own my own business.

About a couple of months later I got a job at big brown. I know it's warehousing but it's part time and they have a tuition assistance program that helps me pay for my schooling. I have been going to school ever since I started working for brown. I have gained an immense interest in Finance over this past year and I have decided that a degree in finance is going to be best for me. Aviation interest me a lot and I am still considering starting my own business (in aviation) or go into some banking field. Anyways I have Intel at my backdoor with internships, I have Nike at my front door with internships. I also have Boeing, Russell Investments, and a couple small investment firms here and in Seattle that offer internships. I am going to try to get into University of Washington after my community college is complete and If I can't I will go to University of Portland instead. I think my first try at an internship will be with Intel, they have a fiance internship and that rotational internship that takes you through accounting, finance, and management I think..?

I look back on my life and I see the stupidity. I see where I was, where I am, and where I want to be. I can only hope to gain more knowledge throughout my life. I hope to achieve everything I want and know I can clearly see the path on how to do so. With hard work I hope to do anything I put my mind to.

Thanks for reading,
C.W.

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