{"id":7743,"date":"2017-02-06T05:34:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T05:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2017\/02\/06\/studypetals-master-elder-fiber\/"},"modified":"2017-02-06T05:34:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T05:34:19","slug":"studypetals-master-elder-fiber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2017\/02\/06\/studypetals-master-elder-fiber\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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the-good-lemon<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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beanarie<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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raeseddon<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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elvenclub<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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roane72<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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geekyangie<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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brolinapproved<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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rawdibunu<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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phantasmsystem<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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armadillo<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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its kinda scary how your whole life depends on how well you do as a teenager\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

oh my god No it doesn\u2019t don\u2019t put this kind of pressure on people?? you can absolutely fuck up in your teen years and continue on to a good life just fine. you can drop out of school, get a GED, still go to college and finish your degree as late as you want. i know people in my school who still haven\u2019t graduated and they\u2019re 26. some older. you can always transfer someplace else, always build yourself up from the ground. after a certain amount of college credits, a lot of schools really don\u2019t care about your high school GED or your SAT scores anymore. if you fuck up in your teenage years you are not a failure!! you can ALWAYS re-invent yourself, always start over. there is always a second chance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Reblogging this for my followers freaking out over art school\/college. I dropped out of high school and never thought I\u2019d get into college as easily as I did. You will be fine!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fun story my biology professor just told us: \u00a0When he was 23 he was married to his wife and worked two jobs to support them since she was in college: gas station attendant and construction worker. \u00a0He worked these two jobs because that was the only work he could get since he was at the reading level of a third grader. \u00a0<\/p>\n

One night he was writing something and his wife noticed he was writing from right to left. \u00a0Since she was studying occupational therapy she realized he had a learning disability and started working with him. \u00a0He slowly began to learn to read, and at 26 got his GED and went to college.<\/p>\n

His first year of college he took the lowest level math course he could take, 001. \u00a0Over the years he worked on learning what he needed to, ended up graduating with a biology degree. \u00a0He then went on to get his masters and PhD, graduating at the top of his class. \u00a0He is now an extremely accomplished biologist and professor.<\/p>\n

So don\u2019t let anyone tell you that you\u2019re future is based on your choices as a teenager.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Seriously. \u00a0Do not believe this. \u00a0You aren\u2019t even stuck with your choices you make in your 20s. \u00a0I didn\u2019t start working in my current field until just after my 30th birthday. \u00a0It has nothing to do with what I went to school for in my 20s. \u00a0My husband has a political science degree, and he\u2019s a sports journalist.<\/p>\n

You are not tied to anything. \u00a0Go. \u00a0Be.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My day job did not exist when I was a teenager. And the idea of trying to be an author was a distant thing on my radar. I thought I was going to be an English teacher. And then I thought I was going to be a music teacher. And then I thought I was going to be a drama teacher.<\/p>\n

Also in there: therapist, early childhood educator, then finally: web developer\u2013because by then it was an actual thing that existed. I didn\u2019t actually figure out what I\u00a0\u201cwanted to do when I grew up\u201d until about eight years ago, when I was 36. I tried pursuing writing when I was 30, stopped, then started pursuing it seriously again when I was 40.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There is always time to change. And don\u2019t let anyone tell you that high school is\u00a0\u201cthe best time of your life\u201d either, because that\u2019s bullshit too.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Reblogging for my followers. My high school teachers didn\u2019t know what to do with me, and I failed everything but a low photography grade. I thought university wasn\u2019t for me, and settled for marrying a mediocre man who spent all day on Warcraft. Then I went to community college. Now I\u2019m in uni doing a double English and philosophy degree, just back from America. I am also single.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Also important: College is not the only option. Don\u2019t let anyone try to tell you it is. If you\u2019re not academically inclined, the trades are an option and they are a good option\u2013 if the only thing you think you\u2019re good at is make-up do<\/i> that. There are people who can live comfortably just doing make-up. We have this idea planted in our heads as teenagers (and younger) that not fitting into an academic mould of some sort means you\u2019re failing at life and this is bullshit<\/i>. There\u2019s no reason to feel like you\u2019re \u201cfailing at life\u201d because you don\u2019t like<\/i> school or were never good at it. We need<\/i> skilled workers in the world, and the thing they don\u2019t tell you is all work is skilled work<\/i>. If it\u2019s work, it takes skill. Yes, this encompasses \u201cservice\u201d jobs, it encompasses all<\/i> jobs. Please don\u2019t think that what you do, or what you have an interest in doing is of less value than something that requires a college education. This coming from the college-educated white girl who is a seamstress because it\u2019s what I enjoy<\/i>. If college isn\u2019t going to get you where you want to go, than you don\u2019t need to go! It\u2019s that simple. Take whatever path you need to get to where you are happy and comfortable and fufilled. If you\u2019re doing what you love you are sucessful<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

i didn\u2019t graduate with my bachelor\u2019s until i was 26 and life took a few turns along the way but now, at 37, i have a job that makes me genuinely happy. and it\u2019s got nothing to do with how well i did in high school.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This! This make me cry\u2026 I\u2019m 23 and I really don\u2019t know where I\u2019m going, so reading this kinds of storys makes me feel hope!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I love all this support and inspiring stories, but what I think op was getting at was that our teachers\/parents\/elders ingrain this idea in us that if we fuck up in our teens, we fuck up everything. So don\u2019t ever let adults make you feel less for needing\/spending more time to achieve your goals. You\u2019re still amazing if you get a degree at 24 or 44 or even not at all<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

for everyone needing this as much as i do right now<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

studypetals: master-elder-fiber: the-good-lemon: beanarie: raeseddon: elvenclub: roane72: geekyangie: brolinapproved: rawdibunu: phantasmsystem: armadillo: its kinda scary how your whole life depends on how well you do as a teenager\u00a0 oh my god No it doesn\u2019t don\u2019t put this kind of pressure on people?? you can absolutely fuck up in your teen years and continue on to … Continue reading <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}