seriously though...write this down since both of you have hippie avatars you probably killed off most of the good brain cells as no real hippie would be online here really in your volume.
I was gifted, IQ on some chart over 140...I took classes that most would need to take in the past 5 years to pass because your momma threatened to sue if they failed you.
I got published a few times along the way, I thought it was gay. I have no idea what I wrote or where it went, I threw it away.
My dad was a banker, he got me a job at 12 filing papers...by 16 I was doing loan sales. By 18-19 I was saving quite a bit and picked up working in a chinese restaurant at night a few times a week and in a vet's office between classes. This veterinarian is probably in the top of all in the world. He has actually been mentioned on these forums a couple times and I didn't start the thread. I will probably be a crazy animal man by the time I die. I feed my cats very well, as much as people hate hearing animals are like people...my wife can no longer have kids. My cats are my kids... I also feed a large feral colony, I use the Kirkland cat food.
I lifted weights since middle school, I was able to try out for varsity as a freshman but a growth spurt had me blacklisted by a doctor...I took up martial arts competitively then wrestled in varsity as a senior.
I was a hacker...you won't find anything that pinpoints me to any event, but the FBI did visit me during the great mod/lod war. I never did anything that someone had to pay for. I borrowed time on systems if anything. Many were doing CC fraud during these times...I see that trend in most forums. I am adamant against stealing. I don't care if it's just a ream of paper. It's STEALING.
I aced ASVABs, and pretty much the PCAT (pharmacy test)...I did great on math on the SAT and ACT but used to never read the english part and just picked a good answer. Surprisingly I scored above average still.
I debated being an engineer at first and actually was able to design the fire sprinkler systems of a popular christan colleges new addition and a geriatric center down here. Doing so I climbed my first 30+ foot ladder.
I realized engineering wasn't for me due to having to look up everything and just do it by the book. Prior to my AA degree I was accepted to pharmacy school at UF. I had switched to Biology and Zoology looking to go to med school. Being a doctor would mean not doing much until I was older...(we have a lot of docs in our circle)...so I decided on pharmacy. Interned in it and decided I hated it. About the same time my first wife broke her neck.
I ended up back in banking...stayed in it until 1999. Was able to buy a nice house in the now popular Wellington, Fl area (polo horse deaths). Half acre on a canal, 3/2/2 with pool...I was only 23.
Switched to computer science when I peaked in that gig. Did my BS in a year and a half.
went back to do computer work for a major mortgage company.
I love tools and working on things...I have rebuilt a ton of cars, rooms, boats, etc.
All that said, no I am not rich...I have learned that getting most high paying things is more luck than skill though or being willing to whore yourself. When I say whoring it's not that flashy shiny person in your office, it's the one you don't see and think they are all business.
so just write this shit down ok. If there is anything else you want my take on, let me know and I will provide it. Keep trying to let me know I contradicted myself.