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ednbarby:

--- Quote from: cHrIs_sLaYeRs on June 28, 2006, 03:02:30 pm ---I was born on July 18, 1982 in a suburb of Austin, TX.  Mom and dad divorced at age 2 and I have only seen my dad a handful of times since then.  Mom remarried 3 times and had 3 more kids over the next 9 years.  I lived on a large ranch in Texas up until age 16..I graduated early and moved to Utah with my mom and her sort of husband whom was in the military.  I started school at the University of Utah in Business Administration at 17 and also worked at movie theater part time.  Graduated with my ABA at 2002. 

Mom moved back to Texas and I married in September of 2003 and was also promoted to manager of the theater I worked at that April.  Bought a house with my wife and lived happy...

If only it ended that way...
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Your life's still young, dear Chris.  You may not think so right now, but there is time for a happy ending yet.

My goodness, but quite a few of us have had challenging childhoods/youths, have we not?  I couldn't help but read your post (and Sheyne's) and think "Shit. That's hard."  Seriously.  Well, that which doesn't kill us, ... , I guess, and all that happy horseshit, right?

dly64:

--- Quote from: cHrIs_sLaYeRs on June 28, 2006, 03:02:30 pm ---I was born on July 18, 1982 in a suburb of Austin, TX.  Mom and dad divorced at age 2 and I have only seen my dad a handful of times since then.  Mom remarried 3 times and had 3 more kids over the next 9 years.  I lived on a large ranch in Texas up until age 16..I graduated early and moved to Utah with my mom and her sort of husband whom was in the military.  I started school at the University of Utah in Business Administration at 17 and also worked at movie theater part time.  Graduated with my ABA at 2002. 

Mom moved back to Texas and I married in September of 2003 and was also promoted to manager of the theater I worked at that April.  Bought a house with my wife and lived happy...

If only it ended that way...

I was promoted to regional manager when another local theater was put under my management in August 2004.  And then I got control of another in February of 2006.  I had a son named Charlie Jacob in April of this year but am now however going through a divorce from my wife of almost 3 years. 

My younger brother (19) is now living with me because of a few troubles he had with the law back home in Texas.  He helps me take care of my son while I'm at work and is a great help with the household chores and such...

CJ will be 8 weeks tomorrow...
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I am sorry to hear about all you are going through. You will have primary care of your son? It certainly sounds like you have a lot of responsibity riding on your back. I wish the best for you.

You said you lived in a suburb of Austin, TX? I lived in Austin for two years (the Wells Branch Parkway area ... close to Round Rock). Although I liked it there and made some good friends, it was just too hot. I missed the ol' midwest!  :)

Again - I am hopeful that you will find strength through this very hard time. Stay well.

starboardlight:
I grew up all over the place. I was born in Thailand. I lived in Laos until it fell to communism in the mid 70's. Lived in Thailand until I was 10. My parents sent me to live with my uncle in Marietta, Georgia until 15. I spent the first five years of learning English from people who had the Southern drawl. Every so often that part of me will come out in the way a say a certain word, and people go "huh?" People still think of Asian faces as being from a different country, so they get really surprise to hear a southern accent come out of me. But it's there just underneath my skin. It's like I can switch vocal track and I talk as a southerner as naturally as native Georgians. I moved to a suburb of Seattle at 15. Moved to Southern California at 17. In high school is where I began to lose my southern accent, trying to fit in and all. Since moving to SoCal, I haven't left. Been living here nearly 20 years now.

I went to UCLA and studied economics. Actually took the long way there, I went in Undeclared Physical Science, finally declared Physics, then changed to Chemistry, then back to undeclared, before finally settling on Econ. I loved the theories of Econ, but didn't really figure out what I wanted to do with it. I graduated and worked for a year but realized I didn't want to be doing that for the next 40 years of my life. I finally figured out that I had to be passionate about what I do, since I'll take up half of my waking life. I finally came back to art. I had always done art of some kind since I was little. I'm a picture maker at heart, so I figure I'll go into the creative field. I researched and figured out that Graphic Design and Illustration are something that I would find fulfilling. After a year of working, I decided to go back to Art School and get formal education on design and illustration. While there are many who have become successful from self taught methods, I knew I wasn't smart enough to do that. I needed to get familiar with the basics and connect with mentors who could objectively point out my weaknesses and show me how to progress. I finished up art school in 2000, just as the dot com bombed. Finding permanent work was tough, but I found that there were plenty of demand for design still. I started taking up freelance gigs, and they just continue to sustain me, financially and spiritually, so here I am, self-employed, unstable and happy.

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