Posted on 10/30/2013 12:22:29 AM PDT by jy8z
graduated at 17 from HS...went to college...lived with parents in the summer in those years.
moved out for good when I was 19.
24 years old. My father was forced into retirement due to his age and the parents had to sell the house and move elsewhere. I had a job....found an attic apartment and have been going along on my own ever since then.
bump for later.
I was 18 and had graduated High School 10 days prior and was on my way to RTC/NTC San Diego CA for United States Navy Boot Camp.
Four days after my 18th birthday, I went to boot camp at Great Lakes, IL.
I went in the Guard at 17, Went to basic at Ft. Knox, then to Ft. Sam Houston. Came home for a couple of months, when my father died at 51 years of age. I worked and found my wife when I was 20, we married and moved to the Washington suburbs. So I guess I really moved out at 20,when I married.
Left when I was 12 to work in the coal mines of Virginia. At 15 I was packing dynamite in hillsides while suspended from cables to clear the way for a new dam. At 16 I was carrying buckets of red hot rivets and welding I-beams in place 120 floors up in Dubai. At 17 I was packing plutonium into hydrogen bombs for the department of defense. At 30 I moved back into my parent’s basement and got a job at Walmart in housewares.
Or something like that.
Shipped out to Parris Island Sept 66 with 4 friends, (we all survived Nam), met up with my father in Sept 68 in Nam, came home in Jun69, married my beloved, went to school, and never looked back.
Now 65, and find myself going to DC to defend the monuments, and schooling my congressman on the Constitution and the proper role of government.
In God We Trust.......Semper Fi
17. Went off to college (paid 1/2 of the cost myself). Only home for a few days here and there (holidays). Mother sold the house and moved to Florida during my junior year, so there was no going back home anyway at that point.
Finished the seventh grade at 15 left home at 16, had three older brothers who was already gone before they were 14 but the came and went.
AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY
Cold Flamingo
Left home at 17 1/2. 1978. went to work on a fishing boat and have never been in need of anybody’s money. : )
A year after high school, I told my mother that I wanted to get an apartment and strike out on my own.
She cried. “I’m being a bad mother,” and suchlike. Hmm.
Two weeks later, I announced that I wanted to enlist in the U.S. Air Force. She was delighted. Hmm.
Got tired of his mistrust and left home at 18 but with 6 months to go before graduation. Grad was hardest thing I ever did. Knew I HAD to finish high school but was working for 1.87/hr at a movie theatre as an usher. GF thoughts I was nuts, but that's ok, she dropped me like I was a red hot rock someone put in her hand a few months later when I enlisted in the navy and she didn't like the idea. (still rankles 40 years later :( )
SO enlisted in the navy 2 days after my HS prom cause I'd blown every dollar I had on prom and did 4 years. But that got my GI bill bennies and got me a computer science degree which I parlayed into a 30 year career as a professional computer consultant.
Married 40 yrs, 4 kids, 3 gkids who are the heart of my life.
Unfortunately, pneumonia took away my lungs for the most part so I'm disabled now and have to sit at home and move minimally but still do computer stuff. It's the real love of my life :)
Godspeed all. You're all inspiring!
This would be the ultimate funny thread on a liberal loser website! Anyone want to post one like it over on the losers website? ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!
After 4 years of freedom at college I moved back home and got a job. Soon my Dad was talking to me about the hours I kept so I decided it was time to leave the nest. We were best friends after that.
19 except for a brief time while my dad was terminal. Moved back out a month after he passed. That was in the early 80’s.
Joined the Navy at 17. Did 20 years. Now I’m stuck in middle management hell. I have a great Faith in Jesus and an awesome family. Life is good today.
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