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December 2019 Moms
ktmaesim
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GTKY - Highschool Edition
ktmaesim
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I know we're moving to a private group soon but I love these GTKY posts...
Who were you in HS?
What did you want to be?
What was your first job?
Share pics!
Who were you in HS?
What did you want to be?
What was your first job?
Share pics!
Re: GTKY - Highschool Edition
Now I'm a cpa who hasn't touched a musical instrument in years, exercise is a top hobby, and I haven't played a video game system since N64. Well, 1994 was still a peak year in rock though.
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I was a mix of everything in highschool- I feel like I got along with everyone- I wasn't super popular but wasn't unpopular either. I did sports but also did "nerdy" extra curriculars like yearbook and National Honor society. I was also a pretty big partier but still got good grades and graduated top 20 in my class. I was super smart and was in band in middle school but didn't want people to know how smart I was or be in band in HS because I wanted to seem cool which is stupid thinking back now!
I wanted to be a nurse because my mom was one but after 1 year in nursing school I decided it wasn't for me and I decided to be a dietitian.
My first job was technically babysitting but my first real real job was working retail at the mall once I was able to drive- I also was a lifeguard in the summer.
i originally wanted to be a nurse but decided not to deal with blood so I loved math and went with accounting.
First job: wal mart cashier.
No pics on my phone
DH: 37
DD: 03/17/17
DS: 12/06/19
I was also in band but quit freshman year bc it was “uncool”. I wouldn’t say I ran with the most popular kids but I didn’t land on the other end of the spectrum either.
I made average grades, As and Bs and applied to colleges but only bc my parents wanted me to. When I had to come up with an answer to the “What do you want to be” question I always said nurse. My mom is a nurse and has always genuinely loved her job so I stuck with that. It didn’t take me 3 weeks into my first semester at college to realize that wasn’t going to pan out. Truthfully the only thing I wanted and pictured for my life was being married with a family and I feel really blessed I’m able to stay home and live out that dream.
My first job job was at Brusters Ice Cream and it was heaven! Unlimited ice cream and waffle cones!
Ill be back with a picture tmrw.
I was on the cross country team. I had a group of friends but didn't party at all; I was a good girl and didn't want to disappoint my parents...but I made up for that when I went away to college! 😳 I had a serious boyfriend 3 of the 4 years and spent most of my time and energy on him, which was a mistake in retrospect because I thought he was my one true love but we broke up 2 weeks after I left for college!
I knew back then that I wanted to be a special education teacher; I did get sidetracked for a while there but made my way back to it by my mid-20s.
I babysat a lot and one year I got a job at an ice cream place, but I quit after about 2 weeks because a customer was rude to me and made me cry😆
Who were you in HS? I was the transfer
student at a private HS with kids who has literally been in school together since they were in K. Not fun. But I found my crew of people and made it through HS just fine.
What did you want to be? I would have loved to THE popular girl, but that’s just not who I am. I was a cheerleader, and should have been captain my last year, but oh well.
What was your first job? Camp Counselor!
Sorry Folks, no pics on my phone and everything else is packed away in the renovation.
DS - 7.5
DD #1 - 6
~ mmc 7.11.2018 @ 9w ~
DD#2 - born 12.24.19
DH: 37
DD: 03/17/17
DS: 12/06/19
Who were you in HS? I was an athlete but in an obscure sport, golf. Also newspaper editor and on student council. We were considered the “good kids” but secretly partied quite a bit. I had a small group of really close friends (we made breakfast together every Saturday and had a ton of fun all the time).
What did you want to be? This changed a lot. An athletic trainer, a biologist, a nurse. I ended up being a sign language interpreter and more recently switched to clinical social work.
What was your first job? Aside from babysitting, a Sonic Carhop. It didn’t last long. Then I was a waitress at a local place. Stayed there forever, even some in college.
Married 1/28/17
TW:
BFP #2 10/10/17, MC 11/4/17
BFP #3 12/17/17 Birth 8/13/18
BFP #4 4/21/19 Birth 12/5/2019
be 18 back when bars had “college nights”. I actually met my husband my junior year - true story I liked his lifted Jeep and decided I wanted to hook up with him... and made that happen. We weren’t officially dating until the summer of 2005, but I’ve known him since 2003.
What did you want to be? As a career: a fighter pilot. Amelia Earhart has been my role model since I was a child. I have bad vision and was crushed when I learned the military wouldn’t take me (which they have since changed). And then Legally Blonde came out and I decided I should channel my sass into
being a lawyer like Elle Woods.
What was your first job? Retail, always been a clothes gal. Did a stint at PacSun and Abercrombie & Fitch.
Photos in spoiler 🙈
Who were you in HS? I went to a pretty big high school, and I really didn't feel like there were many cliques that caused rifts. I guess I mostly hung out with the academic crowd, but because I was in marching band (we had the biggest band in our state when I was in HS, so the dorky band kids made up 1/4 of the school, lol) I had friends from all different social circles and grades. I took all AP and honors classes, but I honestly felt like they were way over my head at the time--feel like I bloomed academically in college. High school was a fine time, but I have much fonder memories and more nostalgia for college.
What did you want to be? In HS I wanted to be a sociologist or a writer. In college I switched to wanting to be a poetry professor, which I honestly still kind of want to do. I didn't figure out that I wanted to be a teacher until I was 25 and subbed for the first time.
What was your first job? Lots of babysitting and working for my dad's furniture business as a teen, but when I turned 18 I got a job at Starbucks. That was in 2007, and we only had one Starbucks in town, so it was definitely a cool job lol.
Below: Top is a classic selfie with an actual camera. Senior trip with my grandparents to Hawaii. Second pic is my senior year during the morning of one of our competitions for marching band. We'd all dress up ridiculously and have a lot of fun with it.
I was not popular, but not unpopular. I could get along with pretty much everyone but never went to the parties or anything like that. I intentionally made myself a bit of an oddball, but then so did my 2 younger sisters (we're all within 3 years of each other so there was a point we were all there at the same time). We were pretty much the only ones in the whole school who did weird hair colours, like pink and purple (it's purple in the class of '99 pic but hard to tell). I wore men's army pants and baby tee's while most of my peers were wearing name-brand things like Gap. And I wore an actual dog collar with rhinestones on it as a sort of signature (it's visible in 2 of my photos). I worked on our school's live-to-air cable station once a week, helping run the behind-the-scenes stuff, but was also still in Pathfinders (part of Girl Guides, but an older age range) and helped my mom run our community choir. When I started university, my floormates in my dorm referred to me as the "cute little goth girl" which I suppose was pretty accurate
What did you want to be? Honestly HS was the point in my life where I actually started to accept who I was. I had been picked on a lot during elementary school and suddenly there were new people to be friends with instead of the same 30 kids I'd known since kindergarten. I still wanted to be a little more popular, but I wasn't willing to be promiscuous and drink every weekend to be more like the girls who were "popular".
What was your first job? I was a cashier at the grocery store for about 3 years before moving away for school. And of course I babysat.
I had no idea who I wanted to be, I liked the idea of being a wild child, I really would’ve enjoyed being a teen in the 60’s/70’s. I went to college to be a teacher, decided not for me and went into business which was a better option.
My first job was Wegmans, worked there through college too.
I wanted to be a teacher or an engineer. My freshman year of college I worried I wouldn't be able to make it through all the required math to become an engineer and the school I was at didn't have a teaching program so I changed my major to marketing, which I've never used. I went back to grad school for HR.
My first job I worked at one of the two local gas stations.
I don't have any high school pics on my phone or facebook. Not sure I'm disappointed by this though!
I’m reading all these responses like “Oh yeah. Definitely misunderstood that one!”
DS - 7.5
DD #1 - 6
~ mmc 7.11.2018 @ 9w ~
DD#2 - born 12.24.19
Who were you in HS? For a long time (before HS and into my first couple of years), I played the Gretchen role to my bitchier, more controlling friends. Then, mid HS, I broke off and started hanging with people who did more of the same things as me- singing, acting, etc. My last two years of HS were pretty fun- got into plays and musicals, choirs, way more fun group of friends- our group was really pretty 50/50 guys and girls.
What did you want to be? I wanted to keep going with music- particularly singing, which I did go to college for...at first. After a few years, switched to public relations as my major, which was also great since I love writing. Ironically, at almost 40, I’m now going back to professional performing arts with my family 😅
What was your first job? First few jobs- assisting with secretary work at a dentist office, working at my first boyfriend’s mom’s special needs daycare, working at a Boston Market restaurant (awful job), and helping at my parents bicycle shop from time to time. I’ve had a ton of weird little jobs over the years...
I also ran Track and Cross Country and was very heavy into Art (I had an Art scholarship in College).
What did you want to be? I wanted to be a Fashion designer or something to do in the industry, owning my own brand or shop.
What was your first job? I was a hostess at a restaurant that my family friends owned.
Married to DH for 6 years (together for 16)
DS born 12.13.14
DD born 10.15.16
BFP 1.24.18, MC 3.13.18
ETA: Gif broke sorry y'all!
Married to DH for 6 years (together for 16)
DS born 12.13.14
DD born 10.15.16
BFP 1.24.18, MC 3.13.18
I was in theater, choir, our high school chapter of Amnesty International, French club, and I was one of the editors of the school paper. Pretty sure whatever qualities it takes to be in these things as a kid are present and accounted for and can describe me pretty well as an adult, haha.
I wanted to be a war correspondent for CNN. Because I wanted to change the world. And then I grew up and realized I didn't want to be shot at...so there's that. I did study broadcast journalism in college though, and worked for the local ABC affiliate here in Norfolk/Virginia Beach for my first job out of college. And then I realized the pay/hours/benefits for broadcast journalism SUCK, and now I'm in marketing and much happier. :-)
For my first job, I worked at a little gift shop attached to the art gallery at our local visual and performing arts center. It was nice. Slow most days, so I was able to do homework, and there was a cute guy who was a valet there who I got to flirt with on a regular basis. Overall, a decent first job for a 16-year-old. :-)
I was kinda nerdy. All my friends were in NHS and we all took the same AP and honors classes. My favorite thing to do was volunteer and my favorite groups were honors choir and SAVE (students against a vanishing earth).
Mostly I wanted to be ignored and for people not to talk to me unless we were close friends or they were on my soccer team. A combination of being shy and insecure and dealing with the hardest period of my life (completely unrelated to high school). My grandmother got cancer when I was 15 and I moved in with my grandparents to help take care of her when I was 16. She passed away my senior year and I lived with my grandpa a few more years to make sure he was okay.
My first high school job I guess was working on the farm (my grandpa was a butcher) and taking care of my grandma. I didn't get a "real" job until college when I worked at Clark's shoe store.
I remember high school being emotionally draining do to things happening outside of it. A classmate's dad committed suicide when he lost his engineering job and couldn't afford her college. We also had maybe 20-30 students move senior year out of state so their parents could find work. It's not a time in my life I really like to remember or dwell on.
@ktmaesim Yes! I want to avoid the ones I may have fallen out with and the ones I cared to stay in touch with see me regularly- they’re not going either. If I wanted to catch up with anyone I could go to any chain restaurant in town bc that’s where half of them have ended up working or drinking on the weekends!
Who were you in HS?
I was everybody lol, but so was everyone else. I graduated in a class of 52. I was the principals pet, always helping with projects and pretty much was allowed to do whatever I wanted. I played every sport... BECAUSE to have teams if you were athletic you payed most sports. Softball, Basketball, Volleyball, Cheerleading, and Track. I was also part of the math scholars bowl team and a National Honor Society member. I stayed out of trouble, didn't drink until I was 21 and pretty much was in my own little world... THEN I WENT TO COLLEGE. Joined a sorority, found out there was much more to life than backroads and walmart parking lot. haha!
What did you want to be? I wanted to be an accountant, then I interned with a company (had a horrible experience and was treated horrible) and changed my major. Sometimes I wish I would have given another job a shot before making a huge change that I had wanted. It is what it is though.
What was your first job? My first job was when I was 15 at the city Rec and I worked there until I got a job in college.
Awkward HS pics below!
Bottom Middle
as for the reunion talk (@k_mama91 @ktmaesim @mrszoobear)- oh man, we did my 5yr and MH's 10 yr (he is 1 year ahead of me) and HAPPILY skipped his 15 yr this year (wahhh i feel old). the 10 yr was SO awkward, resulting in no desire to revisit @ 15 yrs.