Kind of minor and I don't know that it counts as "reinventing myself", but I graduated from college at 30 years old. Prior to that, I had done mostly "lowly" fast food and warehouse jobs and didn't really have much going for me. My fallback was to maybe join the military and try to get something going through that, but otherwise had no real plans or ideas of what I wanted for my future. It's more than a decade later and in retrospect it still seems like one of the best decisions I've made in my life. I'm now in a career that I'm more or less happy with doing relatively important work and I have an actual chance at having some sort of retirement savings if/when I get a chance to retire (assuming we avoid the whole global climate meltdown Mad Max ending that it seems we're heading towards).
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Start 28 year old man, alchoholic, well paying job I hate.
End? Don't know I only started when I read this post. Im screwed eh?
Looking back from almost twice your age … you’re not screwed at all, you could have it all ahead of you.
When I was 28 I met my future wife. We’re currently planning a trip for our 20th. It’s been the best half of my life (by a lot).
was a stupid piece of shit with hate toward most of the world and myself
now i still kind of hate myself but turns out im just trans so i was driving my selfhate toward other people bc i didnt understand where it was coming from
When I was in middle school, I was super quiet. Like, I would go entire lunch periods without saying a single word. I just didn't realize that I might want to or be able to actually interact with other people. I had a cognitive impairment which stopped me from expressing myself, but I didn't realize it at the time. I eventually realized in 8th grade that I could not hold an actual one-on-one conversation, and I decided that needed to change.
So I had to start by learning the basic conversation skills and such, and eventually moved to actually making jokes and stuff mid high-school. By the start of college, I could participate socially as a mostly normal person. I just caught up on all the social skills I had to re-develop, like making plans and stuff.
All this seems really simple, but it is hard to catch up when everyone else is already friends with each other. Now, I might be one of the most extroverted people I know, and I almost always talk to people whenever I get a chance. I accomplished my life goal when I was 20, so I am really happy about that and I've been riding that high ever since.
This was me up until 12th grade / freshman year of college. My degree (Computer Science) doesnt "need a degree" (albeit it helps) but I will never regret going to college. Sure, i couldve bootcamped or did online learning but the social development I experienced in college I completely 180º, I figured I would fake it and put myself in uncomfortable positions and made for some really awkward moments haha. But eventually I turned it around and pretty social now I would say.