I had a lot of fun writing my first post here and got a really positive response, so I thought I’d share another story. As before, I’ll mark the beginning of the sexy stuff with a row of hyphens.
This was about two years after my last story. Immediately after graduating I moved back home to look for a job, and it wasn’t exactly going great; I’d picked an easy major because I grew up hearing how important it was to “just get a degree,” and I didn’t do any extracurricular activities while in school (not the kind you’d put on a resume, at least), so my prospects were almost nonexistent. I was living at my mom’s house with her and two of my grown siblings, one of whom had a toddler of her own (I wasn’t the only one in my family who had trouble getting their act together and adulting up). I was working as a janitor, saving money and thinking about what I should do next.