Where were you 20 years ago?

[Eddi]

Where were you 20 years ago?

I was 21 years old and a patient at the Coventry psychiatric hospital

I would sit in the smoking room smoking Mayfair Smooths (a brand of cigarette and in my opinion the best brand of cigarette) whilst listening for messages on the radio to try and figure out what was happening to me

Mad times but those are the foundations that the current me is based on, that was my formative period

 

[JustGeorge]

About to move in with the guy that would become my oldest son's father.

It would be a most unhappy time.

 

[Viker]

I was a corporate drone/doombot with Target.

 

[Revoltingest]

I was still snowboarding with my daughter.

 

[Quagmire]

I was living on a commune in San Luis obispo California, making money by collecting aluminum cans at night, and spending a big part of each day hanging out on my first internet forum, which I joined earlier that year.

It was a very good year.

 

[The Hammer]

20 years ago I was 17. And in between my junior and senior years of HS. This was the summer I got my first gf.

 

[Eddi]

I was living on a commune in San Luis obispo California, making money by collecting aluminum cans at night, and spending a big part of each day hanging out on the first internet forum that I was a member of, which I joined earlier that year.

It was a very good year.

That sounds nice

 

[Tomef]

Where were you 20 years ago?

I was 21 years old and a patient at the Coventry psychiatric hospital

I would sit in the smoking room smoking Mayfair Smooths (a brand of cigarette and in my opinion the best brand of cigarette) whilst listening for messages on the radio to try and figure out what was happening to me

Mad times but those are the foundations that the current me is based on, that was my formative period

Reluctantly giving up my fun, freelancing 20s to commit to a full time job.

 

[Tomef]

I was a corporate drone/doombot with Target.

One can be a doombot?

 

[Regiomontanus]

Teaching and research (astronomy and maths). Note I added the s on math just for you @Eddi

 

[SalixIncendium]

I was helping to start my daughter prepare for her freshman year of college while preparing to transition my business from general contracting to property development.

 

[SalixIncendium]

...spending a big part of each day hanging out on my first internet forum, which I joined earlier that year.

Come to think of it, I joined my first forum that year as well. It was a Celtic Paganism forum (primarily Wiccan) that is now defunct.

 

[Spice]

I was a corporate drone/doombot with Target.

That's a good description. I was same for Family Dollar.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

I had been retired for four years and still getting over the death of my wife following a hip operation, earlier in the year.
A tough year.

 

[SalixIncendium]

I was a corporate drone/doombot with Target.

That's a good description. I was same for Family Dollar.

My predisposition to buck the corporate drone mentality held me back from a promotion or two over the years.

 

[The Hammer]

My predisposition to buck the corporate drone mentality held me back from a promotion or two over the years.

I still have this problem. Ugh corporate culture....

 

[JustGeorge]

I guess job wise, I was a night shift person at a group home.

I cleaned an already mostly clean house, and changed adult diapers. I was the only person on the shift.

It was dreadfully dull, and sometimes gross. I could watch TV, read, use the phone, whatever. Falling asleep meant you were instantly fired, if you were caught. Basically, you just did whatever you had to to not fall asleep.

 

[Daemon Sophic]

20 years ago my marriage was only a few years old, and it was the BC era. Before Children.

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I was working in my chosen career, and my wife was finishing her own training work.

 

[ChristineM]

20 years ago today we'd just moved into our new studio a couple of weeks early and were busy interviewing possible subjects new artist to join our team.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

at work