What's your life's "that"?

[Queen Michael]

To quote Iron Man from memory[footnote]and feel free to post the correct quote if you know it[/footnote]:

"Everybody's got some event that's 'that' in their lives. Something that was so important that they think of moments in their life as 'before that' and 'after that'."
What's yours?
Mine is when I discovered manga at the age of fourteen. I consider that the start of a new part of my life. Though I guess usually it's your parents' divorce or stuff like that.

You?

 

[IndomitableSam]

The end of High School, maybe? Or when I started Library School - that's kinda when my life turned around and I started taking things seriously.

 

[Scarim Coral]

When I went to University. It had given me some new insight to my life (enjoyed being indepedent and made new people who I can called them my true friends).

 

[IndomitableSam]

The end of High School, maybe? Or when I started Library School - that's kinda when my life turned around and I started taking things seriously.

That made me laugh, sorry.

What's library school like?

It does sounds kinda funny. School to become a Librarian (or more specifically, a Library Technician). You take business courses, research/reference courses, learn Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress cataloguing, IT, networking (both real life and computer kinds), business writing, management, marketing, databases, reader's advisory, working with children, some HR... everything, basically. As librarians, it's our job to know how to find the answer to every question. We can't know all the answers, but we can know the best way to find out. Whether it's by book, database, online, journal, personal contact, research, etc. we're taught all the ways to find information.

Which is why I get mad every time someone says "we don't need libraries, we have the internet" ... The internet might have what you want to know, but Google won't always tell you the answer.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

When I totaled my first car, which happened ironically on my last day of college.

New job, new life, .... new car

 

[krazykidd]

When i met my first girlfriend. My life whent downhill after that . But i did get laid forthe first time ... Totally worth it .

 

[IndomitableSam]

The end of High School, maybe? Or when I started Library School - that's kinda when my life turned around and I started taking things seriously.

That made me laugh, sorry.

What's library school like?

It does sounds kinda funny. School to become a Librarian (or more specifically, a Library Technician). You take business courses, research/reference courses, learn Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress cataloguing, IT, networking (both real life and computer kinds), business writing, management, marketing, databases, reader's advisory, working with children, some HR... everything, basically. As librarians, it's our job to know how to find the answer to every question. We can't know all the answers, but we can know the best way to find out. Whether it's by book, database, online, journal, personal contact, research, etc. we're taught all the ways to find information.

Which is why I get mad every time someone says "we don't need libraries, we have the internet" ... The internet might have what you want to know, but Google won't always tell you the answer.

That's pretty sweet.

You (well, not you) never really think of what librarians need to go through to get their position. Seems like you need a degree for everything these days.

Are you still there now or are you out and "In the field" so to speak.

I graduated in 2009. Worked at a school for a couple years, they cut my hours and salary, and now I work for the government. Boring and soul-sucking, but good pay and benefits.

 

[Zhukov]

When I washed the blood and shredded skin of my first victim out from between my teeth.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Pretty much now, i have to quit school and get a job, i broke my spine and got kicked out of my house

 

[Fappy]

When I washed the blood and shredded skin of my first victim out from between my teeth.

God damn ninja.

CannibalMurderers4Life.

 

[Weaver]

I guess mine would be university. There's a clear divide in my mind as a before, during and after.

 

[Eleuthera]

Not to put to much of a downer on this, but 'The cancer', it's not completely gone yet, but there's a definite before and after(since) schism.

 

[manic_depressive13]

Not the divorce exactly. Rather the moment my mother announced her new boyfriend. How could something that ultimately has nothing to do with me manage to fuck my life.

 

[soren7550]

Quite possibly when I was institutionalized by my mother.

 

[DanielBrown]

Before I got social phobia and afterwards.
Fairly huge change in my life considering that it destroyed it.

 

[Esotera]

Discovering programming, particularly the concept of what a function is and how it works. It's a really useful way of thinking about the world, and even though I'm not very good at it learning how to get a computer to do stuff has been immensely useful for small applications of my own and just general problem solving skills.

 

[Phasmal]

My mother's mental breakdown and depression.
I think she probably always had depression, (she certainly always will), but nobody was aware of it before then.
Forced me and my sisters to grow up quite quickly, but I can't say I view it as that traumatic.
I mean, it probably was for her.