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My son was also born in 2007. So, I was up to all the excitement and worry about becoming a new dad, is what I was up to the most of 2007!

Also, painting and putting together a lot of baby furniture. And reading the baby books. And feeling more terrified than I ever had before. And also more excited, than I had been for anything in my life.

Great year.

That was my junior to senior year of college. I was majoring in aeronautics at ERAU.

By April of 2007 I had completely burned myself out working for my third tech startup in the Boston area. By the end of April I was in New Zealand followed by Australia on a month+ long solo trip to unwind and recover from the burnout.

being a grad student and living on 10K a year income.

i used to buy expired food a lot to not starve and barely ate any protein. but i was living the dream and realized it was actually a nightmare.

Sex drugs and rock n roll

We had heated debates about force fields in my kindergarten class during recess lol

Backpacked through Europe for a couple of weeks.

I think I won most improved in Drama Club? I know I won something. I was in primary school.

I was a few years into my first post-college job. It ended up involving a lot more coordination than I thought.

High School Junior (Grade 11) chronically depressed holding down a job with illegal hours ran by an old man who I suspect dabbled in cocaine.

A woman moved from out-of-state (country?) to date or marry him or something. They went to Vegas for a trip, while taking a shower she rifled through his wallet and saw that he was twenty years older than he told her and dumped him. He was unpleasant for a couple months.

Uhh... I had a flash card on my DS, replayed Earthbound around that time. I don't remember much about my doings around then.

Long enough ago that everything blurs together but would have celebrated a third wedding anniversary. This year was 21.

Mostly scraping by but also shopping for my next house after selling my first right before the market crashed. Worked a lot of 70+ hour weeks that year. Had 2x car accidents (neither my fault) that totaled out my cars, both of which netted me more than I had spent on the cars in the first place.

Recording an EP, going to lots of concerts, writing for a couple of magazines, working at a coffee shop, drinking too much, living in a little studio apartment, binding books with salvaged leather from roadside furniture.

Quitting my job as a secretary and finally starting college after an 8 year delay.

My son turned 10. I was 1 year into my job that I still have, climbing communication towers. Mostly for cell phone companies. But also state, DNR, and DOT towers.

Wasn't making the best decisions before and was living in my sisters extra room. This is where I turned things around.

Edit: spelling

I graduated highschool in '07

Finishing senior year of high school, completely unaware that it was nothing but downhill from there.

It took me over a decade after high school just to find a job that actually paid enough to move out of my parents house. And then another 8 years for me to find someone and settle down. But now I feel too old and out of energy to start a family. I'm just barely starting my life and it's already halfway over.

We don't get enough time on this planet.

Getting ready for the birth of my first kid

Freelance developer and picking up some stray jobs here and there. It was the last year before landing something steady that became my full time career that I still do to this day.

But those debugging hours and stray jobs showed the kind of versatility my next job would need.

I had been out of school for 2 years, so i was probably working some menial dead end job. if my memory serves correctly, I was working at a theme park.

Playing with dolls mostly likely since I was a toddler at the time.

I was in my last year working as a loan underwriter. I was otherwise living in a way that excited me, and played into my antisocial tendencies. It was a fun time.

getting rolled around in my stroller at marching band shows

Finishing up College and feeling generally anxious about entering the "adult" world.

I was 12 years old in middle school learning to talk to girls without pulling a Stan Marsh and throwing up all over lol

I graduated with a degree in Mathematics and ended up working part time delivering newspapers.

At the end of the year, I was being made redundant for the second time. I ended up being self-employed for around a decade as there were no jobs to be had in my industry after the August 2007 credit crunch.

I was running around in my underwear playing with rusty sharp objects.

In highschool with a huge red mohawk and playing bass.

I officially graduated early and was working drywall while taking a light college workload. I crashed my old schools senior day with a 30 block to see my friends who were finishing their last year of highschool and got kicked out lol. What else.. I was going to post hardcore shows at little venues that would close within 3 years and I was a warlock class leader for my world of Warcraft guild, getting bored of 4chan and phasing out of insurgen.CC. I think at this point i also started looking for a fake ID and got recs from coworkers with stolen SSNs but most of the contacts wouldn't bite. I was also playing bass in a metal band but got alcohol poisoning and had to drop out.

Toontown I think

That would've about been the year that I dropped out of college and quit my job to play world of warcraft every waking hour of my life

I was coming into my own as an adult.

I'd been in an adult job for a couple of years and I bought a car and started renting my own place. I was able to travel a lot in those days and life was more interesting and affordable, as the 2008 crash hadn't yet occurred and most third spaces were still around and thriving.

It felt like we all had a good future ahead for the most part.

I was around 10 so I was probably playing games like Crash Bandicoot and Need for Speed on my PS2 and playing at the parks around town

I was a junior in high school.

My side hustle website got big enough in 2007 to allow me to quit my day job and go all in with it.

Playing Supreme Commander on a PC I just built.

I was in college, fresh out of high school. I started learning PHP that year. I think I was working at One Stop Systems, a company that produces enterprise PCIe equipment.

I was still using Windows at that point, and I would switch to Linux the next year.