I think the one that stands out the most would be my first proper job after university. I have had a few jobs since I was 13 but they were nothing major, this was my first adult job. I went to the interview and made a comment about them using MSSQL and not MySQL which made them chuckle. I got a phone call a day after offering me the role of programmer for the company. I was so happy. At the time my girlfriend at the time and I were living on credit cards and sleeping on the floor.
So first day comes along, I’m suited and booted, scared as hell but excited and keen to do well. Walk into the office then my manager took me to the IT office. “Hi Andy”. What the hell? someone knows my name already? nope. It was from a friend called Johnny who I went to college with before I went to uni. He was a tester and bug finder. “I only told them I knew who you were after you got the job” I was assured. Defenses down, nervousness quelled and the first day was great. Ended up as Senior Programmer after 3 months.
The only thing that stands out for the parent side would be the birth of R. Me and ex-fiance at the hospital. Staring at this amazing child and then being told it was time to go. We both just looked at the nurse, I’m sure we were thinking the same thing. “What? With a child?!”. Sort of a surreal moment of realising you are now responsible for the safety and well being of a child. Us. Really. No instruction manual?!
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The First Day of my first stroke …
“Who’s Left to Row the Boat”
The storms are too many to count
Emotional lows had weathered me out
Her journey with MS was a struggle
How much lower could our lives sink
After fourteen years of our battles, I suffered a Stroke
An ambulance came, my brain was in a boat
Floating out to sea, overboard and panic-stricken
I wasn’t swimming, barely awake, and drifting
I had fallen, nothing was working, and not talking
She’s crying, I’m sobbing, my heart is dying
And who’s left to row the boat, I’m thinking
I was jabbed with a needle and silently sleeping
I awoke a day later, in hospital, feeling wasted
My face was limp, mouth parched, was that death I tasted
My mind was active, I thought, where is she
I knew I was bad; the room was all blurry to me
Strong anxieties had set in, I needed to know
Nurses came to me, I pleaded, I wanted to go
“Help me to see her, just give my bed a tow
Please let me go, before I’m covered in snow”
Nope, they don’t come with instruction manuals. 😉