1,6, 19 and 20 for your experienced asks
1. How many jobs have you had, and which was your favorite?Actually, only two. I worked as a cashier at a grocery store during the summer when I was in college, and after college it took me three years to find the job I have now (I was fortunate that at the time my husband had a job where he made enough that I didn’t have to work. That’s not the case now). I definitely like my current job better, even though I hate it, because at least I get to sit down, and I have enough downtime during the day that I can work on personal projects.
6. When did you get your first cell phone? What was it like? (Did it have a screen? Could you text? Was it a brick or flip?)When I went to college in 2001. My sister and I actually shared one between us and it was primarily to keep in the car in case of emergency on the long drive between our school and home. Yes, it was the classic Nokia brick phone.
19. Are the privileges of adulthood worth the responsibilities?Ehhhh, I don’t know, I guess it depends on how you look at it. It’s nice to be able to do what I want within reason and take trips when I can and spend money on what I want when I can, but not having bills or responsibilities outside of getting my homework done sure was nice, too. Having to do a 8-5 job that I hate absolutely sucks, but it pays the bills and pays for my hobbies, so that’s a tradeoff. It’s all about perspective, I guess.
20. Do you feel like an adult? No. I actually struggled with that A LOT in the first few years after I graduated college and got married, and I think it was one of the leading contributors to me developing depression, actually. I was an adult with a house and a husband and a kid but I didn’t FEEL like one, and I was keeping up the same hobbies and interests I’d done as a teen, so was I really an adult? Now that I’m older I’m pretty much like yeah I’m an adult and I have these fannish hobbies and fuck you if you judge me for it. I love that zen state of mind.