{"id":82,"date":"2009-02-23T19:43:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T00:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.adam-jackson.net\/?p=82"},"modified":"2009-02-23T19:43:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T00:43:30","slug":"where-i-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2009\/02\/23\/where-i-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Where I Come From…"},"content":{"rendered":"

My hometown isn’t small but isn’t big either. My county has about 100K people living in a 60 square mile area whereas my current town, San Francisco with a 7 square mile land size, has nearly 1 million people. My hometown was small but we had a Wal*Mart, McDonalds and a few mechanics. It had everything that you would need in a “small town”.<\/p>\n

I graduated high school in 2004 from Pedro Menendez<\/a> and I was lucky because 400 of us were the first class of students who had attended the school for 4 years. The school opened in the year 2000 and that’s when I started my freshmen year. There’s a site that has been setup for high school alumni and there was a poll that asked, ” Which of the following is most important to you?” I was very surprised at the results.<\/p>\n

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Naturally, I answered “career” because as a 22 year old who has moved across country to pursue a life in social media, speaking and writing, that’s my primary focus and I feel that by 22, most kids are out of college and should be focused on their career because that’s just how it should be at least that’s how I think about things.<\/p>\n

Instead the findings totally surprised me. It turns out in the town of Saint Augustine, Florida, nearly 60% of my pupils are now thinking about marriage, others are thinking about friends and then there’s a tie between school and career followed shortly by sleep. <\/p>\n

Seriously? I’m not surprised because nearly all of my high school friends are still using Myspace and every one of their profile photos are pictures of babies and pickup trucks and a large number of them are just getting out of college or still have a fast food restaurant listed as their employer. Sometimes I get a little down or frustrated when I realize that I haven’t “made it” yet but I need to remember that I’m only 22 and compared to many of my peers from high school, my lifestyle is the exception and not the rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My hometown isn’t small but isn’t big either. 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