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  • I graduate tomorrow!!!!!!!

    Yes, it's official...I walk across the stage and grab a blank piece of paper with red ribbon wrapped around it in a ceremonious fashion signifying my earning of my associates degree in chemical dependency counseling.

    Weeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!! It took me 16 years to earn this degree...well, no not really...I played around in school for a long time before my life circumstances lead me down this journey...but here I am.

    I am also almost a licensed professional therapist - specializing in alcohol and drug counseling.

    In August, I begin work on my Bachelor's in Psychology. I am really excited. Because I have an ungodly amount of credits from my long tenure at junior college, I am coming into the four year school as an "advanced junior" and will only need four semesters to obtain my bachelors.

    I really think I'll cry tomorrow when I walk across that stage. Considering where I've come from...this is almost unbelievable. Just think, just a little over four years ago, I was homeless, unemployed, disowned and strung out with a very bleak future ahead of me.
    Last edited by friendofjimmyk; 05-08-2009, 06:20 PM.
    "I'm still walking, so I'm sure that I can dance!" from Saint of Circumstance - Grateful Dead

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    You've earned many pats on the back. Not giving up or in is the biggest accomplishment.

    Congratulations!
    "All I've ever learned from love was how to shoot somebody who out-drew ya"

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    • #3
      Hoo-AH!

      *begins much dancing and congratulations*

      I have a...thing. Wanna see it?

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      • #4
        thank you! thank you!
        "I'm still walking, so I'm sure that I can dance!" from Saint of Circumstance - Grateful Dead

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        • #5
          That is so Awesome.. Congratulations.

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          • #6
            Drug and Alcohol counseling? Well in that case....


            I drink too much.......

            Other people learn things when I drink......

            Last night a limo driver learned if I say "I gotta yak," it doesn't mean I have a long-haired buffalo livin' in my backyard!

            Congratulations!
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            RIP Plaidman.

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            • #7
              Way to go FOJK!!! You really came a long way!!!
              I don't get paid enough to kiss your a**! -Groezig 5/31/08
              Another day...another million braincells lost...-Sarlon 6/16/08
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              • #8
                Congratulations! Way to go!

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                • #9
                  W00t!

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                  • #10
                    Congratulations! You've earned it, you deserve it.
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                    • #11
                      Congrats! Thats an awesome achievement!

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                      • #12
                        Woo! Congratulations on your success!!!
                        I will not shove “it” up my backside. I do not know what “it” is, but in my many years on this earth I have figured out that that particular port hole is best reserved for emergency exit only. -GK

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                        • #13
                          Congratulations

                          Good luck with your work toward your psych degree.

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                          • #14
                            Rock on!!! Congrats!!!
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                            • #15
                              Yay!! Good on you!

                              Can I just say (probably along with lots and lots of others over your years) that with your background, you will probably be a damn good counsellor! Nothing worse than trying to talk about a painful issue with a trained professional, who clearly has absolutely no idea what's really going on - especially when they're trying to offer 'solutions' (not that they should, cos it's the client who's supposed to find the solution... the counsellor just leads them to it).
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