Life Experiences

I spent eleven years driving other people’s toys around the most expensive stretch of ocean you can imagine, and the thing I miss most now is… having my own bed every night.

I didn’t stumble into superyachts by accident. I grew up on boats. My idea of a normal weekend as a kid was scraping barnacles, getting sunburned, and figuring out currents. Eventually I went to a maritime academy, got my licenses, and started out in the “real” merchant world—cargo ships, industrial work, steel hulls, rusty decks, long watches. It was honest, ugly, exhausting work.

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1. Disgustingly: that I didn’t care if those around me were killed just as long as I got out alive. The knowledge of that being my thought process at the time has haunted me my entire life.

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I’ve been on Lupron for about a year and a half now. If you asked me ten years ago whether I could imagine a version of myself who hasn’t had an erection in over a year — and calls that fantastic — I would’ve laughed. Or panicked. But that’s where I am. And the strangest part is: it feels like peace.

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1. “Understand that a pound or two of rotten meat only gives you a faint whiff of the smell of a full-grown corpse. The power of the smell is incredible. Personally, I’m not sure it’s describable. You want to gag when you’re fifty feet away. It can take years for the smell to leave a house. It just lingers in the background. Cars are totalled by the insurance company for the odor. And the guy driving the wrecker can’t drive fast enough to get away from the smell.

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1. Bachelor’s degree in animation. I deliver mail now.

2. Philosophy degree. I think about life a lot.

3. BA in sociology. Got accepted to law school but opted out because I was burned out and hated everything. I went to work at a hotel and randomly fell into accounting. It worked for me and now I have a CPA.

4. Psychology degree → bartending

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1. He wished he had been a better father to his daughter. He wished they had reconnected. His dementia prevented him from remembering they had reconnected years before and that she visited often.

I wish I could have made him aware that he had accomplished his last wish. But he died not really understanding that.

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1. My background is welding but I branched out and learned more trade skills. I make $45 an hour with pretty much unlimited overtime. I know I’m far above average in pay. I was making $50k for a couple years. That’s pretty normal for average welders doing shop and fab work.

Unless you are willing to endanger your life or be moving around constantly with no job security you probably won’t be making 100k a year.

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