where were you at 20

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Kurben

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I was studying at the University. First Geology, mineralogy, Paleontology and such and a little later Archaeology. When i was 20 i was probably at the Paleontology stage. I have never in my life had so much fun as my years at University.
 

Mr Nobody

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It was most of 1993 and the very start of 1994 for me. A fair old while ago. But if memory serves at 20 I:

1) Got made redundant for the 2nd time, resulting in a 10-month period of unemployment;
2) Split up with a gf (Lisa), started seeing someone else, a Dane (Katrine), then subsequently split up with her about 6 months later because she felt my other commitments left me with too little time for her, and she wanted to move back home after completing her studies besides;
3) Did my first "Grand Tour of the Black Mountains/Brecon Beacons", and got to sit on a bench at Hereford railway station for 3 hours after my train home broke down somewhere to the south. It wasn't too bad, it was summer so the rain was quite warm :D;
4) Enrolled on a college course in the September. Had a barney with the tutor on the 2nd or 3rd day over something completely trivial. Left.

What I remember most clearly was it being a time when I felt that I didn't really know what I wanted, how to find out what it was or where to get it. I only knew what I didn't want, and what I didn't want seemed to be all of the things that my family (and perhaps working class society in the Midlands more generally) told me I should want.
 

EMTP513

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I was still trying to become an EMT. They had a little PROBlem with women working in EMS in the late 80's. Some of them STILL have a little problem with it. No more than a few years ago, in 2009, a guy worked his butt off for a year trying to get me fired. He hasn't even really stopped acting that way even after finding out the captain, who was a firefighter/EMT before there were ANY women doing it (in the 70's), let the guy know how much he disliked the guy's behavior.
I didn't actually become an EMT-B until 1991 and then there were hardly any women doing it, and most guys felt like this guy of a few years ago believed, that we were only doing it to "show off" or "prove some kind of ridiculous point."
I worked at Elektra Records as light clerical work before 1991 and just kept trying to be an EMT. Not to show off, and after the last few days I've had, I don't know why ANYone would think a person does it for that reason. It was because I saw my sister dying and paramedics saved her life.