I appreciate the DMs that I got asking if I was alright, as I hadn’t posted in awhile. Thank you so much for caring, it doesn’t go unnoticed ❤️ My updates are large, so they will be coming in separate posts 🥺😂
To start the first one, something that most of my followers don’t know about me. I had never graduated high school. Being 35, I can’t tell you how often that has taken me down. Feeling… well, feeling I had nothing to offer because I didn’t have a #diploma to back me up. I have over 15 years of self made experience building websites and e-commerce stores, graphic design, marketing both print and digital, and any other virtual task you can think of. I worked on projects out of China, the US, Australia and even here across Canada. But it didn’t ever feel enough.
When I was in grade 10, I was in French Immersion, #struggling to learn the language that I didn’t speak. Grades were low 50s. Halfway threw the year, I dropped out. I worked in fast food for a year. Scared me back to school tbh. I went to a new school, and tried it in English. I got through one semester before I dropped out again to start my own business. 😥
A few years later, I moved up North from #Hamilton. Up North, I tried ILC and getting my GED out in #Sudbury, which I failed both. After failing again, I felt I wasn’t actually meant to make it through high school 😓
In 2019, just before I was diagnosed with #cancer, I tried to go back to school one last time. I completed 6 weeks academic upgrading, then enrolled in a D2L program ( basically distant education for adults). I completed one course before being diagnosed with cancer, which put my education on the back burner again. After treatments finished, in 2020 I headed back and started working through my final classes. I wasn’t giving up this time!
This summer, I wrapped up my final class in summer school. I worked my f-in ass off, but I am now officially #graduated high school. 👩🎓
Moral of this story: Doesn’t matter how old you are or what you have been through, don’t give up on your dreams. Your first no, or the several after, doesn’t mean it’s not obtainable. You just have to keep going and dig deep ❤️🔥