I know that I can create a new future for myself at any moment. But I cannot escape the past I have created. I’m 33, and have a master’s degree in engineering. I struggled my way through school, working full time at night some years to get through. I had mediocre grades, and now I teach college for $35,000 a year. It doesn’t cover my bills, and nobody else will hire me because my grades are too low.
I should have never been an engineer though. I have always been interested in meteorology. I am most of the way through a degree in it as well. […]