Posted by Poet on December 29, 2006, at 11:21:58
In reply to worthless and stupid, posted by inimitable on December 28, 2006, at 23:23:58
Hi Inimitable,
Ah, so you have one of those sister's too? Mine managed to land a job in her field while still in college. What do I base all my self esteem on: career. What I am right now: unemployed. Anyway, I know that feeling of being wortheless and stupid very well.
I am not an outdoors person, but my perfect sister is, and she's a member of a kayak club. Maybe there's some kind of backpacking club you could join? I know she buys used kayak equipment through the club, so if there is a backpacking club they'd probably have used equipment, too. That's if you're okay with joining a group activity, that's not something I could do, but I thought I'd suggest it.
I have a math learning disability (it took four years of therapy for me to stop saying I'm retarded) and my math skills are about fourth grade level. I use Excel and a calculator and get along just fine. I don't think it matter that you can't name all 50 states, you can name the ones that are important to you and you can always look up the rest if you ever needed to.
Hang in there. I hope you find a way to do that backpacking.
Poet
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