01/17/2026
Ok, guess Iāll play along with the 2016 thing.
itās funny bc literally 2 day ago my therapist & I talked about mainly 2014-2016 the whole session. & today people want to bring back up that time.
First off, I hope 10 years ago brings back fond memories for you. I hope it brings back happy times an helps you remember nothing but fun days.
For me though, this year changed everything. It was a storm āļø
2016 was the year I moved to Los Angeles for the 2ND TIME. Yeah I moved there again after I got sick the 1st time and had to move back home to Connecticut. I never knew it back then, but that āsicknessā was actually constant panic attacks.
After a rough 2015, I finally saved up enough from working 2 jobs I dreaded to get back to LA. And after 3 months back there, I was living out of my car. LUCKILYā with a job.
Sleeping in a car is dangerous af in LAābut LUCKILY I had a job at the time. Even better yet, it was a job working as a valet in Hollywood! We would park in secure/locked down parking garages everyday for work! So even though I had to get a gym membership to shower, went to libraries to use computers during my down time and was picking up doubles as much as I could so I didnāt have to be in my car too-too often, at least I could use my jobās parking garages to sleep right?
Nope.
I got written up for sleeping there. And when I got caught, my response was simple. āIām going to do it again.ā And I did⦠til I got suspended. With very little money to my name after getting scammed when trying to find an apartment for myself. I had pretty much nothing.
I tried doing some postmates deliveries & just whatever I could to get some money back in my pocket, but I soon realized ⦠this wasnāt it. This city wasnāt for me.
I checked how much money I had. $250? Believe it or not, thatāll get you across the money back in 2016. At least I was willing to gamble it would. I remember the exact night that I got on the highway and left the city for good and drove 3,000 miles back home.
When I got back home, I got a job at a college. At that job I got to sit on a computer a lot. During that time⦠I started looking into YouTube.
The end lol