Same Here! Grew up dirt poor in Texas. My family didn't have a garden, when we would be hungry we would eat grass, dirt, or swallow air. I used to walk the streets with no shoes untill I found 35 cents to get a loaf of bread to make "wish sandwiches" where you make a sandwich and add some condiments you took from a fast food restaurant and ate it wishing you had meat. Eventually There was a store that would throw away their food at a certain date and we learned to go at that time and get the expired food to feast on. I spent 4 hours a day riding a metro to get to college on borrowed money. I worked after and before school and had to beg my Druggy dad to give me the 5 dollars I was short each month for school. I moved away from them, to where my girlfriend (now wife) lived and she was the biggest help. Got a 200$ a month apt in 2008 in some Russian lady's attic and went to college there. I graduated #1 in my college. I am a machine learning data developer. I paid my college in full.
Same Here! Grew up dirt poor in Texas. My family didn't have a garden, when we would be hungry we would eat grass, dirt, or swallow air. I used to walk the streets with no shoes untill I found 35 cents to get a loaf of bread to make "wish sandwiches" where you make a sandwich and add some condiments you took from a fast food restaurant and ate it wishing you had meat. Eventually There was a store that would throw away their food at a certain date and we learned to go at that time and get the expired food to feast on. I spent 4 hours a day riding a metro to get to college on borrowed money. I worked after and before school and had to beg my Druggy dad to give me the 5 dollars I was short each month for school. I moved away from them, to where my girlfriend (now wife) lived and she was the biggest help. Got a 200$ a month apt in 2008 in some Russian lady's attic and went to college there. I graduated #1 in my college. I am a machine learning data developer. I paid my college in full.