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    Proud dad moments!

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    Great news mate. You must be very proud.

    My daughter is in the throws of selecting a Uni here.

    She must sit for a number of entrance exams which she has been doing for the last 6 months.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Storekeeper View Post
    Time to close out and archive this thread:

    The kid graduated in December 2020.
    Got US citizenship in February 2021.

    That US citizenship officially and forever ended her dependent on me status.

    Turns 23 today! And not married and not pregnant! Hooyah!
    Don' t worry about it too much. LOL easy for me to say right? But she will find her own way. the same way you did when you were her age.
    My Daughter is the about the same age (24) and I am having the same issues. We want to guide them, and for them not to make some of the same mistakes we made, but we forget that the mistakes we made help make us who we are.
    So to make you feel a little better let me tell you a bit about my daughter. First we have a very nice house in a very good neighborhood near the beach in Florida, We are coming to Thailand May 4th (god and the Thai government willing) and wont be back for at least 2 years, and offer her to stay there for free, but Nooo , she has to move to Asheville, NC , Eight hours away. She is doing her Bachelor's degree on line. Pre Law.
    So the other day she calls me and asks me if I knew anything about Photovoltaic Cells. I said " some, why do you ask?) She said her and her friend wanted to buy a van and convert it to live in and travel the country, ( her friend is a girl also) What!! are you crazy? You are going from "My daughter the lawyer, to my Daughter the homeless person? I said.
    So go ahead, laugh!! are you done laughing? Let me know when you are 'cause I have a lot more to say.
    The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.

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    @buckaroo - apparently vanlife is seen as hip & cool among the Gen Z & millenial crowd. So many vanlife channels on YT.

    If I was a bit younger & not committed to paying for real estate, I'd probably want/ try the digital nomad lifestyle too. I'm lucky (in a way) that I've done some travelling & hiking pre-covid, so I'm not feeling that "my youth is being wasted by covid", which is what many younger people are experiencing now.

    @SK - congrats on the achievements of the daughter! Proud dad!

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    By the way her getting US citizenship is HUGE for me ... totally absolves me of any further financial responsibility. Now she’s just like any other adult in the USA ... on her own ... sink or swim.

    Sure, I’m proud of her accomplishments. But, I’m really relieved and thankful this chapter is closed.

    Last thing I’ll say is this ... feels very good when she often chooses my side or refuses to take sides against me in disputes with her Thai family ...

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    You did one hell of a job raising, educating and assimilating her into the real world SK. Superb job bro..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Storekeeper View Post
    By the way her getting US citizenship is HUGE for me ... totally absolves me of any further financial responsibility. Now she’s just like any other adult in the USA ... on her own ... sink or swim.
    Sounds like she is swimming. That's a measure of her upbringing!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Storekeeper View Post
    By the way her getting US citizenship is HUGE for me ... totally absolves me of any further financial responsibility. Now she’s just like any other adult in the USA ... on her own ... sink or swim.
    Yea , good luck with that. LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by Storekeeper View Post
    By the way her getting US citizenship is HUGE for me ... totally absolves me of any further financial responsibility. Now she’s just like any other adult in the USA ... on her own ... sink or swim.

    Sure, I’m proud of her accomplishments. But, I’m really relieved and thankful this chapter is closed.

    Last thing I’ll say is this ... feels very good when she often chooses my side or refuses to take sides against me in disputes with her Thai family ...
    Congratulations to you both, Stores.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    You did one hell of a job raising, educating and assimilating her into the real world SK. Superb job bro..
    Thank you bruh for letting me vent a couple times ... it helped me through that rough patch a couple years ago with her.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Storekeeper View Post
    Sure, I’m proud of her accomplishments.
    As you should be, well done sir.
    Wherever she goes in future she'll have many memories you gave her which will travel with her.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Storekeeper View Post
    Sure, I’m proud of her accomplishments. But, I’m really relieved and thankful this chapter is closed.
    Well done SK, you can only prepare them for the world as best you can, you can't shelter them from it.
    Last edited by strigils; 08-04-2021 at 01:06 PM.

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    Well my girl finally has her first job. It’s a US federal government job so it’ll still be a few months before she starts. Gotta jump through the background investigation hoops first. Some sort of entry level clerk job in the Child Development Center on one of the bases near here. Basically is where the active duty military folks take their kids when they head off to work every day. So plenty of opportunity for upward mobility. Great bennies … all federal holidays are paid and there are like 13 or 14 of them. Plus 13 days sick live and 13 days annual leave from the start. Medical and dental packages available. Also a retirement plan called FERS which in her case she’ll be able to retire from after 30 years at age 54. And a separate Thrift Savings Plan with 5% matching. No help from me. She got the job through her own connections.

    Frequently watch the Thailand expat You Tuber stories and compared to the ones who are older I’m often reminded that the path I chose for my family is much different than most of them. To each his own. You do you and I’ll do me. But, honestly … I find them often to be intellectually dishonest spins that frequently leave out bits and pieces of information about what is being left on the table when they don’t give their family the same advantages they had that gave them the ability to retire in Thailand.

    Anyhoo … my connection to Thailand is primarily my wife and daughter. I don’t have pictures of my travels across Thailand or the food I ate but there’s a degree from Washington State University on my living room wall and a host of other bennies they both now have that I won’t mention.

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    ^ congrats to her SK, big step that first job.

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    Brilliant, well done . . . one less worry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Storekeeper View Post
    there’s a degree from Washington State University on my living room wall
    ...just hope it's not pasted to a dart board...

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    Well done, nice to see a great result

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    Quote Originally Posted by Storekeeper View Post
    Well my girl finally has her first job. It’s a US federal government job so it’ll still be a few months before she starts. Gotta jump through the background investigation hoops first. Some sort of entry level clerk job in the Child Development Center on one of the bases near here. Basically is where the active duty military folks take their kids when they head off to work every day. So plenty of opportunity for upward mobility. Great bennies … all federal holidays are paid and there are like 13 or 14 of them. Plus 13 days sick live and 13 days annual leave from the start. Medical and dental packages available. Also a retirement plan called FERS which in her case she’ll be able to retire from after 30 years at age 54. And a separate Thrift Savings Plan with 5% matching. No help from me. She got the job through her own connections.
    This job sounds amazing! Congrats to your girl and to you! Sounds like she is set for life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe View Post
    This job sounds amazing! Congrats to your girl and to you! Sounds like she is set for life.
    A government job with full benefits and great access to a decent future. You will be rightfully proud of her achievements. It doesn’t get much better if she can stick at it. Congratulations to her for making the most of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe View Post
    This job sounds amazing! Congrats to your girl and to you! Sounds like she is set for life.

    Quote Originally Posted by Switch View Post
    A government job with full benefits and great access to a decent future. You will be rightfully proud of her achievements. It doesn’t get much better if she can stick at it. Congratulations to her for making the most of it.
    She seems to know what she's doing. From the beginning a couple years back she's been talking about this type of job in Japan. I'd just roll my eyes and giver the "yeah, right" look and then COVID totally blew up her plans to immediately head to Japan. And now here she goes landing this job that's like a total guarantee to get her back to Yokosuka, Japan working on the US Navy base there. And without my help.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Storekeeper View Post
    She seems to know what she's doing. From the beginning a couple years back she's been talking about this type of job in Japan. I'd just roll my eyes and giver the "yeah, right" look and then COVID totally blew up her plans to immediately head to Japan. And now here she goes landing this job that's like a total guarantee to get her back to Yokosuka, Japan working on the US Navy base there. And without my help.
    Everything happens for a reason. I hope this story has a happy ending mate.

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    Sounds good!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Storekeeper View Post
    And without my help.
    That's gotta make you the proudest!

    Of course, we'll help our kids, but seeing them do it on their own is the best!

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