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Any /FromBetaToAlpha/ stories here? I'll start
>be me, amerifat
>living with parents until my coding career takes off, (fluent in java and have coded several sites in the past, just waiting for a big commission to get the ball rolling)
>parents usually very tolerant of this since I usually have plenty of money from coding to at least pay them 60 bucks a month in rent
>last 2 months I didn't get any jobs and had to donate plasma the first month and just didn't pay rent the month after
>they're royally pissed and keep insisting that nobody will hire a self-taught script writer
>ignore them
>yesterday, having our Fourth of July celebration early because my dad doesn't have the fourth off and Sunday is his only free day
>Didn't want to go because I'm still scouting for jobs
>forced to
>at the party, bunch of faggot family there
>know basically none of them aside from my direct family and a cousin or two
>party runs out of ice of all things
>tasked with getting more, given a 20 by my dad as he looks at me like he wished I was aborted
>drive to store, buy the ice
>get one single ice cream bar from the freezer section, because it was hot and I've been craving them
>maybe $1.99 added to the total cost
>get back, give dad the change and ice
>he carefully counts the money, bill by bill, coin by coin, occasionally glancing up to give me the evil eye
>says ice shouldn't have cost this much. Gets in my face and asks me what I spent his fucking money on
>reluctantly tell him I got an ice cream bar
>he starts screaming at me in front of the whole barbecue
>everyone is staring
>he calls me a fucking loser and a leech
>says he knew I'd end up like this
>HadEnough.JPEG
>deck him in the fucking face, he goes down
>casually walk inside, lock my bedroom door
>nobody's bothered me since then, I even left to get some food from the fridge and nobody said a word, not even my dad, who just sat on the couch in silence
Feels good to finally be respected.
Anyone else?
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