AOC Reveals She's a Sexual Assault Survivor: 'Trauma Compounds on Each Other'

[Buckeye_Democrat]

13. I assumed that you were being sarcastic, but then...

... it crossed my mind that you could be some young student given an impossible extra-credit task by a sadistic math professor. Lol.

I've never really applied my degree in the work world much at all, unless I count my part-time job as a grad research assistant.

I foolishly married after getting the BS degree, and I had to drop out of grad school (full scholarship) because she turned out to be a drug addict who was secretly getting cash withdrawals on my credit cards. So I divorced her and then dropped out of school to quickly find a full-time job, being stuck with those bills.

That was back in the 90's when billing was mostly handled through regular mail. I was so naive about drugs back then that I didn't recognize the signs of her cocaine usage, but I obviously realized that her behavior was different at some point. (I later learned that she'd stopped using drugs before our marriage, but she secretly fell back into old habits afterwards.)

I've only had a few opportunities to creatively use basic math skills at various factory jobs, where I've worked mostly in quality control, such as estimating the total length of a roll of flat material after a counter stopped working. Measured the total diameter of the roll, the core diameter, and the thickness of the (thin) material itself. Those random situations will often impress my blue-collar coworkers, of course.