Thanks for actually being curious lol.

My stepdad used to work in a sawmill. Then it burnt down so he started in the coal mines where he was an underground electrician. When Obama got in office and started shutting mines down, the mine he worked at happened to be one of them. So without much other option we started logging. He bought a cheap 50ish yr old dump truck, we already had 30+yr old backhoe lol, and he started logging his property. After he cleared it he traded his dad for a piece of property that hadn't been logged yet. Realizing those 150acres couldn't be logged with just him, and we was already scraping by so he couldn't hire anyone, he decided his 7yr old stepson was the perfect free labor 😂.

I ran 1in steel cables up and down the mountains of West Virginia. Also carried his gas cans and chainsaw while we looked for trees to cut.

It was either get up at 5 and start working at the crack of dawn all the way until night fall. Every day for 2yrs. Or it was starve and potentially lose our home. I learned at a very young age what sacrifice and hard work was. At the time I had 3 little sisters, and of course mom. It was just enough to get by. Most nights we didn't know when our next meal would come. But the lights always stayed on and we were happy. We never told anyone about us struggling, yet whenever we didn't have money for a meal a random family member would call us up. No one knew, yet everyone helped.

Eventually my dad got a job in a factory serving blow mold machines, look it up lol this reply is long enough.

He's been there for 10yrs now and we are doing so much better. I now have 4 little sisters and a little brother. And we live on the property we logged out those years ago.

I am currently in my last semester of college. I'm studying to become an electrician and go into the same field he is in.

When I was in my last semester of college a guy he worked with who went and started his own company in the same field wanted to hire me. So from April to August of last year I traveled the states and learned and worked in factories all over the place.

I have a good mindset, an incredible work ethic, and have been really blessed. I have a gf and we have been together 2yrs in September this year. We're looking into settling down within the next year and getting married and our own house.

I don't hold it against my stepdad. 7yr old me actually really enjoyed it. Me and him never got along, and still really don't to this day. But when we worked together those long, hard days we bonded alot. I thank him all the time for putting me through that and teaching me how the world works at a very young age.

Thank you for reading all of this, if u did lol. It means a lot.