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- Chit Chat (http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/forumdisplay.php?f=17)

- - Hey FFR. (http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=146397)

I stopped coming to ffr when ffya was giving me a more condensed dose of the community that I loved. When ffya kind of collapsed like a flan in a cupboard when we all realized we're like 30 and have careers and families, I followed suit and worked hard to become a teacher, which is what I had been working towards since 2009. Getting the coursework done was easy enough since I took advantage of cheap community college and local state schools. But when I started taking long term sub jobs I realized to get by I had to take on a second job tutoring in an after school program. Then I realized I needed a third job working at a tutoring center just to get by. So for a while I was working something like 12 hours a day Monday-Friday and 6 hours on Saturday and Sunday. I took my lumps in the sub teaching world. Getting set up as a fall guy by a district that was being monitored by the state. Being threatened by parents for snitching on a 15-year-old 7th grader trying to sell pot in my classroom. Getting assaulted by a 20-year-old senior in a rough school for having the audacity to ask him to return items he stole from me. Watching my pay get cut by 60% from one year to the next when the district went from hiring their long term subs directly to using a staffing company. But after a lot of struggling I made it into a full time teaching gig in January, 2015. I'm still there and working my way towards tenure, which should be mine around the start of the 2018-2019 school year. This year is probably the first since I started teaching that I can say I feel comfortable in how I go about my job. This is evidenced by even having the free time to post a thread on ffr.

This community really has meant the world to me. I have made and met about as many close friends in this community as I have outside of this community. I was so happy to be able to help the place out by taking care of profiles and forums for a while. And it killed me to not have this group to console, cheer on, and harass me that I got so used to for so long. So now I'm this 32-year-old math teacher and some of my most important relationships still originate on this silly website. Thanks for still being here.

Despite never having talked to you~
It's awesome to see others who've found such value in what this site has offered--friendships, etc.

<3

Love you too sweetums

I've known so many of you for like half of my life. Oh my god.

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Originally Posted by lord_carbo (Post 4508380)

I've known so many of you for like half of my life. Oh my god.

Seriously. I spent about the entirety of my 20's socializing with people from this community.

OMG, according to FFR, you have the same birthday as me! Is that true?!

Been missing the Chaz, welcome back. Congrats on your progression in the teachery field. I would not have made it :mrgreen:

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Originally Posted by MarcusHawkins (Post 4508385)

OMG, according to FFR, you have the same birthday as me! Is that true?!

12/9/84

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Originally Posted by Spenner (Post 4508386)

Been missing the Chaz, welcome back. Congrats on your progression in the teachery field. I would not have made it :mrgreen:

Thanks, man. I'm just glad there are some names I recognize and it's not just a new batch of 14-year-olds. I don't think I'd want to make new friends with kiddos younger than my students.

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Originally Posted by All_That_Chaz (Post 4508390)

12/9/84

HECK YEA! Mine's 12/9/99 ! :D

Thank you so much for coming back to drop by and give a really nice hello! I remember when you were super cool with all of these sounds and visual effects in the Profile Chat!! I bet you still are haha!

And congrats on your accomplishments to become a math teacher, and I bet a fairly good one at that haha! :D

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Originally Posted by MarcusHawkins (Post 4508392)

Ha, well I don't get to play in prochat anymore. I'm retired from staff.

And how dare you intimate that I was ever "super cool." >8( lol

Great story and great development, Mr. Chaz, hope it doesn't stop there. :)

I applaud you for your dedication to your community in your work. I was like, a fucking baby during this site's era of not-deadness (when the now-30 year olds were in college).

I've been on this website half my life but I've only been posting on these boards for like, a third.

Supreme dictator returns! Grats dude. Always good to hear the success stories of people from this community. :)

-o24

Wait, Marcus mentioned prochat stuff, was that you dropping bombs and with the bucket walrus?

Wow I miss active days of prochat ☆

☆ ☆ ☆

i missed the group skype calls bruh idk if you remember that shiz

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Originally Posted by evanescence_death4ever (Post 4508405)

Wait, Marcus mentioned prochat stuff, was that you dropping bombs and with the bucket walrus?

Wow I miss active days of prochat ☆

☆ ☆ ☆

I was one of a few people that probably had a little too much fun with those prochat toys.

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Originally Posted by badman7772 (Post 4508408)

i missed the group skype calls bruh idk if you remember that shiz

I was in a couple skype groups. Y'all should get a discord group going for ffr people. ffya did, and it's why I felt like reconnecting with the motherland.

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Originally Posted by All_That_Chaz (Post 4508409)

I was one of a few people that probably had a little too much fun with those prochat toys.

I was in a couple skype groups. Y'all should get a discord group going for ffr people. ffya did, and it's why I felt like reconnecting with the motherland.

Those prochat toys were GOLDEN.

There's an ffr discord server :)