Hey FFR.

[All_That_Chaz]

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.

[choof]

swack

[MarioNintendo]

<3

[evanescence_death4ever]

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

[devonin]

Love you chazzy.

[All_That_Chaz]

Love you too sweetums

[lord_carbo]

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

[All_That_Chaz]

Originally Posted by lord_carbo

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.

[MarcusHawkins]

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

[Spenner]

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

[All_That_Chaz]

Originally Posted by MarcusHawkins

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

12/9/84

Originally Posted by Spenner

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

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.

[MarcusHawkins]

Originally Posted by All_That_Chaz

12/9/84

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

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!

[All_That_Chaz]

Originally Posted by MarcusHawkins

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

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!

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

[Shikari]

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

[rayword45]

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.

[andy-o24]

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

-o24

[evanescence_death4ever]

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

[All_That_Chaz]

Originally Posted by evanescence_death4ever

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.

Originally Posted by badman7772

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.

[evanescence_death4ever]

Originally Posted by All_That_Chaz

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