Mine‘s getting so accustomed to cold showers that I a) absolutely do not mind cold water for swimming etc. anymore and b) could not enjoy warm or hot showers anymore. They just weren’t nice at all.

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    19 days ago

    My sister had to take a final exam at college right after having a baby, my mom held the baby outside for her while she did.

    I went to university after having my first set of kids while they were little but wasn’t working much. Tried to go to grad school while working full time and parenting and it wrecked my life so completely I didn’t think there was any amount of future income that would have made it worth doing. Even now, I can’t imagine it.

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      18 days ago

      Yeah it was a pretty rough period of time and I absolutely felt the “work hard, play hard” pendulum swing where as hard as you work you have to relax equally hard, but I tripled my pre-college income in just 2 years (which isn’t hard when I was only making $12/hr) so in the long run it worked out but I wouldn’t recommend such a grind to others if they can help it