Natalie

My income last year on taxes was about just under $21,000, which is impossible to live on, of course.

The part-time job is working at the grocery store as a courtesy clerk, bagging groceries, lifting water, pushing old lady carts out for him.

I try to make people feel good and have a blessing on the last face they see before they walk out the door.

Well, I'm a psychiatrist.

I've had deep trauma in childhood.

And I've been in recovery from alcoholism for 28 years coming up December 4th.

But there's a lot of these underlying issues and problems which have really prevented me from thinking clearly about money, making clear good choices, and making bad decisions like that.

So the disability is I can't really function that good in a workplace and a lot of depression and personality problems.

Well, how are you doing at the grocery store?

Well, I do excellent at the grocery store.

Because I started doing a special therapy for trauma called EMDR in March, and it took me from staring at the wall for a year and a half to working, feeling good, and taking a... I took a training and got a certificate in Google Data Analytics from March until now.

So I'm looking to up-level.

I'm trying to up-level, but the thing is, I get to get off Social Security for the first time since 2000, which is somewhat terrifying.

I think that's the root of this.

Well, the problem, I can't do full-time at the grocery store, which is a complex thing about the way they do their positions.

I tried that in March, which didn't turn out.

So that's what made me turn back towards tech because I went to graduate school for research methods in the 90s.

And I've got all the statistical background, and now we've got all this new technology, AI coming, data analytics is hot.

I appreciate you.

That was amazing.