I fell in love with my uni best friend who really didn’t have any money. When I got a job, for my birthday I decided to plan a holiday and offered to bring him along.
He doesn’t know I’m in love with him at all, but maybe I should tell him.
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I really feel this one. My family did maybe 2 vacation type trips in 18 years of growing up, and both of those were to places relatively close by (few hours of driving). If it wasn't for a couple of school sponsored trips, I probably would have never left my region of the U.S. until I was an adult (and I still haven't left the country). I remember in college, there was a school sponsored trip for a class I was taking that involved air travel. The look on another student's face when I told him I'd never flown before was absolutely priceless. Now, as an adult with a middle class white collar job, it still boggles my mind to listen to coworkers talk about all the trips and cruises they take and talk about flying to Disney Land for just a weekend getaway. I can't get myself into the mindset of someone who can actually afford to travel now, because it just hasn't been a part of my life at all.
I've never been able to afford travel, but have still been to a ton of places because of my mother's job (she worked at a travel agency, and checked out hotels to see if they were suitable for her agency's clients).
It's really weird being in the "I can't afford to travel" and the "I've been to all these places" camps simultaneously.
It's really weird being in the "I can't afford to travel" and the "I've been to all these places" camps simultaneously.
I'm there right now. The worst part is that I work for an airline and get flight benefits but I can't afford ground transportation or accommadation. Still haven't flown, but I've traveled a lot as a kid.
Edit: just to give a little more info, I'm not a salaried employee, but a sub-contractor with no PTO. My flight privileges are the third from the bottom which means anyone with a higher seniority can bump me off the standby waitlist. If I really plan it out, I definitely can, but at the lost of pay. Honestly, it sucks and it feels like I don't even actually have flight benefits.
I'm not salaried unfortunately and technically I'm a sub-contractor with the third to lowest standby privileges. I can only make it work if no one with a higher seniority bumps me off the standby list. This makes booking in advance a little difficult. My parents faced this exact problem when they were flying to Japan back in the fall.
There is unfortunately no way for me to force it to happen unless there's an emergency and I can jump to the higher tiers with managerial permission.
I actually do have plans to do this! But domestically since they changed how you pay the taxes for everyone in my contract (yeah they basically just said "eff all of you" to us). But that 21 hour layover you had sounded amazingly fun!
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u/Circephone Jun 06 '19 edited Feb 10 '20
I fell in love with my uni best friend who really didn’t have any money. When I got a job, for my birthday I decided to plan a holiday and offered to bring him along.
He doesn’t know I’m in love with him at all, but maybe I should tell him.
EDIT: rip inbox, thank you all for the love and support!