I was a senior in high school. No school WiFi. No phone, but my friends had some flip phones. Teachers kept telling us you’ll never have a calculator in your pocket every place you go, and you’ll never get a job looking out windows all day. Now I have a cell phone and I work in an air traffic control tower looking out windows all day.
GPS still really wasn’t a thing everybody had. You just knew how to get places. You’d call a friend before you went to their house, or went to the house with them after school and called home to tell your parents where you were etc.
It's funny one of the theatre kids setup a hidden WiFi router in the auditorium adjacent to the commons (cafeteria) and everyone would wonder what I was doing on my laptop at lunch. Super fancy for the time to go to school with a laptop. Always on FaceTheJury, Face party or Myspace or quite possibly trying to download music off Limewire.
Thanks for putting up with us. I know it's not always easy especially when you get an aggressive controller. We dont like them any more than you do. Its embarrassing to work with.
Brrrrrooooo, I've brashered maybe 4 pilots in 10 years Civilian ATC. It helps when I dont know the tower number and it's awkward "I got a number for you to call! You tell me when you're ready!" then turn over my shoulder to the sup "What's our number?!"
That’s hilarious. In all my years of flying, you definitely have to earn that number. I’ve only heard it on radios a few times, and it’s usually students/low-time. Are you a tower or center controller? If it’s the latter, we’ve probably even spoken before
It does take a lot. Most of the time im just like, hey, that was dumb let's not do that.
Im a tower guy. Started out east, made my way to Texas and worked flight schools so I know very well how dumb that can get. im at a Class B tower now in SoCal.
Yeah I’ve gotten that line from a controller before, and it was deserved lol. I’m east coast but do transcon quite a bit and have been to each bravo in Cali, so there’s a chance!
Again, thanks for what you do. Especially with recent events. We couldn’t do our job without good controllers
I appreciate it. I miss being in the background, but its been weird and cool having people have an idea on what we do now and not just "dude with the cones on the ramp"
I'll dox myself just a bit. Im the GC in this one.
Life was great, I got married to the love of my life. We partied every day, I drank the best wine in the world with other people’s money and had a gram a day Coke habit
Biking. Four square. Butt burner (wall ball). Jump rope. Sports. Too much tv and video games. Blockbuster. McDonald’s and BK play place. Chuckie cheese.
I was in elementary school. I was the first girl in my 5th grade class to experience puberty. Back then no one worried about a 10 year old experiencing that, now days they worry lol.
I was also just diagnosed with ADHD but my autism diagnosis was missed again.
I was a young teenager, still trapped with an abusive parent. I have no memories I can attribute to that year, since I dissociated through all of it. I guess it's possible that one of the memory fragments with friends happened that year, but there's nothing that can indicate which year they were specifically.
In 2005 I was 12 so I was probably smoking cigs and skipping classes to walk around my small town or I was skipping school altogether. I loved killzone 2 and other games on the PS/PS2.
I died twice. I had my gallbladder removed, they accidentally nicked my liver, filled up with bile, sepsis, 105° temp. Both my lungs collapsed. Lived in ICU for 30 days
My husband and I were both gainfully employed and gradually recovering from a financial setback. We were moving houses. My oldest was in community college but still at home. Middle kid about the graduate high school, youngest in middle school. I had no goal except to not run out of money ever again. My only real goal was to travel someday. My dreams were that my kids could realize their dreams. By the time my oldest two graduated from college and my youngest was in high school we were able to take them and one son's fiance to Paris and London for graduation. That was cool.
Freaking amazing. Lots of really good friends and weed, good friends with good weed, house parties where people were still using T9 to text and weren't glued to it if they did have a cell phone, LOTS of really good music... Missy Elliott - Lose Control is absolutely my theme song to that year. Lots of good hard drugs in my area, you could pretty much get anything you wanted through a handful of people.
Trips to Galveston to go to the beach, Saturday night cruises around Houston. Late nights going into Walmart to fuck around at 3 in the morning. And HOLY CRAP Rocky Horror Picture show was still a thing at the local dollar cinema on Friday nights! You could also pass off as being 18 and buy cigarettes your own self. Some non chain mini marts also wouldn't care and sell us booze.
I was the third born and about to graduate high school, my parents gave up parenting so I was free to do pretty much whatever I wanted.
I was working back than as a reach truck driver at a food distribution center which has been my steady job for 33 years. I didn't have any ambitions, my goal was full filled on February 27 2024 when I could stop working at 63 almost 64.
I was a freshman. I was dating a senior at a different school that I met from MySpace in the local Taco Bell parking lot. Fallout Boy was my favorite band. I had a cellphone but only for making calls after soccer practice, absolutely no texting. My AIM away message always described whatever mood swing I was going through with emo lyrics. I had a guitar, but I was only allowed to play in our detached garage because I was so bad and my parents didn’t want to hear it. I often skipped school to go snowboarding. I wore chuck Taylor’s, studded belts, jelly bracelets, band t’s, and skinny jeans… with a side part of course.
I was a single mom with a 4 year old and working on my BA in literature. I was also fighting the first symptoms of chronic illness, but I didn't know that at the time.
Once I get through a year I don't harp on what's already been played in life. I might reminisce about a certain year in my old age but that'd be about it.
It was ok. I was a teacher, which I didn’t really like. I was engaged to someone that I didn’t want to be, living in a town I didn’t want to live in. It all changed after that. So 2005 wasn’t great, but it went uphill from there.
Senior year was easier than I thought. I knocked out the majority of HS credits early so the 2nd half of the school year I got to leave early because I didn't have many classes left.
I graduated with my Regents Diploma. Also had a fun summer. Saw Batman Begins and Revenge of the Sith back to back a few times
I was fit, my body did not hate me, I was making good money, I was having a stupid amount of sex with random people almost daily. No kids then and no stds it was nice.
I was 6. This was a year before my dad burned our house down, so you can guess how my home life was. Idk all the details, but he was likely in and out of our house in 2005
Amazing, first, I still had my parents, and my family had just moved to a brand new, custom built home for my dad who was a disabled vet. It was outside of town, so great night skies, deer and other animals would hang out on the lot they had. It was built on a hill, so the views were great too. I was enrolling in a tech school and kicking off an awesome welding career. Yep, it was going great, then it all came crashing down.
I was a senior in HS. I would go to the park in town with my friends and smoke cigars. There’s a cool view of the skyline with the sunset. I’d play video games at my friends’ house. I miss it. Simpler times.
I was a senior in high school. Those years post high school are where you really find out about yourself, exploring new things. Always up for a good time. You really transform into the person you are today.
Just got my first adult cell phone with a monthly bill. Nextel flip phone. Blockbuster nights were still a thing. I remember gas being just over a dollar/gallon. Living each week for the weekend.
I had just started a new job and was enjoying reaching high up into my profession. My marriage was still ok, needed another 5 years for it to fail. My daughter was 12 and going through those tough pre-teen years. I had the house I always wanted from when I was a kid, proof that dreams do come true.
Graduated college in May. The world was my oyster. I chose to go to law school. What a mistake that was. My life has been absolutely hell ever since although there were a few good years. I'm now 43 years old and I have no reason to live and no hope. Just waiting for my parents to kick the bucket and then I'm out of here. It's become a s*** world and I'm no longer interested in being part of it.
The world seemed so full of possibility in 2005. I had my health, mental and physical, and there were possibilities laid out before me. I could still manage a smile, I still had some semblance of looks even though I've never been a model, and I owned more than I do now. The job market was much better. You didn't have dozens of people to compete with and you didn't have to jump through hoops. Pounding the pavement was still a valid way to get a job because not everything was done on the internet at that point.
The music was awesome, the cost of living was affordable, and even though the country was still reeling from September 11th, people were a lot friendlier to each other. You had your bush haters but politics weren't nearly as nasty as they are now. I was tuned into all things pop culture, had a somewhat active social life, and everything seemed like it was going to be okay.
I've been through a lot in the 20 years since then. Worked most of them away and have nothing to show for it. I'll never be able to retire due to student loan debt and the cost of living. I plan on dying of natural causes very shortly if I don't choose euthanasia for some chronic conditions that I have.
The only thing I can say is that life is pretty damn arbitrary. You could be in a car accident, you could die of cancer, you could be murdered, so, do your best to enjoy every moment of it. Not everything in life sucks, just most things. You get to a point in life where you've seen and done everything and you don't really care to repeat it. People start to annoy the hell out of you and you prefer your own company. But you're also lonely.
The thing that scares me the most is I never married and despite having three relationships that never worked out, the thing I'm afraid of most is dying on my own. No children, no one left to care about me except my parents assuming that I outlive them. All of my friends have their own lives now and all I have are acquaintances.
I was a senior in high school. No school WiFi. No phone, but my friends had some flip phones. Teachers kept telling us you’ll never have a calculator in your pocket every place you go, and you’ll never get a job looking out windows all day. Now I have a cell phone and I work in an air traffic control tower looking out windows all day.
GPS still really wasn’t a thing everybody had. You just knew how to get places. You’d call a friend before you went to their house, or went to the house with them after school and called home to tell your parents where you were etc.
It's funny one of the theatre kids setup a hidden WiFi router in the auditorium adjacent to the commons (cafeteria) and everyone would wonder what I was doing on my laptop at lunch. Super fancy for the time to go to school with a laptop. Always on FaceTheJury, Face party or Myspace or quite possibly trying to download music off Limewire.
Same, but a pilot instead. Thanks for what you do to help us fly safely
Thanks for putting up with us. I know it's not always easy especially when you get an aggressive controller. We dont like them any more than you do. Its embarrassing to work with.
Haha we have our fair share of grouches too, no worries. Just don’t give me your phone number and we’re all good!
Brrrrrooooo, I've brashered maybe 4 pilots in 10 years Civilian ATC. It helps when I dont know the tower number and it's awkward "I got a number for you to call! You tell me when you're ready!" then turn over my shoulder to the sup "What's our number?!"
That’s hilarious. In all my years of flying, you definitely have to earn that number. I’ve only heard it on radios a few times, and it’s usually students/low-time. Are you a tower or center controller? If it’s the latter, we’ve probably even spoken before
It does take a lot. Most of the time im just like, hey, that was dumb let's not do that.
Im a tower guy. Started out east, made my way to Texas and worked flight schools so I know very well how dumb that can get. im at a Class B tower now in SoCal.
Yeah I’ve gotten that line from a controller before, and it was deserved lol. I’m east coast but do transcon quite a bit and have been to each bravo in Cali, so there’s a chance!
Again, thanks for what you do. Especially with recent events. We couldn’t do our job without good controllers
I appreciate it. I miss being in the background, but its been weird and cool having people have an idea on what we do now and not just "dude with the cones on the ramp"
I'll dox myself just a bit. Im the GC in this one.
https://youtu.be/BRLql2Jnjfk?si=vKI8gU-j2RWFOP11
Wow, that was well handled. Kudos. Love the wild guess and tower’s initial reaction to the collapse lol. Glad everyone was okay. Nice work
Life was great, I got married to the love of my life. We partied every day, I drank the best wine in the world with other people’s money and had a gram a day Coke habit
Biking. Four square. Butt burner (wall ball). Jump rope. Sports. Too much tv and video games. Blockbuster. McDonald’s and BK play place. Chuckie cheese.
It was so much better than my life is now
Recovering from encephalitis and meningitis. Lots of PT. Was a hard year.
I was a new mom with a shitty baby daddy. My baby was beautiful though.
I was in elementary school. I was the first girl in my 5th grade class to experience puberty. Back then no one worried about a 10 year old experiencing that, now days they worry lol.
I was also just diagnosed with ADHD but my autism diagnosis was missed again.
I lived out west with three of my friends and we were all in our 20s, it was one of the best times in my life.
I was a young teenager, still trapped with an abusive parent. I have no memories I can attribute to that year, since I dissociated through all of it. I guess it's possible that one of the memory fragments with friends happened that year, but there's nothing that can indicate which year they were specifically.
Life was great! Not yet in school and being a trouble maker. And my bedroom was amazing!
I graduated high school In 2005, and was working in a factory packaging golf balls for 7.50 an hour lol.
In 2005 I was 12 so I was probably smoking cigs and skipping classes to walk around my small town or I was skipping school altogether. I loved killzone 2 and other games on the PS/PS2.
It was great
Not as fun as it is now
Nothing that truly thrives comes without God’s faith and guidance.
It was a fucking grind! I worked 3rd shift at the FEMA call center
I died twice. I had my gallbladder removed, they accidentally nicked my liver, filled up with bile, sepsis, 105° temp. Both my lungs collapsed. Lived in ICU for 30 days
that is CRAZY
It's left a lifetime of reoccurring hernias and repairs.
Man, though you sound like youre doing alright Id imagine its tough to deal with. I hope you lots and lots of easy days and r&r 🫂
Just waiting in that hernia mesh settlement!
this is why Im terrified of colonoscopies!
Hurricane Katrina later in the year. Crazy shit earlier in the year. Didn't like 2005 much.
My husband and I were both gainfully employed and gradually recovering from a financial setback. We were moving houses. My oldest was in community college but still at home. Middle kid about the graduate high school, youngest in middle school. I had no goal except to not run out of money ever again. My only real goal was to travel someday. My dreams were that my kids could realize their dreams. By the time my oldest two graduated from college and my youngest was in high school we were able to take them and one son's fiance to Paris and London for graduation. That was cool.
Iraq, Iran, i married
Thank you for your Service!
Freaking amazing. Lots of really good friends and weed, good friends with good weed, house parties where people were still using T9 to text and weren't glued to it if they did have a cell phone, LOTS of really good music... Missy Elliott - Lose Control is absolutely my theme song to that year. Lots of good hard drugs in my area, you could pretty much get anything you wanted through a handful of people.
Trips to Galveston to go to the beach, Saturday night cruises around Houston. Late nights going into Walmart to fuck around at 3 in the morning. And HOLY CRAP Rocky Horror Picture show was still a thing at the local dollar cinema on Friday nights! You could also pass off as being 18 and buy cigarettes your own self. Some non chain mini marts also wouldn't care and sell us booze.
I was the third born and about to graduate high school, my parents gave up parenting so I was free to do pretty much whatever I wanted.
I was happier… miss that time!
My mom had just died but I was still an undergrad. Life has been downhill since
Fighting my way out of a depression.
Pretty carefree. I wish I could go back and be 10 again instead of 30!
I was 40 going through IVF hoping to have our first child, married for 20 years at that point. I was the first client at our newly opened IVF clinic.
Was a lot of stress with shots, egg retrieval and implantation. Thankfully spent the some of 2005 pregnant giving birth in March 2006 to our only son
I don’t know, I was 4 in 2005.
I was working back than as a reach truck driver at a food distribution center which has been my steady job for 33 years. I didn't have any ambitions, my goal was full filled on February 27 2024 when I could stop working at 63 almost 64.
It was a simple time. I’d work out on the homestead and ma would tend to the chores and children. Didn’t have no electricity, but we made do!
In 2005 life was simple
I was a freshman. I was dating a senior at a different school that I met from MySpace in the local Taco Bell parking lot. Fallout Boy was my favorite band. I had a cellphone but only for making calls after soccer practice, absolutely no texting. My AIM away message always described whatever mood swing I was going through with emo lyrics. I had a guitar, but I was only allowed to play in our detached garage because I was so bad and my parents didn’t want to hear it. I often skipped school to go snowboarding. I wore chuck Taylor’s, studded belts, jelly bracelets, band t’s, and skinny jeans… with a side part of course.
Not so good. I was earning around $300 per month. I didn’t enjoy the feeling of having to scrimp.
I was a single mom with a 4 year old and working on my BA in literature. I was also fighting the first symptoms of chronic illness, but I didn't know that at the time.
Once I get through a year I don't harp on what's already been played in life. I might reminisce about a certain year in my old age but that'd be about it.
That was the year I had my midlife crisis. Ah, the memories…
Went to Disney World with the family.
23/24 doing young stupid shit, going to concerts working a shit job.
Simple, had it made but didn’t even realize
It was ok. I was a teacher, which I didn’t really like. I was engaged to someone that I didn’t want to be, living in a town I didn’t want to live in. It all changed after that. So 2005 wasn’t great, but it went uphill from there.
Senior year was easier than I thought. I knocked out the majority of HS credits early so the 2nd half of the school year I got to leave early because I didn't have many classes left.
I graduated with my Regents Diploma. Also had a fun summer. Saw Batman Begins and Revenge of the Sith back to back a few times
I was fit, my body did not hate me, I was making good money, I was having a stupid amount of sex with random people almost daily. No kids then and no stds it was nice.
It was a good year didn’t turn 10 yet. No bills no problems (well not as much as now) take me back.
I was 6. This was a year before my dad burned our house down, so you can guess how my home life was. Idk all the details, but he was likely in and out of our house in 2005
I was a happy kid.
Amazing, first, I still had my parents, and my family had just moved to a brand new, custom built home for my dad who was a disabled vet. It was outside of town, so great night skies, deer and other animals would hang out on the lot they had. It was built on a hill, so the views were great too. I was enrolling in a tech school and kicking off an awesome welding career. Yep, it was going great, then it all came crashing down.
2005 I spent getting all my ducks in a row for my upcoming retirement at the end of January 2006.
Alot better than now. I can tell you that! I had money, a stable job, health insurance. Unlike today.
I was a senior in HS. I would go to the park in town with my friends and smoke cigars. There’s a cool view of the skyline with the sunset. I’d play video games at my friends’ house. I miss it. Simpler times.
In 2005 I was scared for my life.
It was a shitty year for me, at the end of it.
I caught my then wife cheating on Oct 1st of 2005.
By Nov 1st I was in my own place and we were going through our divorce.
Our 3 children were all under 10 years old.
I was a senior in high school. Those years post high school are where you really find out about yourself, exploring new things. Always up for a good time. You really transform into the person you are today.
Just got my first adult cell phone with a monthly bill. Nextel flip phone. Blockbuster nights were still a thing. I remember gas being just over a dollar/gallon. Living each week for the weekend.
Enlisted that year
it was rough. stayed rough for a long time after that. its ok now.
I received a hard reset on August 29.
I had just started a new job and was enjoying reaching high up into my profession. My marriage was still ok, needed another 5 years for it to fail. My daughter was 12 and going through those tough pre-teen years. I had the house I always wanted from when I was a kid, proof that dreams do come true.
I was in high school, getting into troubles here and there. I was also making life plans that didn’t survive reality 😁😅.
Graduated college in May. The world was my oyster. I chose to go to law school. What a mistake that was. My life has been absolutely hell ever since although there were a few good years. I'm now 43 years old and I have no reason to live and no hope. Just waiting for my parents to kick the bucket and then I'm out of here. It's become a s*** world and I'm no longer interested in being part of it.
The world seemed so full of possibility in 2005. I had my health, mental and physical, and there were possibilities laid out before me. I could still manage a smile, I still had some semblance of looks even though I've never been a model, and I owned more than I do now. The job market was much better. You didn't have dozens of people to compete with and you didn't have to jump through hoops. Pounding the pavement was still a valid way to get a job because not everything was done on the internet at that point.
The music was awesome, the cost of living was affordable, and even though the country was still reeling from September 11th, people were a lot friendlier to each other. You had your bush haters but politics weren't nearly as nasty as they are now. I was tuned into all things pop culture, had a somewhat active social life, and everything seemed like it was going to be okay.
I've been through a lot in the 20 years since then. Worked most of them away and have nothing to show for it. I'll never be able to retire due to student loan debt and the cost of living. I plan on dying of natural causes very shortly if I don't choose euthanasia for some chronic conditions that I have.
The only thing I can say is that life is pretty damn arbitrary. You could be in a car accident, you could die of cancer, you could be murdered, so, do your best to enjoy every moment of it. Not everything in life sucks, just most things. You get to a point in life where you've seen and done everything and you don't really care to repeat it. People start to annoy the hell out of you and you prefer your own company. But you're also lonely.
The thing that scares me the most is I never married and despite having three relationships that never worked out, the thing I'm afraid of most is dying on my own. No children, no one left to care about me except my parents assuming that I outlive them. All of my friends have their own lives now and all I have are acquaintances.
Great I was only 7, take me back
I was having in recovering from my second back surgery, not very good.
That was the year I got married, so one of the best. Goals: to survive my mother in law. Achieved.
Well you HAD to talk to people in person. So that was nice.