I've found it to be quite awesome. I was a nerd before it had any cachet at all--I had my nose in an encyclopedia from the time I could read. You can imagine my excitement with our Mobile Telephones today, a computer at my fingertips! My favorite past-time as an early teen was setting a budget and design a plan for home and office enterprises. Accounting principle before I understood them.
Today, as a grown adult, I'm still incredibly nerdy. And it's awesome. I love to read, design building drafts for what I want to build. Creating things that are unique intrigues me. I designed a one of a kind camper for my Goldwing Trike. If I can build it that is what I would rather be doing than to purchase things. Building two house and remolding a couple more has kept me busy over the years.
My camper started like this...
And finished to this...
The nerds I know have interesting, rich, and varied relationship lives. We're not bound by how you "should" have relationships. We don't see relationships as mass-produced commodities; we build relationships the way we and our partners want. I married a man much older than myself and we had a fantastic life including two beautiful daughters. I am so thankful for those experiences.
Nerds have rich and varied interests. If I happen to read about an exhibit in the middle of nowhere in Arkansas, I say let's go! That's how adventures happen and memories are made.
I can be watching a TV and realize I do not know anything about what I just saw so I looked it up on my handy computer phone. I find I now know things I hadn't known before. Learning isn't something you do in a classroom when you would rather be doing something else; learning is a lifelong love affair.
As I stated before Nerds live life on their own terms. We don't feel the chains of conformity. We don't let other people choose our paths for us--we choose our own. If that means working in a career I had never done before that is what I will do...
Me working as "Industrial Security Director" after the death of my husband & until I could retire with a better income...
Nerds have interesting pastimes. I have ridden & owned minibikes, motorcycle, sidecar rigs and trikes. I have built barns, garages, and houses with electrical and plumbing too. I have poured & finished concrete plus laid my share of bricks.
Also, I have set up a photographic darkroom in my house, refinished furniture, and completed my own Tax Return.
I drove as my first car 1961 Hilman Huskey. A SUV before it was popular!
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