When I went into business for myself, I owned nothing more than clothes, my one horse and a dog at the time. My truck wasnÂ’t even mine, it belonged to my parents. I leased the barn/land and leased a separate place to live. Did other side jobs along the way as needed - yes, working for others at times, at night , to pay the bills. Eventually was able to rely only upon my own income. Was tough. But made it - and proud of what I did and what I have.
Oh yes. My mom is very literate, but never finished college. Long story, life happened. Anyway, I'm over here with a near worthless AA degree and still have struggle with English sometimes.
And that sounds wonderful! My dream is to have a large chunk of land. Farm, ranch, homestead, whatever. Big enough to have my space from neighbors and have animals and a garden. XD
Not at all implying literacy is valued by dollars. Just that it is used in communication without chatspeak in most of my life. Plenty of folks without riches can be extremely literate. No assumptions ever made to the contrary
Same! I'm not into shorthand. I can understand things like 'SanFran' for the city San Francisco though. (auto correct just helped me with the spelling, lol).