I attended college for one year. At the time, my dad had just died, my family lost our home due to his unemployment a few months earlier, my mother was very dependent and had never had a job, and almost every weekend she would visit my dorm room unannounced to cry on my shoulders about being 36 and having to move back in with her parents. I quit school, got a minimum wage job, got an apartment, and helped her financially. I then lost my job and worked part-time minimum wage jobs for several years.