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Seven Life-Changing Lessons From Someone Who Lost Everything

When I was 19, I landed a job that would be a turning point in my life and teach me not only that life isn’t fair, but that it shouldn’t be.

At the time, I was basking in my newfound independence, living on my own, paying my way through college and looking for work, which back in the 1970s meant scouring through obscurely worded "help wanted" ads in the newspaper. Kind of like Twitter’s 140 character limit but without the benefit of webspeak abbreviations and emojis.

It’s still not clear to me how I came across this particular ad. It was a position as a nurse’s aid in a spinal cord injury unit (SCIU) at a local hospital. I had no experience for it, I wasn’t interested in the medical field, and the only thing that even drew my attention to it was that it was close to my school and it paid well. What it didn’t advertise were the unusual demands of the position or the dividends it would pay for the rest of my life.

by Tom Koulopoulos

Seven Life-Changing Lessons From Someone Who Lost Everything

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