Hit 20 years in Ketchikan this month and it snuck up on me

I moved up here in 2004 for a summer job at a cannery and just never left. Twenty years feels like a big deal but honestly most days it just feels like yesterday I was unloading boats. What really got me was looking at my old pay stubs from that first summer - I made $8.50 an hour and thought I was rich. Has anyone else had a milestone here that caught them off guard like that?

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smith.jordan21d ago

Man I saw that number and it broke my brain a little. I hit 15 years in Sitka last fall and I swear I blinked and it was gone. You ever notice how summers up here just collapse into one long day of rain and daylight? I remember my first paycheck from the cannery too, minimum wage and I felt like a king because I could buy gas AND a pizza in the same trip. Now forty dollars barely gets me through the grocery store door. Time moves funny in this place, doesn't matter if you are in Ketchikan or anywhere else up the road.

tara70021d ago

Remember my first year in Juneau, felt like I was getting away with something every time I paid rent, @smith.jordan.