This might sound like a familiar thread, but i was thinking about the effect of this line of business and how that has changed me over the years, and in my experience, i think it has been good for the most part.
I grew up a shy and reserved person and lost my virginity to a provider at an amp. Every since then, every provider i have seen allowed me to have more confidence within myself, i learned to be more social, have an open minded thinking, and i think that affected the way i thought about work and eventually higher education.
I ask that you don't jude my background or decision making, but before the game, i was a high school drop out, from a dysfunctional family whom i was estranged for 14 years. Your typical sad story. Seeing providers gave me some form of normalcy and in a strange way it kept me afloat. Today i am confident in myself, who i am, and pursing my dreams. I now have two graduate degrees and i feel that again, in a weird indirect way, the providers i have seen affected me in a positive way.
So now that i laid out my naked self out there, how has this game changed you, for better or for worse? Mods, i hope this thread is appropriate, and am sorry if it is not. It is a question i am just curious to ask of others.