![]() Six years later, I have tripled my income since arriving here and now have a great role at an agency I love. (Side note: I made way more at that firm in an initial entry level role than I did at the agency back in the US). ![]() I ended up finding work at a marketing agency within my first week here, and they went on to sponsor me. My experience has been nothing short of amazing. I ended up getting a one-year work and holiday for Australia and arrived here in 2014 with nothing but a backpack and a duffel bag. So, when I received this relatively large sum of money, I decided to sell everything and plan out some travels. I pretty much felt like I was in this constant cycle in which I could never really save much. It was just that I had all these travel plans that I was constantly dreaming about. "I wasn't exactly drowning in debt or anything, more so just getting by paycheck to paycheck. I was 26 at the time of filming and had been working three jobs (marketing firm, restaurant, bar) just to get by in an otherwise shitty economy." It was so wildly surreal, and I couldn't believe I had actually won that amount of money until after the show aired and they sent me a physical check in the mail. "I was on a game show called Let's Ask America in 2013, and I ended up winning $24,000. My mom didn't totally hate it, but she eventually made my dad sell it and upgrade to a bigger trailer with it's own bathroom and shower."ģ. We took a lot of great family camping trips in that little trailer with some amazing memories made. They then incurred costs to upgrade my mom's car to an SUV with a tow hitch for the trailer.Īll in all, it ended up being a great prize because they kept it for 12 years, which included the first 8 years of my life. Anyway, they didn't receive their prize until their episode aired, and they had to go pick it up themselves down in Los Angeles or pay a hefty price to have the prize delivered (they chose to pick it up themselves). ![]() "On the video, you can see my mom visibly upset they didn't get the washer and dryer.hahaha poor mom. Wellllll.they ended up with the pop-up tent trailer and camping supplies." They had just moved into their first house and really needed a washer and dryer, so they put that first (and assumed that's what they would end up with if they won), and for the third choice, they put a new pop-up tent trailer with camping supplies (something my mom definitely did NOT want LOL). "My parents were on The Newlywed Game in the early '80s and won! I guess beforehand, there was a list of items they were given, and they were supposed to pick three of the prize items and put them in order of their first choice down to their third.
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