Greatest Accomplishment

[hc4361]

What have you done that you are most proud of?

I've worked hard to get all sorts of qualifications, progress within my field and of course I'm proud of my home and family.

The one thing that gave me greatest satisfaction ever was learning to tie my shoe laces. I know I didn't find it easy but nothing has surpassed that feeling when I finally got it right.

[AlwaysConfused]

I can't remember learning to read or count, I was very young . I was six before I learnt to tell the time, I was so proud when I finally got it!

[hc4361]

I was the same, AC. I learned to tell the time with a cardboard clock that my mum used to show certain times, such as the start of Jackanory, time to leave home etc.

[flump1]

Hi hc, I was so very proud when I swam a width at school swimming lessons ! And passing my driving test.

[pusskin]

I won a carer of the year award with the company i worked with.
Families and company voted me best carer for going above the call of duty. Really loved my job and still miss all the elderly folks I helped take care of.

[Zacs-Master]

Realising that there are more important things in life than money and success.

[Baldric]

Being awarded my Green Beret, a good few years ago now, I have never trained/worked so hard for anything as I did for that!

[lcg]

going to uni and getting a 1st - finally at the age of 30. i always thought i was too thick, too poor and uni was not for the likes of me. this was despite working 28 hours a week on top of my course (so when i was on nursing placements, i worked a 64 hour week); looking after my 12yr old son and caring for mr kicker, who was very unwell at the time. not to mention running the household and serving the cats (and i don't drive). i have no idea how i managed!

[hc4361]

Some great uplifting posts - thanks for sharing :)

[bert_h]

Seeing both of my children graduate from Cambridge University.

[rockyracoon]

My greatest accomplishment are my children, I still look a them and wonder what I did to deserve them.

[missprim]

I would have to agree with rockyracoon. I can't think of anything I did in my life that made me feel as proud as did, when I gave birth to my three gorgeous daughters.
Even though they are now in their thirties, I still look at them and think, Wow, did I really have a hand in making these lovely girls.

[carolegif]

Apart from my children, my degree (BA Hons 2.1) at the age of 55. It took me 7 years and a lot of hard work, but I felt such a sense of achievement!

[commoner]

I distinctly remember at the age of about 3 or 4 realizing that I could read the printing on my dad's Daily Herald......how it happened I don't know but I felt amazing and rushed round the house reading everything I could get my eyes on.....
I also worked hard at my studies and to think it all started from that "Eureka moment." ...

[commoner]

BTW..that was in 1937/8...

[Mosaic]

Raising two belting kids to be belting adults.....a few decades ago, preventing a workplace thief from having it on his toes with thousands of pounds of rare ethnographic artefacts.
He was my boss - never liked me much.

[marval]

Being able to ride a bike.

[Mosaic]

Commoner - I distinctly recall being very happy at decoding 'Lion Annual 1962'.....

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

Winning Image of the Month in Sky At Night magazine. I could have burst with pride.

[BlueToffee]

Other than my 3 children, when my wife was awarded her OU degree and her BA from Nottingham Trent in Mathematics after having left school with 2 CSE's

She went on to become a successful maths teacher for 18 years.

[commoner]

LOL..mosaic.bet you went froward in leaps and bounds from that minute..sounds just the sort of thing that happened in my case.....though it was more likely to have been...War Is Coming...on the front of the Daily Herald...:-)