I lost my ambition, can I have yours?

Yeah, so pretty much all my ambition to do well in school is gone. I have a report due in like 3 hours and I haven't even started it! It just seems so unimportant latley ... like there is so much more to life than english and algebra ... ya know what I mean? I guess if my dream was to have an incredible career, mansion on the hill, 5 kids, and 10 cars it might seem better. But I just wanna live! ya dig?

 

i know what ya mean...pretty much most of high school i felt that way, but i stuck it out till the end. i only barely passed, but at least im out of there!

i think that as long as you know what you want to do, you should follow through with it. i think, that since you've gotten so far in school, you should just stick it out till the end, even if you fail this one essay. even if a diploma doesnt get ya anywhere you wanna go, it is at least good to have one just in case

 

The thing that sucks is this isn't high school, i'm in college. I'm paying for all this shit! I don't know ... I think i'm gonna take a few semesters off to re-evaluate what i'm looking for in life.

 

that would definitly be a good idea. i droped out of college my first year after a month cause i didnt know where it was taking me...plus, the college and town itself was hell.

im still thinking if i wanna go back to a different college or not...i still dont know where im goin in life. im hoping by this summer i will figure something out

hope you figure out everything dude

 

Note to self: Hell is located in Idaho.

I don't know what to take for trade... I have the option to just go to a trade school next year. Welding, EMT, HVAC, Electrical Engineering, etc... can't decide.

 

i dig it... i think you should stay in school though so that way if anything passes your way you might get some inspiration from it.. just dig way deep down in your heart and find out what it is you truly want to do man... what would make you happy, and whatever it is thats what you got to do and you gotta work your way to it... even if it means showing up for classes that seem so useless. i sometimes think that they are teaching kids the wrong shit it school.. like history and math, maybe it's not 100% useless but to an extreme it is. they should be teaching kids how to balance a check book,, take care of animals, what to expect in the future, why president bush is such a dick. and then just teach the basics like how to add and subtract, not so much using y-m = blah blah to the power of 6. by the way that's not what that really equals, i never made it to advance algebra. i call it crap. i find the most important class i ever took was english (notice how i don't captilize any of my sentences ). it was somewhat useful. and art was pretty cool to an extent except when they grade you on it.. it's like how the hell does someone judge art? and when i stuck up for myself, i got suspended. what a bunch of crap. but seriously.... i don't know if this really helps you any but i wish i could go to school. you should be a veterinarian. infact i think all hippies should veterinarians, it's the only carrer that isn't really going with the rest of the world... danny

 

im totally going through this too. it wasn't so bad first semester. but this semester....geez louis...i procrastinate like heck. and i know i should be doing work but yikessssss. and yeah im paying for it too....which makes it more of a bummer. all that money wasting away....

 

I totally understand too and I'm only in high school.... We had some guy come into school the other day and he made this speech at how we really must work or else we wont get to live in a fancy house or have a ferrari(sp?).... he talked about qualifications and the 'millionaire lifestyle' as though you would be a 'nothing' without it.... his speech was supposed to motivate us yet it did nothing for me......did the opposite really.

 

well just remember that years from now when you have a good job and everything is going well for you, your living in your dream home and driving your dream car ect.. ect... your going to look back and realize that all that hard work finally payed off. it's hard work that makes you feel good. things don't come free as if you guys didn't already know that but i haven't even been to college yet.. i can't wait.. you have to have passion for whatever it is that you want to do. this is why so many people end up doing something they don't even want to or least they thought they did and then in 10 years time they hate there job. i think a lot students get a degree in something that they didn't really want but maybe there parents did or the people around them. just make sure you do what you wanna do and not what somebody else wants. we all want the easy life.. we just want to sit back, relax, smoke some cheeba, watch tv and enjoy life. that's why whatever it is that you end up doing, make sure you have passion for it. fixing cars or teaching music or whichever you prefer... can you picture yourself doing this.. is it something you'd enjoy... i'm sure you guys know.. just keep up the hard work and stay in school. i know it's got to be tough trying to hold a job and pay for books and maintain your car all at the same time and then have to go home and study. but it will pay off eventually and your going to be really proud of yourself when you get there. things are only going to get worse finacially. get out of minimum wage while you can. the closer you get to graduation, the more endurance you will have to finish it off.....

 

I'm a senior in college...this is my second to the last semester...I can't get motivated either.

I'm just like...what do I HAVE to do in order to pass this class?

Sorry, bro, I don't have any extra ambition layiing around for ya.

 

what do you mean paid off? if you spend your money wisely then you shall go far... your going to get paid more which means you can buy all that crap you ever dreamed of.. i don't know what you mean... how can it not pay off... with minimum wage you can't buy a house, you can't buy a new car, you can't buy new nothing.... besides life doesn't always have to be about money and all that other crap.. i'm just trying to get KyndVeggie to stay in school.. it's hard to inspire somebody over the internet.. i don't know what else to say. maybe i'm not grasping exactly what your asking. danny

 

Money doesn't mean you're going to be happy...what you "dream" of, might not require a whole lot of money.

And you know, school isn't for everyone...if he's not happy in school...why should he be there? After all, happiness is something, I think, most everyone wants.

 

i know. but it's better then him doing something that he's going to regret. he said he wasn't sure about his big dream of the mansion and 10 cars ect. that's why i said before that he should find out what it is that he truly truly wants so that he can work his way toward it.

 

if you hate school, learn a craft...

 

I found out what I wanted to do for the rest of my life by working and gaining different kinds of work experience, not through taking classes at a University. I wasted two semesters worth of money and my time not knowing what I was doing...I could have used that money to travel on!

If you aren't feeling the school thing...finish out the semester and take a break, go to the Americorps or explore different job opportunities, school will always be there if you decide you should go back.

 

I think that is exactly what i'm going to do! I know if I just try to suck it up and STAY in school right now, i'm just going to do a really shitty job. As long as I finish this semester, I can take a break and come back if the urge hits me.

I get alot of grief from my friends for this ... but my true passion is to help the needy. Mother Teresa is one of my biggest heros ... I think what she did was incredible, putting everyone before herself, she was so humble. That is truley someone I would like to emulate. And I am thinking about doing some missionary work over seas ... just to get a feel for that. Then I can make a decision about weather I want to go back to school or not. But right now, I just don't think it's my bag.

 

True

 

People who say money can't buy happiness have never had any.

As for school, well yeah, highschool classes aren't very fun. By the third year of Uni though, they get interesting as hell (depending on what you like, of course). It's just a matter of slogging through the bullshit.

 

Let me see, which sounds happier:

1) Not knowing where you are sleeping, where your next meal is coming from, struggling to survive.

VS.

2) Being able to do exactly what you want (whether that is party all the time, help people, jet set, travel, etc).

 

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