I've noticed a lot that hardly anyone turns out to be what they wanted to be . Especially with jobs and the education they end up getting. I'm at that point in life where I need to decide what I'm going to be . How did you end up the way you are and what do you do for a living ? Do you like it or dislike it ? I'm wicked curious .
I fix electronics on fighter atttack aircraft. I like the actual Job, but being in the military sucks, so I will have to go with no, I am not happy.
I am not happy at my job at all, i mean dont get me wrong, i am glad i have my job, couldnt support myself if i didnt. I work at an insurance company, typing and editing claim statements.. I wanted to be an elementary art school teacher, i still want to very very badly, i daydream about it all the time, wishing i was doing that right now. But soon i will as soon as save enough to go to college and begin my journey with that...
I wanted to be a pediatrics nurse when I was little. I've thought about going back to school to be a surgical tech but not sure yet if I'll ever do that. For now I'm working in a nursing home.
I am one of those state school underachievers(Uk schools). I was always top of the class for 10 years, but when I was in a class where people struggled to do their 6 times table when I could do it three years earlier it wasnt hard. So i never learned to work so when I went to college and then Uni didnt have the work ethic to get through. I am now filling shelves at a local supermarket trying to get a job that will at least give me some future prospect of a better job.
I dropped out of Uni during my last year (which was this year), I was studying economics and finance. I could go back but it would only be to make other people in my life happy and proud. I figure you either need to become totally dependent on society (like a hard working member) or totally independent (like join a self-sufficient hippy commune). At the moment I am drifting in the middle - neither a hard working member of society or a commune member. I need a job that I personally think has meaning. It is soul-destroying doing a job that you think has no meaning but money.
I love my job, im a cook, always have wanted to be a cook, and forever will be a cook, maybe one day if i can build up some cash, i may decide to go off to culinary school, but for the mean while i'll stick to working instead of studying
Thats where i am. Soul destroying job or non drinkeness. The way I drunkenly type it is this: get shit job but go out dirnk beer. Or not drink beer but get kids/morgatage and or crap job
I'm a poor college student thinking of either getting a PhD in Sociology or Philosophy... probably philosophy. I actually have to decide that by this Friday! I think I wanna be a philosophy professor because I love the topics and it's a free science, and the most important science that there is. It's such and important science, that it's an art as well. Philosophy is it's own metaphysics, and I love it! I'm going to be/am a professional philosopher! and to think I wanted to be a small town cop when I was 11.....
Piez i am exactly where you are, still, at age 26, i wish i knew how anyone becomes anything in this life anything we try or come up[ with as an idea seemingly always gets rejected no schools around here are big enough to offer anything i am interested in, and i need to stay clean if i am to pass test to go CDL or go army or anything i really think i wont ever be happy with any work i ever find unless it was self employment i need to be a roadie or beach bum or i dont know anyone else on the same page ? anyoen know how to become either of what i just listed ? i think my solution is getting out of here and to somewhere where real population exists, where employment possibilities actually exist today, but being beach bum or something simple still would appeal to me, i dont believe in material posessions and such, i would evne give up this puter in an instant, all i need are clothes and mary j and food and a sleeping bag and id be plenty good, what do i sound like i am ? heh good luck man, hope things go how you wish them to i find it extremely hard to decide how to get ahead from this point in life right now emails are welcome of course, fastr68@yahoo.com
right now im a molecular biotechnologist, and dont ask me what that is, coz honestly i dont know myself and i have no idea what i want to be, i envy all of those people out there with dreams and goals, i feel pretty neutral about a lot of things but i do find a lot of science interesting. its hard because i can see myself doing and liking a lot of things, science, art, music, maybe even economics. my advice to you is choose something that you enjoy doing and that you can see yourself doing as a job everyday and not ripping your hair out over. and dont forget its never to late to change career paths. haha im counting on that
I know exactly where you're at in the mind, Randy. To become a roady, you've really just got to go to school for sound engineering. To be a guitar tech., you have to get a minor in sound engineering and a major in luthery. I'm doing exactly what I wanted to do right now, but you never know how things will turn out for a 19 year old. I'm in my 3rd year for Classical guitar and classical theory study, and next year I'm headed to North Hollywood to attend Guitar Institute of Technology. My entire goal in life is to be a performer with my guitars. It has been since I was 10 years old. I have no other desire and would rather die in the gutter than work a day job for the rest of my life and not be able to perform for a living. Playing on the side now is okay, but in 4 years I want it to be my livelihood. I won't take any other path, and I won't take no for an answer. The biggest reason why things don't work out for people in life is that they give up much too easily. There's always going to be someone trying to give you reasons why you can't do something. I was told in high school, Freshman year in Jazz band that I had no rhythm and no ear for tone and that I should just give up on the instrument and in a very polite way, I told him to eat a dick, I quit the band, and started practicing ear training 3 hours a day, and practicing technique another 5 or 6 hours when I wasn't working. Now I can play most works by ear and can follow Be-bop and Afro-Cuban Jazz compound meter beats just fine. A lot of people would have been distraught over this asshole hack of a Jazz teacher's suggestion, but there again, a lot of people give up much too easily and are disinfranchised much too easily. I've not really found it that hard to survive as a poor musician. I work as a guitar teacher and I still afford myself certain amenities, like cable T.V. and internet access. Okay, so I live in a tiny shit-shack apartment, but hey, I'm happy. I've got good friends, good buds and something to believe in. It'd be better if Uncle Sam didn't feel the need to take 50% of my paycheck and then go and spend $10,000 on a toilet seat, but that's another rant for another time. Without music, I'd be lost in life, I think. A lot of people never find a love in life - never find something to persue with passion, and those people end up working a dead-end moralists job at no fault of thier own (some love that white picket fence stuff). I'm a born hedonist and plan to never 'grow up' (a total semantics argument). I don't ever plan on having a kid, which is the worst strain on a person's wallet and a person's would-be dreams. I can see it if you're 40 and trying to fill a void in your life, but why at age 20 or 30? It just makes no sense to me. Randy, You should go to school for Sound Engineering and Audio Technics. You could get a 2 year journey man's degree and be a roady by 2007. You don't get paid much at all, though. You also have to be the type of person who can always be traveling without any real foundation, and be able to handle transient relationships (which in the real world, who's aren't?) because you'll be in different cities every night and on a different tour ever 9 months or every year. Most roadies have an apartment or a condo, but they're never there. I know a lot of guys who're roadies who went to Full Sail in Florida for Sound Engineering and they love it. They're hardly ever around, but they're like you, they don't mind being basically a vagabond.
At the end of high school I didn't know what I wanted to go to school for, but I knew I had a fascination in videotaping stuff. So I applied to a television broadcasting program, just to do something. Somehow I got in (150 chosen out of 700) somehow I stuck it through to the end, with good marks, somehow I was hired by the local TV station for summer relief, and for some reason I'm still here, and this job kicks the ass out of any stupid office job or restaurant job.
many people change thier life's ambitions as they experience them. i don't think it's fair to tie yourself down to the guesses you made in youth. in my opinion, do what you want now, don't worry about what you're going to be unless it provides motivation to do. i think it's more important to submerse yourself into what drives you, what makes you passionate, than to worry about where it's going to take you; because where you want to be tommorrow could change when you get there. but if you constantly reach, you can take those thing you've learned, and apply them in whatever direction you end up moving towards. currently, i'm a student of psychology. i see myself eventually getting my PhD, but for now i need to get my BS. i'm a student of the human psyche, always have been, and i'm a healer too. but the one thing i've always held onto is my desire to be a writer and an artist. but that's an easy life's ambition for me to integrate with everything else; i can develop my arts while going to school and working.
how much you think would be enuff for you to spend all your life w/o working? In Cambodia,Thailand or similar with someone you love, in one of that tropical islands, including the 2 way tickets to your home country twice a year?
I'm studying anthropology and development studies in uni and I love it. This has been my dreams for years. For a long long time I've known what I want to do with my life and now I'm making my dreams come true... Good luck to you and everyone else with decision-making! Just don't stress about it too much... No matter what you decide to do and later you'll realize it's not your thing, it's never too late to start doing something else. Most people forget that. Happy thoughts!
i dunno what i wanna be yet. I do know that i love photography and writing but i dont think im good enough yet to get published by a professional magazine or anything. I do not wanna be dying at 90 years old and say "I wish i had done something fun or had some big adventure or something." but never done it. In the summer of 2006 im taking an around the country road trip though. Ill probably take another one in or after college. Then, Im not sure what Ill do.
I'm still a kid, so I dunno what I'll be. I'm smart, but I'm also lazy. So I'll probably bum around for a while and then get famous or something.
