post-highschool blah

[yoko*]

is any one else confused about what the heck they want to do with their life...

compared to highschool i have become so unmotivated. I think it's cause i'm just intimidated by the idea that I have the power to choose my future.. sort of.. the possibilites seem endless, yet limited at the same time. Why would I choose one way of living over another? Would I rather a job that pays well or a job in which I might like, but might not pay that well.. or that there's a good chance I might not succeed in.

... in highschool I had more confidence in my intelligence than I do now... I'm getting that "Every one seems to be going somewhere but me" feeling.

Tell me, older.. wiser.. ones...
does the feeling ever pass?

[mojo]

i know the feeling
all i want to do right now is work.
im completly content with that, but my parents are not.
it licks

[Sh4n3]

totally

you think that it's all just going to come easy to you. and that you can do/get the first career that pops in your head. but then you get to teh point where you realize you really have no idea at all.

i plan on just getting a job and waiting until it's clear to me

[oFFseT]

I know exactly what i'm doing so HAH
no i'm kiddin
i've known since like grade 8 so i've planned out my whole courses until grade 12...and speaking of whcih course selection is tomorrow! WOOT WOOT

[miss.myra]

No..not really ;)


then again, I'm not very old or wise.

[SEAN!]

nope..i know exactly what i want to do with my life, and im on my way to getting there.

[stringbeans]

Originally posted by Sean!:
nope..i know exactly what i want to do with my life, and im on my way to getting there.

ditto

john
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[yoko*]

^yeah well screw you! :finger:

haha j/j. that's awesome, I'd like to be at that point real soon too.

[sungoo]

I think at some point in your life, you have an epiphany as to what you want to do with your life.
what changes you want to make...

unfortunately, I think having too many is just as bad as not having any at all.

[yoko*]

^yeah I'm just waiting for that "epiphany" to hit me in the head right now.

I agree with your second statement.. in my own way..

sometimes too many possibilities can be as difficult as having little. but i won't get into my essay about that,

i'm just pathetically taking career quizzes It's stupid cuz you're telling them what you are, and they basically restate it with more elaboration and eloquent words
I'm an introvert. great. like I didn't figure that one out.

[rawb]

i dunno. a lot of people do equally dumb shit after high school to find themselves. like starting a coke habit. or becomming mad sluts. or the worst... TEENAGE EUROPEAN VACATION.

and if you do cliche'd things like that you probably will find out a lot about yourself, because they usually end in debt, std's or pregnancy, and those shape the rest of your life.

i sat on my ass for a year and didn't do nothing. i didn't have a job. my a bunch of friends ran off to university of buttfuck nowhere, or went to greece, or saddled down for art degrees from ubc, or got fake ids and started getting fucked.

where are those people now? still getting art degrees. still bogged down in community college. still working a shitty job to finance thier 3rd trip to turkey. they've spent all this money and time and when i see them on the street they haven't grown up a bit.

if you're running the 100 meter dash, it doesn't matter how fast your legs are pumping or how much you want it if you're running in the opposite direction of the finish. people get so cencerned with getting themselves busy with *THE REST OF THIER LIFE* that they never see what that is.

if you're not lucky enough to have found your calling, it's not your fault. if you don't know what you wanna do, get an easy part time job. chill out. hang with your friends. take some nighschool courses in things you're interested in. start some projects and hobbies. no rush. you're a girl... you can always marry rich, right :) ?

just whatever you do, give 100%. nows your time to try stuff you've never done.

enjoy yourself. it all works out in the end.

[cinist]

wtf? traveling is dope.....vaCAtions are gay tho

[rawb]

Originally posted by cinist83
wtf? traveling is dope.....vaCAtions are gay tho

travelling is cool, but you're not going to 'find yourself' doing it.

[cinist]

^
how do you know? i think it could easily be a life changing experiance that could allow one to find themselves in a sense.....are we talking a comfy trip to a lovely hotel? or a long, grueling life altering experiance where you go everywhere and do everything with only what you have?

[rawb]

Originally posted by cinist83
^
how do you know? i think it could easily be a life changing experiance that could allow one to find themselves in a sense.....are we talking a comfy trip to a lovely hotel? or a long, grueling life altering experiance where you go everywhere and do everything with only what you have?

you could very well find yourself on a trip to the grocery store. while visiting other cultures seems to make people less naive, being broke and living off peanut butter and jam sandwiches in italy is the same as being broke and living off peanut butter and jam sandwiches in vancouver.

[bob]

if you're not sure what to do with your life, do what i do...

assign an option to each of your split personalities, and let them fight it out.

either you'll end up in the looney bin and not have to worry about what to do with the rest of your life. or you'll turn yourself into someone and forget whether or not you wanted to become that person in the first place.

mmmmmmm.... italian peanut butter...

[Crazy Dave]

I was going to be a programer, then I was working to be a chef, then I was a grafix artist. Now I'm just a sound man with a small rig...

I'm 28, I really don't have a clue yet what I'm going to "be"

[stringbeans]

Originally posted by yoko*:
^yeah well screw you! :finger:

haha j/j. that's awesome, I'd like to be at that point real soon too.

i think im just lucky in my case... i mean my passion is in computers and technology... ive always loved this kind of stuff ever since i got my first computer at like age 9

so i wouldnt mind working with stuff like that for the rest of my life... and plus there's a big industry for it too so it works out... ill be doing something i love and ill be getting paid very well too :)

john
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[c.tard]

Originally posted by rawb
if you're not lucky enough to have found your calling, it's not your fault. if you don't know what you wanna do, get an easy part time job. chill out. hang with your friends. take some nighschool courses in things you're interested in. start some projects and hobbies. no rush. you're a girl... you can always marry rich, right :) ?

That's exactly what I'm going to be doing. I haven't graduated yet, but I will in June and when I do.. That^^^ is my plan. I figured that all out a while back. And let's just hope it works. =)

[miss.myra]

Originally posted by rawb


travelling is cool, but you're not going to 'find yourself' doing it.

to quote Emerson..

'travelling is a fool's paradise'

anything you can find or see around the world that would have a profound effect on you is probably something that's been inside all along..

travelling to discover oneself is pretty indacative of a mind that is wandering in an unhealthy way..

Rawb's also right in the fact that you can find yourself pretty much anywhere, and it's not something you can 'plan' out and spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on..


m

[yoko*]

Originally posted by c-TaRd


That's exactly what I'm going to be doing. I haven't graduated yet, but I will in June and when I do.. That^^^ is my plan. I figured that all out a while back. And let's just hope it works. =)

haha you mean marry rich or take time off? LOL

[yoko*]

Originally posted by rawb


if you're running the 100 meter dash, it doesn't matter how fast your legs are pumping or how much you want it if you're running in the opposite direction of the finish. people get so cencerned with getting themselves busy with *THE REST OF THIER LIFE* that they never see what that is.

if you're not lucky enough to have found your calling, it's not your fault. if you don't know what you wanna do, get an easy part time job. chill out. hang with your friends. take some nighschool courses in things you're interested in. start some projects and hobbies. no rush. you're a girl... you can always marry rich, right :) ?

just whatever you do, give 100%. nows your time to try stuff you've never done.

enjoy yourself. it all works out in the end.

all very true. Now where's that karma when you need it.

Well the questions of how I want to live th rest of my life has so many possible answers that it's overwhelming. I live under the roof of my parents, pretty much leeching off of them, i see the life that I'm able to live now, thanks to them.. and it's strange, thinking that I might not be able to live the life that they have been able to live, and provide for me and my sister.

my dad exposed us to a certain way of living, so that when we grow older we'd crave that lifestyle and would work hard for it.. He was smart in doing that, cuz I want that more than anything. He has also been through his share of being poor, and having to work his ass off, and there's a part of me that doesn't want to disappoint.

It would be nice to sit on my ass for one whole year, and not do anything at all, but because I live under the roof of my parents i have to respect their wishes as well. I have to consider that my dad is/wants to retire soon..

I sound like a hopelessly depressed teenager (I'm sure it's forgivable cuz I'm "only eighteen")

"marrying rich" sounds like a really good option to me right now.
:145: keke

[yoko*]

Originally posted by bob
if you're not sure what to do with your life, do what i do...

assign an option to each of your split personalities, and let them fight it out.

either you'll end up in the looney bin and not have to worry about what to do with the rest of your life. or you'll turn yourself into someone and forget whether or not you wanted to become that person in the first place.

mmmmmmm.... italian peanut butter...

lol. is it working for you bob? and first of all, i'd have to go on a lot of drugs until I become so brainafried that I don't even know who I am anymore. nah, there's only one yoko*, and that's enough to handle I think.

[Kandyapple]

hehehe yah i'm in the same position. lol i was planning all the usual things. going to college. i'm taking a break right now cuz i dont know where i wana go with it just yet. so i'm working but not much, so i want to find a path. I'm also doing the european thing. lol not to find myself just to explore. but as of right now i totaly feel like a bum with no path. its kinda a bummer feeling just looking for somthing to look forward to each week with no real goal at the moment. but i havent figured out the answer yet just need to hit my stride i guess. sorry no words of wisdom here just bitching too, hehehe good luck. :)

[c.tard]

Originally posted by yoko*

haha you mean marry rich or take time off? LOL

Lol take time off!

I'm going to take some time off to figure things out. In Jan I'm going for a course so I can get a bit of a better job. (my mom's wishes.. hehe) With that I can work more and save more to do something I really want. I mean, I'm paying for school pretty much on my own. I get about $3000 by Jan from my CSB that my moms paid into. Everything else I'm going to be paying for pretty much. I just get to live at home and eat all the food for free hehehe..

I've talked about this all with my parents and we figured it all out. I'm taking the eight month course deal to please my mom (she wants me to at least have something) and the rest is my choice. (almost, I'll never get away with never going back to school. then they'd just kick my ass... and so would my sister)