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Simisu
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Re: What to do when you have no idea what you want to do in life? [Re: swiftrance]
#5605424 - 05/08/06 03:41 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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hell if i know... i can go all emo on this thread but i'll save you the sentimental crap! i just hope that when a good choice pops up i'll be smart enough to follow it insted of waiting for a better one which might not come.
carpe diam eh? 
what i can say is... keep busy! otherwise everything looses it's flavour and that's really a bitch to handle!
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Banez
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Re: What to do when you have no idea what you want to do in life? [Re: Simisu]
#5605432 - 05/08/06 03:43 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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join the army.. thats what i did.. jk.. military life isnt for everyone.. but its def going to be a great experience for me.. and i feel its going to give me a lot of things that i need
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Re: What to do when you have no idea what you want to do in life? [Re: Banez]
#5605538 - 05/08/06 04:10 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I was in such a position...
I then decided I was going to be a revolutionary with a vision who ends up saving the planet, invests in biological engineering and takes over the world... (I mean, I did save it... if it should belong to anyone...)
If I can't do that, then I'll walk off into the forest, creating myriad little forest relics/taking massive amounts of psychedelic drugs...
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Re: What to do when you have no idea what you want to do in life? [Re: Herbus]
#5605545 - 05/08/06 04:12 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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ive often wanted to take such travels.. i dont know if u were being 100% serious or not.. but ive wanted to take a nice trip to the amazon or maybe a remote area of mexico. set up a little home and live on bare essentials.. and drugs
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Herbus
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Re: What to do when you have no idea what you want to do in life? [Re: Banez]
#5605675 - 05/08/06 04:41 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah, I'm gunna give the whole revolutionary genius thing a shot first, though.
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Re: What to do when you have no idea what you want to do in life? [Re: Herbus]
#5606295 - 05/08/06 07:32 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Live to work or work to live.
You work jobs you hate so that you can afford to do things that really make you happy. If you didnt hate your job, then you wouldnt be able to truly value recreation...if that makes any sense.
penny wise and pound foolish
If you feel like a salary isnt enough to live a rich life cause youre always comparing yourself to the Jones's, then youll just be miserable. It's possible to be happy as a people greeter at wal-mart. With the right lifestyle, anything over 8k a year is money to burn. You just gotta not throw money away on the little things so that you can throw it away on the things that make you happy. =)
eh, rant...
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Re: What to do when you have no idea what you want to do in life? [Re: DistortedEyes]
#5606418 - 05/08/06 08:07 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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i made over 1200 this past week using a lawn mower a blower a weed wacker a shovel and a rake. You can make money doing what ever you want to do. You can make good money too! Just do what ever it takes, be willing to take any chance you get. Just do it! I dont plan on using those tools i got forever... but i work with what i got. The more people i help out the more people i make happy the more chances i will get in life down the future. Stop worrying about the future start by doing what ever you can now.....
I work to play i work hard to play hard. I work hard while i can because i wont be able to forever. I work to work to get where i wanna be. I dont wanna work till the day i die, but for now while i dont have a family i am going to work work work work all i can.
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Jfisher
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Re: What to do when you have no idea what you want to do in life? [Re: Noviseer]
#5606464 - 05/08/06 08:22 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
Noviseer said: I'm graduating on Friday and I'm in the same boat. I'll have a bachelor of arts (creative writing) and a minor in art history. I'd been kicking the idea of going to law school around, just because the idea of having some direction was comforting. Now, faced with the enormity of a decision like that, I realize that I never really was going to go to law school. I'm just not the type.
So wtf do I do now? I'm thinking of pursuing a Masters of Fine Arts in creative fiction. Maybe I'll manage to put together some kind of a career in the publishing world. Maybe I'll be a writer? Maybe I'll be broke?
But yea, I feel you. Just gotta let fate take us where it will. Our part of the bargain, it seems, is to not be lazy.
Have you thought about teaching? With those months off, you could pursue writing.
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Re: What to do when you have no idea what you want to do in life? [Re: Jfisher]
#5606473 - 05/08/06 08:25 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I'm in the same boat kinda. I have a semester of core courses left, and took this just ending semester off for just this reason.
EDIT: Some things I have thought of biologist, marine biologist, ethnobotanical, ethnopharmology, botany, mycologist, microbiologist, and even chemistry..... among others as well.
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Re: What to do when you have no idea what you want to do in life? [Re: DistortedEyes]
#5606589 - 05/08/06 08:57 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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My bachelor's degree will be worthless.
I want to learn computers inside and out, master Linux, compile a pimped audio recording distro, build a fully integrated recording studio that is all automated using this distro, and record music in that studio. Maybe start a record label. Make a podcast/radio/internet production. Host a web site where musicians can upload and gain an audience even when they're stuck in the boonies. Then I'll start learning how to build a nuke so I can be a nuclear power and join the UN. Attempting this will most likely result in my death.
So that's what I want to do in life.
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Re: What to do when you have no idea what you want to do in life? [Re: DistortedEyes]
#5606716 - 05/08/06 09:32 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I felt the same way for awhile.
I've been working part time since I was 15, while finishing high school.
The most important insight I've gained from working lots of shit jobs, is that living paycheck to paycheck is a very unfun position to be in. Granted, this is exactly what some people do, and they're happy, but I know couldn't handle it.
I can't stand 95% of the people I've worked with and I hate being a slave to the ignorant motherfuckers that frequent my workplace.
As shallow as it may sound, I decided to chase the dollar.
I graduate next month and next fall I'll be entering the University of Tennessee. From there I'm going premed, and hope to one day get my PhD in Psychiatry.
I decided I wanted a job were I could analyze people, and since every co-worker I have ever had has decided to spill their heart out to me, I figured I must have some natural talent plus, through personal experience and curiosity, I became more than a little interested in addiction and its effect on the brain.
I want to help people, and my dream job would be at an outpatient rehab clinic.
So my motives may not be exclusively monetary, but holding a PhD in one of the largest growing career fields in the country comes with the added bonus of a FAT paycheck.
A Psychiatrist fresh out of graduate school can fetch upwards of $160,000 annually in the area where they are in highest demand (which happens to be Denver,CO).
So that's my plan, I don't plan on getting rich so that I can buy a bunch of shit I don't need, I just want to make enough money to do whatever the hell I want to, whenever I want to, I just want the independence, and once I gain it, I'm retiring.
My advice to you is to do some research on the fields that interest you, search around on the bureau of labor statistics website, there are thousands of jobs out there, and if you cant find one you want, you can always work at McDonald's.
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d33p
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Re: What to do when you have no idea what you want to do in life? [Re: deryl]
#5606931 - 05/08/06 10:39 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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In five years you can get a Pharm.D degree and become a pharmacist. You make about 60-80k out of college working at any pharmacy dispensing pills and answering questions. You could also do other stuff and most pharmacists do.
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Re: What to do when you have no idea what you want to do in life? [Re: d33p]
#5606986 - 05/08/06 10:59 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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So if you're a pharmacist, and you own a pharmacy, can you just buy 'X' amount of pills from the supplier or what? Is there is a certain buying procedure one has to abide?
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Jfisher
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Re: What to do when you have no idea what you want to do in life? [Re: DistortedEyes]
#5607477 - 05/09/06 03:06 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I write antidrug commercials.
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