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Oracle Of Delphi
I, Phantom



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RandalFlagg said: I need some.
I currently work at a bar. It's fun but I can't be doing shit like this when I'm 40. I would like some kind of career. It's not like I need the money....it would just be too embarrasing to be working such a low-level job when I'm older.
I just finished an associate's degree from a technical school. The school was pretty much a scam and I have no interest in pursuing what I went to this school for anyway.
I have enough credits from this technical school and my first foray into the university world (many eons ago) to start in probably the third year of a bachelor's degree program. If I hustled I could get a degree in about 2 years methinks. I was thinking of just getting a general science degree. Basically, I would know math, biology, and chemistry but I wouldn't actually know how to do anything. However, I know a lot of people who got "general" degrees like Liberal Arts, basic science, etc.. and they work as cashiers and shit. I don't want to blow $30,000 on going back to school if it means that I won't be able to get a job.
The thing is....I really don't want to learn anything nor can I think of anything that I want to do. I would totally have to force myself to open my books and learn. I also dread working a lot. I see what happens to people who have careers. All they do is work, get stressed out, gain weight, and it's totally like their lives are over.
I really don't fucking know what to do.
start looking for work in the non profit sector - helping someone / people out as a job is a good way to feel better about life and work in general - most non profits pay so-so, but they dont care so much about your degrees (unless youa re going to be a counselor) but if you find a place and help out - you can do a lot fo good work, and your body/mid will feel cleansed. I recently did this, and it changed my life. However - It may have an unexpected effect - It made me realize I wasn't cut out for work - at all -a nd I have decided to join the ranks of underemployed writers - but thats what I got out of it.
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Great Scott
Trigger Lover


Registered: 05/05/03
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Randal, I understand what you're saying. You're not looking for money... you're looking for an enjoyable way to make money? With bonus points for being able to impress people with the job title? You could always look into emergency medical tech, or firefighter type jobs. Although those are not jobs to be taken lightly. You kind of have to be all or nothing. LOT of accountability. It's not like working at the store, where you could do an insufficient job and it wouldn't really matter that much. I can't lie. I've always wanted to be able to say "yeah, I'm that guy who rushes to the scene to save your dumbass every time something goes wrong"
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RandalFlagg
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Registered: 06/15/02
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Thanks for the advice everybody. 
I realize it must be tempting to reach through the screen and throttle me. Everybody makes their own way through the world and I just need to find my way.
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Great Scott
Trigger Lover


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RandalFlagg said: I realize it must be tempting to reach through the screen and throttle me.
I wish someone would reach through the screen and throttle me.
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Redstorm
Prince of Bugs




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Should I pursue spirituality?
Ewwww
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Should I pursue altruism?
Even more ewwww.
I say go back to school.
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Gillette
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Re: Life advice [Re: Redstorm]
#7677996 - 11/25/07 01:39 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Well....you could always be my sugar daddy....I'm almost certain that job is open......
But seriously, I'm not going to lie to you, working sucks, going to school sucks, doing both at the same time, is killing my life, but I don't have much choice.
I'd like to say if I was in your position I'd still be doing everything that I'm doing, but thats crap, we both know that I wouldn't be, BUT I would be doing something. I think if I had my choice I'd be traveling and maybe writing, or trying to save the world...Randal I don't necessarily like people, but I do feel bad for many of them. I'd definatly work for a charitable cause and thats most likely what I'll be doing next year, despite my degrees. Or if I could I'd look into eco-tourism. I think thats one of the biggest things that I've gotten out of going to school...the realization that there are things I care about and would like to do.
I'm not telling you to go to school, but doing something, anything will make you feel better, and in all honesty, I don't believe you when you say you want the prestige and fame. You don't want that, your a solitary person and you value your privicy too much. Help people, make a difference, even a small one and you will have that fame that you really desire. You'll be important.
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Cheezit
Feel like aStranger

Registered: 10/19/07
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Re: Life advice [Re: Gillette]
#7678001 - 11/25/07 01:41 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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TODAY
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Re: Life advice [Re: Cheezit]
#7678163 - 11/25/07 02:22 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hey man, some people just don't find satisfaction in anything and live unfulfilled lives. You may be one of them.
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ca'rouse (k-rouz) intr.v. To engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking.
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evolprim
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:shakes randalflagg:
work is tough, school is tough. if you don't wanna do anything with your life cool, enjoy it. but if you want what you say you want go out there and fucking work for it like everyone else.
find some balance where you can work or study enough to get yourself to where you wanna be, but also have the good times in life. that to me is success
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evolprim
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Re: Life advice [Re: evolprim]
#7678422 - 11/25/07 03:00 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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or even better get a job or study something you love. then youll never have to work
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SapphireCat
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Re: Life advice [Re: evolprim]
#7679585 - 11/25/07 07:50 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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maybe an apprenticeship might be more of a thing you'D be interested in? you'd be making money as you go along, ya leaarn a new skill.
as for what...i dunno man, i'm heading to college next year, and i have more of a problem deciding on what subject i'll focus on. like what do you do in your spare time? see if there'S something at least half related that you could do.
if you just spend all your spare time smoking weed (not judging if you do, i've been there aswell) just take a little recovery period. i usually need like 2 weeks, and once the urges for smoking spliffs are gone, you start thinking clearer and you slowly start to come out of the stage of "oh god wtf have i been doing with myself?!"
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RandalFlagg
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All of the local unions are looking for apprentices actually. But, the union basically owns you for 3-5 years (which I don't like) and I haven't found any field that I would be interested in. If I got bored of electrician shit as quickly as I did then I'd probably get just as bored with iron-working, brick-laying, etc..
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MOTH
Wild Woman


Registered: 06/06/03
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Loc: In the jungle
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I'm really bored at my job. I'm only doing it to survive and am always looking for something new. I am sticking with it for now becaue I want total independance and that requires me to work a 7-4 schedule. Luckily I listen to mp3 music on my headphones for most of my day and the work is pretty easy.
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