Quarter Life Crisis -pt 1 (576 hits)
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Submitted by sharpie <tiny-weiner.at.hugeballs.com> (View user info) at 2004-06-20 18:54:34 EDT
I am writing this post because I think I am having a quarter-life crisis. Shit gets way outta hand way fuckin' fast in real life, and this is my story...
It has been almost 6 years since I graduated from High School. I have now been married for 3 years and have the most awesome child on the face of the planet (she is almost 2). I have acquired a good portion of the American dream, the wife, child, and fucking credit card debt. This post does have a point; you just might have to wade through a few hundred unnecessary details to get there.
Going back to high school for a minute... I was probably the smartest kid in my school, seriously*. That, coupled with the fact that I fell in love with a girl who was almost two years older than I, required me to graduate (with honors) as a junior. So leaving high school and beginning life, I was pretty fuckin' stoked. I had an unlimited** amount of potential*** and an unbelievably distorted view of the world in general. See, being the smartest kid in your local high school does a few different things. First, it gives you (or me, at least) a fucking huge ego. Next, with all of the praise from Teachers, Parents and friends you really start to believe that you are going to bust outta school and hit the ground running. Then, when all the glorious shit that people fill your head with doesn't happen, you get pretty fucking jaded.
While still in high school the dot com thing was just starting to become ridiculous, and I had the opportunity to work for AOL (way before the Time Warner bullshit). I went through the screening, the drug test, the interview(s) and blamo! "We would like to offer you a job, we just need you to answer a few questions for us for your security clearance.... Soc. Sec.#.... Full Name including aka's...Age... wha? Oh shit, you're not 18 yet? Sorry kid, come back and play when you are older. Sorry about the 3 interviews 180 miles from where you live. Fuck off.
No problem, I would just find one of the many other dot com bazillionaires that would be willing to hire a young spark plug ready to rock the socks off the place. Nope.
"I'll just work at Kinko's instead. That's cool...right? It will fund that whole college lifestyle [read: Animal House] that I am waiting to kick in at any minute".... but that shit never took place.
After a few years of floating around the job market, I finally get the job that was promised to me at AOL and guess what, working at Kinko's beat the shit outta that place. If you think that AOL users are bad, imagine the 'tards that put up the content for the semi-illiterate [mostly-illiterate] teenagers and old people who are afraid of technology.
So everything is fine and dandy; college blows ass, there is no college lifestyle (in Utah or anywhere else as far as I know) I am broke all the time. There is really only one clear way to get out of the slump. Get married. What? Yeah, get married. I know...
TBC...
*The smartest kid in school thing is true. When I was a sophomore, I had this teacher who really wanted me to succeed after High School so he thought that being a member of Mensa would be great on a resume (he was wrong, of course). But after I took all of the proctored exams and everything, he decided to do a lesson on child prodigies and let it slip that I (the fat kid in 2nd period) was indeed smarter than everyone in the building. I gotta tell ya, that made life difficult for a couple o' months.
**Unlimited=a fuckin' shit load
***Potential=delusions
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Submitted by psyduck (user info) at 2004-07-01 19:22:49 EDT (#)
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Submitted by sharpie (user info) at 2004-06-21 19:13:39 EDT (#)
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Fishtits-
It may have sounded like boasting, but I felt it was needed to give the proper perspective on the rest of the story. I was/am not bragging about anything, I have very little to brag about. I am sharing the insights that I have had whilst changing this situation that I find myself in. Before you get all self righteous and judgemental wait for the other parts to be posted.
Then, by all means be as self righteous and judgemental as you like.
-adam
Submitted by Fishtits (user info) at 2004-06-21 16:40:10 EDT (#)
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I'm in the exact same boat as you Adam. I, however, choose to better myself rather than
complaining about it. This is enough. Write whatever shat you want back. I simply found
your boasting and bitching irritating. He's a +1, it's all I could muster.
Submitted by sharpie (user info) at 2004-06-21 13:07:42 EDT (#)
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Fishtits-
Fuck you. You know nothing about which you are running your mouth. Please die.
-adam
Submitted by Fishtits (user info) at 2004-06-20 23:46:10 EDT (#)
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Your title mentions that this post is "part 1". May I please give a -2 to "part 2" in advance.
Thank you for your consideration in this matter sir.
Submitted by Fishtits (user info) at 2004-06-20 23:39:02 EDT (#)
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That is the point of this post(s) you fucking idiot. I am talking about the realization that life
isn's as easy as was portrayed to me when I was younger and how I am attempting to deal. Bitch.
-adam
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My apologies. I was simply pointing out that you come across as a small, scared child. Adults
deal with their problems without bitching about them to the general public. If I actually
thought that you had any sort of testicular fortitude I would take you "bitch" comment to
heart. Grow a set Junior and quit fucking boo-hooing.
Submitted by Durae (user info) at 2004-06-20 22:44:08 EDT (#)
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It's really sad when brilliant people become underachievers because they aren't challenged.
Submitted by sharpie (user info) at 2004-06-20 22:21:31 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Fishtits (user info) at 2004-06-20 21:40:38 (#)
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I'm so good at this, I'm so good at that....oh, wait a minute. Life isn't fucking easy?!
Boo hoo, I want my Mommy!!! Join the big reality club you princesses.
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That is the point of this post(s) you fucking idiot. I am talking about the realization that life
isn's as easy as was portrayed to me when I was younger and how I am attempting to deal. Bitch.
-adam
Submitted by Fishtits (user info) at 2004-06-20 21:40:38 EDT (#)
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I'm so good at this, I'm so good at that....oh, wait a minute. Life isn't fucking easy?!
Boo hoo, I want my Mommy!!! Join the big reality club you princesses.
Submitted by sparkle_pink (user info) at 2004-06-20 20:24:27 EDT (#)
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I can relate to what you wrote about the belief that you will hit the ground running due to all the praise from teachers and parents. I was the best musician in my small town, and I thought I would be instantly succesful when it came to university.
I thought wrong. I got a huge reality check instead that I wasn't nearly as good as I thought. So I had a quarter-life crisis. But I wasn't smart enough to call it that. Everyone just laughed when I talked about my mid-life crisis.