Please Help me Before I Fail at Life. (1054 hits)
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Submitted by Ducky (View user info) at 2005-06-01 08:23:38 EDT
I am looking for some advice.
I'm going to be 25 this year and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. I have worked in bloody tourism for what feels like the last 6.7 billion years, and I want out. Not living in a van down by the river out. Not drown myself in a bowl of Campbell's soup out, but get me the fuck out of here out, because I need a change.
These are my short-term options:
a) Get my H2S certification, and hope that coupled with my level 1 first aid and transportation endorsement, I will be able to go up north and find some lame job in Fort St. John or some other such nonsense. On the plus side, it'll pay more than I'm making now. On the negative side, it's Fort St. fucking John, and being up there with my survival skills, I'll probably end up freezing to death. If death is escaped, I'll return with absolutely no more than what I left with, thereby negating any effort to 'move forward' in life.
b) Go to Vancouver and get my TESL certification. Then I can go to some ungodly place like Taiwan and work for a year. I already have my B.A. in Sociology with a minor in English. On the plus side, it'll probably increase my chances of getting into the B.Ed. program when I get back. On the negative side, while in Taiwan I'll probably have to live on silk worms, squid, and lumpy Thai liquor. Someone will probably sneak drugs into my purse and I'll end up drinking piss water and rotting to death in some disease-ridden prison. Also on the negative side, while in Vancouver I will be too cheap to find accommodation and will effectually be sleeping in my car five nights out of the week.
c) Take the management job if it's offered to me, sign the year-long contract, and realize that I will be stuck here for the rest of my life. I will make the best of it by making it my fucking priority to become the president of the company.
d) Keep working on my guitar skills, become a rock star, and travel the world. On the plus side, I'll be rich and famous. On the negative side, I suck at playing guitar. I mean really suck. My guitar playing suckness knows no bounds. People don't become rock stars when no one will listen to you play. I use my headphones when I'm playing because I've been threatened with eviction if I don't.
I really have no fucking clue. I need to do something. I'm going stir crazy and want out.
So Uber, I'm appealing to you. What should I do? A, B, C, D, or any innovative ideas that you may have would be great. Any suggestions would be appreciated, because the well here is dry.
User Reviews
Submitted by Neener (user info) at 2005-06-03 14:01:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Just sit back, relax and let your gut and your heart tell you what to do.
You just can't leave town cause i'll miss ya too much.
Submitted by knucklesnelson (user info) at 2005-06-01 19:51:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
you got plenty of time jr.
Submitted by Ducky (user info) at 2005-06-01 14:43:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Berty: Completely.
Submitted by Mr-Boo (user info) at 2005-06-01 13:30:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Welcome to reality.
Submitted by YELLOW-MAN (user info) at 2005-06-01 12:19:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i'd go with D and become a pop punk rock star that doesn't take much skill.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2005-06-01 11:54:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You already know the answer, you feel incomplete, like something important needs to be finished. You know what I'm talking about.
Submitted by HadToBeDone (user info) at 2005-06-01 11:40:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
If you're asking here, there is no "before" in your title. It should be "since".
Submitted by MichaelJackson (user info) at 2005-06-01 11:39:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
MJ: Hahahaha...you'll never find your elephant man costume.
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It's not a costume! It's a skeleton, the only one of its kind!
http://www.zoraskingdom.freeserve.co.uk/images/skelef.jpg
Weren't you supposed to email me back or something! Shamone!
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2005-06-01 11:24:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Ask the clouds - the clouds always hold the answer.
Failing that (if unlike me you feel a little stupid asking clouds)
I say guitar every time.
Submitted by Ducky (user info) at 2005-06-01 11:16:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
nuggs, you totally rule.
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2005-06-01 11:13:48 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
you're asking UBER for advice?
ahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaa you're beyond help, dude.
Seriously, don't ask uber for advice, unless it's "How do I get people to click in a goastse link?"
Submitted by Ducky (user info) at 2005-06-01 11:11:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Wow Inky, is someone having a bad fucking morning? Pull the stick out of your ass. This was supposed to be lighthearted. I may be grown up, but I don't feel like it career-wise. That's all I was trying to say, so relax.
Blitz, I am clawing. Positive thoughts. My head is not up my ass. If I gave that impression (I can see now how the title might imply that) I'll appologize. I wrote this just after 4 in the morning.
MJ: Hahahaha...you'll never find your elephant man costume.
Submitted by kai070169 (user info) at 2005-06-01 10:24:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
BTW Hydrogen Sulfide safety training is for WIMPS!
Submitted by kai070169 (user info) at 2005-06-01 10:21:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Taiwan? Vancouver IS Taiwan, and half of fucking china. Man, if you have a degree, you can teach ESL right here at home. It only pays $10 - $12 per hour tho, be warned. There's tons of other shit to do in Van tho, the economy here is smokin' hot.
Fuck FSJ, all cowboys & indians (can you believe the white people almost ALL have THICK texas accents in FSJ? I shit you not, they are complete C&W automatons up there). The Indians are all RICH (oil) and enjoy drivng drunk, so the city is full of smashed in 2005 F-250's and escalades.
I'm going back to school in the fall to get a trade, Ive been off work since last september. Life is good!
Submitted by InkyFingers (user info) at 2005-06-01 09:47:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
"I'm going to be 25 this year and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up."
Two points to make:
1. you are grown up
2. See point one before impaling yourself on a huge spoon.
Submitted by Williams_2004 (user info) at 2005-06-01 09:24:42 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Join the Army like me. Role on 3 weeks when I start my training to become a killing machine. WOOHOO!!!
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2005-06-01 09:00:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Oh for fuck's sake. Get your head out of your ass and start clawing. You're not going to win the lottery. No prince is going to come to your door and sweep you off of your feet.
Take door C and keep an eye out for something better to come along.
Submitted by Ducky (user info) at 2005-06-01 08:47:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
It is NEVER too fucking late.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-06-01 08:44:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
I think it's too late.
Submitted by JML (user info) at 2005-06-01 08:44:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
i work graveyards too duck. uber is a good friend to us third shifter's....
i'm thinking b as well. some travel definitely puts things into perspective.
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2005-06-01 08:42:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
go to university again. stay there longer and enjoy the freedom that tertiary education gives your liefstyle
Submitted by ess-arr (user info) at 2005-06-01 08:40:52 EDT (#)
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B, but go somewhere else other than taiwan.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-06-01 08:38:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You understand that Taiwan and Thailand are two different countries?
Submitted by MichaelJackson (user info) at 2005-06-01 08:37:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
D.
Take a part time class or something, I did a jazz course and it improved (is still improving) my guitar skills. Then meet some people who like the same stuff as you, but not quite. Watch "Singles" it explains all of lifes problems, hence why it's the greatest movie ever.
Shit!
I broke character, I mean... shamone! Where did I put that elephant mans skeleton, shamone!
Submitted by DeathJester (user info) at 2005-06-01 08:36:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Become Bart's bitch. He'll give you 20% of UberBoard's takings.
Submitted by Dervel (user info) at 2005-06-01 08:33:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Meet a rich chick and become a house husband but don't have kids.
Go on, live the dream.
Submitted by Fabit (user info) at 2005-06-01 08:32:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm only 20 and i've already realised that i will spend the majority of my remaining days sat at a desk. The only thing that changes is how much hair you have, and your pay scale if your one of the "Lucky few".
Learn to live with it like the rest of us!
Submitted by Ducky (user info) at 2005-06-01 08:30:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I work graveyards. I'm sleeping through every nice day and my skin color is bordering on clear at the moment. I'm becoming a vampire.
Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2005-06-01 08:26:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Be a rockstar, or party like one until you're stuck inside on every nice day. Like the rest of us.