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Old Feb 27, 2013, 07:08 PM
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Originally Posted by VenusHalley View Post
I think one doesn't necesarily have the ideal job.. as long as it's not something they resent and that drains them. But one should then have something besides that. Something to fullfill us... without feeling fullfilled... we will just float aimlessly through life.

But as we get older and gain experience, it's not impossible to find our way. The worst you can do is work job you hate where you do nothing contributive (tbh, I will probably end up in one of such jobs, seeing how job hunt goes... but it's not the end for me), to make money to spend on things you don't need or even want to impress people you don't like.


I often wish school thought how to handle life instead of making kids to memorize facts from many fields. I used to go to fancy schmancy schools ('cause I was a smart kid with ambitious parents)... and oh my. I forgotten most of the crap about rocks, and biology of worms and industries of Sri Lanka and mathematical equations...
Learning how to process information would be more usefull. That and teaching people some damn wisdom, how to get through life in this crazy society, without going crazy themselves. We might have saved ourselves some trouble if we taught common sense.
I gave up on my dream job a while back. I had a chance, I mean, at 17 I was doing well in college, but a manic episode led to a 3 month hospitalization. Since then I've tried returning but anxiety shoots through the roof when I walk into that building!

As boring as it sounds, I'd like a boring life. All my family before me have got a job (not one they particularly like, either), married and lived with their husband/wife until one of them died.

I like the sound of waking up at 8am, going to work for 9am, working until 5pm, coming home, cooking for my boyfriend, going bed at 11pm and repeating that until I retire and die at a reasonable age.

I don't know if that makes me boring, but it's what I want. I just can't get a job because I have next to no qualifications and my previous jobs have ended very badly. As in, suicide attempts and hospitalization. So I can't use them as a reference. And I can't afford to go back into education.

I'm perfectly happy as I am now, though. I'm looking for a full time job, ANY JOB, that will get me by.

Your ambitions and your positivity, if I'm honest, make me just ever so slightly envious. Though I do admire it!

RB
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