WHY THE ****

[Ravioli]

GROUP HUG
EDIT: wtf, stupid picture wont work

 

[Shyam]

I was made to do a degree in University by my parents, that I didn't like. It lasted a year, and I switched classes after that. If you have no interest in what you are learning or studying, you might want to change.

 

[Qonfused]

You just have to be brave, and have faith that things will work out. You have to believe in yourself. Has there ever been anything that you can't learn? Anything that you couldn't do if you tried? You can't possibly plan for everything that could go wrong. Instead, just go forth, and tackle the problems as they come.

I believe that you would be great with kids.

Thanks for the kind words. I have a bunch of appointments to talk some people who could lead me in the right direction. I'm pretty lost right now. I usually do have faith that things will work out, and they usually do, maybe in the way I had hoped, but I get on. I'm hoping I can figure this out by the new year. I have faith that I will.

 

[Vegeta897]

FAITH IS NOT A FACT

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

you gotta focus on just trying to come up the whole time. Focus on making money and then you've got yourself a goal.

You sound like you're lacking on goals- find one even if its not making more money. I don't mean school or like life path or anything like that but find a goal that you really want yourself. If you're always working towards a goal you never get that bored, dreading day to day life feeling in your mind

i graduated highschool in June this year, and ever since then life has changed drastically. However, its not for the worse or for the better, its complicated. I graduated from an American HS here in Italy, so all of my friends except for two moved back to the states. It was a small school so everyone was friends with everyone, so it was quite a big change when the people i have been hanging out with for the past 4 years were all of the sudden gone. No more parties, no more buddies coming over, no more clubbing, no more gokarting, no more snowboarding...nothing. Now i just spend my days sitting at the computer hour after hour...but tbh im LOVING it. Porn, music, games, movies, no responsibilities, no homework, no job to go to, free food, free housing...what else could i possibly want?

And ontop of that, my best friend still lives in Europe, but in Germany, so every now and then i fly up there and have a blast. Also, being 19 and not going to school means you have shitload of time for new things, and i can travel around europe as much as i want (depending on how much my dad is willing to pay). So in other words, all my friends were replaced with flying to other countries and meeting new people and having a great ****ing time. Life is quite epic atm.

Ofcourse i still miss everyone from highschool, and i will still visit most of them throughout my life, they are all a part of me.

That's fairly amazing. You're truly blessed hope you recognize it.

 

[CyberPitz]

Ahhh Sinko, you DO sound like me a few years ago. I can't say I'm fully out of it yet, either. I have ups and downs....mostly downs these days.

You'll never truly get over the shit feeling..so..yum.

 

[dfc05]

I honestly didn't care much for highschool. Never connected well with anyone there.

Undergrad was better and worse at the same time. I had closer friends, but a couple of them were kinda flaky which made me miserable for a couple of years.

Qonfused (and the other dude who keeps switching majors): I had a very similar issue. I was in chemical engineering and after the first year, I had a little inkling that maybe it wasn't what I thought it would be (the professor in my second ever ChE class told us "I'll tell you what makes chemical engineers different from other engineers. We're special because..." -- and I sat up and paid really close attention at this point -- "...because we separate things." And he wasn't lying -- most ChE industry jobs are ridiculously boring.) During junior year I seriously felt like switching to botany or environmental engineering. A few times I actually calculated how long it would take for me to get a different degree if I switched. I considered taking a semester off and working on an organic farm (although that option was a little too unrealistic at that point). Or even just disappearing for a semester. Heck, I actually knew people who went and did just that -- went off and disappeared for a while. My classes were making me miserable -- they were fine the first couple of years, then got progressively worse, especially as they got more industry oriented. I absolutely hated job interviews because I would sit there and stare at these interviewers and think, "Are you serious? How can you like your job?" I would look at people in my class who actually appeared to like their major and got all gung-ho about Chemical Engineering organizations that mostly involved industry reps talking about their boring jobs, or even worse, nasty PR people fluffing up their job/company (ugh!)... and I'd think, "You people have got to be full of shit. ALL WE DO IS SIZE PUMPS."

But I got through it (at graduation I mostly felt relief, like "Thank God that's over, now I'm free to do something else. Finally!) and now I'm in grad school for enviro. engineering, and everything is MUCH better. So my advice would be, if you're too far into something to switch out, but it can eventually help get you some other place you're satisfied with (even if it's not perfect) -- stick it out. Like if you still want to work with kids, finishing your major in primary education should still benefit you, and you could try to get summer jobs in whatever you really want to do to help you get there. OR you could even just take extra classes in something different so you can try other things without completely throwing out everything you've already done.

 

[Some_God]

High school was awesome, college ... not so much. I'm on the verge of failing all my accounting classes, which makes me ask myself why I didn't major in History.

I'm waiting to get a job in a civil service field, but thanks to the shit economy they haven't been hiring the way they used to... making me wait.

I have no purpose in life

But, on the other hand, at least I'm still getting laid regularly by a hot girl.

 

[Warped]

your body will never be the same thats for sure! I used to be able to do things in winter in just shorts or pass out in the snow while drinking but now if i do it i wake up with 15 blankets around me and a sore ego.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Reading this thread makes me feel incredibly lucky, in spite of how stressful this year has been.

Thanks, dirt bags!

 

[swan_song1973]

high school was ok, and college is good so long as you have money.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

My life started at about 24.

Same is happening to me