My thoughts have been with you this past week and I've handwritten a response to your latest posts while I was at work. If you don't object (because it's all over and you want to forget about it, etc.), I'll type it up and post it when I have more internet time in the next week or two. But I just wanted to say that I agree with this: How can you expect a bunch of 21-year-olds to know what they want to do for the rest of their lives? entirely and am trying to send you love and happiness via psychic-link. ♥♥
Of course I don't object! I always always appreciate your comments. Sometimes they alone can bring me from a dark place to a lighter place, and even when they don't do that, I am at the very least very deeply and importantly comforted by the fact that you(not just anyone but you, someone who I trust and respect)'ve tried very genuinely to make me feel better.
I agree with this entirely-- What especially pisses me off is all these cranky old people at work who complain about how "kids these days" give up too quickly, that instead of sticking it out in a tough workplace they quit and find another job. We're pushed and shoved to make these life-changing decisions (in the midst of all this other emotional growing-up turmoil) quickquickquick-- how can they expect us to make the right choices? I'm sure some kids are actually quitters and should stick it out longer, but it's just as scary to quit and look for a new job than to lay low and stay miserable at your current one. Stupid old people
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Finally done with uni for the semester! I was origianlly going to post a reply I'd written up at work, but I decided to write a new one instead. Partly because I lost the old one, and partly because fresh is best.
I said above that I agree with the "How can you expect a bunch of 21-year-olds to know what they want to do for the rest of their lives? " sentiment entirely and I still do. When I was in high-school and we had to nominate chosen careers and take aptitude tests and what not I thought it was all a bit of castle-in-the-sky fun at first. Then, when it started getting more serious and uni courses were looked at and real outcomes were considered, I started to believe that I actually had to make up my mind right then and there and whatever I decided was probably going to be what I ended up doing forever and ever. Of course, it doesn't have to be that way, but that's how society likes to push it and that is ridiculousIn fact, I think part of the problem is how much people push "knowing what you want to do" and "serious careers"
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But I guess the thing is that even if we do make a choice now, whatever that choice is, there is always the chance to change it later on. Of course, that might take sacrifices (which I am terrified of), but it's always possible. At least here. What is adult education like over in Japan?
You say "all these cranky old people at work who complain about how "kids these days" give up too quickly, that instead of sticking it out in a tough workplace they quit and find another job", so it seems as though there is little respect for anyone who realises that they're not suited to one job and attempts to find another. I know a bunch of people over here feel the same way. How pathetic! How utterly stupid! Perhaps that was what it was like in our parents generation, and all the generations before them, but for our generation things are very different. There's a trend in Australia for anyone older to pick on 'Gen Y' (our generation) for being too lazy, too self-entitled and generally all around 'not as hard-working and intelligent as we were/are
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Especially this part: I think that many of us who are talented in several different areas (yes, you are), and especially if we're talented in things that don't tend to translate well to the usual selection of "serious careers", are forced into positions where we never feel good enough for or interested enough in any of the apparently available jobs
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As to the flipping burgers idea, I might not do that exactly. But I am seriously considering that kind of job where you're not so tied down as much, although the money/benefits are virtually non-existent. Maybe teaching English at a cram school on weekdays. And for emotional, internal fulfillment, I'd volunteer on the weekends. I'd be comfortably busy-ish (but not so busy that I'd feel consumed by my job, the way a lot of people center their entire lives around their careers), but not so busy that I wouldn't have any time for myself to do the silly little things I like to do sometimes. Like occasionally knitting, or drawing, or watching movies, or reading, or making little stuffed toys, or taking pictures, or writing
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I agree with this entirely-- What especially pisses me off is all these cranky old people at work who complain about how "kids these days" give up too quickly, that instead of sticking it out in a tough workplace they quit and find another job. We're pushed and shoved to make these life-changing decisions (in the midst of all this other emotional growing-up turmoil) quickquickquick-- how can they expect us to make the right choices? I'm sure some kids are actually quitters and should stick it out longer, but it's just as scary to quit and look for a new job than to lay low and stay miserable at your current one. Stupid old people ( ... )
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I said above that I agree with the "How can you expect a bunch of 21-year-olds to know what they want to do for the rest of their lives? " sentiment entirely and I still do.
When I was in high-school and we had to nominate chosen careers and take aptitude tests and what not I thought it was all a bit of castle-in-the-sky fun at first. Then, when it started getting more serious and uni courses were looked at and real outcomes were considered, I started to believe that I actually had to make up my mind right then and there and whatever I decided was probably going to be what I ended up doing forever and ever. Of course, it doesn't have to be that way, but that's how society likes to push it and that is ridiculousIn fact, I think part of the problem is how much people push "knowing what you want to do" and "serious careers" ( ... )
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You say "all these cranky old people at work who complain about how "kids these days" give up too quickly, that instead of sticking it out in a tough workplace they quit and find another job", so it seems as though there is little respect for anyone who realises that they're not suited to one job and attempts to find another. I know a bunch of people over here feel the same way. How pathetic! How utterly stupid! Perhaps that was what it was like in our parents generation, and all the generations before them, but for our generation things are very different. There's a trend in Australia for anyone older to pick on 'Gen Y' (our generation) for being too lazy, too self-entitled and generally all around 'not as hard-working and intelligent as we were/are ( ... )
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Especially this part:
I think that many of us who are talented in several different areas (yes, you are), and especially if we're talented in things that don't tend to translate well to the usual selection of "serious careers", are forced into positions where we never feel good enough for or interested enough in any of the apparently available jobs ( ... )
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