Heh... for some reason, I thought you were younger than me (fwiw, you're only about two weeks older).
All I can really say is, meh, you're not alone. Welcome to Quarterlife Crisis land. Heck, I'm in freakin' grad school and I don't know what I want to do with my life (heck, that may be why I'm in grad school...)
I wish I could say Lyrs is wrong, but where else does late Gen-X/Gen-Y go? There's three .NET and one C programming jobs here in town, all of them pay 12++ an hr and I know that you don't need any certifications for the .NET jobs available, just enough knowledge to write simple code. Not saying it's the norm, but you get the point.
Unless you want to be cooler than Lyrs and get your CISCO. Then you and I could work together and pretend to be the guys from Hackers. I'll be Crash Override, you can be Acid Burn.
CRASH AND BURN, BABY.
On the other hand, take a step back. Look at the world as it is. How many of us feel the same as you do? What does it mean? How do we be a social generation when even the popular girls only go out on the weekends to drink, spending the weeknights on myspace?
The stores are glittered with gold and nobody cares; we're at a turning point if all else.
Learn brewery, get a job working at one, and get a motorcycle. You can live like that until you're like 60.
But I dig what you're saying, as a lot of it is what I feel. I've only recently just decided to submerse myself in work, take what comes, and hope for the best. I was hesitant about starting managership, but I know if I back out I'm going to regret it forever. There is no option. It's gonna kill me physically, but I can't get any worse emotionally/mentally.
I don't know what to say, though. Only you have any idea what you could enjoy. Just start dipping your toes in different waters, see what feels right. You've got to do something, I know you know it. It doesn't have to be big. You don't need that much money to survive, but you can't be a cashier all your life.
Anyway, motivation is hard to come by. And it usually requires energy and action to find, which is a catch-22. Maybe try some volunteer work to kill your spare time? Good luck, and happy birthday.
I think you have the willingness to change things, it may be you just don't feel you have the incentive.
Instead of thinking you aren't living up to some great mysterious goal, look at what you have accomplished for yourself, why you bothered, and work from there.
I mean really, except for maybe income-wise I'm in the same boat as you, but I seem to be happier and more relaxed than my friends, certainly my co-workers.
You're 25, officially an adult, you can now stand up, say fuck it, and live for yourself.
That all sounded better in my head. If you were in the area I would give you a droml amd a pep talk.
That was supposed to be drink and a pep talk. I was distracted by the hockey game. For reals. Also, maybe you should write more, you're pretty funny and good at fucked-up comparisons.
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All I can really say is, meh, you're not alone. Welcome to Quarterlife Crisis land. Heck, I'm in freakin' grad school and I don't know what I want to do with my life (heck, that may be why I'm in grad school...)
Blah. This time of life sucks.
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Unless you want to be cooler than Lyrs and get your CISCO. Then you and I could work together and pretend to be the guys from Hackers. I'll be Crash Override, you can be Acid Burn.
CRASH AND BURN, BABY.
On the other hand, take a step back. Look at the world as it is. How many of us feel the same as you do? What does it mean? How do we be a social generation when even the popular girls only go out on the weekends to drink, spending the weeknights on myspace?
The stores are glittered with gold and nobody cares; we're at a turning point if all else.
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But I dig what you're saying, as a lot of it is what I feel. I've only recently just decided to submerse myself in work, take what comes, and hope for the best. I was hesitant about starting managership, but I know if I back out I'm going to regret it forever. There is no option. It's gonna kill me physically, but I can't get any worse emotionally/mentally.
I don't know what to say, though. Only you have any idea what you could enjoy. Just start dipping your toes in different waters, see what feels right. You've got to do something, I know you know it. It doesn't have to be big. You don't need that much money to survive, but you can't be a cashier all your life.
Anyway, motivation is hard to come by. And it usually requires energy and action to find, which is a catch-22. Maybe try some volunteer work to kill your spare time? Good luck, and happy birthday.
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Instead of thinking you aren't living up to some great mysterious goal, look at what you have accomplished for yourself, why you bothered, and work from there.
I mean really, except for maybe income-wise I'm in the same boat as you, but I seem to be happier and more relaxed than my friends, certainly my co-workers.
You're 25, officially an adult, you can now stand up, say fuck it, and live for yourself.
That all sounded better in my head. If you were in the area I would give you a droml amd a pep talk.
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Also, maybe you should write more, you're pretty funny and good at fucked-up comparisons.
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