Did you know what to do with your life? (26 soon)

Kiera · 12-01-2011 06:54PM

NoDice wrote: »

Off topic but I never imagined you to be over 30. I really imagined you to be early to mid twenties. I felt the need to share that with you...... You also have on a Rolling Stones tshirt... (I really hope I'm not the only one who has an image in place for boardsies....)

Its probably cause i'm an immature bitch or the fact i still look pretty young and still get asked for ID for drink

whatsamsn · 12-01-2011 06:56PM

Kiera wrote: »

Its probably cause i'm an immature bitch or the fact i still look pretty young and still get asked for ID for drink

Little from column a, little from column b. haha.

Seems 50-50 so far. Some people still dont know what to do. Some seem happy with what they have chosen.

Dravokivich · 12-01-2011 07:04PM

knew what i wanted to do 10 years ago. havent been able to get into it since finishing college almost 5 years ago... now i've got myself stuck in callcentre work for the last 4 years, but unsure if i'm still in the job come march... anything that pays i'll do...

that's all i got planned for the now...

Gummy Panda · 12-01-2011 07:06PM

Kiera wrote: »

the fact i still look pretty young and still get asked for ID for drink

Thats a lie

Kiera · 12-01-2011 07:07PM

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Thats a lie

You know its not, old man!

tommyhaas · 12-01-2011 07:10PM

A fella creates a thread, saying he's 26, dosent know what he's doing, or where he's going in life.

And the first reply is

baz2009 wrote: »

I've a fair idea of what I want to do, I'm 16.

Let me guess, join the samaritans?

NoDice · 12-01-2011 07:11PM

Kiera wrote: »

Its probably cause i'm an immature bitch or the fact i still look pretty young and still get asked for ID for drink

Ha ha me too! I nearly had my passport taken off me and "I was lucky" he wasn't reporting me to the guards for using a fake ID. Prick.

Ali Babba · 12-01-2011 07:16PM

I was buying and selling stuff since I was 11, had my own business with four people employed full time at 20. Kids these days have it way too easy. 26 OP? Ffs you should be ashamed of yourself..........

4zn76tysfajdxp · 12-01-2011 07:20PM

Ali Babba wrote: »

I was buying and selling stuff since I was 11, had my own business with four people employed full time at 20. Kids these days have it way too easy. 26 OP? Ffs you should be ashamed of yourself.......... Yore fy-yuhrd.

FYP

starviewadams · 12-01-2011 07:21PM

No idea either and I'm 24 this year.Family are starting to get on my back about choosing a career path or going back to college.The fact that my siblings have their own places and have become engineers and doctors doesn't really help things either.Have been outside Ireland twice in my life(but dont really regret not going inter railing and having loike,an amaazing life changing time!) and have had one mundane job after the other so have bollox all life experience either.

Feel like I'm becoming the stereo-typical loser in the family that you see in movies.Happy pills have made me worry about these things less though.

Canis Lupus · 12-01-2011 07:25PM

I'm 30 in April, going travelling for 1-2 years then coming back and I guess have a break down or something.

fichillie · 12-01-2011 07:29PM

I'm 25 this year, Ive done the education thing and just spent the last 2 years travelling. My 5 year plan is to try get a permanent job, build a house with the bf who Ive been with for 6 years, travel more of europe and south america.......fingers crossed for winning the lotto :P

northernpower · 12-01-2011 07:31PM

Had no idea when I left school at 18

Had a notion when i was 24

Had a plan when I was 27 - didn't work out

I'm now 29 and in Uni for the 1st time, 2 years in to an 8 year plan.

"knowing" what i wanted to do was a combination of realising what i'd enjoy doing as a career and realising that there's nothing to stop me trying to get there, but i do think i'm lucky in that respect, I have a friend that followed a similar mature access in to study that i did the previous year who has no idea what to apply for at uni next year, all he knows is he doesn't want to work in a bar all his life.

But try not to get stuck in a rut while you're figuring it out what you want to do, as another poster said, life is what happens while you're busy making plans - think it was John Lennon originally

Incidentally my "plan" to complete 7 yrs of study in cardiff has potentially changed to 3 cardiff and 4 NZ due to a chance meeting that I never "planned"

Ali Babba · 12-01-2011 07:32PM

starviewadams wrote: »

.Happy pills have made me worry about these things less though.

That's your problem right there, that sh!t frys your brains and the younger you use it the worse it makes you. My nephew was taking that sh!te when he was a teenager and now he's pretty much a waste of space who doesn't give a fcuk about anything or anyone, has no interest in anything and has fcuked up his future. He got ever chance and blew each and everyone of them. The sad thing is he had the brains to do anything he wanted and was helped all the way, went to college, got a degree. Now he just a hopeless case.

kowloon · 12-01-2011 07:34PM

NoDice wrote: »

sorry about your pancreas

No worries, I have a new one picked out, just have to figure out how to get at it.

kerryman12 · 12-01-2011 07:36PM

I know where the final destination is, I am on one of the potentially right roads. I have about two moves to make before I get to the destination.

Problem is I dont know what they are right now........

FloatingVoter · 12-01-2011 07:37PM

36 and I still haven't a clue what I want to do. I do know that anybody who can answer the "where do you see yourself in 10 years time" question truthfully have got no experience of the tricks life can play on you.

jimmycrackcorm · 12-01-2011 07:38PM

I'm at the age where it's too late regardless of what I want to do with my life.

Canis Lupus · 12-01-2011 07:40PM

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

I'm at the age where it's too late regardless of what I want to do with my life.

Never ever too late. You only get one shot, no point being defeatist. GO all out.

Unless your goal involves marrying an 18 year old or something.... although go to Russia and it might be possible.

NWPat · 12-01-2011 07:40PM

A wise man said "Life is what happens, while you're making plans".

almostnever · 12-01-2011 07:42PM

I'm eighteen and at the moment very set on becoming a barrister.

Things change though, who knows what I'll want in eight years!

Andolino · 12-01-2011 07:44PM

Thought I knew exactly where my life was going at 23 and that changed big time when I was 26 then I regrouped and decided that I was going to sort things out to suit myself this time. All was fine until last may 2010 when I lost my job after 30 years and do you know what it shook me to the core,but now I am starting to realize that I wasn't living at all just existing. Ok no one wants to be out of work but I was tied to that crowd and now I am retraining and HOPING to move on to some type of work I will really enjoy, oh yea I'm 51 now.

Koshea · 12-01-2011 08:04PM

27 in April,
up until a year ago I'd it all planned out until the eye specialist said no, your eyes aren't up to scratch for a career you've based your degree and the past 12 years around.

Life's not about the destination though, it's in the journey. I'd be the black sheep of the family aswell having other siblings doing well, plotting out and succeeding in their careers. I'm not where I planned to be but I've good job after working basicaly slave labour jobs since turning 13 and to be honest, if I could go back I wouldn't change a thing, gained a lot of friends, memories and an absurd reputation for being quietly insane
I can look around the office and see all the people who have, as another poster mentioned "settled" for the job. Me? I'd just see what comes around the corner, you might be pleasantly surprised.

(Tee hee "sheep")

Nemanja91 · 12-01-2011 08:09PM

19 and all I want to do is get my degree and get out of this country.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 12-01-2011 08:09PM

Ali Babba wrote: »

That's your problem right there, that sh!t frys your brains and the younger you use it the worse it makes you. My nephew was taking that sh!te when he was a teenager and now he's pretty much a waste of space who doesn't give a fcuk about anything or anyone, has no interest in anything and has fcuked up his future. He got ever chance and blew each and everyone of them. The sad thing is he had the brains to do anything he wanted and was helped all the way, went to college, got a degree. Now he just a hopeless case.

Uncle Billy?

bobbytables · 12-01-2011 08:13PM

I am doing the best I can with what I have right now.

Some may laugh, but my greatest achievement to date was getting the girl that I fell in love with many years ago. Whatever I'm working toward today, money, travel, etc, etc, is peripheral to that. I'm not saying I'm going to spend the rest of my life standing still because we're happily together several years now. I know when I'm on my death bed and I look back over my life, it will be things like the time I spent with her (even when financially broke) that will constitute "living".

--LOS-- · 12-01-2011 09:23PM

22, have always had 2 things I wanted to do in college, two very different things, one I had a talent and passion for but not much career prospects and a lot of discouragement from parents, the other I also had a big interest in, its seen more as an intellectual thing, good career prospects and was always encouraged more. The later is the one I have pursued, if I could have prevented any outside influence, not been so young finishing school and taken some time off first I probably would have done the first one or at least not still be in the process of ****in up the other one years later.

df1985 · 12-01-2011 09:23PM

25 and not working, did accounting and finance in college but looking back I was pushed/encouraged down that line not knowing what I really wanted to do. Im applying for jobs in that sector but in reality its not something I want long term. Going to asia/oz for 2 years in september, when I come back I hope to do teaching.

I just wish it hadnt took this long for me to figure it all out!

12-01-2011 09:26PM

I'm 26, had some plans which never turned out as hoped so am fairly aimless right now. I have a job but no social life.

starbelgrade · 12-01-2011 09:41PM

bobbytables wrote: »

I am doing the best I can with what I have right now.

Some may laugh, but my greatest achievement to date was getting the girl that I fell in love with many years ago. Whatever I'm working toward today, money, travel, etc, etc, is peripheral to that. I'm not saying I'm going to spend the rest of my life standing still because we're happily together several years now. I know when I'm on my death bed and I look back over my life, it will be things like the time I spent with her (even when financially broke) that will constitute "living".

Tell the truth.. your bird was sitting beside you when you typed that.

Smooth way to get the hole though, I have to say.. kudos.

Did you know what to do with your life? (26 soon)

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