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fencer_xI feel like ranting.
Okay, maybe not so much ranting as...I dunno, expressing my feelings here that may or may not offend some of you, or make you feel bad. No, I'm not talking to anyone specific, but a few things lately (in personal life mostly) have made me want to slap some sense into people. And if I can't do that physically, I'll do it verbally. Or, typilly. Or whatever.
I'm 22. Just graduated college. Working a 40-hour-a-week job for the next few months, and then going off to Japan for at least a year. This makes me happy for so many reasons *gets on soapbox to brag* I've completed what were the hardest four years (and yet somehow the fastest) of my life with decent grades. I have a degree in a field that, if I chose to pursue it, would earn me a couple hundred thousand dollars a year easy--hell, I've got a degree PERIOD: this means I can do pretty much whatever the hell I want.
And you know what? I know what I want! (well, more or less) I have a goal in life towards which I'm eager to start going, and because of this I can get through the days I spend at World Market. I was so, SO depressed (well not SO depressed, but very unhappy) this time last summer, because it just felt like I was wasting my time, wasting away myself, like I would never finish college, would never escape the dreary drudgery of this kind of work. If any of you people work in retail and LIKE it, I would love to know your secret. Because good GOD I think I'd kill myself having to work that kind of job day to day.
And not even retail--if I had to work somewhere where every day was the same that I didn't truly enjoy? I would quickly go stir-crazy. Seriously. Because I can NOT take that. Some people may look at me, then, smirk, and say, "Heh, really? Well get used to it--that's the real world!"
...No. That's the world for people who do not know how to get their act together and CHANGE THEIR LIVES. I dunno if you people realize it, but you can do pretty much anything you damn well want (within reason, of course--you can't legally go around shooting priests or something just because you've wanted to do that since you were 10). Yeah, I know, that sounds like something you got told back in 3rd grade, but guess what: IT'S TRUE.
The only reason I've been able to get as far as I have on the half-assed job I've done a lot of the time (all the procrastinating, BS-ing, everything) was because I knew deep down that things would work out, that I would make them work out. Somehow. And because I had that drive in me, I'm now 2 months away from pretty much all my dreams coming true. Yeah, it's a little cliche and over the top, but it's true.
I see people, friends, sitting around talking about, "Oh I want to do this~" or "Oh I wanted to be this when I grew up," and the only thing keeping me from going, "..........so, uh, why don't/didn't you?" is sheer social graces. If you asked me to be honest with you, then I'd flat out tell you that. I find I have little sympathy for people who can't help themselves when they are perfectly capable of doing so--and unless you're paralyzed from the neck down or are under 18, news flash: you can help yourself.
Got no money to go to school? Then cut out every little splurge in your life, start saving, ask relatives to contribute to your self-betterment, and take out a loan or two! The degree you get on the way out will help pay those off, promise! Millions of people every year do the same thing, it's gotta be working for some of them.
Got a degree, but no way of going about getting your dream job? Believe me, there's always ways to get a foot in the door. Wanna be an astronaut? Then start working the reception desk at the Kennedy Space Center or something. Wanna go to Japan? Learn Japanese! (this ought to keep you occupied for a while--and believe me this helps) and then start searching Monster.com--I had 3 organizations I applied to actually call me ON THE PHONE to try and get me to go with them (my only holdback was I couldn't start fulltime). Make connections, find others who want to do what you want to do. Get informed. There's no excuse for ignorance. I hate confrontations, as 5 minutes alone with me will tell, but when I want something I can be as in-your-face as need be to get what I want.
I'm not mad at people so much as frustrated for them--I've discovered of late that getting to do what I want to do brings into sharp contrast how many others around me aren't, and it really makes me really sad, seriously. I see people, family, friends around me who, if I were stuck in their shoes, I'd be having serious mental breakdowns. How can you let yourself stagnate like that when you know there's something better out there for you?
So in conclusion: all you people out there at jobs you hate who want to do better for yourself--get off your asses and DO IT! Take a chance, be daring for once, go back to school, go to a foreign country, mow a few lawns and make a few bucks and change your life!
And to all of you who've done this already, I take my hat off to you m(__)m
I'm sorry if this offends anyone, but this is how I really feel on this topic. It's very sharp and abrasive, and I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who feel like I just don't understand your situation, that it's not as easy as I make it out to be--and you're right. I don't understand ANYONE'S situation but my own really, and I know it's not this easy; it's never this easy, or else you would've done it!
But with a little self-confidence, trust that everything will work out in the end ('cause it will, you just have to...trust XD;;; okay, redundant, I know) and take a chance on a better life. Don't go back into that office tomorrow unless you have decided to change your lot in life today. Don't walk back into your workplace tomorrow unless you know that you can change if you want to. Please.
Don't take anymore shit from your bosses or trudge through another boring workday and think that you'll be there until you die or get fired and not have the will to do anything about it.
Okay, maybe not so much ranting as...I dunno, expressing my feelings here that may or may not offend some of you, or make you feel bad. No, I'm not talking to anyone specific, but a few things lately (in personal life mostly) have made me want to slap some sense into people. And if I can't do that physically, I'll do it verbally. Or, typilly. Or whatever.
I'm 22. Just graduated college. Working a 40-hour-a-week job for the next few months, and then going off to Japan for at least a year. This makes me happy for so many reasons *gets on soapbox to brag* I've completed what were the hardest four years (and yet somehow the fastest) of my life with decent grades. I have a degree in a field that, if I chose to pursue it, would earn me a couple hundred thousand dollars a year easy--hell, I've got a degree PERIOD: this means I can do pretty much whatever the hell I want.
And you know what? I know what I want! (well, more or less) I have a goal in life towards which I'm eager to start going, and because of this I can get through the days I spend at World Market. I was so, SO depressed (well not SO depressed, but very unhappy) this time last summer, because it just felt like I was wasting my time, wasting away myself, like I would never finish college, would never escape the dreary drudgery of this kind of work. If any of you people work in retail and LIKE it, I would love to know your secret. Because good GOD I think I'd kill myself having to work that kind of job day to day.
And not even retail--if I had to work somewhere where every day was the same that I didn't truly enjoy? I would quickly go stir-crazy. Seriously. Because I can NOT take that. Some people may look at me, then, smirk, and say, "Heh, really? Well get used to it--that's the real world!"
...No. That's the world for people who do not know how to get their act together and CHANGE THEIR LIVES. I dunno if you people realize it, but you can do pretty much anything you damn well want (within reason, of course--you can't legally go around shooting priests or something just because you've wanted to do that since you were 10). Yeah, I know, that sounds like something you got told back in 3rd grade, but guess what: IT'S TRUE.
The only reason I've been able to get as far as I have on the half-assed job I've done a lot of the time (all the procrastinating, BS-ing, everything) was because I knew deep down that things would work out, that I would make them work out. Somehow. And because I had that drive in me, I'm now 2 months away from pretty much all my dreams coming true. Yeah, it's a little cliche and over the top, but it's true.
I see people, friends, sitting around talking about, "Oh I want to do this~" or "Oh I wanted to be this when I grew up," and the only thing keeping me from going, "..........so, uh, why don't/didn't you?" is sheer social graces. If you asked me to be honest with you, then I'd flat out tell you that. I find I have little sympathy for people who can't help themselves when they are perfectly capable of doing so--and unless you're paralyzed from the neck down or are under 18, news flash: you can help yourself.
Got no money to go to school? Then cut out every little splurge in your life, start saving, ask relatives to contribute to your self-betterment, and take out a loan or two! The degree you get on the way out will help pay those off, promise! Millions of people every year do the same thing, it's gotta be working for some of them.
Got a degree, but no way of going about getting your dream job? Believe me, there's always ways to get a foot in the door. Wanna be an astronaut? Then start working the reception desk at the Kennedy Space Center or something. Wanna go to Japan? Learn Japanese! (this ought to keep you occupied for a while--and believe me this helps) and then start searching Monster.com--I had 3 organizations I applied to actually call me ON THE PHONE to try and get me to go with them (my only holdback was I couldn't start fulltime). Make connections, find others who want to do what you want to do. Get informed. There's no excuse for ignorance. I hate confrontations, as 5 minutes alone with me will tell, but when I want something I can be as in-your-face as need be to get what I want.
I'm not mad at people so much as frustrated for them--I've discovered of late that getting to do what I want to do brings into sharp contrast how many others around me aren't, and it really makes me really sad, seriously. I see people, family, friends around me who, if I were stuck in their shoes, I'd be having serious mental breakdowns. How can you let yourself stagnate like that when you know there's something better out there for you?
So in conclusion: all you people out there at jobs you hate who want to do better for yourself--get off your asses and DO IT! Take a chance, be daring for once, go back to school, go to a foreign country, mow a few lawns and make a few bucks and change your life!
And to all of you who've done this already, I take my hat off to you m(__)m
I'm sorry if this offends anyone, but this is how I really feel on this topic. It's very sharp and abrasive, and I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who feel like I just don't understand your situation, that it's not as easy as I make it out to be--and you're right. I don't understand ANYONE'S situation but my own really, and I know it's not this easy; it's never this easy, or else you would've done it!
But with a little self-confidence, trust that everything will work out in the end ('cause it will, you just have to...trust XD;;; okay, redundant, I know) and take a chance on a better life. Don't go back into that office tomorrow unless you have decided to change your lot in life today. Don't walk back into your workplace tomorrow unless you know that you can change if you want to. Please.
Don't take anymore shit from your bosses or trudge through another boring workday and think that you'll be there until you die or get fired and not have the will to do anything about it.
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Date: 2007-06-15 12:25 pm (UTC)The sentence I hate the most is "I don´t have a choice" coming from someone who does not have any real problems and is just too "emo" to wake up and DO something.
Well, I only wanted to say this ^^ I think you are a very energetic and straightforward person, I like that :)