04 Jun 08
Originally posted by pawnhandlerHell no.
I actually have the career I wanted, but I can't say the rest matches the map I made in high school. What about you?
Aside from that, though, I actually do have many of the traits I valued then. Not the financial ones, though. 🙁
I doubt anyone ever sticks to their "life plan" from high school to adult life.
There are so many different challenges to face as you grow and start entering the working world, if we all had our dreams handed to us as we graduated there'd be a lot more rock stars with big 80's styled hair out there.
04 Jun 08
Originally posted by NatsiaMaybe a lot of us dreamed that there'd be FEWER 80s rock stars with big hair 😉
Hell no.
I doubt anyone ever sticks to their "life plan" from high school to adult life.
There are so many different challenges to face as you grow and start entering the working world, if we all had our dreams handed to us as we graduated there'd be a lot more rock stars with big 80's styled hair out there.
04 Jun 08
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Originally posted by ThomasterReally? That doesn't match any of the children I grew up with. So which of those did you want to be? And did you turn out to be the kind of person you wanted to be? Not necessarily job, but character.
Most boys would be a football star or a pilot, and the girls stewardess or ehm... dr. doolittle?
04 Jun 08
What you dont realise till later in life is that the way your life turns out is greatly due to external things happening around you at the time and other peoples actions.
It's hard enough setting out a plan for your life but sometimes you have no control over how other people/situations change it - but hay if it was all plain sailing we would never learn a thing.
04 Jun 08
Originally posted by greenphantomRedundant post: you has it. 😛
What you dont realise till later in life is that the way your life turns out is greatly due to external things happening around you at the time and other peoples actions.
It's hard enough setting out a plan for your life but sometimes you have no control over how other people/situations change it - but hay if it was all plain sailing we would never learn a thing.
Couldn't resist.
04 Jun 08
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Originally posted by pawnhandlerYou had the same dream all your life?
I actually have the career I wanted, but I can't say the rest matches the map I made in high school. What about you?
Aside from that, though, I actually do have many of the traits I valued then. Not the financial ones, though. 🙁
When I was really young I wanted to be a crafts person, carpenter maybe.
At school I wanted to travell, all over the world, experience every culture and master languages of all sorts.
At college I wanted to be a famous textile artist and travell the world exhabiting my best selling work. Great expectations 😉
In my twenties I wanted to be a good Mum.
I'm thirty now and I'd like a job that isn't in a supermarket and of cause, to be a good mum.
04 Jun 08
>I've stayed with my "game plan" since I was 12 years old. Fortuneately, my parents were supportive. I had to fight and argue with high school teachers about it, but they could not dissuade me from doing what I wanted to do. It made for an unhappy high school career but once I got to university, things became a lot better because the professors were quite knowledgeable and helpful.
>Teachers below the university level seem to have no idea how to deal with a kid who knows what he wants out of life. I got what I wanted and look back upon my high school days with distain and disgust due to the tons of incompetent, uninformed, unhelpful teachers. All of them were a thorn in my side.
04 Jun 08
Originally posted by pawnhandlerIf some genie had come and whispered in my ear when I was 18, and shown me the life I have now, and said, "Izzat alright?", I'd have said, "Hell yes."
I actually have the career I wanted, but I can't say the rest matches the map I made in high school. What about you?
Aside from that, though, I actually do have many of the traits I valued then. Not the financial ones, though. 🙁
04 Jun 08
Originally posted by PalynkaI agree, at least, there should be the conscious effort to be right where you want to be. Sometimes things are out of your control or your choices make things unpleasant for awhile.
I have been lucky enough to be able to be exactly where I want to be in my life. And that's what counts.
It might not correspond to what I thought I wanted when I was in high school, but it certainly is now. Sometimes, you have to try things to know you don't like them.
My life is close to what I thought it might be when I was in high school, actually, minus my divorce 😕.
04 Jun 08
Originally posted by pawnhandleras a kid, I was absolutely sure I wanted a degree in electrical engineering. but after I got accepted, I immediately realized it was the last thing I wanted from my life. so I went to art, painting, graphics and eventually animation, did all that for six years, and ironically ended up in the same exact university I got accepted in before, this time to study computer graphics engineering. (but I dropped out recently, and have never been happier. I'm a chess bum!)
I actually have the career I wanted, but I can't say the rest matches the map I made in high school. What about you?
Aside from that, though, I actually do have many of the traits I valued then. Not the financial ones, though. 🙁
it had more to do with art than engineering though, so it really had nothing to do with what I wanted as a kid. although it might superficially look like it did.
as a kid, I valued material and financial things. or at least I thought I did. but now, I don't really care for any of that. I'm happy if I can get by, and continue doing my own projects. and I can.