Random Rants : Someone is wrong on the Internet

[Hygro]

Spoiler response & naughty words :

As a 28 y/o undergrad who is pursuing the types of things you're talking about, I can assure you it's a grass-is-greener scenario.

Imagine getting a 60k+ engineering job and then hiring a bomb ass music tutor for two sessions a week at $100 for 90 minutes a session. That's $10,000 a year oh no! except your rate of growth in that endeavor will be super fast and rewarded compared to being a broke ass dude trying to do it on your own while you get all depressed because you fear you'll never actually hack it while you can't afford to go out and get laid. And you'll still be socking away bread.

BTW it's expected you keep f***ing around into your mid-late 20s at least. That feeling that told you you couldn't when you were younger but you realize now was false? It's the same feeling that is pretending to be the different, wiser one that's telling you not to f*** around now.

 

[Antilogic]

Spoiler Because we are talking in spoilers... :

At least you didn't burn 7 years of your life going to graduate school, only to realize then you had the blinders on while fighting the most depressing and horrible experiences life has thrown at you so far. Being cognizant of the blinders is the first step, now you gotta figure out what career is best for you. And by that, I mean what career will give you enough money, be tolerable/good enough to work towards, and most importantly let you pursue the hobbies and people that really make you happy.

 

[jackelgull]

I have the opposite problem- I have screwed around for 17 years of my life, and now that college approaches, I realize that I still have no idea what I want to do with my life. Absolutely nothing interests me.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I can relate to madviking. I too have been pursuing I guess a stem-path (though we don't use the term stem), while I've been more interested in other things.
It's not that I wanted something else all along. In the beginning it was various natural science subjects that interested me. But they aren't as interesting anymore, and other things seem more interesting now.
Also, I've been aware of this for quite some time, since before I began at university. Though I guess that makes me the largest fool, as I continue while realising the problem. Also, because of this, I feel unmotivated to do a good job, and that shows.

However, I have been advised that after I get the bachelor degree (other people are more certain in my ability to get it than I am myself) I could try to pursue a very different degree (like for example philosophy), and if that doesn't work out, I can always fall back on the physics degree.

Could that be something for you, madviking? I can't pretend I know how american universities or employment works, but you have a degree in case things don't work out trying to pursue something else, and you are only like 22 years old, right? My sister is that old, and she just finished her first year in "university" (quotation marks because she's actually in a non-university institution which type you don't have in USA, but for all intents and purposes here it's basically university)

 

[madviking]

college ain't cheap in the u$a

 

[Antilogic]

My advice is to s*** or get off the pot. No reason to keep sitting there.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

My advice is to s*** or get off the pot. No reason to keep sitting there.

Unless you're reading and want to finish the chapter.

 

[Kennigit]

Spoiler :

And by that, I mean what career will give you enough money, be tolerable/good enough to work towards, and most importantly let you pursue the hobbies and people that really make you happy.

This is true.

Because I spent all my life trying to be better at maths and doing calculations so I have no hobbies and no interests besides trying to be good at doing math that someone else already figured out

Literally can't do anything except copy a textbook. But am not actually any good at it and lose all the "skills" that I gained, if I don't constantly do it every day. And am too exhausted to try anything else as 100% of my mental effort is drained trying to be good at that.

I don't leave work and go have fun. I leave work and shut off my brain and relax.

Of course, at work I just sit and do nothing because I don't have math to do.

 

[Arakhor]

Unless you're reading and want to finish the chapter.

That's what causes haemorrhoids. Take it from me.

 

[bhavv]

With nothing to do with the medication I take, I've always had dreams of the most amazing unbelievable music being composed and written in my dreams. Last night I had a huge creational spree in my dreams.

But then when I wake up its all forgotten. WHYYYYY!!!!!

 

[Joecoolyo]

I need to stop reading the Rants thread. The last page or so, with everyone echoing feelings I also have, only serves to remind me of my own crappy situation.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I had the impression you had figured out studying japanese?

 

[Kozmos]

Everyone wants to do what they love as a job, but it's really a lottery of life, like so many other things. I think STEM jobs are not a bad idea, they are if nothing else often challenging and are good for generating 'flow' where you get lost in work and when you finish a project, you feel like you have made something really tangible. I recognize the sentiments echoed by others about wanting to do other things, but nothing is really stopping you from studying what you love in your off-time.

 

[bhavv]

STEM jobs are great, and how can people not like science and technology?

But we arent all brainy enough for them. What I mentioned I would like to get as a job with the agency Im using is an admin or similar job at the NHS / pharmacy / GP practice.

I saw such a job on an online job search - front desk pharmacy job, 1 year suitable work experience and an interest in science needed. The problem was it being 20 hours which would mean no more benefits.

I dont get why there isnt an option to just work 2 days a week for over 16 hours if thats whgat I can get, and have the amount over what I am allowed to earn deducted from my benefits, as opposed to just fully cancelling them, since Im allowed to work for 15 hours without affecting my entitlement to them anyway.

The system is crap.

 

[Takhisis]

I had the impression you had figured out studying japanese?

That would be so kawaiiii desuka!

 

[Joecoolyo]

I had the impression you had figured out studying japanese?

My interest keeps waxing and waning. I'll see how well it holds up when I take classes in the fall.

 

[jackelgull]

I know this is a day late, but this thought has been sitting on me- Eid is really an unpleasant experience. It is the only day of the year strangers can hug you without crossing any social boundaries, but it is uncomfortable for me because I like my personal space. The worst are those people who hug you tightly and kiss your cheeks.

 

[Takhisis]

Now, is that ‘personal space’ a Muslim concept or an Anglo-Saxon one?

 

[choxorn]

That would be so kawaiiii desuka!

You do realize that putting "would be" and "desu" in the same sentence is contradictory, and putting "ka" in a sentence that isn't a question is silly?

 

[Takhisis]

Nani goto?