CurtSibling
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My goal also is to hunt down all people who supplant the word 'You' with the letter 'U'...
What is your goal in life?
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Gaaah, I'm agonizing in my life goals right now, I can't make up my mind. Perhaps a CFCer can offer some wise counsel.....
Basically I'm almost 30 and I've been working for almost a decade. I have a well paid, insecure job that is most often dull, and the hours are longer than I'd like. I feel exceptionally unenthusiastic at the prospect of going to work. But this job has meant that I managed to pay off my significant credit card and bank loan debts (several tens of thousands) and get some savings in only a few years.
I have no commitments to keep me where I am.
Now, I basically have 3 choices that I'm actively considering.
(1) To carry on and keep my options open
(2) To change to another job that would be much less well paid (beacause what I do is specialized and specific to the company I work for)
(3) To give it up and go and teach English in China.
If I do (2) then it probably rules out (3) forever
The problem with (3) is that one day I would come back, and I'm worried that I wouldn't be able to get a decent job, since I'd missed out on a few years of key career time, and employers would be concerned that my skills had declined.
If I do go somewhere it will be to China, since I love it and I love Chinese culture, and I know a little bit of chinese. But if I go it would be to a teaching english job, since I don't want to go there just to do what I'm dong here or even an office job of any sort.
It basically is choice between competing life goals: security, that comes from accumulating savings, vs adventure and having new experiences.
Basically I'm almost 30 and I've been working for almost a decade. I have a well paid, insecure job that is most often dull, and the hours are longer than I'd like. I feel exceptionally unenthusiastic at the prospect of going to work. But this job has meant that I managed to pay off my significant credit card and bank loan debts (several tens of thousands) and get some savings in only a few years.
I have no commitments to keep me where I am.
Now, I basically have 3 choices that I'm actively considering.
(1) To carry on and keep my options open
(2) To change to another job that would be much less well paid (beacause what I do is specialized and specific to the company I work for)
(3) To give it up and go and teach English in China.
If I do (2) then it probably rules out (3) forever
The problem with (3) is that one day I would come back, and I'm worried that I wouldn't be able to get a decent job, since I'd missed out on a few years of key career time, and employers would be concerned that my skills had declined.
If I do go somewhere it will be to China, since I love it and I love Chinese culture, and I know a little bit of chinese. But if I go it would be to a teaching english job, since I don't want to go there just to do what I'm dong here or even an office job of any sort.
It basically is choice between competing life goals: security, that comes from accumulating savings, vs adventure and having new experiences.
Iggy
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My goal is to survive happily in style and comfort and ensuring my nearest and dearest can do the same.
@Evertonian. I have noticed many of my friends who are in a similar situation have changed their goals once they had children. For the first year they wanted to spend more time with their babies, then they became driven to earn more money to buy whatever they considered to be important to their kids.
If you are 30 years old and free, I would recommend you now look at a career / lifestyle which perhaps you could not start in a few years if you settled down and had responsibilities.
@Evertonian. I have noticed many of my friends who are in a similar situation have changed their goals once they had children. For the first year they wanted to spend more time with their babies, then they became driven to earn more money to buy whatever they considered to be important to their kids.
If you are 30 years old and free, I would recommend you now look at a career / lifestyle which perhaps you could not start in a few years if you settled down and had responsibilities.
ferenginar
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To make more friends than enemies.
insurgent
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To do my best, I think, and hope that others will do the same.
Dann
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Why U...CurtSibling said:My goal also is to hunt down all people who supplant the word 'You' with the letter 'U'...
CurtSibling
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Dann said:Why U...
*Loads K98 sniper rifle...*
Bozo Erectus
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Alright thats it! Ewe guys settle down, we dont want no shootin' in here!
CurtSibling
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*Turns and blows Dumb Pothead's hat off*
My goal is also to shoot do-gooders!
My goal is also to shoot do-gooders!
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Ewe bastard! That was my favorite 10 Gallon hat! My Pa gave it to me just before he got kicked in the head by an ornery mule
CurtSibling
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That was me in the mule outfit!
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Of course, it all makes sense now! He was on his way to a costume party dressed like a priest! In retaliation Im going to disguise myself as Madalyn Murray O'Hair and knock your block off when you least expect it!
Go for the change!! I am about the same age as you and I moved to another country one and a half year ago and had to give up my very well paid but dull job. My main reason was not to pity myself ten or twenty years later for not having done what I would have liked to have done.Evertonian said:
Nowadays job security is getting more relative every day and I'm convinced that if you're a smart guy (which you surely are) you won't have to worry too much about your future when you get back. Besides you will probably bring along valuable experience that not many others will have. Like you say, you don't have commitments to keep you where you are, so if I were you I would take advantage of that, while you can. Otherwise you will probably regret. It's not risk-free but more than worth the gamble. Follow your gut-feeling!
test_specimen said:
It depends on what the job is. If it is one involving lots of travel and requires lots of contact with locals, then yes, perfect.
The interviewers probably don't care what your goal in life is, except to the extent that it shows that you'll be a good employee and a better fit for the job than the person in line behind you. Also, goals change (particularly with age) and telling them your goal is to work long enough to settle down and retire comfortably is probably going to make them snicker if you're 18 but will reassure them if you're middle-aged.
My goal in life is to die with a positive balance in the Bank o' Karma. 
CIVPhilzilla
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WS78 said:
Not if I rule it first.
Ren
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Xen said:
This is mine too. To be forgotten is worse than death.
Johann MacLeod
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To be Holy Roman Emporer- Johannes I
