I was about 2 years ago, I wanted to drive tanks and thats what I did when I joined the army, however I got into a crappy unit and they stressed me out to the point where I couldn't hold down food. I know this was a crappy unit because I talked with other units ,this is at the company/platoon level mind you, and they said that kind of crap would never happen without the superior being reprimanded. Long story short I didn't stay in long.
Are you what you always wanted to be?
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Sound engineers or Audio Engineers work with sound (obviously). With bands, movies, theatre, that sort of stuff. It's pretty intensive work. I'm trying to get in to a school in Sydney but it's a huge commitment to up and move, so I'm trying to find a suitable course at the uni here in Newcastle. Does that help?Yassen said:
Still at university studying Media And Communication... Which in hindsight, is probably the most useless thing on gods Earth to have a degree in. Still, I love making videos and I've gotten great training in it so I guess I can't really complain. I still aspire to being a games journalist though.
Believe me, it keeps getting worse.stompy said:
Why hello there.Anarchy In Detroit said:
By this stage I wanted to be a pilot, but then I relised it's too maths heavy and too much stress. That was about 8 years ago. Right now I still want to finish a decent script. I get halfway through and stop.
I had different things that I maybe sorta wanted to be at various times in my life (restaurant chef, work in gourmet food, job in software), but each time, the closer I got to them, the more miserable I became, so I quit wanting to be things and started just looking one step ahead to whatever looked most likely to make me happy at any given time. I think long term planning is overrated. I would never have guessed I'd be doing what I do now.
I'm partway to what I want to be...
My ultimate goal is to design video games, but I would settle for being a writer, programmer, or artist. Basically I want to create entertainment (books, movies, video games, etc) and get paid lots of money for it.
I'm partway there, like I said. I've written a few short stories and sent them off to magazines, and have the rejection letters to prove it. Drawn and written some stuff on the Internet, things like that. Gonna get there eventually.
My ultimate goal is to design video games, but I would settle for being a writer, programmer, or artist. Basically I want to create entertainment (books, movies, video games, etc) and get paid lots of money for it.
I'm partway there, like I said. I've written a few short stories and sent them off to magazines, and have the rejection letters to prove it. Drawn and written some stuff on the Internet, things like that. Gonna get there eventually.
You can't sell your soul, only rent it. If you're not happy, find something else. Life's too short to dread going to work.PedroSteckecilo said:
I spent a long time wearing ripped jeans, reading literature, and parading about like I had a clue. It was fun and I miss it sometimes but...I ran out of cash and ideas somewhere between Vermont and New York City. So I went to law school.
Dun dun dun duuuuuuuuuh!!
It's not terrible. It beats a job in terms of vacations, I freelance for an indie webzine that doesn't censor me, and I can screw around on websites like this instead of do my endless homework.
Maybe this stupid JD will magically get me one of those fun jobs I keep hearing about. Or maybe I'm totally up #$@&-creek.
Dun dun dun duuuuuuuuuh!!
It's not terrible. It beats a job in terms of vacations, I freelance for an indie webzine that doesn't censor me, and I can screw around on websites like this instead of do my endless homework.
Maybe this stupid JD will magically get me one of those fun jobs I keep hearing about. Or maybe I'm totally up #$@&-creek.
Maybe one in ten lawyers I've known were actually happy being lawyers. I don't know why; some of them were doing mostly divorces (sad, bitter, angry people) and criminal (criminal people) but others do corporate or business law which shouldn't be that bad.L.B. Jeffries said:
well, my aspirations to become an anonymous baker have yet to be fufilled.
i tried sending some flour to people in the mail back in 2001-2002 but that didnt end very well.
i tried sending some flour to people in the mail back in 2001-2002 but that didnt end very well.
Believe me man, the abyss looked back at me a long time ago when I decided to go. I work afternoons at a licensing and patent firm. My boss literally greets me everyday with, "Seriously kid, why do you want to ruin your life doing this?"werepossum said:
I'll think of something in a year or two, maybe it'll even involve games or writing if I'm lucky.