Do you feel your life has direction?

[capper42]

I'll be finishing university in a few months. Afterwards I hope to get whatever job I can and work it for a little while to save to go travelling or something for a while. After that however, I have no idea what I want to do. I have no career plan or anything like that, and currently just feel a little lost.

So, for inspiration (or to depress me about it further) do you like the route your life is on? Do you have the next few years of your life mapped out, or is it all a mystery, and are you happy about either of these?

 

[Cazza]

I have 1 semester left in my course until I'm finished. I still don't know if I'm doing the right work for me. After how stressful the course is I can't think of doing it full time. Everyone says oh go overseas or something afterwards but I feel I won't want to get into finding a job after that.

So I'm taking it day by day knowing I can do it slowly. As for the finer details I have no clue. I hope it makes you feel better knowing others are in the same boat as you.

 

[Yuno Gasai]

I'd like to think my life has some direction, it just doesn't have the direction I expected.

Initially, I had planned to go to University and study Criminology, with a view to get a career within the Police working for the CID.

Things didn't really pan out after I did my homework and found out that in order to be recruited into the CID, I would have to serve as a regular 'beat officer' first - and as the Police are oversubscribed in terms of applications, and only open recruitment once every 5 years, I put that idea on a back burner.

Instead of going the University route (and potentially getting myself into a sea of debt for a degree I may not even put to good use), I've found myself a decent job with the potential for promotion and to grow and develop within the company I work for. I'm gonna see where this takes me, and if things don't work out, start a new plan from scratch.

 

[Wadders]

Nahh, it it's any comfort my plan (or lack thereof) is very similar to yours.

I'm hoping to have a job in line by the time I finish, but being as my degree is exceedingly work intensive I'm gonna have to prioritize that, as opposed to interviews and job hunting.

My degree does not lend itself to any specific career, so I guess that has both its pros and cons.

Ideally I'd like to work in Customs, like imports/immigration/ British Transport Police, but our lovely government wont be recruiting for those jobs again for quite some time, one imagines.

Like you, I like the option of travel. I'm fortunate enough to have a few grand stashed away from inheritance and my own earnings. America would be cool to visit, or perhaps a tour or mainland Europe, or even New Zealand.

Of course, the trouble with travelling is that once you finish, you're down several thousand pounds, and you still dont have a job.

 

[an annoyed writer]

I'm realigning my life's direction, actually. I'm a transgender kid who is early in the process. I'm losing weight, self-training in a number of fields, planning on moving out soon, restructuring my educational plan, and of course getting therapy. In short, yeah, my life has direction. Not easy, but it will definitely be worth it.

 

[Comocat]

I think if you are good at something your life finds direction on its own. I know very few people who planned to be where they are right now, but by virtue of being talented and hard working they're doing alright.

 

[Fappy]

Mine's been headed in a singular direction for awhile, but I think that could change at literally any moment. In my personal life I know what I want to happen and it is looking good so far, but professionally I'm not so sure. I know I am going to want to break away from what I am currently doing, but I'm not sure when I will and what opportunities will be available when I do.

 

[bearlotz]

I really can't recall any point in my life where I had a direction/goal/ambition for anything. I did well in high school and on the SAT, so I just went to the college that offered me the most scholarship money and got an engineering degree. After graduating in the summer I got a job at a small, family-owned manufacturing company and am still living at home. Every day I get up at 6AM so that I can get to work, make a pot of coffee, sit under fluorescent lights all day with no windows or HVAC for 8 hours (more if we get a bunch of purchase orders in that week), and work on antiquated computers with antiquated (or non-licensed) software while the boss screams his head off at anyone who dares question the absolute bullshit purchase orders he writes. There's no potential for advancement, the boss is well known to refuse recommendations for anyone who tries to leave the company (lack of loyalty or some such), I get 5 vacation days a year, and my duties day-to-day require basic computer literacy more than a college degree so all the time I'm spending here doesn't give me anything in terms of marketable skills.

A bunch of my friends from school have moved up to the big leagues and gotten some great jobs (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Amazon, Microsoft, Schick) so I guess that means that I could theoretically do the same...but I just can't seem to find any motivation for it. Most days I just come home from work, pour out a tall glass of scotch, and play either League of Legends or Minecraft with my friends until its time to go to sleep and repeat the cycle.

My advice: figure something, anything at all, out for after you graduate. If you don't plan for something or have something to work for, you end up doing this.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

I'm very close. Currently I'm in the country I need to be, I just haven't landed the job yet. When I do then I feel my life will have direction.

 

[redknightalex]

For the past couple of years, after getting my BA, I've been a lost wandered, at least in my mind. I have a job that gives me meager pay but great benefits. Plus, it's a University so I have opportunities for more education. However, the job I got was never for me, even if it was the place I had worked in while in college, so it's been meaningless. My real passion, at least I think it is, is in computer networking, network security in particular.

So, I'm working on getting Cisco certified (CCNA is the end goal) from my community college, which I pay out of my own pocket, and I find that I enjoy the studying I'm doing daily. When I had class cancelled on my last Saturday, I didn't even know what to do! If that's not a direction, or a passion for something, I'm not sure what is.

And now, after a month of working at it, I have an different education path and that seems to be providing all the difference I needed to feel better about myself and the future. Doesn't mean that I don't get lost in the depth of information and the long road I may be on. I may not be taking it one day at a time, more like a week, but it's definitely better.

 

[krazykidd]

Ha . Yeah my life has one direction . Down , straight into the ground . Most days i wish that i would die in a freak accident . But life is enjoying fucking with me so much that it would probably never happen . I would never kill myself though , just waiting for someone/something else to do it for me . [small] I have a death wish , why won't it come true?[/small]

 

[Chemical Alia]

I've got a few very specific goals, all of which I have plans for, and some of which I hope to achieve fairly soon They're all mostly art-related, though, like wanting to get into character modeling more and finding time to keep up drawing and painting. There's some other job-type ones too.

 

[SweetShark]

I have some goals to accomplice as well, mostly some ideas like to write a story, create some artworks, develope some ideas for some games etc.
Everytime I have an idea, I write it down to my "Dream Book".
Yes, I am serious. I have a book that I wrote down my ideas. Reason? My memory is a total mess and because I have a lot of things to my head, I don't want to forget an idea.

Other than that, I am happy to have a very good job, even thought It is not the kind of job I wanted to have, and I think I can live a normal life.
However being a person I have many different "strange habits", I trying to be cool about it and not show it to the real world.
At some point I was very close to say something about my habits here and how I feel for the others for thinking like "sheeps", but I said it is not worth it....

 

[thesilentman]

I'm still in high school, and I feel as if I've had some ideas on what to do, like becoming a video game programmer or a freelance software developer, but for the most part, it's undecided.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I've never been much of a planner.

I'm working on getting my drivers license, and on a few musical projects... the former could help with the latter a fair amount. All feedback I've had on my work so far has been very positive, so I'm hoping to land a part time royal-mail position and then supplement that income with some local gigging(probably as a solo-act).

I don't want to take the world by storm, and I'm not terribly concerned with accumulating wealth... I just want to form a niche for myself.

 

[Zealous]

Not really.

Finished high school last summer, started writing a novel, realized I'm a shit author and now I'm trying to find entry level work cause I was a slacker for my last two years of school.

Yeah. Deep down inside me somewhere, I wanted the apocalypse to happen back in December (even though I knew it would never happen) cause of the shit situation I'm in.

Fuck, that's depressing...

Well, at least I don't have student loans.

 

[Innegativeion]

I've been committed to becoming a game designer since I was 4. I have very limited experience in the actual practice and programming, but I'll be taking an interactive media major in college within a year, and once I'm free of high school obligations, and game design is the central focus of my education, I plan to take to the practice vigorously.

I'm a talented writer as far as my English teachers are concerned, have won a couple of art and animation awards, and am WAY too into video games, video game culture, how to make or unmake video games, etc.

so I'm confident in my future.

Yes, I am serious. I have a book that I wrote down my ideas. Reason? My memory is a total mess and because I have a lot of things to my head, I don't want to forget an idea.

That's actually an extremely efficient way to go about it. ALL human memory is a total mess, breaking neural pathways sometimes at random, failing to recall important data, manufacturing fake memories, etc.

Lots of books on design suggest that very "dream book" practice earnestly.

 

[Ledan]

Nope.
Studying computer science, because i enjoy coding. Hopefully will get some job i enjoy, maybe within games?
Otherwise.... "Oh blah di oh blah da, la la la. aaaah life goes on"

 

[Vegosiux]

It has a direction...just an unexpected one.

I studied physics...and I'm working in TV business. Never thought I'd end up here, but I kind of like it.