Let us ponder

[girlgeek]

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and

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[nigiro]

I wanted to be a space ranger once! In fact, I wouldn't mind being one right now. I have to figure out what I want to do like now. *sigh*

[girlgeek]

Someone said to me today that I should for sure try to finish up my credits in the summer.... BUT THEN WHAT? If I wait, it gives me more time to think it out... but what's the point in putting offout the inevitability of real life happening? PANIC TIME.

[rowenamarion]

I plan to join Starfleet.

no, actually I empathize with you. I know what it's like to not know exactly where you want to go, and it sucks. However, my own experience has been that whenever I find myself in that sort of situation, my path reveals itself pretty quickly after I have some massive panic about it. Right now I'm super thankful I've finally landed on something that seems to fit, career-wise. I feel like it took too long to do.

I'm doing a bad job making you feel less crisis-y.

ummmm....

LIFE IS AN ADVENTURE.
YOU ARE AWESOME.
CARPE DIEM.

<3

[girlgeek]

Starfleet is kind of like being a Space Ranger!

I have been taking a sort of wait and see approach to life post-bcit (the computer programming years), and so far it's worked out... but time keeps marching towards that graduation thing and I haven't figured out what comes next yet. The possibility of a boring desk job looms ever closer! Also a dwindling bank account. The two are vaguely related.

I'm not really crisis-y atm... More introspective? This thread over on reddit was what got me thinking.

I'm sure the panic will set in when it's time to decide if I'm going to take summer classes or not.

[rowenamarion]

After looking at the thread, I will throw out there this: two years ago I didn't think there was a possibility I would find a job where I was happy every day....and then I started working in a school district. It wasn't exactly perfect, the position I was in, and damn it, the internship ended after six months, but still, I found a system I wanted to impact, a place where my actions felt rewarding

[littlearson]

So I'm not a famous musician, or computer hacker ninja, or demonic doll mancer, but I'm pretty happy with what I'm doing now.

I feel grown up most of the time, possibly because I'm in a pretty stable grown-up-like relationship with my finances, job, and partner. Possibly due to suddenly having to learn how to BE a grown up in order to support my mom and sister and take care of all my parents affairs.

I think what I really wanted (and I'm pretty sure I've talked about this with Erin before at length) was to have a family and be able to live comfortably. It didn't really matter what I did for a "job" as long as it allowed me to live comfortably.

I'm pretty happy with things now as I don't hate my job and it allows me to live comfortably.

[girlgeek]

I'm happy you're happy :)

I think this is my goal too. To live comfortably and not hate my job. I'm just having trouble figuring out/deciding what it is that I can do that I won't hate.

So far every job I've had I ended up hating after an initial breaking in period. Granted, most of them were fairly similar in a customer service capacity, but my officey job had much of the same bs attached to it, I just farted around on the internet a lot more and got discounts on computer products.

The standard response to such griping is to "do what you love" and the money/comfortableness comes later. I'm just not sure what that something is entirely yet. I like doing lots of things... just not really sure I love any of them them. Am afraid of falling into the path of least resistance. Whatever it may be.

[littlearson]

"do what you love and the money/comfortableness comes later"

I'm not sure I entirely agree with that. If I were doing that, I would be playing a lot of video games contrasted with spending lots of time outdoors without having to do anything for anyone except myself, and perhaps do some occasional knitting to sell on the internet so I could afford to eat. Sometimes.

[girlgeek]

Do what you love and find a way someone will pay you to do it?

I spent part of my afternoon reading about being a park ranger. Or whatever we call them in Canada.