Declan McManus: Love Makes Me Cheerful 131,869 36
03/07/2004 12:15 PM

If you're younger than 25, you're welcome to post, but I want to hear from the 25 + group.

mgross Put da lime in teh Diet Coke 359 0
03/07/2004 12:36 PM

Shut up!

TableTopJane 173,958 15
03/07/2004 12:45 PM

I remember being 10 and mapping out my life. Then 15 came and with came a baby. And now I just go along, drawing the map day to day. So, no, I never thought I'd have it figured out by now (I'm just 25). I'm working, saving the money to finish school, so I'm not even on my first "career". Not married, and I'd have to say there are definately more kids that I had thought there would be. But I'm happy, and I like my life and myself right now, so that's all I can really ask for.

Punkin-zirra 3,585 11
03/07/2004 01:16 PM

I'll be 25 in June. When I was 16/17, I thought I had learned from the mistakes of others and wouldn't follow those footsteps. 3 years of college, and money ran out. Got a job, but then my boss retired. Now, I've moved back to the town where I was born and am going to Princeton in the Pasture (crappy juco) for nursing, which is what my family wanted me to go into initially. No kids, no husband, and the dates are real real few and real far between. In 14 months and 2 days I'll be an RN. This was NOT the plan.

Spicey McHaggis 117,736 36
03/07/2004 01:17 PM

I used to want to be a scientist. Then later I narrowed it down to chemistry. Then I went to college as a Chemistry major and Calculus made me its bitch. But I found a new love that wasn't into anally raping me - computers. I found out that I'm actually a pretty good troubleshooter, and I can explain things pretty well to the luddites.



I don't think much about the future. I know that death is at the end of the line no matter what I do, so I'll just keep riding the train and hope no one mugs me.

The Puggy of the D: Assholier than thou 48,304 12
03/07/2004 01:18 PM

I refuse to believe that anyone who's on track with any kind of life plan posts to GaB regularly.

Sweet Sweet Mizz Swizz 3,957 10
03/07/2004 01:21 PM

When I was 13, I thought I knew exactly how my life was going to go. When I was 15, I didn't know where I wanted it to go. When I was 18-21, I didn't care where my life went. From 21-23, I went to school and dropped out after realizing that I was bored by my major and would never want to do it as a career. At 23, I finally figured out that the thing I'd wanted to do as a kid was what I wanted to do in my life, work-wise. I got knocked up and had a kid at 24. Finished my second stint in post-secondary education a year ago and am doing something in a field I've always been interested in, and getting ready to slightly shift my focus for better pay (I'm 27), and pretty damn happy the majority of the time.



God only knows if I'll remain happy in this field, but I think I will. Being a parent, my life is probably always going to be in some sort of flux, but so far they've always been good, so I'm interested to see what the future brings to me.



</serious crap>

dinesh 24,862 16
03/07/2004 01:28 PM

yes, first career. not really what i had pictured (i always figured i'd be in the sciences or engineering), but consulting can be analytical at least.



no family type things to speak of. i never really thought about it or gave myself timeframes, but i figured it would have happened by 30. no pressure, but i think the joe pesci-marissa tomei stomp stomp stomp biological clock is starting to make itself heard.



my life is totally good, and i don't really have a plan, besides taking it as it comes.

TableTopJane 173,958 15
03/07/2004 01:29 PM

I swear, I'm going to maha the Shakespeare out of the person who posts "Yes, I've reached all the goals I set for myself"

Chance teh Cheater 171,270 14
03/07/2004 02:21 PM

I aimed pretty low. Didn't set any goals. LOOK AT ME NOW!! I am a 27 year old secretary with a 3 year old. I'm in a dead end relationship with an arrogant Emerson. I have given up completely. Somebody shoot me now.

DemoMonkey, a newbs best friend. Now in Pine! 166,252 10
03/07/2004 02:22 PM

I was certain I'd be dead by 30. In fact, since (truthfully) I sincerely expected this planet to be incinerated by a nuclear exchange, I expected EVERYBODY to be dead by the time I was thirty.



Every new day is like found money.

Livewire 78,229 13
03/07/2004 03:41 PM

From Mary Schmich's poem Wear Sunscreen:



Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.

mgross Put da lime in teh Diet Coke 359 0
03/07/2004 03:46 PM

I aimed pretty low. Didn't set any goals. LOOK AT ME NOW!! I am a 27 year old secretary with a 3 year old. I'm in a dead end relationship with an arrogant Emerson. I have given up completely. Somebody shoot me now.

!'ll shoot a maha! hahahahahha

just me ok 13,787 15
03/07/2004 03:50 PM

I am 43 and not yet out of diapers!







Sooooooo anyone wanna spank me?

Livewire 78,229 13
03/07/2004 03:51 PM

I'm 30 now, and just finding skills I didn't know I had, mostly thanks to higher education. It's hard to pin down your skills, because we almost always have an instinct to be too self-critical, and don't see the quality of the skills. It's nice to have instructors who can do it for you. These skills will probably drive my career in a totally different dfirection from my current position in sales. Here's a short list:



I have an awesome voice. Deep, clear, powerful. Well suited to public speaking and possibly radio.



Strong ethical compass. I'm amazed at how many people in business instinctively sweep stuff under the carpet if they think they can get away with it. The ratio is more than half. Martha Stewart, anyone?



Leadership skills. Apparently I have a natural tendency to take charge of a situation in times of panic, and am able to treat everyone fairly.



Based on these skills, I think I'm suited to be a CEO. I just need to find a company willing to hire me with absolutely no experience in an executive position.

Bad Donkey 19,242 12
03/07/2004 03:52 PM

I was wondering.... Was there a time before you were 25 when you were certain that you'd have it all figured out, that you knew who you were, where you were heading, and in what you believed?



When I graduated from high school I thought the world was my oyster. I was sure that by the time I was 25, I'd be a CPA and married.



What about your career? Are you still on your first career? Or are you doing something that you couldn't have imagined when you were in high school or college?



I'm on my second "career". For 4 years I worked in a sweatshop. I washed greasy filthy parts, drove forklift, and ran machines before I quit and went back to college. As for what I thought I'd do when I was in high school, I really didn't know what I'd do. If you would have told me when I was in high school that one day I'd be a programmer, I'd have believed it. If you'd have told me I would have been a machinist first, I would have called you a liar. I would have also called you a liar if you told me I would be a programmer one day while I was working at the factory.



What about your family? A wife? a husband? More kids than you thought of? Fewer kids? Are you the caregiver for aging relatives?



No wife/girlfriend. No kids. I go to work, come home, and take care of my cat. I also play guitar when the feeling strikes me. I finally reached a point where I really don't care if I never have a girlfriend/wife and it feels good. I hope the feeling lasts.



No, my life didn't turn out the way I expected it to, but I'm happy with it just the same. Probably happier than I would be had my life turned out the way I expected it to.

Livewire 78,229 13
03/07/2004 03:52 PM

I am a 27 year old secretary with a 3 year old. I'm in a dead end relationship with an arrogant scat.



Aren't you being a little hard on him? He's only 3. Give him some time, he'll mature.

Bad Donkey 19,242 12
03/07/2004 03:53 PM

I was certain I'd be dead by 30. In fact, since (truthfully) I sincerely expected this planet to be incinerated by a nuclear exchange, I expected EVERYBODY to be dead by the time I was thirty.



Every new day is like found money.



I carried the same belief since I was about 12.

Shayrose 195 10
03/07/2004 04:36 PM

Since I too aimed low I have not been disappointed. At age 26 I became a homeowner which was the realization of a dream (well, ever since I started paying rent)



Career- not what I pictured but I've never been in debt or unemployable.



Personal- planned on marrying "about 10 years from now" for the last 20 years. It's been almost a year.



Family-never wanted kids, never will I have any, not since the <a href='www.essure.com'>operation</a>.



And every year I wait to see if this is the birthday I feel grown-up. No, 33 just made me feel OLD.

Shayrose 195 10
03/07/2004 04:38 PM

Aaahh! I didn't link properly. I had a tubal occlusion using the new Essure method.

Better?

Chi-Chi Felipe 161,353 14
03/07/2004 05:31 PM

At 20, I figured I would be a stoned college student by the time I turned 25, but I am a 26 year old college student with a wife and kid who is trying to get a degree in creative writing. Also, I never in my wildest dreams thought I would be so Goddamned handsome.

Gonzo 20,522 17
03/07/2004 05:55 PM

I just turned 31. In High School, I figured I'd end up writing software. Computers weren't yet home appliances, and I had a natural skill working with them. I went to college, got a puny associates degree. At this point, I was certain that I would be able to come up with some tremendous breakthroughs in AI within my career. (I still believe I have some good contributions to make in that area, but the outlook right now isn't too sunny) I entered the non-service-industry workforce for a few years.



At that point, it looked like I'd need a better degree to have my skills respected (not true), so I went off to try to re-enter college. along the way, I did a few dreadful years in retail, and never ended up back in school.



By 24, I started a job in IT, and was shuffled around in and out of IT for about 6 years depending on the economic climate. For the past two years, I've been working for the same company in an Operations Analyst role, and have no real idea what that means. I guess it means Senior Project Engineer minus $20k.



I have no idea where I'm headed, since the IT worker of this decade is the Dertoit Auto Worker of the 90's, with all the jobs going overseas.



Over the years, I've worked in many different roles, learning a great deal about manufacturing, which is also going overseas more and more. On the upside, the skills and knowledge I've absorbed are applicable to most businesses. On the downside, I don't have the first clue as to how to sell those skills.



Marry with that a largely untapped love of humor, and audio/video expression, and you have someone working in the completely wrong industy, but too comforatable with the steady paycheck to do anything else.



Ultimately, I've been told I should be a counselor, Phychiatrist, Psychologist, or therapist. I dunno.

ringworm 68,315 13
03/07/2004 06:19 PM

i'm 29. i should have had it figured out by now, but don't.



i'm on my first "career," doing more or less what i want to do. except for a brief stint in the military (they made work medical). i weaseled out of it, and got things back where i thought they should be. i'm good at everything, but great at nothing. i'm too scatterbrained to specialize or focus on any one thing at a time and i don't have the time to go back to school. computers are what i'm best at, and i don't know what else i would do, otherwise. i guess i'll stick w/ it. i initially wanted to be a programmer.



no wife / girlfriend / ex-wife. i feel like i should have been married by now, but i'm done holding my breath on that one. no kids that i'm financially responsible for. i don't want any.



should have lived in dallas by now, but everytime i try, it just goes to Shakespeare, so i rent. i refuse to buy property in this town. that would be too much like giving up.



am i happy? Frost no, but this will do for now.

Nerd in a Bunker 27,000 12
03/07/2004 06:28 PM

Yeah I got it figured out, I'm in the mafia. Don't believe me? Fine, your funeral.



Really.

Crazyballs 11,888 10
03/07/2004 06:31 PM

Ha! The mafia Doesn't exist!

Sweet Sweet Mizz Swizz 3,957 10
03/07/2004 06:33 PM

I want you so bad.

Sweet Sweet Mizz Swizz 3,957 10
03/07/2004 06:34 PM

Ew. Not you CB. Nerd.

Nerd in a Bunker 27,000 12
03/07/2004 06:37 PM

Really, OK where do you live?



Both of you, I have a funeral to plan for CB and a wedding to plan for swizz.

Sweet Sweet Mizz Swizz 3,957 10
03/07/2004 06:41 PM

Just on the other side of the state from ya, Nerd baby. Hop on the turnpike!

Nerd in a Bunker 27,000 12
03/07/2004 06:42 PM

I'll hop on your turnpike!

Frogtacular 173,148 25
03/07/2004 08:33 PM

I'll be 27 this summer. I have yet to start my first proper "career". I dropped out of college and fell ass backwards into a very well paying (for only a HS degree) office job at my former educational institution that requires me to do a little bit of work every now and then, but mostly just show up fairly consistently and stay up all night long. However, this job fails to challenge me in any rewarding fashion and has little prospect of upward mobility, unless I want to be some sort of union lifer here. My job also severely curtains my social life as I work mostly alone and am usually at work during adult social times (bar times, weekends, etc). This is fine for now, as I have no social life worth curtailing, but this is unlikely to change much as long as I stay so employed. Only two of the people I met in my previous 3 year stint as an undergrad are still in the area, my many other friends having left as they too dropped out or actually graduated, and I did not make "making new friends" a priority, so now y'all are stuck with me.



On the plus side, my sentence here is almost finished. I was able to con my way back into classes at the University starting this past spring, having kicked some ass at a local community college. I've gotten straight A's since my return, though I'm always convinced that the next class I take will ruin the streak. This winter I was admitted to the University's School of Management, which may not be the Nobel, but it's a damn sight more selective than a Grammy. On the plus side of my job, it leaves my schedule free for classes during the day, and my classes are almost totally free. (I paid $56 to take 7 credits this semester.)

Frogtacular 173,148 25
03/07/2004 08:34 PM

As for life partners (and to some extent friends); I was a fair bit more mature (in some ways) than most of my other classmates when I first arrived here. Nowadays the emotional and mental gap between myself and the typical 21 year old undergraduate is almost palpable. I have had a number of relationships or varying length. I have dated a few very cute girls in my early adulthood out here, unfortunately they've been quite vapid. I've dated several "interesting" girls as well, but a couple of them would routinely break all my mirrors. A few more of them were quite attractive, but were on loan to the psych department since "crazy" also falls under the "interesting" designation. Public Universities, though financially attractive, really don't churn out the future leaders of the American-Irqai Axis. I need to get out of the stix and back into a city. Realistically, even if I found the perfect girl out here, I would not have time enough to lavish on her between working for the man and getting edumacated. Oh, and also the perfect girl wouldn't like me much.



So, as it stands, I'm in a holding pattern in purgatory until I finish my degree and move on to a new job or school in a new place. You'll know everything's great when I 'has not posted in the last 30 days'.







..or maybe I'll come back to rub it all in..

DemoMonkey, a newbs best friend. Now in Pine! 166,252 10
03/07/2004 08:46 PM

Froggie



When people say "How are you?" they're just being polite.



Glad to help



Demo

Frogtacular 173,148 25
03/07/2004 08:49 PM

thems is straight people rules, Demo.



teh gay man actually wanted to know.





p.s. GAY MEN ARE SCARY!

Frou Frou 156,785 17
03/07/2004 09:35 PM

I'm divorced and raising a child on my own. Yep... planned it out this way from day one.

Frogtacular 173,148 25
03/07/2004 10:02 PM

do you still have that brochure your guidance councilor gave you?

DemoMonkey, a newbs best friend. Now in Pine! 166,252 10
03/07/2004 10:10 PM

My guidance councillor told me my career choices were "Sultan" or "Right Angle".



But he did always have primo weed.

Declan McManus: Love Makes Me Cheerful 131,869 36
03/07/2004 10:24 PM

<action> Waves red bandanna in Frogtacular's face.





You have no idea how scary.

Fluro 14,139 11
03/07/2004 11:57 PM

How about you, Dclean? Did you ever dream that you'd have your fist up someones ass?



in all seriousness, you guys know i'm under 25. Last year i was going to be a mechatronics engineer. This year i'm going to be a lawyer (like my great uncle and my sister is also doing uni at law) Think i might do law and a bachalor of sciance or maybe do political scianc or commerce. Whatever. I have all year.

Frogtacular 173,148 25
03/08/2004 12:01 AM

My adviser told me to pick a major I could spell.

TabulaRasaJane 173,958 15
03/08/2004 12:05 AM

So, that leaves you with nurse and pope Froggy.

Frogtacular 173,148 25
03/08/2004 12:05 AM

you spelled poop wrong..

Fluro 14,139 11
03/08/2004 12:05 AM

Suck it froggie.

Frogtacular 173,148 25
03/08/2004 12:08 AM

Now that's a growth industry!

Crazyballs 11,888 10
03/08/2004 12:10 AM

My guidance counselor told me I should be "a good boy and fetch him his whiskey".



Now I'm a bartender!

Fluro 14,139 11
03/08/2004 12:11 AM

Really, I have always had troubble with spelling. I still do alright, so its not somthing that I think will hold me back. Plus, there is always a spellchecker. Note also, that here my typing is lazy and unedited.

Llunch Llady Lloyd 48,662 14
03/08/2004 12:55 AM

When I was 15, I knew for certain that I'd be a famous photographer.



When I was 17, I enrolled in an English degree, and I knew for sure that I'd be a great high school English teacher and change the lives of countless students (while writing a best-seller in the process).



At 18, I dropped out of University after one semester and started saving money to move out to Banff, in the Rockies. I knew I was going to get a snowboarding sponsorship and live on the mountains for the rest of my life.



At 19, I headed back east after a season of working in the kitchen of a big hotel. I knew that I was going to open a small restaurant in my hometown before too long.



By 22, I was heading off to culinary school. I knew for sure that I would become a great chef and work in a world-famous restaurant in New York or Paris or something.



At 25, I knew that cooking for a living was no longer for me. At 26, I knew that it was, and I would one day be a famous chef.



At 27, I knew I would become a web designer and make a gazillion dollars.



At 28, I knew I was on the fast track to being an executive in the food industry in Canada.



At 29, I decided to get the degree that would allow me to eventually make it to "executive" status.



Now, at 31, I am near the end of the degree, after fast-tracking through by taking twice the suggested course load for the past year and studying full-time for two summers.



I have no idea what I want to do after this.

Whistler P. McManus 185,889 44
03/08/2004 12:56 AM

When I was in high school, I was mostly concerned with getting high and avoiding my parents. I couldn't wait to get to college so I could get high and drunk and not have to worry about avoiding anyone.



As far as what the future held, I honestly couldn't picture any future. I really lived for the moment. I vaguely thought that someday I'd be gainfully employed in some kind of important job and be rich, since I thought I was smarter than everyone else.



I wanted to have a family some time in the future, but I didn't want to stop trying to bang every girl I met.



Then I graduated college and couldn't find a job. While I was sitting around unemployed, I realized that my education had prepared me best for a life of getting high and drunk.



I was a clueless kid, and I didn't get much help. Twenty years later, it's starting to come together pretty well. That's in a big way because Mrs. Whistler seems to know what I want to do and doesn't just let me do it, but makes me do it.



My life definitely turned out better than I deserve, especially when you look at the half-assed effort I put into it.

Llunch Llady Lloyd 48,662 14
03/08/2004 12:58 AM

Oh yeah: I knew I'd marry a hot chick with a great ass.



That's the only part that's happened as I imagined it so far.



As for kids, watch this space (*points at his wife's belly*)over the next year or so for updates about when that might happen.

Irvin 103 10
03/08/2004 01:02 AM

I'm a 16 year-old Junior in HS and I have absolutely no idea where my life is going.



I don't think I've ever had any plans besides stuff like becoming a teenage mutant ninja turtle. Ah, the good 'ol days.

Of course I never thought about how impossible it would be for me to score if I was a giant talking turtle...

Shakespeare, on second thought it's not like I score much anyway, so COWABUNGA.

Whistler P. McManus 185,889 44
03/08/2004 01:03 AM

Now I'm beginning to wonder what the high school Declan thought his life would be like.



Domestic bliss with a long-term partner?



Endless '70's style gay disco parties?



Career in theatre, literary arts, academia or window dressing?



All I really know about Declan's high school years is that he wore Buddy Holly glasses and leisure suits.

Declan McManus: Love Makes Me Cheerful 131,869 36
03/08/2004 01:46 AM

Ya really wanna know?

Chi-Chi Felipe 161,353 14
03/08/2004 01:47 AM

I'm getting a degree in Liberal Arts, which will come in handy when I need to scribble a note on a useless piece of scrap paper.

The Puggy of the D: Assholier than thou 48,304 12
03/08/2004 01:52 AM

Chi, I wish I could click you a million times for that.

Whistler P. McManus 185,889 44
03/08/2004 01:52 AM

Ya really wanna know?



Yes, yes I do!



And Chi, that would be funnier if it wasn't completely true.

arkansassy 291 10
03/08/2004 01:53 AM

well, I'm in college and I like to think I've got my future mapped. I want to be an archaeologist, marry my current boyfriend, and have three kids. I was optimistiCarrollil I read this thread.



thanks a whole hell of alot for the encouragement you guys. I think I'll turn to booze for consolation.

Chi-Chi Felipe 161,353 14
03/08/2004 01:56 AM

Booze is only temporary. You should try heroin.

arkansassy 291 10
03/08/2004 01:56 AM

apparently "optimistic" and "until" aren't quite kosher

Chi-Chi Felipe 161,353 14
03/08/2004 01:58 AM

Neither is a faux vagina made of a sow's ear.

Llama Yo Mama 7,194 10
03/08/2004 02:02 AM

You could always teach.



My Theory of Knowledge teacher is this pompous guy who loves to tell us he has a masters in music and a PhD in the humanities. He uses this coffee mug that says, I think, therefore I am... overqualified to work here. Sometimes I want to smash that mug into his face.



Other than that, he's just a swell guy.

arkansassy 291 10
03/08/2004 02:11 AM

I don't know...I've been seeing an awful lot of enticing advertisments in the local paper for "exotic dancer."



If only I didn't have this freaky third nipple.....

Declan McManus: Love Makes Me Cheerful 131,869 36
03/08/2004 02:19 AM

Well, here goes.



Yes, I had wanted something very traditional--a nice man, a distinctive house or condo, and more than one cat. I blame Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young for the scenario. . . .is a very, very fine house. With two cats in the yard, life used to be so hard. . . .



Maybe a child, or two. Adoption, fostering, or buying an egg and renting a womb.



I didn't go out to disco's much at all. Did a few times in my early college days, but didn't like the life. You'd be more apt to find me then (and now) at a concert, lecture, play, or movie.



I had thought that I would be working in the arts, either as a photographer, writer, or arts management. Instead, I was in social work, journalism, and food service.



I had no idea that I would take care of Ma almost full time the last five years of her life.



Still looking for full time work. My BA is in Humanities/Arts. I could do a lot of things, and well, but a lot of potential employers look at my degree, my employment gaps and send my resume to the circular file.



Now, I'm dating, after a long, long string of casual affairs and one night stands.



You've seen this apartment. It's nowhere near where I used to live, and it's considerably fuller of character (former mom & pop grocery store.)



My life isn't awful, (hey, you showed up!) but it is far, far from what I had imagined.

Declan McManus: Love Makes Me Cheerful 131,869 36
03/08/2004 02:22 AM

I saw your wedding pictures. Those forest green tuxedos were quite something, bro.

Doc 7,105 13
03/08/2004 02:30 AM

Growing up, I never thought much past eighteen. I figured once I was eighteen, I was didn't have to go to school anymore, and I could live on my own. I couldn't possibly imagine myself at 40. Then when I graduated, I moved to another state, got an apartment, got a job, and started having a life, and realized that I hadn't given it much thought past that. My goal is to have a comfortable life, and do things that I enjoy. Most of these things revolve around money, so put myself into making money. I still really can't see past that. I suppose I will get married, and if I love her, have a kid. I'm sure I'll probably be different when I'm 40, yet still the same, and still probably just trying to continue to live a comfortable life. I might take up some cause along the way, I don't know.

Fearsome Orange 262 13
03/08/2004 10:17 AM

I'm about to hit 33. After HS I did nothing much more than train in martial arts full time for about 6 years. After that I went into college, and got a degree that would enable me to be self-employed in a field that was absolutely saturated with folks exactly like me.



After struggling along for a few years I decided to head to Asia to teach English, where I still am today. It's not a bad life, but certainly not what I envisioned for myself. I still hold out hope that doing what I"m doing now will enable me to do what I really want to do when I 'go back home.'

Stoat - Shake me, shake me like a British nanny 9,077 10
03/08/2004 10:24 AM

I'm 26 soon. I had it all figured out up to the point I left Uni. I created a series of backup plans. If I didn't do what I wanted to do, then i'd be a fireman (too much Backdraft). If not, i'd be a soldier (too much Platoon). If that went tits up, i'd be a porn star (too much Sesame Street).



But I ended up doing what I wanted to do, and i'm moving where I want to go. Yeah i'm still making it up as I go along, but I have goals and ambitions, and they're attainable.



Besides, if everything goes to Shakespeare, I'm gonna be a gung-ho gun toting fireman with a hard on.

TabulaRasaJane 173,958 15
03/08/2004 10:28 AM

I suppose I will get married, and if I love her, have a kid.



Doc, do you mean that loving her is not required for you to marry her, just for you to make babies with her?

Stoat - Shake me, shake me like a British nanny 9,077 10
03/08/2004 11:12 AM

Since Chi is NLI, i shall take it upon myself to accept all clickies for him, which I will dispense to a named charity on his behalf.

godot 15,434 11
03/08/2004 11:12 AM

I'm 26. When I was young I wanted to be a poet. I realized quickly that there isn't ANY money in that line of work so I had to give up the dream and find a vocation. I did quite a bit of acting in highschool - but my senior year I dropped out to have sex with hot some hot older chicks. Best thing I ever did.



I completed some college and became a collection agent. It was the first time in my life I made real money. I was 19 making 500-1000 a week. I loved it. If I didn't get at least 2 death threats in a week - I felt like I wasn't doing my job right, but all beautiful things must end.



I moved back home (as in Shreveport) to help out with the family business. I did some college and worked. I was thinking at that time about Gerontology. If I were to go back to school - I'd go into that. Much money to be made there.



Anyway - I decide to come back home. Get a simple computer tech job doing simple computer tech stuff. Then quit that job and work for a petrol company. I end up doing computers there too. Since I've been on a computer of some sort since I was 7 - it just felt right.



So now I'm in computers - the last place I thought I'd end up.



I hope this helps.

Stoat - Shake me, shake me like a British nanny 9,077 10
03/08/2004 11:13 AM

Oh, I thought it was Chi Chi, not Chili. Nevermind, that Froster's not funny anyway...

TabulaRasaJane 173,958 15
03/08/2004 11:14 AM

I moved back home (as in Shreveport) to help out with the family business.



I require more info on the family business so that I may properly mock you.

Stoat - Shake me, shake me like a British nanny 9,077 10
03/08/2004 11:15 AM

He means his 6 month stint as a crack whore in Novia Scotia...

Sexual Harassment Panda 181,718 70
03/08/2004 11:22 AM

I've just turned 27. When I was 17, I quit school and got married. No kids to think about, just thought I had it all figured out. I had my first child at 19, my first seperation at 22, and at 24, we had reconciled and my second child came along. Now here I am at 27, divorced.

Oh, yeah, I had it all figured out.

Sexual Harassment Panda 181,718 70
03/08/2004 11:26 AM

Oh, and as far as careers go, I did end up with some college so I'm not a complete loss. I never had to flip burgers, I started out working for the Houston Oilers, and I've since created quite an impressive resume.



I'm "just a secretary" but I am just the secretary to a VP in a pretty big company.

Stoat - Shake me, shake me like a British nanny 9,077 10
03/08/2004 11:39 AM

So you get biffed by a Director instead of getting biffed by a manager?



Good work!

TabulaRasaJane 173,958 15
03/08/2004 11:40 AM

I started out working for the Houston Oilers



Oh, Jesus Christ, I'm sorry SHP. Look at it this way. You have nowhere to go but up after that.

psychaholic, a bear of very little peen. 4,888 13
03/08/2004 11:41 AM

Every day, I learn that I know less than I thought I did the day before.

Sexual Harassment Panda 181,718 70
03/08/2004 11:43 AM

Oh, Jesus Christ, I'm sorry SHP. Look at it this way. You have nowhere to go but up after that.



You don't know the half of it. I was TELEMARKETING season tickets.

My life was teh suck.

TabulaRasaJane 173,958 15
03/08/2004 11:44 AM

Yeah, because I'm sure people were just dying to get season tickets for the Frost-ing Useless Oilers.

Sexual Harassment Panda 181,718 70
03/08/2004 11:49 AM

I was 16, getting laid, getting weed, getting paid, and I got to work 8-5, M-F, for my dad.



I had it made, really.

Frou Frou Secsi Dragon Lady 156,785 17
03/08/2004 11:53 AM

"Besides, if everything goes to Shakespeare, I'm gonna be a gung-ho gun toting fireman with a hard on."





What do you know, I need protection, I have a fire that needs to be put out, AND I'm horny! I have a position OPEN!!

Stoat - Shake me, shake me like a British nanny 9,077 10
03/08/2004 12:30 PM

I'm certainly enthusiastic about filling your vacancy with my hard extension of skills

Stoat - Shake me, shake me like a British nanny 9,077 10
03/08/2004 12:31 PM

I'm up for a shag too?

DemoMonkey, a newbs best friend. Now in Pine! 166,252 10
03/08/2004 12:34 PM

Wendy lady



Your thighs are not "a position".



Regardless of how many applications you get.

PubzillaPants 56,794 18
03/08/2004 12:42 PM

I was supposed to be an Arhitect/Millionaire by the time I'm 35.

Thanks for reminding me that life sucks DeClan.



*Crawls back into his box and cries*

Declan McManus: Love Makes Me Cheerful 131,869 36
03/08/2004 03:12 PM

But, Pubaugh, that's one of my points. Life doesn't suck, at least, not totally.

Escape from the flying nun 1,412 10
03/08/2004 05:22 PM

When I grow up, I want to be an astronaut.

Llunch Llady Lloyd 48,662 14
03/08/2004 05:27 PM

When I'm lying in my bed at night,

I don't wanna grow up.

When I hear my parents fight,

I don't wanna grow up.



</tom waits>

TabulaRasaJane 173,958 15
03/08/2004 05:28 PM

Lloyd, I love you. I mean, wow. My heart's all a flutter.



(Yeah, I'm a slut. Quote TW, and I'll fly around the world to suck your Coleridge)

DemoMonkey, a newbs best friend. Now in Pine! 166,252 10
03/08/2004 05:32 PM

Heigh ho.



Heigh ho.

Llunch Llady Lloyd 48,662 14
03/08/2004 05:37 PM

Oh Jane!



Such a crumbling beauty.

Ah, there's nothin' wrong with her that a hundred dollars won't fix!

TabulaRasaJane 173,958 15
03/08/2004 05:38 PM

Lloyd, he's where I got my name. I was listening to Table Top Joe when I joined, and TTJane was the first thing that popped into my head.

Poopie PooterPants 56,794 18
03/08/2004 05:39 PM

Time becomes precious

When there's less of it to waste...



No, that's Bonnie Raitt



I guess I won't be getting a 'round the world' blow job anytime soon.

DemoMonkey, a newbs best friend. Now in Pine! 166,252 10
03/08/2004 05:50 PM

Jane



Are you on the plane yet?

TabulaRasaJane 173,958 15
03/08/2004 05:52 PM

I've been running around my living room with my arms out yelling "vroom". I'm having some trouble actually lifting off. I'll let you know when I'm in the air.

DemoMonkey, a newbs best friend. Now in Pine! 166,252 10
03/08/2004 05:56 PM

I'm betting vodka will be involved.

TabulaRasaJane 173,958 15
03/08/2004 05:57 PM

Duh.

Daring Darren 138 9
03/08/2004 06:08 PM

I completed some college and became a collection agent. It was the first time in my life I made real money. I was 19 making 500-1000 a week.





I'm 17 and everyone hates me anyway, so how can I get a job like that?

Nerd in a Bunker 27,000 12
03/08/2004 06:10 PM

So you lied on the thing to enter GAB.







You sick, sick mother-Froster.

Daring Darren 138 9
03/08/2004 06:12 PM

<action>looks suspicious</action>no I didn't....

The Puggy of the D: Assholier than thou 48,304 12
03/08/2004 06:15 PM

I think it's become abundantly clear that every single one of us is secretly a fourth grader.



Now gotta run, milk break's almost over.

Llunch Llady Lloyd 48,662 14
03/08/2004 06:24 PM

TT Jane has gone insane

She lives in the doorway of an old hotel

And the radio is playing Tom Waits

All she ever says is "Go to Hell!"

TabulaRasaJane 173,958 15
03/08/2004 06:28 PM

Well my mama didn't want me

On the day I was born

I was born without a body

I got nothing but scorn

But I always loved music

All I had was my hands

I dreamed I'd be famous

And I'd work at The Sands



Singing, Tabletop Joe, Tabletop Joe

Now everyone will know

That I'm Tabletop Joe

TabulaRasaJane 173,958 15
03/08/2004 06:31 PM

<action>swears this is the last one</action>Cleavage, cleavage, thighs and hips

From the nape of her neck to the lipstick lips

Chopped and channeled and lowered and lewd

And the cheater slicks and baby moons

She's a-hot and ready, creamy and sugared

And the band is awful and so are the tunes

Crawling on her belly, and shaking like jelly,

And I'm getting harder than Chinese algebrassieres

Llunch Llady Lloyd 48,662 14
03/08/2004 07:06 PM

<action>will make no such promise</action>

One night Jane was on her way home

from work, stopped at the liquor store,

picked up a couple Mickey's Big Mouths

drank 'em in the car on her way

to the Shell station, she got a gallon of

gas in a can, drove home, doused

everything in the house, torched it,

parked across the street, laughing,

watching it burn, all Halloween

orange and chimney red then

Jane put on a top forty station

got on the Hollywood Freeway

headed north



Never could stand that dog

TabulaRasaJane 173,958 15
03/08/2004 07:17 PM

You know, I was a member of a 12 step program aimed at helping you to stop random quoting. I was kicked out for randomly yelling out the steps during the meetings, though.

GhettoBlaster 79 9
03/08/2004 07:24 PM

Yeah,Homies well me and my krew were rollin' down the mean streats in my Hyundi when j-dawg yells over my beats: "Blaster, whatcu gonna dose when you graduates" and I says "Man, i be pimpin' hoes for my money. And after that, Shakespeare, i gets me a wicked job at my uncles auto shop."

godot 15,434 11
03/08/2004 07:25 PM

I have no legs, so I need to ramp up to get to the next levels.



I only need 100 exp to get to the next level. That's only 50 rats!

TabulaRasaJane 173,958 15
03/08/2004 07:26 PM

And people actually wanted to teach ebonics in school? Why, so we can have more fart knockers like this in the world?

TabulaRasaJane 173,958 15
03/08/2004 07:29 PM

ikelay isthay, iggahnay?

godot 15,434 11
03/08/2004 07:29 PM

Sanford - Please learn to log in. Then be funny.



I want to maha you.

79 9
03/08/2004 07:31 PM

He might be taking the piss out of ebonics.

Mavis Beacon 18,219 13
03/08/2004 07:32 PM

I'm 24. Can I still post?



When you grow up in small town IL, Florida and California are each considered paradise. When I was a junior in high school, my spanish teacher asked "donde are you going to go to el universidad?" That's a paraphrase, by the way. Anyhow, I said I was going to be a University of Florida Gator, though I never really believed it. In reality I'd been accepted to IL State U, so that's where my plans ended.



I went for a year, couldn't figure out what I was doing there, and moved to paradise. Fast forward six years, and I'm a Flordida Gator. I'm working on an accounting degree that will hopefully culminate with a passing score on the CPA exam, followed by some law school. In 10 years I'll come and find this thread (if fixing the search is on Jay's list of long term goals) and let you know if I am really a tax lawyer or have shifted gears into something that made life easier.

Mavis Beacon 18,219 13
03/08/2004 07:33 PM

and by "Flordida Gator," I mean "retard."

PatTheGreat 948 9
03/08/2004 07:33 PM

At age Twenty-five, I sincerely hope to be two and a half decades older than I was when I was born.

Sanford 1,636 10
03/08/2004 07:38 PM

Here you go, godot. Do your worst. Or some something close to worst. I don't know. Just be mean or something.

Mayo Clinic Is My Daddy 246 9
03/08/2004 09:50 PM

Im not yet 25 but I am awaiting college soon. At the moment, I am planning on being a Solo/Concert Pianist. But I will surely be thrown into a cubicle doing some crazy thing over and over until my fingers fall off. Either way, I get to use my fingers.



Any suggestions?

TableTopJane 173,958 15
03/08/2004 10:14 PM

Have you considered masturbating until your fingers fall off? I'm sure it's the only thing you're actually good at.

Mayo Clinic Is My Daddy 246 9
03/08/2004 10:15 PM

I use my dick as an 11th finger so I can play some pretty hard(no pun intended) pieces.

Eric Deveruex 23,705 11
03/08/2004 10:22 PM

hey I am a solo player of the penis too!!! We should get together and.........uh hey who's playing tonight?

TableTopJane 173,958 15
03/08/2004 10:29 PM

<action>pulls another random quote out of her ass</action>I've never quit anything in my life except for Chinese calligraphy, my Thesis 2, Kangaroo Anatomy, Toe Photography, Booger sculpture and masturbation. Well, maybe not masturbation but give me a break it's the only thing I'm good at.

Pubah 56,794 18
03/23/2004 09:40 PM

<action>Shoves a Random Quote into TTJanes auspicious ass</action>



"Whooooooooooooooos ya Daddyyyyyyyyyyy!"

Timmy The Talking Toilet 11,593 15
03/23/2004 10:27 PM

lets see.... I have been sitting here for the past three Frost-ing years in the same Shakespearehole town with an FCC liscence rotting away and an associates degree in electronics engineering. I don't have enough money to go back to school, or move away because my job sucks and the jobmarket here is worse.



I'm gonna blow my Frostin brains out now.

ringworm 68,315 13
03/23/2004 10:29 PM

be sure and lay down a tarp.

DemoMonkey, a newbs best friend. Now in Pine! 166,252 10
03/23/2004 10:33 PM

Actually laying down the tarp is step 2. I'm pretty sure marrying Courtney Love is step 1.

Timmy The Talking Toilet 11,593 15
03/23/2004 11:01 PM

Frost the tarp, if I'm going to do it, I'm going to damn well inconvinence everybody else who has to mop up after me.



As for the Nirvana refrence, does that mean I have to have no tallent in playing the guitar, do heroin and wear shreaded clothing.



well I got a third of it right.

Felix 2,568 10
03/23/2004 11:06 PM

You're on Heroin?

Timmy The Talking Toilet 11,593 15
03/23/2004 11:13 PM

please I live in Iowa the drug of choice is Meth. Like I could score heroin in this Shakespearety area.

Frogtacular 173,148 25
03/24/2004 01:06 AM

IT'S A TARP!!

Pubah 56,794 18
03/25/2004 10:40 PM

I haven't eaten for quite some time.



My belly's growling...sounds like distant thunder and explosions.



Can someone donate a tape recorder so I can save these sounds for a GabLanta Sound Track?

AussieSarah 8,390 9
11/24/2004 12:43 AM

Life is all about arse;

you're either covering it,

laughing it off,

kicking it,

kissing it,

busting it,

chasing it,

trying to get a piece of it,

behaving like one .....





or , as in Declans case - Frost-ing it.

millie will bring the pies 116,984 28
11/24/2004 01:16 AM

This whole discussion is way too depressing for me to even contemplate.



I guess when I was in high school, I thought I'd have a career.



There were other points in my life where I thought that was possible.



But now I am just trying to pay the bills.



I thought I would have kids, but I don't. I thought I would be married, and I was, but now I'm not.



I may end up having a kid, but I don't ever see myself getting married again (unless I decide to re-marry my ex-husband, who is the only person I would ever want to be married to.)



I have had, literally, over 25 jobs in my working life, since the age of 15 (I'm 39 now). Everything from a janitor to a legal secretary to a bookkeeper to a tampon-maker. None were what I would ever consider a career position.



I have two college degrees, a B.F.A. and a B.A. in Psychology. Both are useless without going to grad school, which is not possible right now, or ever, probably.



I am the only one of my five siblings without a "career". My siblings are: a college professor (U.S. History), a newspaper editor, a high-school classics teacher, a lawyer/entrepreneur, and a physical therapist turned hospital administrator.



Everyone who likes my art has career advice for me. Artists generally don't get rich. Maybe if I changed my last name to Wyeth...



Oh, and to everyone who says I could have had a career if I didn't keep switching jobs, that's not the case. I usually worked 2 or 3 jobs while I was in school, which is how I racked up such an extensive resume. Other times, I worked two or more jobs to keep a roof over my head.



Once I figured out I was never going to have a "career", I became much happier and settled on one (Shakespearety) job at a time.

Jantastic 10,022 10
11/24/2004 01:33 AM

I didn't post in this thread when it was originally started, mostly because my answers really depress me.



I'll be 26 next month. (Mark your calendars.) When I was 18, I had everything figured out, as 18-year-olds tend to do. I was bright, motivated, and on-track to achieve everything I wanted.



Then I went to college. And as Daniel Keyes said, "Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and nothing is what it appears to be." Basically, I woke up and discovered that the world is a big place, and I had no idea how it really worked.



Eight years ago, I thought that at this point, I'd be several years into my teaching career. Now, I still have not graduated, and teaching was abandoned long ago, and I have no idea what I want to do with my life. I thought that I'd be married and ready to start a family. Now, I can't really even say that I have a boyfriend, and I have no intention of ever having children. I have discovered that ultimately, being a grown-up is not as great as I'd expected it to be, and that I doubt I will ever have that "I have it all figured out" feeling again.



This has been Jan, sucking all the funny out of GAB since 2003.

Frogpop 173,148 25
11/24/2004 02:20 AM

Wow. My life is bad..



In other news, I really am going to ruin my 4.0 this semester. Really. For Real.

Frogpop 173,148 25
11/24/2004 02:27 AM

I can't really even say that I have a boyfriend



This is the interweb.. you can say whatever you want. I just put a down-payment on Barbados.

Frogpop 173,148 25
11/24/2004 02:49 AM

Should we change the rules for this thread from

clickies = funny

to

clickies = honest and/or pathetic?

NavyBoy_teh_Satanist 19,912 12
11/24/2004 03:20 AM

I never really had a plan for my life, I just always knew, even when I was a kid, that I would never join the military.



Yeah, that worked out.



I graduated high school when I was 17 and went straight to college, because I thought that's what my parents wanted me to do. I signed on as a Criminology major, because I'd always been interested in law (crime scene investigation, homicide detective, narcotics, etc).



I quickly decided that college was not for me and disenrolled after just one semester.



Soon after, I was still interested in law.. but I found that it was more the criminal side that I was interested in, so I became a criminal. Drug dealing/growing/manufacturing.. B&E.. car theft.. occasional assault and battery, if I was in the mood (or hired to do it). I was pretty good at not getting caught, though I did go to jail a couple times (only one felony, and I was pretty much in and out).



After a while the DEA moved into town and started making busts left and right, so I got away from the drugs (mostly). Then I was questioned by the FBI in connection with a bank robbery (I didn't do it, nor was I involved in any way.. but I was with the guy who did it earlier that day, and we had been followed, hence their assumption of my connection).



Anyway, I decided it was time to change things around, as I didn't want to end up in prison. So I joined the military and pretty much did a complete 180. Now I'm responsible, motivated, and all those other good words.



I turned 29 two weeks ago today. And no one made a b-day thread for me. So Frost all of you!!!!!



... or something.

ringworm 68,315 13
11/24/2004 04:42 AM

everything is exactly the same as in my initial post, except that i'm 30 now. this thread hurts my heart, and i hate you, declan mcmanus.

the flying nun FROM HELL! 1,412 10
11/24/2004 08:19 AM

I am 12. I also, unless something durastically changes, have the majority of my life planned out.

I will have to keep French throughout all of highschool in order to become officialy bilangual, which is necessary to get past the rank of Major. After high school, I plan on taking something or other in the RMC (haven't thought of the course yet) and get my officer's training while I'm there.

Apon completing college, I may or may not need to serve for years reg force depending on whether or not i needed a government scholarship. I will then, using my college training, become an officer in a reserve unit of my choice. My Colonel grandfather will make sure of that. For a main career, I will most likely go into police sciences.

The end point in my life, the best part, will be when I'm retired, living in a large house with wood paneling, swords and guns all over the walls, and several cats.

Traecheotomy 156,785 17
11/24/2004 08:41 AM

Life was uncertain

Until I turned 30.

I got divorced

and got my sanity back.



I'm more sure of myself

and who I am now;

Then I've ever been.



Life isn't great, but

it's sucked a lot worse.

I don't know why I wrote

this post in verse.

Polo Chukker 4,634 11
11/24/2004 09:41 AM

have dated a few very cute girls in my early adulthood out here, unfortunately they've been quite vapid. I've dated several "interesting" girls as well



Hmm..... and what about now, Frogpop- give us the update on your love life. Which category does she fit into?

DemoMarshmallowSalad 166,252 10
11/24/2004 11:12 AM

Found.Money.

Yummy Chickens in Giblet Gravy 286,326 61
11/24/2004 11:13 AM

At 18 I wanted to be Richard Gere in American Giggalo.



Thank God you don't get all your wishes.

The Sweet Potato Priestess 58,741 29
11/24/2004 11:20 AM

Well I am 20 soon to be 21 and I think I am on a steady track. I have 2 1/2 years of college left where I will graduate with a AS and BS in Food and Beverage Managment and Food Serveice Operations which will enable me to work practicaly anywhere. I'd like to work for Outback Steakhouse for a few years and then move in to a hotel type setting. After that I hope I have enought money save up so I can open and own my own restaurant. I will call it 'Magnolias and Moss'. It's my dream. One free dinner to all Gabbers!

Frogpop 173,148 25
11/24/2004 12:31 PM

Shh! Virn will hear you!



As for PoloChukker's question, I'd love to answer that, but I've got a plane to catch.

Joe Dick - Now With 20% More Dick! 389 9
11/24/2004 12:53 PM

If you had told me at 16, or even 22 what I'd be doing for a living when I was 28, I'd have killed myself before you finished your next sentence. Hell, I STILL feel like that most of the time, I'm just to lazy to pull the trigger (so to speak.)

Ever have that fantasy where you go back in time and tell yourself all the crap that really would have helped if you'd known it ahead of time? Like the winners of the Super Bowls or how in retrospect it's a pretty dumb idea to sick your dick in Margret Rose? I'm pretty sure that if I went back to do that, the 15 your old me would kick my ass as soon as he saw me.



As for relationships, I'm on a never ending treadmill of pretty meaningless sexual encounters with women I either don't know at all or know too well to get involved with. It's fun but pretty hollow.



So, no. I'm not a rock star with a porn star wife like I always imagined. But I am working on it.

Yummy Chickens in Giblet Gravy 286,326 61
11/24/2004 01:02 PM

Hell, I STILL feel like that most of the time, I'm just to lazy to pull the trigger (so to speak.)



Laziness is a bad habit. You should work on that.

Declan McManus, Daily Prophet Food Columnist, '04 131,869 36
11/24/2004 01:09 PM

Geeze--what a bunch of hypersensitves. I was not intending all of you to slit your wrists, play in traffic, or sleep with knives.



As I said earlier, my life is very different from what I had thought it would be in high school, but it does not totally suck.

Joe Dick - Now With 20% More Dick! 389 9
11/24/2004 01:11 PM

I never meant to imply that there were not good things.



Alot more women are shaving their cooters and happily taking it up the booty these days.



And for these things, I'd like to thank the Lord.

Yummy Chickens in Giblet Gravy 286,326 61
11/24/2004 01:12 PM

*insert "homosexual" and "suck" joke here*

Yummy Chickens in Giblet Gravy 286,326 61
11/24/2004 01:13 PM

something along the lines of:



Yes, sometimes I go anal!

I got Chit to be thankful for 178,742 15
11/24/2004 01:14 PM

The end point in my life, the best part, will be when I'm retired, living in a large house with wood paneling, swords and guns all over the walls, and several cats.





Yelling,



Where's the Booze, it's flowing like mud around here.



Who-haaa

Frogpop 173,148 25
05/20/2005 05:19 AM

6 month update: Done with finals, two papers to go - one big, one small, both late.



Only 2 classes left for my major. I shall continue to draw them out for at least a full year.

Jajoba 1,357 10
05/20/2005 05:57 AM

I remember I was 25 when I started reading this thread. I'm 28 now.



But at 23, I figured I'd own my own business by 30, I'd be well studied by then and rich as rich can be. I'm 28 and am only starting to study further now. I live in someone's back yard and still work my little arse off to rebuild my boss's mansion-like lounge area.



Frost.

larkknot 3,359 10
05/20/2005 06:48 AM

At 15 I had no clue what I was going to do with the rest of my life... at almost 21 I have accomplished one of the goals of adulthood, that being homeownership. I have come to realize that my "college years" are going to be a lot longer than previously expected, due to the need for advanced degrees in order to get a job in my chosen field and the major cases of burnout and other sundry issues that cropped up during my first 2 years of college. I have cats, which are 3 year olds that NEVER GROW UP, only get lazier. I forgot what else we were supposed to talk about.

Tinker to Evers to Chickens 286,326 61
05/20/2005 07:25 AM

At 25 I did think that advancement would be a lot more automatic than it is. Took me a while to figure out that if you want to move up you have to do something about it. At 35 I figured there was only so much I would sacrifice for advancement. There are less talented guys in my field that out strip me some, but they pay a heavy family price for that.

Nathaniel T. Kittenstomp 124 9
05/20/2005 07:33 AM

I just hit 25; figured I'd sort of be somewhere by now, y'know, because it's a square number. I've gone through 5 or so career options so far, and now I'm a single semistarving actor in LA.



Heh. They all thought I was going to be an engineer.



All in all, though, I'm pretty happy with everything.

Tinker to Evers to Chickens 286,326 61
05/20/2005 07:38 AM

and now I'm a single semistarving actor in LA.



So you're a waiter?

Frogpop 173,148 25
05/20/2005 07:49 AM

Waiters get to eat leftovers.. he must be an "aspiring waiter".

Nathaniel T. Kittenstomp 124 9
05/20/2005 08:01 AM

I have managed to avoid waiting tables so far (Thank God. I hate service jobs), I'm supporting myself on stand-in work and the occasional background job.



You've probably seen me on TV, but you didn't care because I was just some guy walking across the street out of focus.

Nathaniel T. Kittenstomp 124 9
05/20/2005 08:03 AM

And there's that bit where I sell used socks and pictures of my feet to that German guy. Does that count as a service industry job?

Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub 57,521 23
05/20/2005 09:02 AM

I thought I had it all figured out from about age 8...went to university and then proceeded to drop out when I discovered it wasn't for me. I then tried the career thing which I'm still doing (I'm 29 now), although the whole corporate environment is pretty souless.



In the last couple of years though I've come to the following conclusions:



1. I have no desire for a house - It'd take too long being stuck in one place and I want to come and go as I please.

2. I have no desire to progenerate - There's too many Frost-ing people in the world as it is, we don't need more. I may adopt at some point in the future though.

3. I have no desire to work set hours or for someone else. - There's too much I want to do before I die/get stuck in jail/go postal and working just so that I can facilitate trying these things in my old age is not an option.



Therefore the current plan is to pa off my debts and open a bar in the next few months. I'll then work my ass off for about 5 years getting it an a couple of others to the stage where they can be managed and I can live off the income with minimal intervention. At this point I'll be able to try and acheive all of the goals that actually matter to me.



So I guess you could say my life's not where I thought it would be. It is, however, getting to where I want it to be now which is much more worthwhile than what I wanted it to be back then.

Erotic Kake 55,555 14
05/20/2005 09:30 AM

I figured I'd be dead by now, and am both surprised and disappointed I'm not.

Restless Raccoon 56,688 10
05/20/2005 10:45 AM

When I was young I thought I'd be a stay at home mom with a bunch of kids. Thank goodness I grew out of that phase and gave them all to some travelling Greeks so I could become who I am today.

newwave 45,912 10
05/20/2005 10:48 AM

There are less talented guys in my field that out strip me some, but they pay a heavy family price for that.



Wait, Chickens is a stripper?

Prof. Fantabulous 19,711 13
05/20/2005 11:03 AM

I once figured that at the age i am now (30) i would be well into my life as a pirate.



Things did not turn out the way i wanted. I don't even have a sword or a fancy hat.

Faggy McLisp 14,650 10
05/20/2005 11:22 AM

I'm 22 and have my life very together. There's no love life, really, but I'm pretty successful in my career and very certain it's what I want to do for the rest of my life.

newwave 45,912 10
05/20/2005 11:39 AM

I'll sell you a very motivational tape for a sizable percentage of those millions.

Trixxie 65,021 15
05/20/2005 11:43 AM

Do you know, where you're goint to?



Do you like the things that life is showing you? What are you going through? Do you Know?



Do you get, what you're hoping for? When you look behind you there's no open door. What are you hoping for? Do you know?

Trixxie 65,021 15
05/20/2005 11:46 AM

Once we were standing still in time

Chasing the fantasies

That filled our minds

You knew how I loved you

But my spirit was free

Laughing at the questions

That you once asked of me



Repeat 1



Now looking back at all we've planned

We let so many dreams

Just slip through our hands

Why must we wait so long

Before we'll see

How sad the answers

To those questions can be



Repeat 1



Repeat 2

Repeat 1 till fade

Big Irish Guy 203,956 21
05/20/2005 11:50 AM

I crashed and burned at my first chosen occupation. (Those people at Delta really have no sense of humor about these things.) So I start law school this fall.

Everything else is pretty much as I thought it would go, except my location. And the damn festering sores.

Trixxie 65,021 15
05/20/2005 11:53 AM

My first occupation was restaurant management, but I ended up managing an IHOP instead of a nice white tablecloth restaurant. Now I imagine I'll be a coastal resources scientist till I retire, or die.

Freeze Dried Instant Coffee 10,327 12
05/20/2005 01:50 PM

I figured I'd be married before 30. It's been 2 years so I called that one pretty well.



I thought I'd have kids by now, but after being around some who act like the anti-christ, I've had second thoughts and are therefore terrified.



I'm still in my first REAL job after college. I can't say that I'm happy here as the pay sucks, the insurance sucks more, and the patients like to bum cigarettes from you. But I do like and respect my boss because she knows her job and she isn't an asshat.



I anticipate returning to graduate school soon (I take the GRE in August). Eventually, I would like to become a Speech Pathologist but UGA is too far away from me at this point. I may settle for an MSW from the local college.



As a side note, I'd like to include that my BA degree is in English and comes from a Liberal Arts University; which means I was trained to say, "Wouldst thou liketh french fries with thine Big Mac?"

TableTopJane 173,958 15
05/20/2005 01:58 PM

Wow. I didn't think it was possible, but I actually used to be more annoying than I am now. Although I am going to have to steal this quote from myself for future use-



I've never quit anything in my life except for Chinese calligraphy, my Thesis 2, Kangaroo Anatomy, Toe Photography, Booger sculpture and masturbation. Well, maybe not masturbation but give me a break it's the only thing I'm good at.

Chris Garrett 86,932 12
05/20/2005 01:59 PM

FDIC, I love you.

WhyMe 276 10
05/20/2005 02:28 PM

This thread does nothing but remind me that I need to take my Lexapro. Thanks a lot.

Underwhere? 101,368 77
05/20/2005 02:44 PM

I'm 27 and I've always had a plan. During high school I majored in foreign language and journalism. I wanted to become a foreign coorespondent to a news station. I didn't care where - just far and away from my parents and their Shakespeare-can trailer.



I met my husband when I was 16 - I dated him because I felt sorry for him. After 3 days I dumped him and told the entire school he kissed like a frog. Two months later I gave him another chance and after that we were together all the time. We got married when I turned 18, but I decided we wouldn't have any kids because I wanted to go to college.



I graduated 3 years later with 2 Associate Degrees and since my husband still loved his mommy more than me, he convinced me not to try and find a job out of the states - or even out of town. So we rented a house 2 blocks away from his mother, and I went to work full-time as an executive secretary for a phone company.



Two years later I was tired of it and told my husband I wanted to start a family. After a lot of trying and a lot of tests, we found out he was shooting blanks and he was actually a he/she genetically. (Physically he's fine - he just can't make kids.)



So we decided to adopt older children. Now I have two terrific kids and I'm a full-time stay-at-home mom. My degrees don't do a damn thing for me, and I contribute nothing to the household. I volunteer a lot.



The plan now is to become a foster parent and possibly adopt a couple of more kids. That's at least a year away though. So in the meantime I plan to write a best-selling novel and then roll around in the cash naked. I'm doing very well too - so far, I've written 3 pages and I'm just wearing socks. Though one of the socks has a hole in it.

Freeze Dried Instant Coffee 10,327 12
05/20/2005 04:06 PM

I love you too, CG.



But this does not mean that I will lend you my underwear.

Chris Garrett 86,932 12
05/20/2005 04:21 PM

Lend, feh!!



Lend means you have to give it back sometime.

Itchy Gooch 439 9
05/20/2005 04:23 PM

I once figured that at the age i am now (30) i would be well into my life as a pirate.



Things did not turn out the way i wanted. I don't even have a sword or a fancy hat.



I think you are the funniest person in the internet.



Also, I am 20 and I don't have a clue what I'm going to do, all I know is I want to be in politics and I don't want to do anything to get there.

Mephistopheles 12 8
05/20/2005 04:30 PM

I remember back in high school I wanted to join the airforce. That was crushed shortly after by the fact that I live in Canada and we only fly 50 year old stuff, Now I'm a Electronics engineer, for a small company with great hours and a great family. What the hell was wrong with me in high school to actually want that stuff?

I Am Straw 97,833 37
05/21/2005 01:54 AM

I will be 32 tomorrow. Whoops, make that today. I've actually achieved the things I wanted. I graduated from a good college, got my CPA, had a pretty fascinating career for awhile. Got married, had a child, am a stay at home mom, and will start trying for our second and final child in the late summer. I even have a cat and a dog and live in suburbia. My house sucks, though.



If I had to do it all over again, my life would be completely different. I'll daydream about my brain going back in time and occupying my body as a teen so that I can implement all those differences. Of course, if that were to happen, I'd probably be sitting here right now, typing that I wish I had given my suburban housewife life a chance to blossom. The grass is greener, blah blah blah.



Growing up, I never considered suicide because the future was just too sweet a prospect to pass up. Even now, as disallusioned as I am, I can't help but hope that it will get better.



Of course, my immediate future (in about 5 hours) is that I will be driving out to Saint Louis with my best friend and our two daughters. I will be on-line sporadically and will miss all the zaniness here.



Yeah this is sappy, but its my birthday so Frost you all. And I mean that in the most lascivious way possible.

Frogpop 173,148 25
05/21/2005 01:59 AM

Hey Irish, where you going to law school?

Sylvester 4,465 9
05/21/2005 02:14 AM

Maybe you'll marry, hopefully you won't.

But if you do, one thing's for sure, you will be divorced, and broke, and homeless, etc. ETC.

Maybe you'll collapse in the rec room of the Brittle Hills Old Folks Home while attempting the Funky Chicken in your Depends.

Sylvester 4,465 9
05/21/2005 02:27 AM

<action<getting serious now</action>



I still haven't fulfilled my dream of becoming a serious writer. I've sold a lot of comedy material to a few comedians, and that's just about all I've gotten money for to date.

millie 116,984 28
05/21/2005 12:54 PM

This thread is still too depressing for me to think about.



At least my new position's title has the ring of a semi-career position: "kitchen designer". Even though it's basically a glorified retail clerk position. Well, I get to sit down on the job, so that's nice.



Eh, I've gotten past the point of giving a Shakespeare when people ask what I do and I tell them I work at Home Depot. I try to remind myself that I'm one of those people who doesn't define herself by her job.



I never had a job I loved, except the five years I was able to work for myself as an interior painter and artisan. Can't afford to do that anymore.



This post sucks!



Sorry.

I am Jack's Butt Hair 6,902 12
05/21/2005 01:01 PM

I browsed through most of this thread and read some posts. I am almost 20 and now want to kill myself. By next February, I will be a certified mechanic and that right now is my goal and I will do it. I have always said that by the time I am 25 I want to be finacially stable and not living paycheck to paycheck. Now I see that there is probably no hope for that. THANKS

Punkin. I've been here before, thanks. 3,585 11
05/22/2005 12:47 AM

Ahhh, looking back...





I'll be 26 in June. I graduated from the nursing program last Thursday. The following Sunday I broke things permanantly off with the PsychoticLoser I was living with/semi-engaged to. On the spur of the moment Wednesday, a girlfriend and I went to the nearest town of 100,000+ people, found a SUPERSWEET house to rent, and I think the hospital where I did my internship is going to hire me next week.



Not the plan, but but it'll work. And hey-- at least I don't have kids. I'd rather have leprosy than a baby.

IntergalacticGlorious Daggy 86,684 14
05/22/2005 02:58 AM

I'm just wandering through life and oooh a puppy!

firelizard 1,191 12
05/22/2005 09:22 AM

didn't have a plan, after school did an OND in Graphic Design, got married, got office job, separated/divorced at 27, went to Uni to do computing and have ended up as a computer programmer. Suffered over the years with depression. Life hasn't turned out the way I thought it might. Its probably worse than I thought it would be and lonely at 42.

Dogs Akimbo 211,379 32
05/22/2005 11:32 AM

I still don't have a pony.

Mrs. McHaggis for one whole year on 3/11 101,368 77
03/02/2007 02:57 PM

Ho-ly Shakespeare. My life is still the same, even though I've gotten divorced and remarried since I last posted in this thread.

I think the worst part is that I am wearing socks right now, and one of them has a hole in it.

And I'll be 30 this year and still not have accomplished anything. Huzzah.

Phuc 237,915 21
03/02/2007 03:05 PM

I'm pretty much at where I was. One more kid, a few more pounds, 2.7 more enemies, and my penis is now over 6" (erect), thank god, because of the miracle of dong quai (I tape it to the end of my dong).

I love my job and I am one of the top experts in my field in the US and while I don't make, like, Hargrave money, I make enough to afford the occasional upgrade to "with cheese."

syncope's willing to die for a toenail 49,019 14
03/02/2007 03:07 PM

When I went to college it was only a formality on my way to becoming a globe-trotting reporter for a major newspaper.

Then I got my head spun around and decided I would work in radio. Then it was Anthropology. Then I was going to be an English teacher. Eventually I settled on Advertising.

The stuff I do is more Marketing/PR stuff. I've designed some rinky dink ads for brochures and things, but not much. And now I do mostly HR stuff.

But I'm moving to California this month and I'm sure everything will fall right into place.

Pigmata 54,807 10
03/02/2007 03:15 PM

I was 24 when this thread was started and didn't post which kind of bums me out. It would be neat now to read what I would have written considering how miserably unhappy I was with life at that time.

I changed my plans on life so many times that it's hard to say what I really wanted to be when I "grew up". I'm happy with my life today though and that's all that matters. I have a husband & daughter I love, and the oppertunity to be a stay at home mom if I want to. We are moving to a state I can't say I ever wanted to live in, but I'm excited for the change and the oppertunity.

All in all I think I just wanted to be happy by the time I was 25 and once I got the Emerson out of my life I was.

GAchick 312 6
03/02/2007 03:16 PM

Well, soon I hope to be accepting a new job and moving to Camp Lejune. So, yeah, if that happens my life's goal will have been reached. Me and 50,000 men.....I mean with odds like that... Group sex in my room!

Straw+ 97,833 37
03/02/2007 03:19 PM

Well, the suburban housewife thing didn't work out after all. I'm back to working - the same auditing job I had before I quit to have a child. I'm separated and I share custody of my little girl. Though things are very hard at times, I am happier than I was when I made that post almost 2 yrs ago.

I did have a good time in St. Louis.

syncope's willing to die for a toenail 49,019 14
03/02/2007 03:33 PM

<action>curses the missed opportunity.</action>I did have a good time in St. Louis.

Chix - 07 in 07 286,326 61
03/02/2007 03:35 PM

My life just gets better every day.

*whistles as a bluebird lands on shoulder*

Chix - 07 in 07 286,326 61
03/02/2007 03:38 PM

<action> frowns as the Froster takes a poop on my suit and flys away

Daves not here. 52,827 16
03/02/2007 03:41 PM

I started college as a Justice and Law Enforcement Major and had a 4.0 my freshman year. Then I realized it really wasn't what I wanted to do and transfered schools as an English major with the goal of becoming a writer.

Then I had a kid when I was 21 and still in college working as a chef part time. I switched to full time work as a body piercing artist and part time college.

2 years after I got my degree in English I married my son's mother, bought a book on PC repair and faked my way into my first tech job as a field service tech.

8 months later I started my divorce and a new job as a network admin.

18 months after that we settled on shared custody with equal time but I had to agree to relocate to Mississippi where my ex was originally from. I found a position north of New Orleans as Support Manager for a small software company.

2 years ago I briefly took a position as department manager for a litigation support company. Liked the work, hated the company.

Went back to the old job but as IT manager at 25% higher salary. Still there, and becoming certified as a SQL DBA as well because that's what our new software needs.

Still working on that book...

CrazyFemale (aka the n00b with b00bs) 77,143 25
03/02/2007 03:42 PM

At 33, my life is nothing like I dreamed it would be back when I actually had a life. There are 3 things that I swore never to become or do in life:
1) I would never be a stay at home mom (I am, and have to say it fits me)
2) I would never drive a minivan (I do, and love it)
3) I would never become my mother (This is the hardest to admit to, but when I hear myself saying "Because I said so!" to my kids, I sound just like her)
Well, life is a kick in the ass, but it beats being dead anyday.

syncope's willing to die for a toenail 49,019 14
03/02/2007 03:44 PM

If you're gonna put "boobs" right there in your name, you are required to SUYT.

Lloyd Lloves Llamps 48,662 14
03/02/2007 03:54 PM

Since my last update in this thread, I graduated from business school and have had and quit two jobs. Still as indecisive and confused as ever.

CrazyFemale (aka the n00b with b00bs) 77,143 25
03/02/2007 04:00 PM

If you're gonna put "boobs" right there in your name, you are required to SUYT.
No problem. When I am old and gray they will probably scrape the ground when I walk, so you can catch a peek then.

Stone Cold Bikini 62,262 18
03/02/2007 04:02 PM

I don't think I posted in this thread, but right now my life is what I thought it would be when I graduated from university.

I work at a well-established art gallery, which is better than I ever thought possible, even if I'm paid Shakespeare and barely more than a personal assistant.

I live in England, which I've always wanted to do.

I'm financially independent.

The only problem: I haven't actually gotten a university degree yet and I know this is all too good to last. I'll probably back in Canada living with my mum, working at Tim Hortons, and playing RPG's all day when I'm 25.

Smokatronic 2,388 9
03/02/2007 04:17 PM

Sometimes I wish I could just drop everything and play RPG's all day at mom's. She does live in a mental facility so it would be interesting at least.

Nachos - It's always the quiet ones. 57,521 23
03/02/2007 05:07 PM

I believed I had it all worked out by the time I was 25.

I still believe that.

The thing that I worked out was that, in the grand scheme of things, life serves no ultimate purpose (even if you believe that we were created to serve God, you have to acknowledge that any being that is not created for a specific purpose is basically pointless and if were created to serve something that is pointless then we inherit that quality).

Therefore anything that happens in my life, while possibly satisfying on a personal level, has no real meaning in the ultimate scheme of things. Anything that I don't acheive also has no real effect on anything and therefore it's not worth worrying about if it doesn't happen.

It's one of the reasons I'm laid back about pretty much everything.

Sharri 14,124 11
03/02/2007 05:21 PM

At 18, I had my life planned: get married at 22, have my first child by 25 and enjoy life with Mr. Wonderful. End Scene.

It realistically looks more like this: I am 26. I am not married, not do I have any chlidren or prospects on the horizon. I just enlisted full time in the military, I leave in a few months. I am happy to have a change of pace and would love to live outside the US, although I will probably get stuck in South Dakota. Surprisingly, I am not disappointed by the way things have turned out.

Robin® 14,626 9
03/02/2007 05:22 PM

My goal from the time I was 12 was to work in a laboratory and help cure cancer. Went to college for it too. Got into the real world, liked the job. Got bored and hated the politics involved. Worked at NASA got bored. Decided that lab work waouldn't keep me occupied. I never imagined marrying SR, though I'm glad I did, I just hoped to marry someone. I also imagined having at least one kid by now. That's harded to accomplish than I thought.

My goal for 30 is to have at least 2 kids and my business up and running.

Nachos - It's always the quiet ones. 57,521 23
03/02/2007 05:24 PM

I managed to miss out on the whole 'biological imperative' thing.

It's as much a blessing for you as it is for me.

The Rockin' Donkey 77,546 17
03/02/2007 05:25 PM

Stop taking it up the ass and you'll have a kid in no time.

Nachos - It's always the quiet ones. 57,521 23
03/02/2007 05:25 PM

But it's so much fun!