It's Finally Over!
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Congratulations! You have achieved something special, something only 92 percent of Americans your age will ever know: a college diploma. That?s right, with your college diploma you now have a crushing advantage over 8 percent of the workforce. I'm talking about dropout losers like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg.
After high school, I went straight into an Electronics Engineering evening trade school... and tried to pay for it by working a full time day job for an automotive dealership. Four years later, I joined the Army in a state of financial desperation, with little to show for giving up all of my free time and most of my sleep from ages 18 to 22... except for a little bit of tasty debt. Paid that off pretty quickly, though.
So... I'm a little bit sour towards "higher education". I now prefer the Good Will Hunting route.
So... I'm a little bit sour towards "higher education". I now prefer the Good Will Hunting route.
Well after my High school exams (A levels) I just have a lazy overload. I spend my entire summer playing my games all day long, going out to the cinema and taking driving lesson. However thanks to my lazyness I turn down a summer job so there gowa a possible Work Experience in my CV (I just wanted to have a fun summer). Good to know that your not making the same mistake as me.
I was thrilled to say the least. I finished my college career almost two years ago. My college was horrible, so I'm glad it's over. It was not the campus I thought it was in the beginning. I haven't found my career job yet (still working retail), but I have an interview with a local city police department, so here's to hoping something good comes out of it!
I worked after High School full time, bounced around a little bit, landed in office work at a small electrical supply business and the ladies there and friends of mine convinced me to go on to college. I had to wait until I was legally financially separate from my parents, because they would not assist me in getting federal aid to attend college by disclosing their financial information to me in the application process. Now I'm an adult student, engaged, living in my future-in-laws basement and hoping I can finish school before my government stops funding higher education with a butt-load of debt. Huzzah.
After I graduate I plan to go job hunting and building my portfolio get some job experiance maybe write a comic and try and get it published then maybe open up my own multimedia company. Either that or take a year out and make a game for the xbox arcade and ps store then move onto the previous plan.
Just finished High School this year.
Planning on doing two years of my Basic education at a community College, then I'm going to transfer to Northern Arizona University and thinking about pursuing a career as a Paramedic. If things go as planned and I'm still feeling up to it, I might try my luck in the Military as a Field Medic.
Luckily, my parents are here to support me financially. Gotta love em.
Planning on doing two years of my Basic education at a community College, then I'm going to transfer to Northern Arizona University and thinking about pursuing a career as a Paramedic. If things go as planned and I'm still feeling up to it, I might try my luck in the Military as a Field Medic.
Luckily, my parents are here to support me financially. Gotta love em.
I left dad's about 3 days after highschool finished. I moved to NSW (about 5 days slid drive from my family) and lived and worked with my (at the time) GF's parents. I couldn't deal with living with them, it was such a shock living with different rules and expectations that within a month I caught a bus home and got my old job back for the rest of the year (a month).
I then moved to the closest capital city (Brisbane) and hopped between familiy member's houses until I found a place to rent and I studied externally while working full time (Was on like $7.00 an hour which is shit in Aus, so part time was not an option) My marks were shocking, and I went through a quick succession of casual jobs which never lasted long (one was comission based and I earned less than a dollar an hour, one was waiting tables and the place closed, another was just a christmas job, it died down after the holidays and all the casuals got cut).
I broke up with my gf and moved back in with my dad and tried to get my old job back, I ended up as a night manager (yay).
My dad moved when he got a different job so I moved in with a co-worker, she soon became my girlfriend. She quit her job due to an argument with our boss and I got sacked about 3 months later, we reassessed our lives and I decided full time work sucks and that I wanted to go back to uni (which had always been the plan but I went from $7/hour to $25/hour and loved the cash, so worked longer than initially intended)
We drove across the country so that I could go to, what is arguably the best uni in aus for education (which is part of my dual degree), as we had family over here too. One I finish this degree I'll do post grad for 4 years, and we are still weighing the pro's and con's of military life after that.
So yeah.
I then moved to the closest capital city (Brisbane) and hopped between familiy member's houses until I found a place to rent and I studied externally while working full time (Was on like $7.00 an hour which is shit in Aus, so part time was not an option) My marks were shocking, and I went through a quick succession of casual jobs which never lasted long (one was comission based and I earned less than a dollar an hour, one was waiting tables and the place closed, another was just a christmas job, it died down after the holidays and all the casuals got cut).
I broke up with my gf and moved back in with my dad and tried to get my old job back, I ended up as a night manager (yay).
My dad moved when he got a different job so I moved in with a co-worker, she soon became my girlfriend. She quit her job due to an argument with our boss and I got sacked about 3 months later, we reassessed our lives and I decided full time work sucks and that I wanted to go back to uni (which had always been the plan but I went from $7/hour to $25/hour and loved the cash, so worked longer than initially intended)
We drove across the country so that I could go to, what is arguably the best uni in aus for education (which is part of my dual degree), as we had family over here too. One I finish this degree I'll do post grad for 4 years, and we are still weighing the pro's and con's of military life after that.
So yeah.
During my internship (I think that's the correct term) my mentor got called out of his vacation and then I knew that once I would start at my first real job, free time would be scarce. So after I graduated, I asked my parents whether they'd mind if I would take a couple of months off before looking for a job and they didn't mind. It gave me time to spend with my sick father, for one and other things that needed to be done. After which I started looking for and finding my first job.
It's been nine years since I graduated and I'm glad I was able to do that back then. I think it's important that you can really lose yourself in your job, finding challenges and all. Getting a degree over here won't make you rich, but it will enable you to make a decent living doing something you like. But never forget the golden rule: work to live, don't live to work
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It's been nine years since I graduated and I'm glad I was able to do that back then. I think it's important that you can really lose yourself in your job, finding challenges and all. Getting a degree over here won't make you rich, but it will enable you to make a decent living doing something you like. But never forget the golden rule: work to live, don't live to work
.Graduated from high school, and the whole process and ceremony was as tedious as I imagined. Now I'm going to college, about to start up my sophomore year. I'm working towards an English degree, which I'm aware probably won't pay well, but my college has a great employer outreach program and 90% of students have a job within 6 months of graduating.
Í'm not sure what an undergrad is, but my secondary education ended this summer. Thankfully i had after much blood, sweat and tears managed to secure a part-time job at a warehouse. I was satisfied to be done with it.
Granted i will probably study more in the future, but i will work a few years first because fuck studying. I hate it.
Granted i will probably study more in the future, but i will work a few years first because fuck studying. I hate it.
This was me a month ago, still dont have a job despite my uni having one of the highest post grad employment rates in the country.Fappy said:
How did I cope? Id tell you but my memory of the weeks immediately following are a touch hazy.
EDIT= GJ on finishing, hope your classification was a good one!
...man... Diablo.
The first one.
Once I got out of high school I played it sunup to sundown for nearly two solid years. I didn't realize it consumed my life so badly, and my parents didn't really seem to care. One day, I logged into Sorceror's Tower with my lvl 50, Merlin_The_Wise, joking about how I'd get in a couple of Laz runs today...
...and without any outside force, no nagging, no suggestions, I just sorta snapped. I asked myself the big question.
"What am I doing with my life?"
While I did not go cold turkey, I did prioritize. Took about a month, but I got a job at a call center, and actually began working, living, enjoying myself on a level that all the Laz runs in Sanctuary couldn't satisfy. I feel for people who enter games like Diablo, World of Warcraft, or for a roomie of mine, Neverwinter Nights Persistent Worlding, and have real trouble putting the game down.
Addiction is serious business, regardless of the drug or distraction of choice.
Sorry for the downer, party people.
The first one.
Once I got out of high school I played it sunup to sundown for nearly two solid years. I didn't realize it consumed my life so badly, and my parents didn't really seem to care. One day, I logged into Sorceror's Tower with my lvl 50, Merlin_The_Wise, joking about how I'd get in a couple of Laz runs today...
...and without any outside force, no nagging, no suggestions, I just sorta snapped. I asked myself the big question.
"What am I doing with my life?"
While I did not go cold turkey, I did prioritize. Took about a month, but I got a job at a call center, and actually began working, living, enjoying myself on a level that all the Laz runs in Sanctuary couldn't satisfy. I feel for people who enter games like Diablo, World of Warcraft, or for a roomie of mine, Neverwinter Nights Persistent Worlding, and have real trouble putting the game down.
Addiction is serious business, regardless of the drug or distraction of choice.
Sorry for the downer, party people.
congrats! I can imagine how scary it must be for you.
what did I do?
I signed up for CC (because I decided I wasn't going to college because I had nothing I wanted to do then a month before school ended and a semester of Advanced Drama I decided to become an actor) I applied to every job opening I could find. School started in Feb. I had a job interview lined up I was a shoe in (honestly it wasn't even an interview they just wanted to make sure I was legal) my dad was going to buy me a car...but then my mom forced me to go to Guatemala because her "dad" was sick and we needed to see him before he died.
The old coot is in the best shape of his life.
I had to spend 3 months over there. I lost my job, the place I got the interview hired someone else and no longer needs me, my dad didn't get me a car and I have to wait until winter to go to school.
For the past five months since coming back from Guatemala I haven't found a job (not even an interview) I can't start school
but I have been playing A LOT of games, getting better at art and drastically changed my life style or the better--so it hasn't been all bad.
what did I do?
I signed up for CC (because I decided I wasn't going to college because I had nothing I wanted to do then a month before school ended and a semester of Advanced Drama I decided to become an actor) I applied to every job opening I could find. School started in Feb. I had a job interview lined up I was a shoe in (honestly it wasn't even an interview they just wanted to make sure I was legal) my dad was going to buy me a car...but then my mom forced me to go to Guatemala because her "dad" was sick and we needed to see him before he died.
The old coot is in the best shape of his life.
I had to spend 3 months over there. I lost my job, the place I got the interview hired someone else and no longer needs me, my dad didn't get me a car and I have to wait until winter to go to school.
For the past five months since coming back from Guatemala I haven't found a job (not even an interview) I can't start school
but I have been playing A LOT of games, getting better at art and drastically changed my life style or the better--so it hasn't been all bad.
I've heard the whole thing before from buddies who brought themselves back from alcoholism; you've got to want the change yourself, no one can make the choice for you, so on and so forth. But it really is true. Balance in all things, and you'll find you can still enjoy without going overboard.Togs said:
Good luck in your struggles, chummer.
