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[Nichi]

Sounds like what I constantly deal with when somebody asks me about collage; they keep nagging about how I must go regardless of not knowing what I want to do just yet (After all, I don't want to rush in and then find myself with a degree that is of no use for whatever I decide I want to do)

Although it's light with my grandma (She's only obsessed over collage because of my uncle; who can't stay out of collage for more than a month before he's going back to study something else), it's worse with my coworkers; most trying to get me to make a decision right then and there, will often try to convince me to get a student loan since I can't afford to go (They don't realize that a loan has to be paid back; my mom knows people who went in the late '70s using a loan, who are still paying off said loan to this day), and one person had the balls to say to my face "You'll never amount to anything in life if you don't go" (Surprisingly, it wasn't my boss who said that. As much as I hate him, I'll give him credit for not sinking down that far).

[Chocofreak13]

lol, you're in the exact opposite boat of me. i've known what i wanted to do since i was five. but, having nowhere to go and no license as a teenager, i never got a job. now, i'm 19 with no job experience, in a town that has too many people and not enough jobs. it almost makes me wish i had gone for a summer semester like my friend, just so i'd either be too busy or too productive for them to complain about.

also, you're already amounting to something. i thought you were in college when you described your job; it sounds like something to be proud of. anyone who says you're not going to amount to anything should meet one of my teachers; he was in his 30 - 40's when he suddenly decided he wanted to work with artists, and went from a corporate job to being an art teacher. :3

[Nichi]

i thought you were in college when you described your job; it sounds like something to be proud of.

As I've said to one of my friends, who works at Game-X-Change (A small chain of video game stores that carries almost everything from Atari to PS3), "Cleaning IV poles and bedside commodes is a shitty job, but someone's got to do it"  (Although, if I could get into a full time position, I'd take it in a heartbeat; putting me one step closer to completing my master plan...)

Although, after working at the hospital for a year, I'm sure that whatever I do won't be too far into the medical field (Learning how to fix the equipment I already clean would be as far as I'd consider going; I don't think I'd want to be a nurse, paramedic, or anything of that sort)
Although I'd consider being a doctor if they gave me a TARDIS and a real sonic screwdriver

[stewartsage]

I think the Doctor is a Ph.D. or D. Letters if anything.

First exam conquered, three two page essays on various reasons the Nazis suck in under an hour.  Now I get to sleep in tomorrow before seeing if I can fit the rest of my possessions into a 2003 Dodge Stratus because my parent's can't come to help me.

[Nichi]

@stew: I think you can pull if off; after all, I crammed a large amount of my sister's stuff into a subcompact car (An '89 Omni, to be exact) with just enough room left for me, and it was still surprisingly comfortable inside. I miss that car; for a subcompact, it felt bigger on the inside...

[Chocofreak13]

@stew: think of it like a game of tetris.
and if all else fails, remember, you can always strap it to the roof

[zjhentohlauedy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkGaGBrS7_k

i can't stop... fangasming. fangasm level over the limits... ;___;

[NejinOniwa]

Wait a fucking second here...

YUKI KAJIURA DOES THE MUSIC?

I'm fucking IN.

[Pitkin]

Sounds like what I constantly deal with when somebody asks me about collage; they keep nagging about how I must go regardless of not knowing what I want to do just yet (After all, I don't want to rush in and then find myself with a degree that is of no use for whatever I decide I want to do)

Although it's light with my grandma (She's only obsessed over collage because of my uncle; who can't stay out of collage for more than a month before he's going back to study something else), it's worse with my coworkers; most trying to get me to make a decision right then and there, will often try to convince me to get a student loan since I can't afford to go (They don't realize that a loan has to be paid back; my mom knows people who went in the late '70s using a loan, who are still paying off said loan to this day), and one person had the balls to say to my face "You'll never amount to anything in life if you don't go" (Surprisingly, it wasn't my boss who said that. As much as I hate him, I'll give him credit for not sinking down that far).

I'm sorry to hear people're giving you that, Pentium. Rushing to college just for the sake of it isn't really smart, and to say that someone doesn't amount to anything in life without university degree is just rubbish. I did go to university right after graduation from high school, and while it was fun, I don't think it added anything (with hindsight): I've got a degree in economics sure, but I also realised that the field my parents wanted me to work in is full of morons and that I'd absolutely hate doing the same they did. I'd say for me the field I chose at uni / the uni in general was more or less a mistake. Who knows what kind of job I'll land in in France, but I can guarantee it's closer to hotel receptionist than the management. And it's fine like that.

[Nichi]

That, and the money taken up by collage would slow me down from moving out of my parents' house; which is my main goal after the master plan is complete. Of course, some of those same people try to convince me to become a freeloader and live with my parents longer, so I can go to collage; which just isn't my style at all.

[zjhentohlauedy]

Wait a fucking second here...

YUKI KAJIURA DOES THE MUSIC?

I'm fucking IN.

Typemoon X nitroplus X ufotable X Yuki Kajiura.. There is like no element here that would spoil the broth D:

[Paul]

As much as I love Star Ocean 4 I could sometimes murder the level designers...
Just found out that I was to weak for the end-boss, so I had to run back the whole way for some leveling. And that running back took 1.5 HOURS!!!

[Chocofreak13]

1.5 hours? pfft. it took me 150 hours to get where i am on disgaea, and i'm still not strong enough. >__<

@pentium, pitkin: even with clear direction in life, i'm harassed because i'm not ready to bring in money. this is one of the only places where i can relax. everywhere else (home, grandparents, sometimes school) the underlying property of all interactions is money. :[

[Bella]

I'm sorry to hear people're giving you that, Pentium. Rushing to college just for the sake of it isn't really smart, and to say that someone doesn't amount to anything in life without university degree is just rubbish.

Agreed, Pitkin. It's sad (and frustrating) that society often says otherwise - and demands that EVERYBODY, no matter their skills or aptitudes, get a higher education and warns them that they'll end up poor and doomed to live an unfulfilling life if they don't. I don't know... sometimes it feels like people have become so wrapped up in their specific fields of education that they never bother to develop any practical skills - or worse, any common sense - and that this is why modern society is as screwed up as it is.

I'm quite guilty of being brainwashed into this mindset, though - my main desire to go to college is to not come off as some stupid, uneducated woman. : / If I were I man, I wouldn't feel the same sense of urgency about it. (Not that I really feel a sense of temporal urgency - I'm taking my sweet time until I can figure how I can study what I'm interested in.) I feel like, by getting a degree, I'll be able to say "Ha! I've done my part society, I've proven my worth, now leave me the hell alone!" and retreat into a quiet, semi-feral life of doing whatever the fuck I want... or something. -w-;;

[Chocofreak13]

@bells: you can be educated without a college education. Just read alot, ask alot of questions, and study classic art. -w- (nothing makes you sounds smarter than discussing the importance of Manet and artists like him in advancing the notion of what art is.)

EDIT: btw guys...