What Are We Doing With Our Lives

[Exalted]

You know recently i had my Exams and some are still left after this i want to go university to try and become a doctor but i have seen so many people in in my life who know that they are gonna study but are not sure what they will do after it is done. Now i think about it even for myself i have my studies my career planned but what about the rest of my life it exists but sometimes i overshadow that fact for my personal life.At the same time i come here on reborn chat with friends and there is that but it me got curious for all the other people here and how they plan their life do you plan a career about family both or something else ahead in the future if at all so my question to all of you:

What are you Guys doing with your lives and what do you intend to do about it in the future and are you happy or satisfied about it?

I really would love to hear each persons opinion about this as everyone lives a different life by circumstances or by choice and have different mindsets.

[Zumi]

For me, I'm currently working on the last block of this year and hopefully get through it without stressing too much about it, but I think I'll be fine considering my teacher actually said that I may already have enough material to work from in terms of character design, so I'll probably be fine!

As for the future though, I most likely want to end up doing character design and/or character animation, since those seem the most appealing to me. I have no plans to head for a huge company though since I'd prefer to work from home (so I'll most likely end up as a freelance artist or working at a smaller company in the Netherlands somewhere) due to that I'm really attached to my hometown. I want to make a living out of the things I love doing the most!

Relationship wise... I don't really know where I'm heading with that. Some people already know about that I have a crush on one of my friends irl, but I'm not really sure if that's going to end up actually becoming a thing. There's just... A few things that make it hard for me to confess. HAVING FEELINGS SUCKS, MAN

Overall, things have been fairly stressful lately, but I'm still hanging on and things will probably get better once summer arrives and I'll be free from school, so I'm just going with the flow and try to make the most of it!

[Skeleton]

im trying to pass this year of college after lots and lots of shit and planning stuff to get my boyfriend over here from the us? hopefully gonna have a lot of first times with my dude, see: first kiss

i hope i can just finish these 4 years of college and either go to another school on hbo level or become a graphic designer/digital artist with a cool ass patreon?? eventually move to the US and live somewhere chill with my boyfriend (maybe get married but he told me he doesnt give a fuck ;_ and also get a pet snake hopefully a yellow ball python and ill name him banana man

[Spineblade]

There's something oddly nice about being in school. I think it's the fact that I don't have to worry about what I'm going to be doing the next day, or the next week, or even the next year, because it's sort of planned out for me. I have another two years of school left, after which I'm going to have to decide what I want to study for university. That is one of the most daunting decisions I'm going to have to make; I know I want to go into computing in some way, shape or form, but I really don't know what to specialise in. I could try a general degree like computer science, but I feel that it might be too general to help me along in getting a job. I could go down a more creative route, like learning web design or video game development, but I don't have any practise with those kinds of things yet and you really need a good portfolio to land a good job in those industries.

I'm struggling to figure out what direction I want to head, but the fact that I have at least a year before I really need to start making decisions helps calm me down a bit. Hopefully this time next year I'll be a bit more sure of myself.

[GotWala]

Hmm, I wouldn't terribly mind putting forth my ambitions and aspirations for you all, haha.

Currently, I'm fulfilling my contract to the US Navy in order to earn a "second chance" at the life I had previously squandered using the various benefits and payments the government has to offer someone like me. I have no real passion for my current work, although I try not to let it hold me down and/or hold me back from making fond memories with the interesting people from different walks of life I meet in the service. But I digress, this is going to be my means to an end that will be the equivalent of a 6 year "purgatory" in order to rejoin the rest of society again, haha.

As for after this part of my life, I'm not entirely sure what path I would choose when I begin again. I initially desired to be a school teacher and was extremely passionate about that profession since I was in elementary school, but I've since grown more dissatisfied with my own feelings towards such a job. I'm finding more and more lately that I've been changing a quite a lot, and whether for better or for worse, I feel like I don't necessarily "deserve" to guide the next generation. While some might say my experience in falling to the bottom and climbing my way back up could be "inspiring", it's hardened me since my teen years and made me less patient and loving... The lack of those characteristics makes not a good teacher, haha.

I have two options I've been juggling for a while now, one being a bit more realistic than the other. The realistic path would be to go into investigative work (I.E. the FBI) and attempt to change the world for the better. I've been told I have somewhat of a knack for inquiry and investigation, so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say I might be good at such a job. As for the more fantastic option, I would attempt learning about Biotechnology or genetic therapy. If I could grasp the concepts of such advanced sciences, I might be able to ride the next wave of technological and human evolution. Needless to say, if I succeeded at truly revolutionizing the field, the world would most certainly change quite a bit! If such an event were to occur, I'd like to create a "think tank" of equally (if not far more) skilled individuals to form a foundation with the goal of bettering humanity. One can only dream, haha.

As for relationships, I've been working towards being more reliable to speak to amongst my family members since I've started down my current path. I was always neglectful of family and giving them the time of day always seemed to slip my mind... However, I've come to realize how important the people we form bonds with can be and have since attempted to keep them informed as much as possible. As for anything more intimate, I've given it some thought for some time now, and I think I might be more open towards the idea. During high school, I had a penchant for... "Apathetic Polygamy". Like a true disenfranchised youth, I had no faith in a real, loving relationship between children, which made me do many things to the feelings of others I'm not very proud of today. However, things have changed for me dramatically in that respect, and I've sworn never to do such terrible things to someone's heart ever again. So all in all, I would definitely treat a relationship with a lot more respect now, but I'm worried about my general self-absorbed aloofness getting in the way, haha.

Ahh, it's always oddly refreshing to speak about these types of things! That, or I just thoroughly enjoy talking about myself far too much, haha!

[Combat]

I've just completed my third year of college, though I may or may not have another two years as I've only just declared to be an English major. As much as I love writing, I'm still trying to put my eggs in a basket. This summer is entirely up in the air for me, but ideally, I might be able to land a job at a local library (just not the one my mom used to work at.) I might have a job waiting for me at a linen cleaning factory, but I'd rather kiss a goat than go back there again. I worked there last summer, and it was hell.

Basically, when someone asks me what I'm going to do in the future, it always ends up sounding like this.

[Dhanush D Bhatt]

That's a good question! Really nice to see what everyone has planned for themselves.

I used to have a dream of becoming an astronaut. Space was all I would talk about, I had a ton of books about space and whatnot. But then it struck me that I needed perfect vision to become one (which I lacked) and there was this one incident with an elder who said that I wouldn't be an astronaut in the future (kinda lame but yeah) and I was dissuaded from becoming an astronaut. But then I settled for the next best thing, astronomer. And then as time went by, my interest in space broadened to an interest in science in general and now I'm aspiring to be a researcher. But that's a long time away.

Currently, I'm just looking to finish my degree in Engineering Physics. It's quite stressful as it is but I'm able to cope with it. After that, I'm looking to do a Masters in either Engineering or Physics, a step towards my path to becoming a researcher. I'm not yet decided on whether or not to do a PhD, mainly cause I'm still yet unsure about whether or not I want to be a researcher.

Relationships wise, I'm lost but I really don't care about it. I'm not looking to get into one any time soon.

I'm not really good with long-term planning and so far, I've just been winging my way through, going on external inputs and my own impulses. But then again, that was for the earlier part of my life which wouldn't really account for much. So I guess I'll have to do some serious planning now.

Apart from all that, I'm just chilling yo :] Trying to get as many skills I deem useful along the way and trying to have as much fun as I can

[YoshiofRedemption]

I just completed my first year of college last Thursday, and I'm being forced by my parents to find a summer job even though I already worked during the stressful school year and wanted to take the summer off.

I'm currently thinking of majoring in Business in college, but I don't know if it's what I really want to do. I haven't even had a Business class yet, but thanks to the mandatory Macroeconomics, it just feels so boring and uninteresting. I initially entered college wanting to major in Spanish, but that sorta fell apart when I realized I don't know what to do with it. I may switch majors again though.

After that, who knows? I don't know where destiny will take me, or what I want to do, or what my purpose in life is. It doesn't help that I prefer to interact with as few people as possible in an ever-growing social and interconnected world, and I will HAVE to deal with people. I don't know what I want to do with my life, although the only thing I do know is that I don't want to end up working in a restaurant/cafeteria/entry level job the rest of my life or end up as a stay at home mom. If I can help it, neither of those possibilities will happen.

Relationship wise? I'll be lucky if I can get a decent single guy's interest at all. Seems like every guy I like nowadays is either in a relationship or not interested in something more than a friendship.

I'm sorry if it seems like I'm whining. I wanted to put something positive here, but I'd just be lying to everyone who reads this. Maybe I'll find something that gives me a sense of purpose later on in life...

[Felicity]

Going Uni.

Gonna write books.

[Pyon Pyon Kyuu!~]

I'm in my first year of a professional course, basically Uni but different. I'm studying sound and music. I also work at an Indie game company, we just recently released our first game on the google play store. I also do odd jobs in sound, I record bands that need a few songs recorded at professional quality but don't have the money for it, sometimes I'll help as a stage hand or stage technician at concerts. I play bass in a band called ONICA, although we are kind of stopped for now.

My dream is simply to be happy. Playing music and working in the music industry makes me happy, so I'll probably end up somewhere there. Hopefully also getting to work on video games as a sound designer.

As far as grills go, I've been searching far and wide but I've been having some poor luck with love in the last few years. But oh well, I'm in no rush. One day I'd like to get married and have a daughter. As morbid as it sounds, I'd like to die before my 50s. Live a full life, and never have to go through the awfulness of old age.

[Ironbound]

I'm in my second year of college, studying economics, commerce and trade. I'm also in the second stage of my professional accountancy course, in my effort to be a Chartered Accountant and a tax consultant.

I'm satisfied with my progress, if only the gripe of time didn't plague me so. In future, I aim to join the Civil Services of my country and further aim to complete a master's in banking and finance. In the distant future, I am also considering study for a doctorate, probably in economics.

As for a love life, I'm not that kind of a man to care for passions. We have enough responsibilities and better things to do.

[ZEL]

I started my second uni semester this year, and am trying my best to keep up and not overburden myself as much as during the first.

I never even believed I would be able to come this far in life - somehow, with all the issues of the past years, I had no confidence that I'd ever get accepted, let alone getting accepted into the uni of my choice!

I went through a lot of changes last year. Besides getting into uni, I also moved into a little apartment of my own, three hours away from my old home. It makes me feel better, having this place to myself. A lot of my daily stress has evaporated now that I don't find my personal space invaded any more, and I find doing my chores to be so much easier when nobody is constantly bitching about them.

I will soon have my first anniversary with my boyfriend as well. It feels almost odd to think that it has only been a year, because I feel like I've known him for so much longer.

With my studies inevitably taking me abroad within the next three years, I'm hoping that I will be able to visit him at his home in the US.

Speaking of those studies: I am on my way to become a teacher, just like I had hoped I could. My subjects are English and Geography, but I also have distant plans of studying German some years down the road.

There is the faint idea of leaving Germany to move to the US, should my relationship stay as happy as it is. Truth be told, I would much rather stay in Germany, but I do respect that it will be much easier for me to get used to living in the US, than it would be for my partner to move to a country whose language he can't understand.

I would enjoy having a family some day.

My mental health is improving a lot, now that I'm in a better environment. It feels very nice not to be so hopeless any more.

Edited May 21, 2016 by Ama

[Jelly]

just finished my first year of university. got an internship this summer for a cyber security firm. neat shit i guess.

[mar_mar]

Well..I'm finishing my third year in university. I'm studying to be a primary school teacher. I want to do something with child psychology though, so, I'm going maybe for a second degree in psychology. Psychology intrigues me very much. As for my personal life..I broke up recently with my (now ex) boyfriend. We were for 16 months together but we had our issues and I felt like I lost myself in this relationship. I was angry, sad and tired all the time. We are on somewhat friendly terms now because we actually got to discuss that decision of mine. And after that..I started feeling calm and confident again..actually more confident than ever. But it isn't always like this. There are some times that certain things bug me but it'll pass (I hope). As for the future, I want to have kids and a family of my own but I want to be financially independent and emotionally ready, so, maybe in like 7 to 10 years..who knows..I have many dreams..recently I found out that I'd like to travel for a while, in some point in my life. I won't talk about my dreams now because as I said they are many. That's from me I guess.

[AuthorReborn]

I'm in the process of finishing up high school. Once I do, I will go onto college and study hard to become a lawyer, since I recently realized that this would be one of the best applications of my talents that would still allow me to work on my dream of changing this world for the better. There is a lot of power in those who control and make the laws and quite frankly they have done a pretty rotten job here in America, as Big Money and Special Interest Groups have slowly taken over more and more of the government, which rightfully ought to belong to the people. I don't want this monstrosity of corruption to get any worse than it already is and so, as stupid and naive aa it seems, I want to use whatever abilities I may have to fight for a worthy cause.

At the moment though, I am stuck in high school, but next year (that'll be my last year in high school) I'll be taking some online college courses to get a head start.

[Guest]

Nearly recovered from a foot injury that's set me back a number of months. Otherwise, not much right now - mostly just focusing on the smaller but still important things, like finding my head after a terrible 2015 and what I want to do in life. Also, socializing.

Going to get my driver's license soon, followed by taking the SAT, followed by a job, save enough money for a car and then after we move in 2 years - maybe sooner - I can finally focus on blowing money on college (with financial aid/scholarship/etc., of course) - possibly something to do as a psychologist or something to do with computers.

Relationship wise, I'm still rattled after my previous attempt blew up spectacularly, but considerably less so to the point I'm able to move by it now. There are a number of interesting developments in this field lately, so maybe something will pan out. I don't think I'm ready for a relationship right now though, but I'm sure I'll recover from that feeling soon.

[Plok]

As a kid I never knew what I wanted to be when I grow up. I was interested into a lot of things but my favorite thing was sports - mainly handball. But sadly I had to gave up on sports because of medical reasons. I've decided what I want to do when I was in high school in a period of time where I had a lot of time to think about life and stuff. Anyway now I'm a second year in college, studying computing and I'm planning to specialise in software engineering

[mde2001]

I'm in high school and intending on going to uni and becoming an English, History and Politics teacher.

Lots of people don't think that that is worthwhile, and say that I'm wasting my marks by trying to get into courses and a profession where I need nowhere near as good a marks as I have, but I'm sick of the stereotype that teachers don't need to be intelligent, and everyone that is smart should go be a doctor or lawyer just because they are high paying and hard to get into.

[Lilleen]

I've been so unsure of what my future will become of. I've always had this feeling of not being good at anything as well as I've felt that I could never live up to my siblings great carriers.

There is also that I am a creative person. I love to write stories: create original characters and worlds. For such a long time, I thought I would become an author and while I do still want to become one, I've come to realize it is a gamble. A gamble I do not dare take.

So now, I've decided to become a librarian and write beside the job. That way, I won't worry about only surviving through my writing skills.

[Lugruf]

I've just finished the first year of my career in real time interactive simulation programming, so the next three years of my life will go to finish college. After that, I have no idea what I'm going to do. I've talked with classmates about making our own video game studio, but I could as well end up working for the AAA industry somewhere (Canada or the US maybe), or work in serious simulations for medicine, firefighters, earthquake prevention... I do know that wherever I work, I would like to be an engine programmer rather than a gameplay programmer. I find the technical side of programming much more interesting than the design part.

Edited May 21, 2016 by Lugruf

[Caz]

I'm gonna be a McDonalds manager to pay the food bills for my family of 21 while they grind to #1 in every smogon tier.

[Cobalt996]

Going through college for Computer Science major, plausibly a minor in Stats. I have ideas on what to do with it, but I cannot act on them for a semester or two yet, and I have no clue how the market will change in that time.

Long future: I never think further than a year. My mind cannot create a stable future plan past that point due to the sheer enormity of variables, so all plans end up becoming this collapsed lump.

Relationships: I have the peculiar condition of being completely incapable of feeling certain emotions, among them any form of love ("true" or "infatuation"). Because of this, I pay no mind to how I could be perceived as showing either (see: me around my brother), which can lead to... awkward situations (see: lmao parents wtf). Needless to say, long/life-term, close relationships do not mix well with me.

Edit: You are the paragon of what every child should aspire to be, Caz.

Edited May 21, 2016 by Cobalt996

[Ice Cream Sand Witch]

I can't do school or jobs. My body, mind, emotions, etc. all stopped developing as a kid. That's fine with me, though. I can't really imagine what it's like not having very much free time and barely even getting enough sleep because of always either typing a 20 page paper, working for 8-9 hours straight, etc. I know people do that because the end result is worth it for them or they love what they do, but to me that would just be painful and exhausting on every level no matter how much I liked what I was doing. I write short stories and do various other creative stuff, sometimes I help with acting scenes, and right now I'm working on my fangame. Also I travel 2-3 times a year.

[Jmanultrax1]

I have no idea on what the future holds. I've been the kind of person who doesn't think about it and doesn't worry about it until its time. right now I'm in college for system security. It is completely boring and the only time I enjoy being at school is for my game dev class, soccer team, vg club. I have no idea what I'll be doing in the future, but it will be on something I enjoy as to what that is what I would prefer. As for right now on what Im doing I have 3 sketches of characters to do (1 is almost done) Im starting to think about creating a fangame. I just need to download pokemon essentials and rpg maker. I already have a title written down.

Edited May 22, 2016 by Jmanultrax1

[Samalet]

There's something oddly nice about being in school. I think it's the fact that I don't have to worry about what I'm going to be doing the next day, or the next week, or even the next year, because it's sort of planned out for me. I have another two years of school left, after which I'm going to have to decide what I want to study for university.

^^^^^^ T_T Oh god, I don't want to be an adult with responsibilities yet. The last 4 years of school were just so easy, I could sit around all day, do whatever I want, fool around and still get top grades.

Maybe I should just become a neet and leech of the states social wellfare.