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What really is your DREAM JOB, your PASSION in life? And are you anywhere close to achieving it?
Mine has always been politics, I promised not to bring it onto this community though and I'll keep that promise so I shan't go into it, but let's say it wasn't as fun of a ride as I thought it was when I actually got my foot in the door. I chose the wrong path, the wrong friends, and certainly the wrong Party, and I found out that behind closed doors it wasn't all wind ups and banter. It was bitter, cold and destroys your character from the inside out, and the backstabbing is RIFE, false rumours soon turn to cold hard facts in the eyes of the press and.. let's say I wish I had waited a few more years before I jumped into it, I'm not too proud to say I wasn't ready. I'm naturally intelligent and intellectual, but I had no training whatsoever to deal with what was put on my shoulders and apart from heated debates in pubs; chat rooms and forums I had no political background whatsoever.
I'm on a hiatus for the time being, as I gather my thoughts, rekindle my life philosophies and doing some proper soul-searching to decide what I actually believe in, my real life character has been tarred so deeply with various wind-up characters that I no longer know where my true beliefs start and my various personas' beliefs end! But after going to college to do political science and actually get down on paper a clear and concise manifesto of my true beliefs that I can sit back and say “Yes, THAT is the real me!” I plan to go back into it, starting from a Parish council level upwards this time rather than being dumped in the deep end and left to run a whole branch and a youth wing.
I can't really say I have a passion for anything else. I love technology, I love the internet, I love communities, but I've lost my passion for community building, I have one currently in development but I work on it for a few hours, get bored, and don't go back to it for days – sometimes weeks, whereas a couple of years ago I was eagerly getting up page after page after page within hours. I can't see myself doing much else in life, there's nothing that really takes my fancy.
Wow, now that's a big one. Does anyone truly know what they want to do with their lives? I remember hearing someone say that the reason 'grown-ups' are always asking kids what they want to be when they're older is because they're looking for ideas and inspiration themselves!
When I was a kid, my dream was to be a Concorde pilot. Originally I wanted to be a double decker bus driver! These days, I am quite happy working from home. Traveling has always been a huge passion of mine, as is connecting people and championing a cause; I guess that's what gave birth to Insomnia Land.
A great discussion idea, Tommy. Hopefully some other members will chime in, too.
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'Martin' wrote on '04:Wow, now that's a big one. Does anyone truly know what they want to do with their lives? I remember hearing someone say that the reason 'grown-ups' are always asking kids what they want to be when they're older is because they're looking for ideas and inspiration themselves!
When I was a kid, my dream was to be a Concorde pilot. Originally I wanted to be a double decker bus driver! These days, I am quite happy working from home. Traveling has always been a huge passion of mine, as is connecting people and championing a cause; I guess that's what gave birth to Insomnia Land.
A great discussion idea, Tommy. Hopefully some other members will chime in, too.
You know, that could quite possibly be true regarding asking children what they want to be! I can see that being true!
When I was a younger I wanted to be a pub landlord, but that option just isn't viable in a global economic recession, ESPECIALLY in this country where landlords are over-taxed; forced to pay too much rent; where pub patrons are oppressed by an interfering state (you can't do this in pubs, you can't do that in pubs, you've done it for 600 years but ohh no you can't do it now because we say so) to the point that nobody even bothers going to pubs any more. Over 40 pubs a day are closing everyday now, so it'd just be financial suicide to buy one.
One thing I've never really done is travel. I think I've left this country twice in my entire life. Growing up and maturing a bit and shaking off my fear of what goes on beyond these little borders has made me embrace the idea of travelling more and seeing the world, that's something I'd like to do someday. Just travel to loads of different countries on different continents.
This is an awesome discussion idea!! I have been giving this a lot of thought recently!
I always wanted to be a primary school teacher when I was growing up! Loved teaching people how to do something themselves instead of giving them the answers. All the way through school I got top grades. Would like to say I studied hard like you are supposed to but I never studied hard for anything in my life! I was very lucky to have been blessed with a clever brain!
When I was 18 I got rejected from uni to train to be a teacher. I felt like a complete failure and just plodded along in the job I had through school and then moved on to work in a bank, hated the sales side of that though and my manager started to pick on me because of it. I felt like I was back at school! So I decided to give the teaching thing another go. I applied for Psychology course at uni as I knew this could lead to teaching. I was accepted and could not have been happier!
1st year went well and I got top grades again. It was awesome! Decided to move out of home and live in same town as uni. Had an epic summer and, just as uni was about to start again, I collapsed. Turns out I have MS! Felt like a total failure but kept going. Taught myself to walk again and got myself back to living in my flat.
I have learnt a LOT about my body in the last 5 years but have also learnt a LOT in my life academically and just never realised it. Instead of dreaming of big things like I used to, I now just have the ambition not to end up in a wheelchair and make it to old age in one piece!
I would like to write a book about my life but it will take me a while, my body now dictates to my head how much I can actually do in a day!!
For someone who is scared of heights, I have a mad pasion for aviation! When I was younger I would often go out to the airport, sit on the open verandah watching the planes comeing and going and pulling up to the gate, breathing the wonderful smell of Avgas (yes, I still love it nowadays too). I would watch the planes and think what it would be like to travel overseas to foreign lands, with different money, languages, cultures and just about everything else that I knew of here at home in Sydney. I never wanted to be a pilot – I wanted to be a flight attendant or air steward as they were called in those days! I had a go at it applying for the position after leaving school but there was major dramas in the world of air travel back then in Australia with airlines going bust, pilots striking etc. I got rejected!! Oh well, what next? I considered a career in teaching but never applied to go to university. I worked in a factory as a labourer doing sheet metal work for air conditioning. I did this for about 15 months or so but quickly realised it was not for me. I decided to join the police force and I have been there ever since – 22 years ago!! I love my job – it's just unfortunate with the terrible incidents we have to get ourselves in and investigate!! Don't see myself doing anything else with no other formal qualifications. I am in the middle management level of the organisation now and enjoy working with younger officers. I also assist the education office with presenting at lectures and training days so the teaching aspect of previous ambitions has been able to be achieved.
I am in the thick of thinking about this issue right now. I graduated from law school in 1992, thought it would be a good thing to do to make a decent salary. I hadn't been getting very far in the journalism arena. When I got out of law school I was 33 years old. I have been pretty miserable ever since. I ended up specializing in a very limited field that very few firms do. Last year, after being at the same job for 8 years and somewhat bored with it, this partner at a big firm who I had worked with many years ago at another firm made me an offer to come work with him and some other refugees from that firm that I liked. I then went to work for this monstously large law firm, and the work that he had turned out to be almost menial compared to what I had been doing, I'm working on very small files that are hard to bill so I'm not making my billable hours, and I'm getting washed out. Now I'm 53 and I'm trying to figure out — what do I REALLY want to be doing? But I'm at this stupid job 12 hours a day (between the time I leave home and the time I come back), and I don't have the time or the luxury to really investigate it. I've been starting to look around elsewhere in the time that I have but it's hard. Luckily I do have some savings so we will be able to continue paying the mortgage for awhile if I end up jobless. We'll see!
I want to write an awesome Star Wars-like series. The kind where a re-release gets parents excited, reminisce about the first time they encountered it and want to show their children.
The writing part is quite straight forward. I'm a bit stuck on the making it 'awesome' 😮
I really don't know what I want to do with my life. I'm a computer geek so maybe I could go back to college and go into IT or something. I'm 27 and physically disabled due to obesity that is caused by PCOS (Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome), I can't walk much due to severe lower back pain. I was a little better when I was going to the chiropractor regularly but since I quit I've gotten worse again. So I need to find a job where I can work from home.
I used to want to be a veterinarian when I was a kid. I doubt I could do it now. The whole standing/walking issue prevents it. I live at home with my parents since I can't work for a living. I'm trying to get SSDI for my obesity and my mental illnesses which are quite severe but controlled on medicine. So I have lots of things preventing me from living life fully. Plus the insomnia would keep me from working standard jobs (8-5 work hours).
'Tommy wrote:You know, that could quite possibly be true regarding asking children what they want to be! I can see that being true!
When I was a younger I wanted to be a pub landlord, but that option just isn't viable in a global economic recession, ESPECIALLY in this country where landlords are over-taxed; forced to pay too much rent; where pub patrons are oppressed by an interfering state (you can't do this in pubs, you can't do that in pubs, you've done it for 600 years but ohh no you can't do it now because we say so) to the point that nobody even bothers going to pubs any more. Over 40 pubs a day are closing everyday now, so it'd just be financial suicide to buy one.
One thing I've never really done is travel. I think I've left this country twice in my entire life. Growing up and maturing a bit and shaking off my fear of what goes on beyond these little borders has made me embrace the idea of travelling more and seeing the world, that's something I'd like to do someday. Just travel to loads of different countries on different continents.
Ha, reading back on this. I actually got my dream of being a pub landlord – and hated it! Stressful, not half as fun as you'd think it'd be, and balancing the books is just about impossible.
The pub was busy enough and happy enough. I actually ran it the same way I would an online community strangely enough, strange how you can take learned skills and apply them elsewhere huh?
But the expenditure just exceeded the revenue. Brewery wanted to put us on a 40% cap instead of the 20% cap we were on (and even at the 20% cap customers complained it was too expensive, I warned the brewery!) but of course, they shoved us on it.. the pub closed. Just couldn't afford to run it, even after a busy Saturday night, threw people out at 3-4 AM finally, counted the takings, didn't even cover half of the week's expenditure.
So now back to my original question. What do I REALLY want to do with my life? Back to the drawing back, new dream coming soon!
I am really getting into this home brewing malarkey. Wouldn't mind having my own nano brewery one day.
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I would really like to start a career in graphic design. It's a perfect job for me, because I love art (but I stink at drawing, painting, etc.), and I love computers.
There's always abstract art, or sculptural art – have you given either of those a go?
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