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I'm 21, newlywed, and am finishing my undergrad in December. I decided, quite recently, that I want to be a pastor, but I know that's gonna have to wait. The m-r-s and I have a bunch of debt that we're paying off in the business world. But whenever God sends me to seminary, I'll go.
Hope that helps :-p
BTW, when I was 17, I didn't even want to think about where I was going to college, nonetheless what to do with my life.
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Well, we all would, but if we weren't working we'd have to be hunter-gatherers, and hunter-gatherer isn't a profession conducive to hobbies other than cave-painting.
And stick-sharpening.
I mean, if you consider that a hobby, and you're a hunter-gatherer, then you've hit the jackpot in the useful hobby sweepstakes.
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31 or 32, I finally figured out that I want to write. I had a career in accounting then. Now, I write. Unfortunately, the pay ain't so good yet.
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23 years old, just graduated from college with a mechanical engineering degree, and I realized I have this piece of paper and NO CLUE what I want to DO with it!
My senior year of high school, I wanted to be a veterinarian, like several others here. I interned in a vet clinic, took extra biology courses, blah blah blah. Got to college. Freshman year was fine...sophomore year felt like running into a brick wall, and a whole bunch of things conspired to tell me that it was Not Meant To Be. Personal problems led to my first failed class ever (organic chemistry), and I HATED comparative vertebrate anatomy. In retrospect, lots of people fail O-chem the first time through, and I hated the anatomy class on account of too much latin that all sounded the same for me- not the best reason to change, and some small part of me regrets it- but I needed to make a lot of changes to get myself back on track mentally and emotionally. New apartment, new major, new boyfriend.
I think I can partially blame BannaOJ's boyfriend for influencing my decision to go engineering. *grin* I like math okay, I like physics, and I like practical problems...and Steve told me that I'd never see Chemistry again if I did it. Sounded great, but you know what?! IT CAME BACK in some of my senior-level courses! Not O-chem, or anything hard, but I never wanted to see ANY of it. Grrr! (Okay, I'm really not mad at him. It was easy Chemistry. XD I just needed to complain.)
I actually rather enjoyed most the classes I took, but I came out feeling like I knew less than I did when I went in. Now I need to find a job (with no experience), and that'll be the test of whether or not I made the right decision.
If not...then I guess it'll be time to make myself illustrate that children's book I keep talking about doing someday.
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Heard of it? I've dreamed of visiting there ever since I first learned of it. It would be like the ultimate in self-sufficiency. I've read everything I can find on the community. However, they no longer allow travel there because of the dangerous conditions of that country.
Yeah, I know I am kind of an oxymoron all by myself: conservative, religious Republican, with a streak of hippie -- wishing I could turn my own farm into a self-sufficient commune of some sort to shut out the rest of the world's problems...
quote:For a while there, neither of them could afford to change jobs, because they couldn't get something else that paid as well as the jobs they hated. (One friend is in grad school now, the other in a more fun job.)
It is a mistake to be under the impresssion that the pay you recieve from a job is the amount of salary they give you. Often times a job with a lower salary actually pays more - although trouble can arise when bills must be paid, because happiness is not the most liquid of assets.
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Oddly, it can even "pay more" in terms of money despite a lower salary, after cost of living considerations (particularly when viewed in the long term).
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Farmgirl -- yeah, I'm hoping to visit Gaviotas someday too! It's on my wish list of things to do... if you ever hear of travel conditions getting better, let me know!
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Tresopax, please forgive my "mistake" of using a term in its generally accepted definition instead of specifying "that paid as well in a strictly monetary and financial sense as opposed to feelings of self-worth, euphoria, or the satisfaction of a job well done" Sheesh.
Edit: Because apart from the quibble about one word, what you're saying is exactly the point of my earlier post.
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