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As far as your career primarily, as well as just your overall plan in terms of what you want to accomplish or have done or have been; what do you plan to do with your life?
I ask for several reasons, probably foremost of which being inspiration or insight to consider for my own life. And yes, I know where I am posting this, but some honest answers would be appreciated. :p
I honestly think you should refrain from using the internet as a means to find life altering inspiration.
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Or at least TNL.Quote:
Originally Posted by Revoltor
Anyway, as for myself I want to be one of the best Electrical Engineers in the biz. I want to have an understanding of electronics that spans the past 100 years both historically and in application.
I'd also like to learn to play guitar and help put out an album or two. Getting back into drawling would be cool too.
When I'm fifty I want to get into politics and annoy the shit out of the extreme left and right.
I have no fucking idea.
I wanna ROCK!
IP can rock the Tesla coil.Quote:
Originally Posted by IronPlant
Maybe. I'll probably make a jacob's ladder first. I hear powerful ones can fuck shit up.Quote:
Originally Posted by kedawa
Fool!
Do not underestimate the power of the resonating transformer!
Pretty much sums up what everyone wants to do, really.Quote:
Originally Posted by kedawa
Well with the job I'm working on right now, there's profit sharing potential to have me set for the rest of my life and allow me to retire at 25. So that would be a nice way to go (Granted if it does happen I may become a teacher).
If that falls through which I'm sure it will, I wanna go work at Sherwin Williams, which supposedly treats their IT employees very well. Most likely I'll be doing coding for some company or another.
Make a comfortable living as an artist.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Good luck with that!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bacon McShig
I want to win the lottery.
Barring that, it looks like I'll finish school and code at a shitty desk job the rest of my life.
I have two plans in life:
Plan 1: I am in college right now to become a writer. I have a major in Communications and a minor in English. I'd like to write for newspapers for the rest of my life as well as write books. Probably either some sci-fi books or pro-socialism books. Either one will make me happy. Hell, I'd probably write about anything at all.
Plan 2: Guitarist. I love playing music. It's something that I've grown to love in college, which is where I picked up a guitar for the first time. In 2 and a half years, I've gotten way better then when I first picked it up. I know I still need to improve but it seems like a road I would love to travel down in life.
Either way, one of these will happen. I will be happy as hell if either one actually comes true.
My life had very little direction after high school. It's tough to see your goals at that age. Now, though, I have a skill set that grows daily and I work for the hottest company around. So, I plan to spend several years in my current position, learn as much as possible, then train new hires the way I was trained. Ater that, I want to head back to school for a pertinent degree that will move me into upper management/employee relations. It's not going to be easy, obviously, but it's my goal.
I want to visit a few places now that I have the freedom to do so: Italy, to see my family there; Australia, for no real reason other than curiosity; China/Taiwan, because I've always been interested in China; and New Zealand, since it looks so beautiful there.
As far as money goes, I plan on maxing out my 401k contributions, saving privately, sticking with some long-term growth stocks, and then retiring somewhere nice. I hope to use any possible SS checks as grocery money.
Do drugs until my liver explodes and I die.
I downloaded Audacity yesterday and bought a shitty mic, so maybe I'll leave some demos behind as my legacy.
lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Bacon McShig
Yea, drawing is fun, I like doing teh art too.
I got fired from my job at Target a few hours ago. Horseplay. They canned me because I was doing donuts in the deserted area of the parking lot to Song 2 during the 15 minute break. It was 6:00 in the morning, NO ONE is there. Rules are rules, though, I guess. Their official reason for terminating my ass is 'horseplay', which is a great deal better than some other things to get fired for, like 'theft', or 'lying', or 'insubordination'... or hey, it's leagues better than 'aggrivated assault'. That was the first job I've ever been fired from, by the way.
Also, I have no idea what I want to do for a career. For the longest, I wanted to be both a programmer and an artist for videogames, but with the way the industry is now, I wouldn't wanna do that. Biggest concern is the bullshit in the industry today. Biggest fear would be creating characters/worlds I really love, then seeing them stripped from me. No way.
I was going to college for a law degree, though truth be told, I've only recently become interested in law as a career field. The last eminent domain supreme court case has really struck a nerve with me. I'm disgusted that something like this has happened, and want to be able to do what I can to prevent it from happening again, maybe even reversing it. Last semester I made a 2.7, though, and I was told that if I didn't have a 3.25, my funds are cut off. I got the FAFSA in on the 26th of June, but I won't find out what the school is giving me until 6 weeks from now (when school will be back in session). I'm probably going to have to take a private loan out, then hope that I get a decent amount of cash from the government (my EFC is in the 1200 range).
I too am learing the guitar, and have improved. Right now I'm in GA, and I think it's high time, now that I've no more obligations to Target, to head back to the VA.
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Originally Posted by Bacon McShig
doodling is fun :nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kidnemo
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My only plan so far is that I want to get into owning franchise restaurants, and maybe move at some point. Cool major Raz0r.
I was a rockstar for a bit, currently I am homeless and selling musical equipment for gas money. I also sling drugs, if anyone in Maryland is looking for anything you just let me know.
To make things even better I got in a car accident and totaled my Scion a few days ago. Now I drive my grandmothers Cadillac.
It is the pimpest ride available... but it gets 7 miles to the gallon. Also: it only has a tape deck, and im not enough of an emo kid to listen to analog tape.
Update: If anyone in Maryland wants to shoot me in the face with a rocket launcher let me know.
I'll do whatever I can find.
...and hopefully get one of those "girlfriend" things in the process.
My plan with this life is to spam this board as much as possible.
Currently going to college at UTPA for Computer Science with a minor of Art.was very interested in Programming till I had a sorry ass Professor last semester who almost made me hate programming. I'll continue doing it though I dunno if I'm really going to enjoy it. Art is something I always love so their is no problem there.
I have my dreams of writing/directing movies. I already have alot of things written and I have me a Camra now to do a documentary on a few things. I also have a side dream of wanting to be an actor, well see how that goes.
I current work like a dog at Interstate Batteries 3 days a week part time.
Well guess that sums it up for me.
My main goal in life to was to be successful on my own terms. I've accomplished that will a college education and have a job with security and great potential. I have a woman in my life that means the world to me and I just recently proposed over the weekend. Life is tough at all the wrong times, but if you truly believe in yourself and potential everything you want is there for the taking.
"I've accomplished that will a college education and have a job with security and great potential."
what you say
My top priority is to get into Carnegie Mellon's Master of Entertainment Technology program. I really want a Master's Degree, and ETC offers an awesome curriculum. Whether I'll work in the video game industry after I get my degree will depend on how my experience with it goes while I'm getting the degree. If I like the industry, I'll work in it for several years before I start my own development company near New York City.
Right now, I'm in the process of building a kick-ass portfolio by taking some courses at Pratt Manhattan. I already took two animation courses and am current taking a comic book course. I won't apply until I feel I'm good and ready, which will most likely be for the 2007-2008 term (the application for that will be due in January 2007). In the meantime, I'm saving up for the move to Pittsburgh if I get accepted.
I plan to start the additions to my home and have another baby. I'd also like to do my doctorate degree someday. For now, I'm content to write and teach, and help my wife raise our baby girl.
I doesn't get much better than that. :)
I have pretty much accomplished everything I set out to do career-wise (and I'm 11!), and now I just want to use the fruits of my labor to get married and have kids.
I plan on teaching music for awhile before going back to school to get a masters in conducting or music education, not sure which. I'll probably just get a few summers in and try to squeeze the degree out lwhile continuing to teach.
Who knows.
Someday the wife and I want to move to Seattle so she can work at the corporate office (and pay for my little teaching hobby). Then it's back to Texas to have kids and get old.
Oh and I want to get a Corvette someday. And a dog. And a pony. And a barbie princess house with the extra pink guest bed and swimming pool set.
What did you set out to do?Quote:
Originally Posted by Master
Anyway, this thread has been more successful than I figured it would be. :)
Thats because TNLers like to talk about themselves.
we do too, dont we.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
right now i want to move up at the group-home i work at now,get a gig as a full time counselor, maybe go back for my masters in psychology since by then the job will pay for me to return to school, finally return to active martial arts training and get my 3rd dan(and my second as well), and eventually finally get back on track and enter the seminary. have to build up some contacts again,since the disocese has shifted all the priests that were backing me out to hecks half acre to run multple parishes simultaneously. unsurprisingly seeing their current state, im giving serious thought to entering the ordered clergy, thus avoiding having to run a parish and dealing with the less enjoyable aspects of clergy(i.e., obnoxious gossipy ladies who want to run the church over your head, and constant reappointments to new churches beofre you buildup a relationship with your parish, and generally becoming a manager rather than a priest)
I want my metal-band to succeed and live in near-poverty for the rest of my life, while going on 7 month tours every 2 years. While it may not be very likely it would definately be cool.
If that doesn't go through I'll probably be starting this new job soon, starting at a minumum of $715 a week which is more then double what I'm making now. It's definately a good start for a (soon to be) 19 year old. I'll be making 60k+ a year within the next 5-10 years which isn't a whole shitload of money but it's certainly enough to live on, especially with the built in retirement plan.
I may go back into the Marine Corps as well, I'm not too gung-ho on the political situation in this country but somebodies gotta help the people in the countries we're invading, right? Because the government certainly isn't doing much of that.
$5000+ per month?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gohron
Yeah, I'm sure you'll find a way to survive.
$60k really isn't even that much in this area of Texas, where the cost of living is really small. $5000 a month down to $3750 after taxes (assuming claim of 0). Minus a decent house gets you to $2550. Minus a car payment $2200. Minus car insurance $2100. Minus bills, groceries, gas, etc... $1300. Put some cash in your 401k, do your average amount of dining out, maybe buy a game or two, a movie or two, etc. You'd be surprised how fast that $1300 will go down to $300-500 a month. This isn't even counting emergencies, house repairs, and all that other miscellaneous stuff. God help you if you have student loans.
Of course, you can live much cheaper than this. It all just depends on what quality of life you're used to.
I want to design/produce rad video games some day.
Making a movie later this year. My friend got his camera a week or so ago.
Also working on music shit all the time.
Hopefully one of these pays off.
I hope to get paid for my drawings (hopefully in the form of a comic career, which will never happen), write a few books, drop my drug habit, get really into shape, and die in my prime.
I already detailed my current career path in the Video and Editing help thread located in the Galleria forum, but there's more than just what pertains to broadcast design with my new employer.
Basically, I have a plan for myself, and had it since I was sixteen years old. So far I've worked hard and stuck to the path and everything is coming in to place better than I had planned. I've always wanted to be a videogame designer, as every member of this forum under twenty five has had at one time or another in their lives (the most common dream I've come across is people wanting to help the creation of a new Final Fantasy, story and character development wise). I knew that someone like myself wouldn't be able to become a game designer simply by pitching ideas I thought worked better than the current ones out there on the market, so I did some research.
To get a fair shake down you have to have experience, and to have experience you have to either know coding, be a BA of arts or be good at animation. I was an amazing programmer in high school, but I was also very good at still life and art. I didn't want to spend my life looking at numbers and letters so I chose to go the artistic route. My friend, Gibbits, chose to become a programmer. How's that working out for you Gibbits? Anyway, so knowing my goal I researched how to get in to a good animation school, and if there were any worth going to in Ontario. There are two. Seneca, who's work recently won an Oscar for best animated short film (I believe). Here's a link to an article regarding their coo. http://www.yorkregion.com/yr/yrlive/...-3326858c.html
A more known college around here is Sheridan College, a college that gets scouted by all of the big name companies. Electronic Arts, Industrial Light and Magic, Disney, and Pixar all actively employed students from here at one point or another. With a list like that scouting them once upon a time, I chose this college to help me pursue my goals (and remember, schools only help you get what you want, they don't get it for you. This is a mistake a lot of my colleagues didn't get and the reason they're not unemployed).
In order to even be considered entry in to Sheridan's one, two or three year curriculums you have to have 3 years experience in an arts program. Graphic Design fit the bill, and because it was an actual commercial industry (almost literally commercial) I could always fall back on it if I failed at life and didn't complete my goals. So far this hasn't happened, yay. I finished high school a year early, because I knew the dual courses I'd be taking would be long enough as it was. So I've just completed my 3 year graphic design course and landed myself a good job at an animation house downtown. I didn't plan on getting relevent experience in the field I want to be in this early in the game, but it worked out. It's commercial, and 2D animation, but it teaches me the technical aspect I'll need to overcome in order to be able to really, truly complete my goals creatively. I'm currently learning Adobe After Effects, Final Cut Pro and Macromedia Flash (which I know already). Once I know this I'll be employed full time down town in the heart of Toronto.
The commercial (Vonage phone company) I helped do production work on is airing on the food network up here in Canada, and the CD I designed with 3am for a hip hop group called The Killaz is in stores everywhere now. Apparently its circulation is Canada, The U.S., Europe and Tokyo. This is the biggest project anybody in my class has worked on thus far, and I'm told one of the biggest, if not the biggest, that a graduate of Durham worked on during a co-op placement (internship, unpaid). I didn't expect to become a good designer, i just expected to be decent. I guess I lucked out here as well. Not a lot of things in life are lucky, so I count my blessings.
I've started drawing a lot more, to brush up on my skills which have become rusty. I picked up Hogarth's anatomy, figure drawing and clothing instructional books to help speed me back to form. I will need this if I hope to become a great animator (3D and otherwise) someday. I don't want to be Jerry the animator cranking out shitty hair tweening frames. I'm going to take pride in my work whether it's hair or clothing or anatomy. The only problem I'm facing now is the money problem. These schools cost over 8,000 dollars a year, not including anything else, to enter. This is a lot of coin, and I don't come from a multimillion dollar family that can afford tuition. I've had to pay my entire tuition from start to finish (Including the graphic design course). So I'm going to work at the animation house, gaining relevent experience in the animation field, for 2 years while I save up $40,000 dollar to cover tuition and much more (books and transportation too). This is my seed money for the entire 3 year course. I will also be working summers at this place to make ends meat for the year, too.
Last summer I worked in a shitty, dumpy factory that printed boxes (pop cartons and stuff). I am still living off of the money I made working there and I haven't worked for the ENTIRE YEAR. I've been unemployed or out of work for an entire year and I'm still financially able. I still can't look at a box of pop cartons without recalling my long 12 hour nights (7 pm to 7 am) working. But I'm glad I did it and would do it again. "The guys" there didn't think me and the new students would last a month. They respected me when I not only didn't quit, but actually became a useful press worker they didn't want to leave (the workers complained about me and my coworker Brent leaving at a safety meet).
So far so good. I'm not done yet, so they say, I'm not out of the water. My objective isn't to be rich. I don't care if I have a ferrari or a three story house. I want to have a good job, and be happy and good at what I do in an industry I've fallen in love with. I've also discovered myself become more involved with film. I know and have met several directors (one well gained one with active employement in the industry), and everything I do is involving film in some way so I may end up working for ILM in the future.
I'm on the road now, and I've got the car. I just have to see if I have enough money for gas to get there.
I plan from here, video game wise, is to get a good demo reel and get employed by a small video game developer, learn game design and get myself noticed. Once noticed I'll show them how much potential my ideas are and hopefully get a game greenlit, even if it's just a small DS game or even a cell phone one. I'm still unsure of whether or not I want to do games or film, but with 3D animation, modelling, texturing and visual effects under my belt I'll be able to option both during my career. Sheridan college or Seneca college is the key now.
I want to hunt down Owls made out of watermelon and slay them.
I respect your career choice.Quote:
Originally Posted by jonas
Darn tootin'
Right now, I'm looking to go into nursing or medical technologies, the sort of radiology assisting and such forth. It's a really secure field, and I would have a guaranteed placement since my father works for the Cleveland Clinic. They could even help me with college, a little bit (thousand or two a year). If I get one point higher on the ACT test, I can get a full ride to a nice college very close to Ohio's Medical School and do nursing programs through the college at lower prices. The program has a nice set up for the RN test and very high placement, with about 45k a year for graduates and higher later on. I think I want to go into family practice nursing, since it's very general. Becoming a nurse practitioner is my more ambitious plan, since they make a lot more and have a bit more freedom.
College looks shitty right now. Can't afford it, and nailing that full ride is going to be a total bitch. I refuse to take out a loan, since student loans are what crippled both my parents (we're still paying that shit off. med school is expensive ;_; )and I don't want to start out after graduation several thousand in the hole. I can't go out of state, since tuition would be complete rape. I can barely handle the estimated 15k for area Universities, screw an extra 5-7k for not living there.
If I ever get the chance, I want to do some photography. Maybe grab a minor in it, or at least take some cool classes. It's something I really enjoy, but would never be able to make a living off of as a career.
play music
Learn to speak japanese, and learn to play the shit out of something. Japan and the UK are the two areas you can make a living off of touring playing metal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gohron
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Originally Posted by Nomi
if you can do math and science Id say be one of those guys that calaberates radation releated equipment at the hospitals. They make like 150,000 a year and dont have to pay malpractice insurance. Its what Id do if I didnt want to build things.
Go to a decent college for pre med.
Join the military and go to med school.
Become a doctor for the army/navy and have them pay me to go to school.
Start a family once I'm working in a nice hospital working a job I love helping people.
Snort cocaine off of a hookers ass crack.
HOLLA!
lol, this will passQuote:
Originally Posted by SmoothCriminal
What do you plan to do with your life? Enjoy it while it lasts.
Shit Jemery. When did you get 2000 more posts that me?
I guess I have some serious spamming to do.
Jemery averages 2000 posts a week.
Not entirely sure. Still debating a side career in art, will probably be starting as a tattoo artist next year which makes pretty good money and is fun to do. Was going to do it this year but I still have to raise cash for a few nessecary purchases on top of a security cushion, and since it's already into the summer that's killed my prime opportunity to get in (if only I lived somewhere without shitty winters) since people like to be retards about getting tattoos. Beyond that there's always the prospect of massotherapy and I think it'd be cool to make movies but otherwise most careers don't appeal to me.
Right now I'm working a shitty job because I can abuse the hell out of it and get away with just about anything and otherwise enjoying life and the massive amounts of free time I have.I dine out 2-3 times a day (cooking at home = nachos once every few weeks) and buy plenty of games and movies yet manage to save about $500 out the $1000 or so I make per month on top of rent and bills. Unless you're continuously buying new stereo equipment or electronics, luxury purchases are not that hard to keep low provided you shop around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schlep
More like per minute.Quote:
Originally Posted by OmniGear
I plan to finally learn to accept all of the bullshit so I don't have a stroke in 5 years.
But really, the only regret I haves in life are not learning to speak more languages, not learning piano, and not keeping two promises. I toured for several years with my band, have a good reputation in my hometown scene, and have very good friends, and am with the girl I've been in love with since I was twelve. I've reached all the goals I had when I was younger. For the future, I hope to see more of the world, especially China and Antarctica. I hope to teach mythology and history, to supplement my income as a writer. I'd also like to get one of those old sailing ships restored, and take people out on it to teach them about pirate history and astrogation, etc. More than anything though, I'm going to get another band started soon.
I also fully intend to give a heroic account of myself during the zombie outbreak.
Anyway, it sounds like a lot of TNLers are going to lead incredibly boring lives.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pulp Fiction
Drawing tattoos/flash or doing the inking?Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
Do you have a car payment, pay for upkeep on a house, build a retirement account, etc?Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
I'm not saying it's not possible; I live on less than 20k a year right now. What I'm saying is that $60k isn't a whole lotta cash. I'd have to be earning $100k before I really felt comfortable financially, especially after seeing how financially devestated some of my friends from work were when that company went through 9 layoffs and eventually shutdown. $3k a month worth of rent, bills, etc and only something like $1200 a month from unemployment. No money saved or anything...I felt bad for them.
Most of it is pretty interesting to me. All the way from being a bum, to working a 9-5, to entrepreneurship, playing music/selling art, etc.Quote:
Anyway, it sounds like a lot of TNLers are going to lead incredibly boring lives.
Do you expect someone to say they're going to work for the CIA by day, and bang Miss Universe by night?
Me and my girl used to own a home, we had two car payments, two insurance payments, morgage payment, blah blah blah. We did this in a city built for rich white people on a combined income just shy of 40k a year.
Stop throwing your money around on silly things.
Well I plan on being an evil genius and banging Miss Universe by night.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schlep
CIA is for nerds
Silly things like 401k, an IRA, and saving in case the worst happens? :wtf:Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
I'd like to have a smallish indie clothing label and possibly run my own boutique/galley. Preferably not in the town I'm in now, but I'll deal.
I think what he is saying, is stop doing stupid shit like getting every dvd that comes out new, and ever video game that comes out new, and getting steroes new. You can save a shit load of money if you shop around, and wait.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schlep
You're going to go online right? If people can find your stuff, it well sell. Many of your designs are really cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by Satsuki
Inking. Flash is easy as shit, the only reason I'm even going to bother with that before I go in is just for, "Hey, look, I can draw."Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
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Originally Posted by Schlep
I was just going by your account of luxury and retirement, you already covered all that. Yeah, accidents happen and things have to get repaired, but so long as you're saving those are expensive items which are drawn from your backup funds, not a month-to-month normal expenditure.Quote:
Minus a decent house gets you to $2550. Minus a car payment $2200. Minus car insurance $2100. Minus bills, groceries, gas, etc... $1300.
[edit] For me I have rent, bills, cell phone (we have no land line), MMOs, and internet hosting that I pay for monthly (or annually). Comes to an average total of $479 per month, $70 of which is luxury (MMOs and hosting).
I'm in school, so I know all about that. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by IronPlant
Other than the TV I just bought, I haven't spent too much on electronics or anything like that in a while.
I dont really have much of a plan.
But I do know that some major stuff has got to change, or I'll end up jumping of a bridge. I just moved out of my mom's house, so thats a start.
I would like to finish college with a degree (or a certificate or something) in applied/graphic design, but that urge gets weaker and weaker each semester.
I'm doing the "Starving Artist" thing right now.
I'm sort of in a band (we haven't played since March, hence the "sort of"), and was let go of a jazz group I sang in for a totally BS reason. (which is all for the better, since they were only adequate) So I'm writing and getting some arrangements together to do my own jazz group, under my own terms and with a lot more creative freedom.
Work part-time for a Security company. Gives me some free time to pursue music, which is the only reason I'm doing this. I never thought that $100,000 and four years of college would put me in that position, but I was so swamped right as I was leaving, that I had no plan. Now I tell all my friends or others that are in school to do so. It makes life so much easier.
I also get other gigs, mostly through my former professors at college. Also I am a cantor at a church nearby, which brings in some ends, as well as helps keep my vocal chops in order.
I am trying to get my act together and go back for my masters in Music, probably in vocal performance. The whole purpose is to be able to teach, at the collegiate level. No HS or under. This is moreso of a back-up plan to my ultimate goals.
My ultimate goals are to be successful in the music industry. Primarily as a singer, whether it be in Jazz, R&B, Pop/Rock, Blues, or even Classical or Opera. I do sing in all those styles, and enjoy them almost equally. I'll use one to get my foot in the door, and then try to tackle each one after the other. (or so the plan goes) Also as a composer, which I love almost as much as performing. I always dreamed of doing a film score, a broadway musical (which I'm in the midst of writing) and even doing a video game soundtrack.
Then, once I've been established in the world, and I'm getting up in years, I'd take up a university job teaching my theories on music performance and such. By then, I'd of course want to have the typical: wife, three kids (two boys and a girl), nice home. I'm modest, I don't need a lot.
I will become Batman in the future.
75% of the people in this thread want to become rock stars.
everyone wants to be a rockstar. if your goal is "rockstar" you can go ahead and shoot yourself in the face with a rocket launcher. just make sure you knock me and josh off first.
Not a rockstar for me. My life goals are well in progress. I run two successful small businesses, and am recently the co-owner/founder of another company. The $$ is finally starting to get good...after working my ass off for the past 1.5 years.
I wanna lick a billion cocks per second.
Word. I do most of that on less than half that here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
I'm going to school for architecture. After all that, I want to go work at a big firm for a while to get some experience and meet some people. Then, I want to steal away all the talent to start my own firm.
I don't want to be a rock star.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hubbitron
I'd rather be an astronaut.
I agree with everyone about 60k a year being a great income. If you can't live comfortably on 60k a year something is wrong. Most people can live comfortably on 40k a year. You're making 20k more than them.
Spoken like a 21 year old, and presumably, not living in Los Angeles. I glanced through this thread, and found myself shaking my head more than a few times. Good luck to all, but I believe that some of you are in for more than a couple of surprises, and not necessarily the good kind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew
Hey you fuck way to take it out of context.Quote:
Originally Posted by IronPlant
It was supposed to be a job i love, helping people.
Fuck me and my lack of comma usage.
Basically up in medina, people are all rich, but broke at the same time. Because they all buy houses they simply can't afford.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prince Planet
scratch that - the UK? wtf? maybe if you're dragonforce but they go tour asia for a reason you know - the UK isn't metal friendly at the moment, more like Europe and Asia. i wish gohron every bit of luck though.Quote:
Originally Posted by IronPlant
Low interest rates of the last several years may have contributed to that, but don't forget the enormous equity gains that may have been achieved in this crazy market, gains that will likely not be completely diminished by a market adjustment. Also, there's a whole lot more to those purchases than an unreasonable desire for status -- kids, space, schools, savings, commute, retirement, crime, and all the other things that are important to living. Those factors and others influence many, many decisions that range far wider than finding a decent house. Not the kind of stuff I had given a moment's thought to when I was young and single.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thief~Silver
60k is pretty damn good for someone young like us, but once you get older its not gonna cut it. Thats really what it comes down to. How much is enough money? A little bit more. Funny how money is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prince Planet
As for me, I plan to work hard, move back to LA, work on some sort of professional designation, etc. etc. I will hopefully get this great job around here which will be perfect for me at this point in my life. I also want to write a book at some point on something, I havent quite decided yet (though I have ideas).
Even "when" I do make it rich I wont live outsite my means. I mean a decent car and a decent house is all you need. Take care of everything else and you should be fine.
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Originally Posted by station82o
UK, Europe, same fucking thing
I have no real desire to own a house, or even rent an appartment. I'd be happy living on stations couch and playing the guitar in his bathroom. Fuck owing the man, fuck that in the ass.
Sleep.
You mean you don't intend to marry TrialSword and start squirting out babies?Quote:
Originally Posted by Galaxia
Zerohero: That's one tall sig. Shrink/remove the text or something.
That would be stating the obvious.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
But I will elaborate - I want to get married, have children, perform on Broadway, be in a band, have a successful radio show..and who knows what else.
I plan on going to medical school to become a doctor (go figure). My mother's probably going to force me through it. While I'd probably enjoy the field of work medical science has to offer, I wouldn't mind having a career as a pianist/music composer.
I want to do all of the following because I am realistic:
- Be a movie star
- Be in a band
- Make games
- Be a WWE superstar
- Be an astronaut
- Meet aliens
- Invent a device to rid the world of age
- Cure all disease
- Travel in space
- Own an island
See, I'm realistic.
I dislike Burne Hogarth's art style, but his books are great tools to help you learn the basics. His clothing book is especially good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew
you poor poor man. American Medicine is going to shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by U K Narayan
Let me be clear: 60K is good, solid money, and not just for a younger person. As you point out, I'm only saying that before you know it, you are confronted by a slew of considerations and attendant expenses that you likely never dreamed of. Unfortunately, many people's "dreams," or even simple expectations of happiness, revolve around things that require money to obtain. A societal flaw, perhaps, but man does the money go quickly.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
I want to be a Starship Captain.
I'm talking, like, Jean-Luc Picard, minus the baldness.
I'm gonna get into Journalism. Big deal.
Who said I was going to work in America?Quote:
Originally Posted by IronPlant
Just make sure they don't have french swirls in them. People will talk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Satsuki
shhhhhh.....i was under the impression alcohol ruins the liver....unless you drink your drugs.Quote:
Originally Posted by dave is ok
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Originally Posted by jonas
I want to be a metal-star, not a rock-star. Rock-stars sell several millions copies of their albums to screaming teens, they usually make a hell of a lot of money, they become popular cultural idols, they start trends and lead styles, they get loads of women and then, more likely then not...they disappear.
Metal-stars sell hundreds of thousands of their albums to strange people with long hair and bullet-belts, they usually live in near poverty or work a full-time job around their music, they become the anti-thesis to popular cultural idols, they end trends and say "fuck style", some get loads of women and they usually stay in the music industry for years, sometimes way beyond their prime.
BTW, this post contained a little bit of satire and exxageration.
Noone would take you seriously without the baldness.Quote:
Originally Posted by PiotrRasputin
Baldness in Starfleet = Many years of knowledgable, dedicated service.
Kirk had a nice head of hair, but was known to buck the system when his personal desires or the good of the Federation (as far as Kirk was concerned) was at stake. That worked for him, but they don't stand for that shit anymore.
It's just putting stuff together. You don't have to do it in the organic, almost tree-like style of his.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
You sound a bit jaded, but I think you're old enough to be allowed jaded status. Like I said, all I want in life is to animate things, because I enjoy simulating movement, and the challenges and new technologies that advance the industry. I also enjoy seeing my work outputted for people to see and enjoy (or not). If they don't that's fine too, but atleast they saw it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prince Planet
If riches follow then that's even better.
This is one of the truest statements I have ever seen on TNL. Provided you are single, especially, 60k will get you a nice place, a nice car, and all the toys you want (within reason of course) Many FAMILIES live on 60k and do alright, drive decent cars, have a decent townhouse, eat good food, etc...But 60k for a bachelor, if you don't blow your money on stupid shit, will get you pretty fucking far.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prince Planet