What is "Making It"

[Jetman]

Do you want to be a jetman?

dammit <snaps fingers> good guess. Actually yeah

[Omni]

"Making it" it for me means eating Marshmallow Fruit Loops.

I am "making it" right now.

[Bacon McShig]

"Making it" it for me means eating Marshmellow Fruit Loops.

I am "making it" right now.

That reminds me very much of a Calvin & Hobbes, where Calvin posits what he ideally wants and names all kinds of extravagant, over the top stuff, and Hobbes says "a sandwich", then in the next scene he's eating a sandwich and says condescendingly, "I got my wish."

Anyway, I won't be "making it" until I have a job I enjoy. I'd rather earn enough to get by with a little need for scrimping and saving, but have a job I love, than earn a healthy sum but hate working for it. I really need to start working towards my ideal career in something art-related, because this paper-pushing desk job shit ain't cutting it.

[g0zen]

Anyone want to say what they think a well paying job is? And a "predictable existence", Gozen? Conservative-in-waiting?

A well paying job to me is one that covers all the essentials, and has some left over for luxuries. Also, if I'm as liberal twenty years from now as I am now, I'll probably be living in the Canadian wilderness growing hash. I'll most likely be just a joe-blow moderate living in suburbia.

[Lobo]

I could easily spout out one of the same 6 digit figures that my friends in med school like to dream about, but even though it would be nice, I don't think I'll ever get there, and honestly, I'm not sure if it would make me happy anyway.

For me, making it is being successful in some kind of artistic field. I'm going to college to become an architect, but like station said, I just want to live a full, interesting, and varied life. I want to have my own architectural firm, paint, write, publish some photography, design furniture, and marry a beautiful woman that can inspire me to do all those things. As long as I make enough money to take her out to a nice restaurant whenever both of us are too tired to cook, I'll definitely have "made it."

Good topic, by the way.

[Stone]

What about the chance, to, say, die in order to save ten other lives?

Or, dying in the process of keeping your wife from being killed? Would that count as "making it". I think so.

[g0zen]

Of course self-sacrifice would be a worthy end, but obsessing over it or even dwelling on it isn't healthy.

[Stone]

Well, is it just a worthy end, or is it another way to "make it" ie, could dying well fit into your definition of "making it", even if the stuff that preceded that death wasn't all that great?

I'll feel I've made it if I don't feel like my life is a prison when I'm 40.

Say you wake up the day you turn forty, and you feel like your life is a prison. By chance, you happen to be taking a flight home to visit your family on your fortieth birthday. You get on the plane, the plane has hijackers on it, you somehow stop them from hijacking and crashing the plane (saving the lives of everyone else on the plane), but you get killed in the process. Did you "make it"? Yes, I say yes.

[station82o]

I dont think anyones arguing with you but no one ever wants to be in that position obviously, or think about it.

[Bacon McShig]

The connotation of "making it" is relatable to success and well-being. I don't see how your cause of death is a factor in someone's definition of that, being that if you are dead you are no longer successful or content, as you no longer exist. You're apparently confusing "making it" with "making a difference" with your steerings towards the worthiness of self-sacrifice.

Stop trying to derail your own thread.