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Are you doing what you'd like to be doing? How old are you?

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Phuz

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Simple question.

Are you happy with what you do for a living, how you spend your days? How old are you?

 
I'd say I'm pretty much where I wanted to be. I'm on my way to a degree, and I have a nice side job for money as a server at a restaurant. The only thing missing is a SO to shower with expensive gifts. :Q (19 years old, 20 next month).
 
No, I would like to be a research physicist.
Right now I'm a board-op at a radio staion. I'm also the network admin and I do stuff like voice commercials and sports reports. I'm about to take a second job at McDonalds.

I'm 21.
 
Good grades, a great group of friends, unbelievable connections, and getting wasted everyday of the summer... life is great at age 16.
 
25, I am content where I am...but I would love to move on to bigger and better things...I work in sales, make good money, and have the best kid in the world.
 
To an extent. I would prefer to be done with my undergraduate education and doing law school right now, but unfortunately I have another year to go. I'm working as a Community Assistant, which is kind of cool - get to meet quite a few people my age, and learn how to deal with them. I also get a chance to practice and hone my confrontation and dispute resolution skills. 😛

I'm starting up research again next Monday, which is in itself something enjoyable, a life experience. There is something majestic about contemplating the unknown, the unseeable. (noncommutative projective geometry, perhaps I'll be able to actually describe it again after a few weeks)

I am able to spend evenings doing what I enjoy - reading, learning about accounting/finance/law, contemplating, spending time with friends. I am single, but I have grown accustomed to it - learned to appreciate it for the experience it is. No use fretting something that will change in its own time.

I have made mistakes in the last two years of my life, and I am still ridding myself of their habits. Some weight to be lost, friendships rekindled, lessons yet to be learned. In spit of all that, yes, I am most definitely happy with where I am, and who I am becoming. (I am 20 years old)
 
Originally posted by: Orsorum
To an extent. I would prefer to be done with my undergraduate education and doing law school right now, but unfortunately I have another year to go. I'm working as a Community Assistant, which is kind of cool - get to meet quite a few people my age, and how to deal with them. I also get a chance to practice and hone my confrontation and dispute resolution skills. 😛

I'm starting up research again next Monday, which is in itself something enjoyable, a life experience. There is something majestic about contemplating the unknown, the unseeable. (noncommutative projective geometry, perhaps I'll be able to actually describe it again after a few weeks)

I am able to spend evenings doing what I enjoy - reading, learning about accounting/finance/law, contemplating, spending time with friends. I am single, but I have grown accustomed to it - learned to appreciate it for the experience it is. No use fretting something that will change in its own time.

I have made mistakes in the last two years of my life, and I am still ridding myself of their habits. Some weight to be lost, friendships rekindled, lessons yet to be learned. In spit of all that, yes, I am most definitely happy with where I am, and who I am becoming. (I am 20 years old)
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I like your outlook on things :beer:
 
Originally posted by: Orsorum
To an extent. I would prefer to be done with my undergraduate education and doing law school right now, but unfortunately I have another year to go. I'm working as a Community Assistant, which is kind of cool - get to meet quite a few people my age, and how to deal with them. I also get a chance to practice and hone my confrontation and dispute resolution skills. 😛

I'm starting up research again next Monday, which is in itself something enjoyable, a life experience. There is something majestic about contemplating the unknown, the unseeable. (noncommutative projective geometry, perhaps I'll be able to actually describe it again after a few weeks)

I am able to spend evenings doing what I enjoy - reading, learning about accounting/finance/law, contemplating, spending time with friends. I am single, but I have grown accustomed to it - learned to appreciate it for the experience it is. No use fretting something that will change in its own time.

I have made mistakes in the last two years of my life, and I am still ridding myself of their habits. Some weight to be lost, friendships rekindled, lessons yet to be learned. In spit of all that, yes, I am most definitely happy with where I am, and who I am becoming. (I am 20 years old)
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I wish I could do that. i'm still fretting over a relationship that ended 6 months ago. 🙁 God did I love that girl...
 
Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
I wish I could do that. i'm still fretting over a relationship that ended 6 months ago. 🙁 God did I love that girl...
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Healing will come in its own time. Just relax and focus on other things right now.
 
Originally posted by: Orsorum
Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
I wish I could do that. i'm still fretting over a relationship that ended 6 months ago. 🙁 God did I love that girl...
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Healing will come in its own time. Just relax and focus on other things right now.
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word. 🙂
 
23

I'm starting my masters in aerospace engineering this semester (next week actually). I was a bad student my first couple years of college, then I realized that I needed to grow up, so I started working harder and my grades reflected it. I hope to use the next two years as redemption for my early undergrad years and as a way of proving to myself that I can hold my own when I focus. And hopefully I'll have better job opportunities when I finish. I'm lucky to have caring parents and a couple friends whom I consider very close to me. No lady right now, but I'm also not one of those people who has to be in a relationship to feel comfortable and secure; plus I have more important priorities right now. I won't really feel like I've "made it" until I complete my MS degree and get a good job, but for the time being I'm pretty content.
 
Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
Originally posted by: Orsorum
To an extent. I would prefer to be done with my undergraduate education and doing law school right now, but unfortunately I have another year to go. I'm working as a Community Assistant, which is kind of cool - get to meet quite a few people my age, and how to deal with them. I also get a chance to practice and hone my confrontation and dispute resolution skills. 😛

I'm starting up research again next Monday, which is in itself something enjoyable, a life experience. There is something majestic about contemplating the unknown, the unseeable. (noncommutative projective geometry, perhaps I'll be able to actually describe it again after a few weeks)

I am able to spend evenings doing what I enjoy - reading, learning about accounting/finance/law, contemplating, spending time with friends. I am single, but I have grown accustomed to it - learned to appreciate it for the experience it is. No use fretting something that will change in its own time.

I have made mistakes in the last two years of my life, and I am still ridding myself of their habits. Some weight to be lost, friendships rekindled, lessons yet to be learned. In spit of all that, yes, I am most definitely happy with where I am, and who I am becoming. (I am 20 years old)
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I wish I could do that. i'm still fretting over a relationship that ended 6 months ago. 🙁 God did I love that girl...
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Yeah... it's rough 🙁
 
Yes.

I am 24 and I am a Design Engineer working for an automotive parts manufacturer. (My major in school was Mechanical Engineering.) For an entry level job, I am paid pretty well, but I am working for a company that is poorly managed and I have a manager that would be better suited as the janitor. Anyway, other than the company that I work for, I am doing what I want for a living.
 
I work as a computer lab consultant at Indiana University and I have another job as a radio board operator (at the same station chaotic42 works at). I am not happy where I am with my life. I want to write and direct my own films.

I am 20.
 
Well, I am 33 and work as a paramedic for the last 7 years. I am working on my degree in respiratory therapy and would love to go to medical school but I don't ever see that happening. Just don't have the time nor the money to do that.
 
I'm 21 and I feel like I'm right where I want to be right now. I graduated in May with a B.E. in Electrical Engineering and started working at my current job in July. I'm in a leadership program so my training is going to be three 6 month rotations all over my company (Con Edison). My first assignment is a good mix of office and field work and I'm learning a lot every day (especially with that blackout that just hit the northeast). My friends are great and we're all having a good time being young professionals in New York City. I live just far enough away from the parents that we can keep close but not have any unexpected visits from them and my brother just moved into NYC also. All in all, I couldn't ask for much more in my life right now...
 
Yes!

Unbelievably happy. . . . I am in the best shape and health of my entire life and doing what I want to be doing - including working part time - (with the minor exception that I am NOT surfing; but I have temporarily replaced the love of my life with other brand-new interests I am exploring) . . .

. . . and I will be 51 next month.

😀
 
I got a job doing what I love, but since then the job has changed and the companies (long story) have largely treated me like dirt. It's gone from 90% hardware and 10% paperwork to 90+% paperwork and very little hardware. I enjoy it when I do what I got hired to do, but other than that I've been considering driving propane trucks or entering military service just to get out of here. I'm about 25.
 
Originally posted by: Phuz
Simple question.

Are you happy with what you do for a living, how you spend your days? How old are you?
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No, trying not to end up depressed about that fact. 27.

I make excellent money as a system admin, I really want to go back to school for a degree in Literature, to teach college.

May never happen, then again it may.
 
I'm 25 and am pretty comfortable where I am and how I make a living. My ultimate goal also involves actually coding business web applications using tools I've yet to master... so the "unknowns" that go with the territory are keeping me in this "safe zone" for now. I don't know if I'd be happy doing that for the rest of my life anyway... nobody knows until they actually do it for real for an extended amount of time. Take work-from-home as an example... can you honestly say you KNOW you'll be happy doing that for 10 years straight ? You have 1 life to live and being so secluded for most of the natural day may not be the best for a 20-something year old... ya know ?
 
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