If life did everything your way...

[AdamDuritz99]

What would you want to do with your life? Career, family, studies(research), etc. In other words, how would you live?

peace
sean

 

[Czar]

Advertising (may change with the comming summer, and then again with the comming winter and so on)
married
two kids maybe.. later on
as much knowledge as possible
I would want to live in a villa ... with a big garden

or something,
this might change after one hour

 

[Aves]

As far as career and education:

I'd want to work with computer networks like I do now.
I'd hope to finish a Masters and hopefully a doctorate.
I'd continue to work on certifications and try to get my CCIE and whatever comes along later.

As far as family life:

I'd want a big family with several kids.
I'd always want to spend time with them and my wife.
I'd want a nice house, not too extravagant but with a big yard/garden and a pool.
I'd love to travel the world and make my time here count.


Unfortunately my career goals and family goals are a little incompatible.

 

[SociallyChallenged]

This is what I would have:

Career = Computer Engineer

Family = Wife and 2 kids

I'd have a robot that makes the newest computer parts and installs them into my computer.

Would live in Oregon.

Would make too much money.

 

[linuxboy]

What would you want to do with your life? Career, family, studies(research), etc. In other words, how would you live?

In exploring ideas of living and making choices, we, as humans, encounter limits to our abilities. Look at the results: writing full of romanticism and golden ages, posts on OT about what superpowers would be desirable and why, ideas of perfection objectified, ideas of self-determination and efficancy with ensuing recognition of fallibility.

The point is, life does throw everything your way. Usually, however, we keep thinking all the pitches are fastballs so when a curveball comes, our awkward hands can't catch it properly. So we make choices only to fail and blame ourselves, unable to survive, and thus thinking "my way" has any bearning on life doing everything my way.

I think the question here doesn't really matter since choices made are likely to be individual and colored by experience/culture/environment. At some point, all the busy-ness in the world will lead to a cynicism and a burning out, just because that is what we want as well, we don't want to understand or be happy, otherwise we would do what is necessary to achieve that.

How one would live and what one would live therefore result in the same sort of stuff with explanations about desired choices that lead to similar outcomes unless we recognize that learning and rich experiences are to be found everywere, making choice a matter of giving and interacting rather than asserting.

In direct answer to your question, I would do just whatever I do now.

Cheers !

 

Interesting hypothetical question. Uhmm . . . I'll have to think it through. . . . The easy answer would be a general statement: Whatever means brings me joy . . . that is, whatever means accomplishes the end I seek. Hey, before you jump on me about the implications, we're operating in a hypothetical world, so I shouldn't have to include or answer to other situations.

Czar, huh? You mean standardly you cannot get married? Have kids later? Are you having difficulties at the moment?

Linux Boy, every responses you ever gave and give always seem to point to an existentialist. I have not formally asked you this: Are you an existantialist? Or at least do you accept that your philosophy seems to match with an existentialist's?

 

[Czar]

luvly,
Just that sometimes I'm thankful that I'm single and sometimes I dread that I'm single. Also I'm only 22 years old and I dont want kids now, definetly want kids later on

 

[linuxboy]

Linux Boy, every responses you ever gave and give always seem to point to an existentialist. I have not formally asked you this: Are you an existantialist? Or at least do you accept that your philosophy seems to match with an existentialist's?

I'm a lover, luvly, not a fighter. HeHe. Which definition of existentialism do you mean when you ask me that? Do I think I exist? Yeah... Do I think that I should base everything on that? Not exactly, this can lead to a blindness of genuinely-other authority, which I do think exists. . Oh drats, am I crapping in this thread? Wanna take this to PM? Email me?

Cheers !

 

[LordMaul]

I would be an ultra-rich, uber-smart Chiropractor with a double bladed lightsaber and force powers beyond belief.

 

[Jfur]

no major changes to my life path

 

[TheOmegaCode]

If everything went my way?

I would never again get a sparse error...
X11 would always work...
My hardware specs would always be supported...
I would work 4 hours a day at home and pull in $150k a year

 

[Ameesh]

i'm pretty much liking my life right now.

 

[AdamDuritz99]

Interesting repsonses. Especially you linuxboy. Does anyone here ever have the desire not for physical wants, but want's of meaning? Simply does any one here want to be important? Most people live and die. Their lives have meaing and importance. But there is those select few that stand out. I'm not talking about being famous, but doing something in life that really helps society, either in research, dedication to certain thing that helps people, etc. Does anyone have a desire to be a person that gives themself to society?

Include all this with my orginal question.

peace
sean

 

[Geekbabe]

<< Interesting repsonses. Especially you linuxboy. Does anyone here ever have the desire not for physical wants, but want's of meaning? Simply does any one here want to be important? Most people live and die. Their lives have meaing and importance. But there is those select few that stand out. I'm not talking about being famous, but doing something in life that really helps society, either in research, dedication to certain thing that helps people, etc. Does anyone have a desire to be a person that gives themself to society?

Include all this with my orginal question.

peace
sean >>



I'm nowhere near smart enough to be all that, I'll consider it a good life with a lot of meaning though if I can bring smilies to a few faces
it really is a wonderful thing ,life

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I would like, every day, a piece of bread with butter on it.

 

[jpsj82]

my life so far + $28 million trust fund.

 

[Zenmervolt]

If I could have set up life for my own pleasure, how would I have done it? This seems to be what you are asking, so I'll answer that question.

I would NOT have an irrational fear of needles, this is the only thing about me that I would change.
I would be working as a covert op for a government agency.
I would have a small house in the middle of nowhere in the cornfields of NW Ohio.
I would keep an old project car in the barn to work on and to think under while changing the oil.
My LPs would never scratch or warp.
I would either be married or single, either works fine.

ZV

 

[Valhalla1]

Two chicks at the same time.

 

[AreaCode707]

I'd like to know.

 

[PistachioByAzul]

If life did everything your way...

...there'd be no point to living?

 

[HappyPuppy]

Life HAS done everything my way. I have experienced love, war, hate, ambivalence, injury, health, children, religion, uncertainty...ad infinitum.

Most, but not all, have been of my choosing.

And I'm a Happy Puppy!

 

[TheOmegaCode]

What would you do if you had a Million bucks?


<< Two chicks at the same time. >>


Besides two chicks at the same time...?

 

[Frosty3799]

<< What would you do if you had a Million bucks?


<< Two chicks at the same time. >>


Besides two chicks at the same time...? >>



you know what i'd do? absolutely nothing

 

[silverpig]

I'd want Rainier Wolfcastle's life..

"How do you sleep at night?"

"On top of a huge pile of money with many beautiful ladies."

 

[gopunk]

i'd be filthy rich... i'd own and live on a nice tropical island