With my first year of REAL college about to start...

[SketchMaster]

I was home schooled from the 2nd grade and when I got my G.E.D at 17 instead of looking into college I coasted for a year. Then I took A+ and Net+ classes and then volunteered at a local high school that a friend worked at to get something to put on my resume, while doing that I worked a part time job at GameStop. I then decided to make video editing more than just a hobby and took some classes at the local community college where I was able to intern at a production house for four months before realizing that ?The Biz? really is full of backstabbers and crap pay no matter where you work and so I left. After that started working part time a a few computer shops but decided I hated computer work and went back to GameStop. last year I started working at a vet clinic while taking some basic classes at the community college and now I'm finally going to be going to school full time to become a certified Vet Tech.

Now I'm 22 and feel that I'm just now getting on with my life. It may look like I did a lot in those five years but I know that most of it was spent goofing off thinking I had all the time in the world, now the full realization of my mortality and that time goes by much too fast has hit me and I look back and see it as wasted time.

Maybe I'm just going through a premature mid-life crisis but I have to ask, does it seems like I've wasted part of my life messing around with video games and other useless crap?

 

[mooglemania85]

Who hasn't at one time or another!

 

[TheoPetro]

man I hit one of those (quarter life crisis) last year, almost this exact time, really hard. I was in the sciences hardcore and then I decided one night to drop all of my classes and change from physics to finance. I had decent grades in physics (As and mostly Bs) but something just went weird and I realized it wasnt for me. I am 22 now and am graduating a semester late after changing majors after 2.5 years of physics. I really enjoy what im doing now and it all turned out for the best. Besides I should be making a ton more with finance and have a more enjoyable job environment now (no clean room w/ 70% humidity @ 70 degrees).

 

[LordSnailz]

It all depends on how you look it at ... take the good times away from it and be glad you're realizing this at 22. You'll be surprise but there are some people in their late 20's early 30's who are still screwing around.

Good luck, you'll do fine!

 

[SketchMaster]

Originally posted by: TheoPetro
I am 22 now and am graduating...

And that right there is what is depressing me. I look around and see people that are my age and are done with school, making good money and enjoying life. I'm still lving at home because I can't afford to move out.

 

[mooglemania85]

Originally posted by: SketchMaster

Originally posted by: TheoPetro
I am 22 now and am graduating...

And that right there is what is depressing me. I look around and see people that are my age and are done with school, making good money and enjoying life. I'm still lving at home because I can't afford to move out.

if you spend your life trying to measure up to the Jones', you'll never be happy

 

[TheoPetro]

Originally posted by: SketchMaster

Originally posted by: TheoPetro
I am 22 now and am graduating...

And that right there is what is depressing me. I look around and see people that are my age and are done with school, making good money and enjoying life. I'm still lving at home because I can't afford to move out.

my point wasnt to depress you but to let you know youre not the only one who has gone through a weird time where you questioned what the hell youre doing with your life. I questioned my life and made a decision. So far it has turned out well but who knows about the future.

Find something you like, go do it, ...profit? Who cares when you graduate. There are people out there that didnt even go to college let alone graduate. If you can get a job doing what you enjoy without college or without finishing college then do it. College is really just a 100k piece of paper that gets you into jobs. Any real learning (the kind that will make you useful to society) is done outside of the classroom.

Good luck

 

[soydios]

I'm only three months into my freshman year of college, and I already know that everyone is right: college is the best time of your life. Enjoy!

 

[ed21x]

Originally posted by: SketchMaster

Originally posted by: TheoPetro
I am 22 now and am graduating...

And that right there is what is depressing me. I look around and see people that are my age and are done with school, making good money and enjoying life. I'm still lving at home because I can't afford to move out.

in five years, these extra years won't matter anymore and you'll just look back and laugh. you are still young and there are still the other 70% of the population that don't even have a college education. Be happy that you are realizing this early on and life is giving you a second chance. While you are at it, enjoy your college years! they will be the best time of your life,

 

[jagec]

Yup, you'll feel the same way after college as well. That's the 20s for you.

 

[LongCoolMother]

Originally posted by: soydios
I'm only three months into my freshman year of college, and I already know that everyone is right: college is the best time of your life. Enjoy!

wish i could say the same for myself. college has been pwning my ass for 2 years already. I'm hating it and I really can't wait to get the hell out.

I don't think its my major, I actually have interest in it. I think its just the workload for the classes. Its too high, and it makes everything dull and stressful.

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: SketchMaster
Maybe I'm just going through a premature mid-life crisis but I have to ask, does it seems like I've wasted part of my life messing around with video games and other useless crap?

video games is the devil.

thats why i never upgraded to dual core, else i would be playing supreme commander every chance i get.

at least u didnt just sit in front of the tv channel surfing, and nothing to watch.

:thumbsup: for trying many diff things till you found something you liked. thjats more than 1/2 the people in the world who are in jobs in a field they dont like

 

[eakers]

I think it is awesome that you took the time to try out different jobs until you found the one that was right for you. A lot of kids graduating at 21-22 now will be going through "Oh crap, I hate this" in a year or two and they will have wasted thousands on education.