What are you going to do with your life?

[Weezer]

I mean, I know we all want to be professional revolutionaries and own our party of bureaucrats, but besides that, what do you want to do with your life?

I was interested in acting when I was really young, but I don't really care to be some kind of huge celebrity that has a successful career and then it ends in a mountain of cocaine. I don't really want anything to do with pop culture.

I'm a very nostalgic person, and wouldn't mind working in children's television, honestly, as pedo as that may sound.

Recently I've been thinking of working in the UN for my early adulthood, maybe in some office in Brussels or something. I enjoy the Model United Nations program at my school a lot, and that's where I got the inspiration to work for the UN. Later on in life, I might end up as some old Marxist professor at some bourgeois college. Not exactly sure.

I would like to get a Master's Degree, in what I'm not sure. I'm thinking economics or political science, or even more sinister, political economy.

I would also to be involved in revolutionary parties/organizations wherever I'm living.

[Nox]

I would like to study Politics, Economics and History. After that, who knows.

[Kamos]

I'm gonna study to become a programmer. It was only in the last year that I realised that this is what interests me enough to really study. I haven't decided on anything more specific yet, though.

[o well this is ok I guess]

I want to work a dead end job at 15 bucks an hour.

[La Comédie Noire]

Training to be Certified Nursing Assistant, than looking for a job that will hopefully pay for my education when I want to do my LPN.

[bietan jarrai]

Planning on studying to be a music producer, wish to have my own musical career on the side. Still, with this economic crisis, in Europe we all studying for unemployment and underemployment.

[Chambered Word]

probably study computer science and get a decent IT job while doing stuff with computers and the internet for shits and giggles with my best mate. I also want to get good at the guitar and start a band.

[Tomhet]

do a lot more skydiving/base jumping, and do my best to be happy word..

[Chris]

Don't know. Study, perhaps. Or join the army. If I'll study, I'll probably study physics. The norwegian state pays for 85% of the student loan for physics students, upon finishing of education. Due to immense shortage, so it's also a very safe job. And physics is interesting.

[Ocean Seal]

Don't know. Study, perhaps. Or join the army. If I'll study, I'll probably study physics. The norwegian state pays for 85% of the student loan for physics students, upon finishing of education. Due to immense shortage, so it's also a very safe job. And physics is interesting.
That's awesome. I'm going to be studying physics too, but unfortunately the American state doesn't subsidize me at all. But its pretty great that its a safe job over there too. In America I'm not sure if I'll have a future doing physics research which is what I really want.

[Rss]

I'm a very nostalgic person, and wouldn't mind working in children's television, honestly, as pedo as that may sound.

Nothing wrong with that, man. I bite my goddamn lip sometimes if I hear Tiny Toons Adventures theme or Mole theme. Would be interesting career, no doubt. A hard one too, today children's animation is mostly understimulating, precocious garbage made by frat boys. That industry definitely needs more women and neckbeards.

As for me, perhaps something to do with milsurp and firearms. I find subject interesting as there is always something very obscure hiding in the shadows. Joy of discovery.

Or perhaps keeping a lab or a greenhouse for scientific study. Joy of discovery there as well and I find working with plants or small instruments relaxing. I get stressed out and depressed by paperwork, so no thanks.

[ColonelCossack]

I want to be an astrophysicist pimp that goes to raves all the time but still manages to be a genius oxford/cambridge proffesor with an IQ of a billion, whilst being a gangsta.

Who thinks I can do it?

[AnonymousOne]

Debating going for my PhD. Probably won't though.

Would like to get married soon now that it's possible, been dating the same guy for almost three years now, and my son already sees him as his other parent. We've been discussing it, we just need to get a plan down and timeframe.

[Rooster]

I'm already too old to decide what I want to do with with my life :(

Hopefully die in a nice retirement home on the southern coast of France from drinking too much fine wine.

[Susurrus]

I want to do something practical(hopefully that benefits people) and do intellectual work on the side. I also want to have some connection to science, if possible.

[Zealot]

I'm going to be the next Che Guevara! I heard that pays well

[eyedrop]

Don't know. Study, perhaps. Or join the army. If I'll study, I'll probably study physics. The norwegian state pays for 85% of the student loan for physics students, upon finishing of education. Due to immense shortage, so it's also a very safe job. And physics is interesting.

Do you have a source for this? As I'm actually starting a physics degree in 4 days time this sounds like wonderful news if true.

I tried searching for it but I couldn't find it any references to it.

[thesadmafioso]

I haven't the faintest of an idea really, as of now I'm studying for a bachelors in European history. Where exactly I will go from there is still sort of up in the air, but I wouldn't mind getting a masters in education to teach or something along those lines.

American schools are a depressing sight and that's something I wouldn't mind changing.

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

Going to study Sociology and Politics this year. Following that, I want to take my study as far as possible, but my goal is to get at least an MA (a BA isn't enough in this day and age). After studying I'd like to either do something academic or have a career working with people and social issues (the homeless, the poor, those who are abused etc). Sociology is my primary influence in terms of my study and my general outlook on life, so I figure it would be good to do something academically orientated or something practical in the field, or even both.

I also have a couple of pipe dreams: I'd like to be a successful musician and a successful writer.

[Chris]

Do you have a source for this? As I'm actually starting a physics degree in 4 days time this sounds like wonderful news if true.

I tried searching for it but I couldn't find it any references to it.
It was our physics teacher and guidance counselor (that's the word for it, right?) who told us, can't seem to find anything about it online though.

[Apoi_Viitor]

I'm currently studying to become a High School Social Studies Teacher, and on the side I want to write black metal. :D

[Metacomet]

I haven't the faintest clue.


I thought I wanted to be a teacher then I realized high school kids annoy me greatly.

[o well this is ok I guess]

Actually I'll be studying political science and sociology this year
But I plan to pretend to realize the poverty of the academia, get into a giant rant in the middle of class, insult all the students for buying into the university, walk out and take up train hopping and dumpster diving.

[praxis1966]

Dunno how well it's going to work out considering all the cuts (see the thread on the downgrade of the US credit rating for more on that), but I'm hoping to go back to school soon. I wanna teach US history at either the middle or high school level and coach some footy (North Americans read: soccer), which is something I've already had some modest success at. I wouldn't mind getting a musical project together at some point as well but I think I'm a little past the rock starring age (I'm gonna 33 be later this month).


probably study computer science and get a decent IT job while doing stuff with computers and the internet for shits and giggles with my best mate. I also want to get good at the guitar and start a band.

Who says you need to be good to start a band? Take the advice of the early 80s hardcore punk bands:

http://27.media.tumblr.com/34GrgyzUsqrr3xw4qoKTykiRo1_500.jpg

[maskerade]

i'm pretty sure that's a joke, but all those chords are wrong. Also it isn't a guitar.

I have no idea what I want to do. If Academia didn't have so much ass kissing and institutional hoops to jump through I'd love to be an Anthropologist. Assuming that my disdain for current forms of development fades with age, I'd love to work in the global south somewhere pretending to do something good. I grew up in Africa and it's the greatest place on earth, would love to go back there once I'm done with uni

[praxis1966]

i'm pretty sure that's a joke, but all those chords are wrong. Also it isn't a guitar.

You're right, the chords are wrong... But the point is, as Mick Jagger once said, "Rock and roll is just three chords and a lot of energy." You don't need complicated, symphonic sounding riffs in order to sound good. The Rage song Bulls on Parade, for instance, is actually just one chord... Anyway, don't want to derail the thread any further, lol.

[Aspiring Humanist]

I want to hitchhike around the world for the rest of my life
I hope I don't become on of those people who keep putting it off until I'm too old to do it

[LegendZ]

Go to college get a degree in Computer programming and Euphonium performance. then idk.

[Magón]

Travel Photographer. Then I could take photos of revolution. :cool:

[Ose]

Continue working for minimum wage and wallowing in Weltschmerz until the fatigue becomes unbearable, then die alone.

[Who?]

Eh, I'm going pre-law so I'll probably just become a lawyer.

I'm honestly not too excited about it.

[Decolonize The Left]

I'm a poet, writer, musician, song-writer, and I intend to do these for a long while because they are what I do.

I work to support these activities.

- August

[Agent Equality]

I used to want to become a political scientist, but now I just want go to college and settle down with my girl :) She literally changed what I wanted to do in life.

Our story is something akin to The Adjustment Bureau. I'm into politics, she's into dance, there's a higher power saying we can't be together, we say fuck you and fight against them, and I'm willing to give up my dreams for her cause honestly...she's enough for me. Too bad there isn't a bunch of mysterious dudes with hats who can teleport otherwise it'd be complete :(

[The Man]

I want to work a dead end job at 15 bucks an hour.

You know, I really want to have a cool job and stuff. 15 dollars an hour seems like a lot to me, but if I ever did get that job, it'd probably be something I didn't like doing.

But hey, that's what happens to most people... right?

[BE_]

Since I am approaching college, I am thinking of maybe studying Political Science. I guess after that I don't know. I will probably become a musician, artist, or a writer.

[bcbm]

drink, riot tourism

[Magón]

I used to want to become a political scientist, but now I just want go to college and settle down with my girl :) She literally changed what I wanted to do in life.

Our story is something akin to The Adjustment Bureau. I'm into politics, she's into dance, there's a higher power saying we can't be together, we say fuck you and fight against them, and I'm willing to give up my dreams for her cause honestly...she's enough for me. Too bad there isn't a bunch of mysterious dudes with hats who can teleport otherwise it'd be complete :(

Just put your name/number on the DO call list for telemarketers. You'll have mystery dudes then.

[ev]

How can anybody possibly know what one is 'going to do' with their life..

Here is a word: naive

[ev]

I'm a poet, writer, musician, song-writer, and I intend to do these for a long while because they are what I do.

I work to support these activities.

- August

I think your a 'worker' and you write poetry and music to support your sanity.
Then again I could just be looking at 'the glass' half empty.

[Teacher]

I'm a history teacher.

[Ostrinski]

I'm considering studying medicine. We took a look at it in Chemistry class last year and it fascinates me.

[Caj]

I hope to get a PhD in either history, political science, economics, evolutionary biology, theoretical physics, or neuroscience. Then I'll become a professor and probably write some books.

[Red_Struggle]

I want to be a historian.

[Dzerzhinsky's Ghost]

Sailor, fisherman, something involving sailing the seas, currently looking into the how to's.

[The Dark Side of the Moon]

Get drunk, elected to president of the USA, study economics, get picked up by a communist country to do a five year plan, get drunk again, become a college football player, learn a programming language, and get drunk. Seems like a solid plan to me

[thesadmafioso]

Get drunk, elected to president of the USA, study economics, get picked up by a communist country to do a five year plan, get drunk again, become a college football player, learn a programming language, and get drunk. Seems like a solid plan to me

In that order?

I almost feel like college football might precede any presidential aspirations for most people.

[The Dark Side of the Moon]

In that order?

I almost feel like college football might precede any presidential aspirations for most people.

Not in any particular order

[Metacomet]

I hope to get a PhD in either history, political science, economics, evolutionary biology, theoretical physics, or neuroscience. Then I'll become a professor and probably write some books.


Broad interests there :D

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Live it.

[socialistjustin]

When I was a kid I wanted to play for the Lakers. If I actually practiced, I couldve actually done that as I could fucking shoot. Now I want to study economics. At least thats the only thing I could see myself going to school for.

[L.A.P.]

Become a professor.

[Jose Gracchus]

Maybe become a professor, probably not though, so maybe a labor lawyer or more likely I'll just be a teacher of some kind. Right now I'm just a graduate without any real job prospects treading water with a shit job I was qualified for half a decade ago.

[Metacomet]

When I was a kid I actually wanted to be a combat aviator, then eventually an astronaut.

Getting glasses kinda torpedoed that idea.

I don't think my reactions are good enough either.

[eyedrop]

It was our physics teacher and guidance counselor (that's the word for it, right?) who told us, can't seem to find anything about it online though.

I'll be a sceptic then, guidance counselors have told me too much misinformation through the years.

[Le Libérer]

Considering becoming an AIDS and/or Immigration Lawyer. Ive been advocating for both long enough as a social worker so I know the ropes.

[Sensible Socialist]

Get into college without burying myself in debt, go into journalism and then travel the country documenting protests/rallies/social movement. I'm also interesting in teaching or social work, so that might be an idea.

And then, of course, destroy capitalism. :cool:

[gendoikari]

I can't publicly say what i want to do. But I don't expect to live past 35, If the capitalists don't kill me a coronary will.

[o well this is ok I guess]

You know, I really want to have a cool job and stuff. 15 dollars an hour seems like a lot to me, but if I ever did get that job, it'd probably be something I didn't like doing.

But hey, that's what happens to most people... right? I honestly cannot think of anything enjoyable about any form of stable employment.
Lifting box's for hours on end isn't actually as bad as it sounds. No doubt it sounds very, very bad.

[Fulanito de Tal]

I'm in academia and my profession's values would fall in line with a liberal to social democracy type arrangement, but I see that in my school it's pushing more towards the right. The politics in academia are ridiculous and there is as much racism/ethnocentrism in it as anywhere else. The people in charge hold strong Euro-American values, so if you come up with anything different, they will employ their methods to marginalize you. For example, the ruling clique will start finding your faults and start rumors. Then, someone in a meeting will mention it and since the rumor has gone around, others would be like, "Yea, I've heard that too!" And that's it, you're now a pos in the eyes of the faculty. Luckily, there are some Latinos that don't fall for this and help advocate for the marginalized, but they aren't the ones with the most influence. There used to be an African-American, but (s)he wasn't "re-hired". That happened because (s)he would tell one of the people from the ruling clique to mind their own business. So, now the only African-American amongst 20-30 people that I know of is a grad student. Sometimes I look at part-time workers and I'm envious of them. They just clock in and clock out and can leave their work at work.

More rant:
If you're white and stand for racial and ethnic equality, then you're a brave hero that merits recognition. If you're of color and do the same, then you're complaining.

[miltonwasfried...man]

I'm going to study philosophy then likely end up a drifter or something.

[Viva Revolution!]

Study sociology at university, and specialise in poverty, then become a charity worker abroad, helping 3rd World, and war-torn nations :) and hopefully, start a revolution ;) and if not, at least i'll be helping the poor rather than the bourgeoisie...

[o well this is ok I guess]

I'm going to study philosophy then likely end up a drifter or something. That actually sounds like a good plan.
Maybe I'll do that.

[Nox]

When I'm older I want to be in the Vanguard Party after the revolution :thumbup1:

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Possibly do a masters.

Get money in some job (possibly market research) to travel.

Travel. Everywhere.

Then i'd love to work in aviation, i've got a childlike fascination. Possibly as an Air Traffic Controller.

[thefinalmarch]

Uni. Biotechnology or molecular biology or whatever.

[Rss]

I wish that my potential future child wants to be Gordon Freeman when he/she grows up.

[Azula]

Finishing my last year in High School and then begin study Civil Engineering.

I will either join an existing party or form one.

[Ele'ill]

Slowly drown. Survive until I don't. Work two jobs. What difference does it make? Drink and play video games. Talk to myself in the bathroom mirror. Listen to lady gaga dubstep remixes. Eat lots of good food after drinking lots of bad beer. Get into fights. Watch family and friends die. Think about the point in my life where I stopped accruing memories to look back on and build a time machine out of six dollar bourbon and broken glass to go back and change things. That's how we do.

[Lynx]

Maybe study electronics. Work holds no passion for me.

[Sensible Socialist]

Slowly drown. Survive until I don't. Work two jobs. What difference does it make? Drink and play video games. Talk to myself in the bathroom mirror. Listen to lady gaga dubstep remixes. Eat lots of good food after drinking lots of bad beer. Get into fights. Watch family and friends die. Think about the point in my life where I stopped accruing memories to look back on and build a time machine out of six dollar bourbon and broken glass to go back and change things. That's how we do.
I'm not usually one to criticize the lifestyles of others, but I find that this sort of lifestyle pessimism is a bit too prevalent here and on the left in general. It's your life, I understand that, but nothing is going to change if we look at life as nothing more than a chance to eat, sleep, and drink.

[Azula]

Slowly drown. Survive until I don't. Work two jobs. What difference does it make? Drink and play video games. Talk to myself in the bathroom mirror. Listen to lady gaga dubstep remixes. Eat lots of good food after drinking lots of bad beer. Get into fights. Watch family and friends die. Think about the point in my life where I stopped accruing memories to look back on and build a time machine out of six dollar bourbon and broken glass to go back and change things. That's how we do.

You don't have any goals, have you?

[Ele'ill]

I'm not usually one to criticize the lifestyles of others, but I find that this sort of lifestyle pessimism is a bit too prevalent here and on the left in general. It's your life, I understand that, but nothing is going to change if we look at life as nothing more than a chance to eat, sleep, and drink.

That was the optimistic version.

[Sensible Socialist]

That was the optimistic version.
Why so pessimistic, even in your optimism, I ask?

[Ele'ill]

Why so pessimistic, even in your optimism, I ask?

Perhaps it has to do with where you're standing?

[Sensible Socialist]

Perhaps it has to do with where you're standing?
Could be, although I'd expect (or hope) that someone who understands the neccessary change from capitalism to socialism through revolutionary means would have more life goals than drinking and playing video games.

[Magón]

That was the optimistic version.

And you didn't even include sex. :sneaky:

[Le Rouge]

I will work somewhere to gain $50 000. And then i'll take a pilot course that cost 50 000 freaking bucks. :thumbdown: Then I'll find a pilot job and i will win less than $20 000 during the first years of my career. After 1500 flight hours, i'll be transferred to bigger airliners.

I expect to win between $200 000 - $300 000 at the end of my career.

[Azula]

That was the optimistic version.

I feel as you. I have goals and ambition, but sometimes everything feels so empty and meaningless.

Not to say that I hate my family and that I find my friends and associations boring and vain.

[Ele'ill]

Could be, although I'd expect (or hope) that someone who understands the neccessary change from capitalism to socialism through revolutionary means would have more life goals than drinking and playing video games.

The title of this thread is 'What are you going to do with your life?". My response is fully adequate. Most often, most of us, are never going to be super heroes. Most of us will never reach our goals. I will add here, that as of a few days ago, and mainly through conversation with a friend yesterday, I plan to continue working in a warehouse (highest volume for that company in the US) and am looking into what I'd vaguely describe at this point to be 'Sewer Maintenance'- just to troll those assholes in real life who use the 'who wud wurk in teh sewers'. I will continue organizing and being involved when and where I can although it will mainly be in the work place- I want to see some success in what I'm directly working on.

As for the rest of my original post- yeah, that's my life- I'd think most revolutionary socialists would stray from arrogant judgments.

[Sensible Socialist]

The title of this thread is 'What are you going to do with your life?". My response is fully adequate. Most often, most of us, are never going to be super heroes. Most of us will never reach our goals. I will add here, that as of a few days ago, and mainly through conversation with a friend yesterday, I plan to continue working in a warehouse (highest volume for that company in the US) and am looking into what I'd vaguely describe at this point to be 'Sewer Maintenance'- just to troll those assholes in real life who use the 'who wud wurk in teh sewers'. I will continue organizing and being involved when and where I can although it will mainly be in the work place- I want to see some success in what I'm directly working on.

As for the rest of my original post- yeah, that's my life- I'd think most revolutionary socialists would stray from arrogant judgments.
It's not an arrogant judgement, but I've always believed in aiming high. To each his own, I guess.

[Quail]

I wanted to teach maths but right now my mental health is never going to be good enough to get a teaching qualification. If my mental health problems don't totally fucking destroy me I just want to work a job that I enjoy and have a good time before I die. I'd like to go into counselling because I've had some fucking useless people trying to help me and I want to help others, but I'm not sure that I'll be able to do that. At the rate I'm going I may as well just binge and purge my way to death because I don't think I'll ever feel fulfilled.

[Ele'ill]

It's not an arrogant judgement, but I've always believed in aiming high.

'Aiming high', another arrogant statement, is relative to the current position.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I'm going to live it to the fullest extent that I can. Life is too damn short to waste it being miserable all the time.

[Bandito]

Actually, I'm content with my life so far.

I am working as a journalist for the only fully independent media in whole Serbia, I wrote a couple of books, I paint as much as time allows, do other forms of political activism with minimal fuss and never had to give up the bohemian way of life I had before I was employed.

It surely can't last forever, since I know where I live and one day one of the politician or bourgeois scum I write about every day will come knocking on my door, as they did with every independent journalist in Serbia so far. I'm well aware where I live. Also, the paycheck I get for my writing resembles the position of the media I work in very well. It's shit. But with my needs ATM, it's enough - but I can't guarantee that in future something will happen that will require more money.

But I try not to think about it so much. As always, shit will go unplanned.

I think this is, by far, the most honest thing I wrote on world wide web about me and my life.

[Sensible Socialist]

'Aiming high', another arrogant statement, is relative to the current position.
It's not arrogant at all. Drinking and playing video games doesn't bring around change, something I would hope every person here strives to do. But, as I said, to each his own.

[The Stalinator]

I wanted to be a psychologist early this year, but I realized I probably wouldn't be able to be the kind of psychologist I'd like, and so my interest is completely shattered.

I suppose I'll study what I like and spend all the time I want after that living like a vagabond -- a few people in my family have done that, and it seems a lot easier than I'd thought. Obviously I don't know what I'll want to do after that, that's more than a decade from now, so I'll decide then.

[Tim Finnegan]

Not a scooby, but I've got four years of college between me and the real world, so hopefully I can just muddle along till then. I used to want to be an architect, but that ended in failure and depression, and I sort of lost the ability to be ambitious about anything serious. That'll probably come back to bite me on the ass at some point, but, like I said, four years, right?

[Le Libérer]

I wanted to be a psychologist early this year, but I realized I probably wouldn't be able to be the kind of psychologist I'd like, and so my interest is completely shattered.

.
Why cant you?

[o well this is ok I guess]

Not a scooby, but I've got four years of college between me and the real world, so hopefully I can just muddle along till then. I used to want to be an architect, but that ended in failure and depression, and I sort of lost the ability to be ambitious about anything serious. That'll probably come back to bite me on the ass at some point, but, like I said, four years, right? No way man go to grad school after
Avoid the real world and get paid for it!

[RichardAWilson]

I'm majoring in Business Administration with a specialization in finance and accounting.

[Blackscare]

I'd like to be the chief editor of some obscure and poorly organized expat rag in southeast asia.

[Le Libérer]

I'm majoring in Business Administration with a specialization in finance and accounting.

What do you plan on doing with your degree?

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[tom1992]

I want study sociology (5 years in Chile), then get a masters in sociology then a phd in sociology or economy. I want to promote revolutionary places, to teach kids and adults about revolution and left wing ideas. Although my country has many of these type of places. Full of books and cultural activities...Real fun and you learn alot.

[praxis1966]

What do you plan on doing with your degree?

That's what I was wondering. I can't fathom why any leftist would want to go into business administration.

As for myself, I'm more or less content at the moment to do what activism I can and spread the word of leftist news as much as I can through electronic media. I started a really unfocused blog a few months back which I'm considering reformatting into a film criticism/analysis site devoted to a left-materialist approach... I guess maybe I idolize the French New Wave directors too much, because I'm kinda considering starting screening and film debate type thingy which most of those guys did before they got into criticism and eventually directing. I don't know that I'm capable of taking it that last mile, especially considering I'm starting out a bit late, but who the hell knows?

I also have plans to head back to school soon, probably for a major in social science education... I don't know where all that fits in to my pipe dreams concerning film, but I feel like I'd be good at it and if I could reach even one student, just one, all the shit that goes along with public education in this country would be worth it.

[RichardAWilson]

What do you plan on doing with your degree?

Well, considering I like living (vs. working), I will probably use it in banking - Loan Officer, Mortgage Officer, something along those lines. - Off weekends, off holidays, etc. I might even use it toward becoming a Certified Financial Planner - helping people save and earn decent returns. P.S. There are state and union jobs that require business administrators.