Scoot: Where Are You Going?

Scoot 03.28.11	list is post rock that puts me in this kind of mood
Hawks 03.28.11	You pretty much described my life. Only I don't have a job anymore lol.
BigHans 03.28.11	Dude youre never going to know what youre doing. Unless you get lucky and fall into stuff, which alot of people do. Most people struggle pretty much their whole life.
Scoot 03.28.11	i guess all you can really do is make the best of it.
dnor 03.28.11	Shit just seems to fall in to place at some points of your life. I spend my entire high school career trying to put my life into a somewhat complacent order to no avail...low-and-behold 3 years later, I have a great job, a fiance, and a house. and I'm only 20 as well (turning 21 in October). I'm a lucky guy though, and I don't dispute that. Point of my story is don't get too down...you never know what tomorrow holds.
North0House2 03.28.11	I may only be 17, but I kinda know what you mean lol. It sucks, I have no idea where to go, and all my friends have themselves figured out, I don't even know what college to go to... What sucks is the fact that all of my passions would prove to be low income jobs.
MO 03.28.11	I'm 22 and had no idea what I was going to do/really worried about finding work after school. Just started looking around in my field and ended up knowing someone who needed help with a project, so like Hans said, I fell into it so to speak. Got in that way and now I'm chillin at a job I love. It takes time, I got lucky to find something so early. As much as I never wanted to admit it, knowing people is a great way to find work/get wedged in. Keep in mind too that the internet is where everything's headed, so I'm sure you'll find something.
Remer17 03.28.11	Most of those people you think have set plans will likely not stick to those plans. Life usually doesn't work that way. Most people don't get where they need to be right away. I have a bachelors and I'm going back to school to get an associates in the field I feel I belong in. It may sound backwards but it's what I feel I have to do. Keep your head up and always be open minded.
cvlts 03.28.11	21 'n dgafffffffffffffffffffffff
Relinquished 03.28.11	^^^^
North0House2 03.28.11	"Keep in mind to that the internet is where everything's headed, so I'm sure you'll find something." Lol, well, according to scientists, massive solar flares are hitting in 2012... Like, it's fairly certain. So, no one knows what'll happen then, but it's assumed that it will completely fry the grid. based on that, if you believe it, those people who only know how to do stuff on the internet won't know where to go... Either way, I think manual labor is the way to go. But, I'm old fashioned.
Scoot 03.28.11	@Remer 17 I was considering pursuing a journalism degree but, as you said, everything is going online. Some of the fields are inevitably going to dry up and become obsolete.
Scoot 03.28.11	and shit like that is fucking worthless from what I've heard.
Remer17 03.28.11	Well I'm not the one who said everything's going online but I do understand fields becoming obsolete. Hell, I was a Music Industry major. Can't get much more obsolete than that.
SloppyMilkshake 03.28.11	First year of college, and I definitely feel ya. I went in choosing Pre-Secondary Education as my major, but now I've been wanting to change it to English or journalism. I have no idea how financially viable either of those would be though (I doubt very much at all). At the same time I sorta wanna go to film school.
psykonaut 03.28.11	as if a solar flare will disable any electronic system as important as the internet for more than like a day
Strider 03.28.11	That's my life, though I have some stuff planned out right now
Scoot 03.28.11	Oh haha, didn't read the names properly.
MO 03.28.11	lol
North0House2 03.28.11	''as if a solar flare will disable any electronic system as important as the internet for more than like a day'' Oh right, forgot that people needed it to survive so it'd be up before water would be supplied lol.
Relinquished 03.28.11	I'm lucky enough to be well suited in my life. I didn't waste my time as a teen, fuck tv. I haven't done college yet but I don't need it.
Scoot 03.28.11	I'd say art history's more useless but that's just me.
Remer17 03.28.11	Enjoying being a teen is not a waste of time but that's my opinion.
Spec 03.28.11	Go with tha flow.
Strider 03.28.11	"I'm lucky enough to be well suited in my life. I didn't waste my time as a teen, fuck tv. I haven't done college yet but I don't need it." LOL
SloppyMilkshake 03.28.11	Funny you mention that Scoot...because I was also considering that for a minute because I've always been interested in art and my History of Modern Art class is amazing. I need to get my head outta my ass.
North0House2 03.28.11	What's one industry that will never go out of business? Condom manufacturing, because people will always want to have sex. I should major in that, that's recession proof, right there...
MO 03.28.11	I guess the thing to keep in mind is that you're never going to not do anything. Unless you're just a useless tit. So you'll find something/anything to sustain yourself and then things'll go from there, but that's more like a last resort.
theacademy 03.28.11	yo lets jack sputnik's source code + make a site without mods me + u staff
theacademy 03.28.11	that'll be great for yr future
North0House2 03.28.11	Being a bum would be an adventure.
Strider 03.28.11	a pain in the ass at the same time... I wish I could be a respectful musician and then sell out faster than the Black Eyed Peas, I'd have so much money :p
North0House2 03.28.11	If I ever went into music, which I plan to at least dabble in, I'd just do it as a hobby... I don't think most musicians make much, unless they're popular in the mainstream.
MO 03.28.11	"I'd just do it as a hobby" That's what I've been doing. So fun to jam and play shows.
fr33convict 03.28.11	Unless you get some really fancy shmancy major label backing being a musician does not pay the bills really at all.
North0House2 03.28.11	I'm figuring that... But yeah, totally, as a hobby all the way to go lol
ButcheredChildren 03.28.11	Honours Criminology @ University & Honours Philosophy -> Law School + Masters -> Graduate Law School + Ph.D -> Join the lawyers without borders and lobby for fundamental human rights -> Write a few books -> come back to the western world and get married, settle down -> Teach University as a Law Prof and the retire. HOLY SHIT THERE IS MY WHOLE LIFE IN JUST OVER 3 LINES
ButcheredChildren 03.28.11	4 Lines*
North0House2 03.28.11	Lol.
ButcheredChildren 03.28.11	or I might just drop all that and live the good life you know, killing people
Jash 03.28.11	yeah dude i work at costco and i see people who have been there for 20 years and they're so miserable. i just got a job as a promo photographer for a local club which is fuckin awesome, its just a side-job but it makes going to costco to work a little less painful when i know i get to go dance at a club taking pictures and get paid for it that night
ButcheredChildren 03.28.11	Fork-lift driver by day, photographer by night or serial killer hmm....
MUNGOLOID 03.28.11	better to have dead-end job than no job at all.
Samshine 03.28.11	I totally know what you mean, I'm stuck in school and I don't know if I have a drive for it anymore.
North0House2 03.28.11	I'm in 11th grade, and I don't have the drive to do crap. Man, so much of this is just a waste of time.
North0House2 03.28.11	Which is not a good position for me to be in... Cuz I have at least 3 more years of school to go.
Trebor. 03.28.11	I'm going nowhere slow
ButcheredChildren 03.28.11	you're all a bunch of babies
omnipanzer 03.28.11	My best friend and I (known him for 15 years) are in our mid thirty's and have no college education. We make more than most the people we graduated with by building experience in carefully selected jobs and a little bit of luck. Here is a little free advice for all the kiddies in Sput-land: Never burn your bridges and get some recommendations from previous managers, FUCK listed qualifications as I've never met the list and yet I've gotten almost every job I've ever set my sights on, build a network of friends that are headed in the same direction as yourself, never be afraid to get a leg up from a friend and always be ready to reciprocate or pay it forward, always get a new job before you leave your old one, Never be afraid to talk to someone that is already in the position you want to move into. People love to talk about them selves. Show a little knowledge and buy them a beer and the info will flow like a font. always always always move up in the job you take (financially) and make sure that every job you take adds a marketable skill you can put on our resume oh, and most importantly... be a good employee for the time you are employed. I don't think that should need to be mentioned but you'd be surprised. Do that and the rest should sort itself out. ;^)
Scoot 03.29.11	when I joined here I was 15 haha
acorncheese 03.29.11	Definitely not alone. Same age as you, same situation as you, but no job, and sidelined with complications. Life fucking sucks right now. /em0
FromDaHood 03.29.11	I kinda feel obligated to do college and everything because my parents pay for private school every year but honestly would rather move out to DC and just try and get into politics as an aide or something and go from there. Connections are definitely the way to get decent jobs so try chilling at the frat house where the people wear polo shirts. That's the rich people frat and they probably have hella connections. If you can seduce them, you're in. Nepotism also works, so bum around a successful person pretending to be their friend in hopes of acquiring a decent job that you're not qualified for or pays good because he's your friend and makes concessions for you.