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I guess it all depends on what you're looking for in life, how quickly you figure that out, and of course the crushing outside expectations to be Sigourney Weaver or P. Diddy. And once you've dealt with all of that, you have to hold strong to who you want to be. I had those dreams, too. Once I got out of my small town and went to the city for University, I was smacked across the back of the head with the realization that there was a world way bigger than the University bubble I had come to chase. Plans changed. I didn't become the doctor or dentist I had initially planned on being, but I think I gained so much more from the experiences I had when I should have been buried in biochemistry books. But I still finished! And now I have what could be considered a career job. But unlike all of my coworkers who have followed the same green trail from marriage to house to dog to kids in the suburbs, I have stuck to the plan. And I wouldn't change a thing. I love and respect all my friends/coworkers, and I think they understand the path I've chosen as I have for them. My family is slowly realizing this, too. It doesn't mean I won't get married or have kids, but I'll never slow down. And nobody should. As morbid as it sounds, every day you live is one day closer to death. If you want the neat little box described in the question, then grab it! If you don't, grab that! Unless you have unhappy friends, there is no reason to judge the decisions and paths of others. It's just something you have to accept or avoid, I guess. If you're ever unsure of not following the recipe, a poster my brother and his wife gave me sums it up nicely.... Not all those who wander are lost.
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I just spent several hours writing a detailed narrative as a response to this question but found there were too many characters (4036 instead of 4000) so was trying to edit it. While doing that all 4029 characters I'd written-had started to successfully reduce the number-disappeared! It left the page & lost my thoughts on the matter.
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I just spent several hours writing a detailed narrative as a response to this question but found there were too many characters (4036 instead of 4000) so was trying to edit it. While doing that all 4029 characters I'd written-had started to successfully reduce the number-disappeared! It left the page & lost my thoughts on the matter.
Guess I'll sum it up now by saying that I conform to being a nonconformist.
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I haven't done any of these yet. I travel as often and far as possible, have taken various classes to gain some educational experience and certifications in yoga, nursing, and phlebotomy, and have spent every day I can outside in the fresh air with my dogs. I am finally finishing up a nursing degree and hope it allows me to continue traveling and enjoying outdoors, new places and good wine. I am a late bloomer and like it :) I wouldn't mind some diamonds though...
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High school slacker, C average student...
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High school slacker, C average student...
Culinary arts wanna be
Night time security guard
Midwest to Los Angeles Tranplant
Party Party Party, Marry, Party, Party, Party
Rehab, Divorce, Rehab
Re-marry, Career, American Nightmare/dream...
....please pause as the rest of the narrative loads.
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My drum beat is way different than this! The only thing I have in common is a job and yard work... PLENTY of yard work!
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Since my young life was based on status, money, expectations, keeping up with the Jones', I dropped out and into the hippie lifestyle. I would have stayed like that probably longer than I did, but had to shave my legs for nursing school! argh Had to cut my hair too! (It was to my thighs and gave me migraines when piled atop my head.)
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Since my young life was based on status, money, expectations, keeping up with the Jones', I dropped out and into the hippie lifestyle. I would have stayed like that probably longer than I did, but had to shave my legs for nursing school! argh Had to cut my hair too! (It was to my thighs and gave me migraines when piled atop my head.)
So, i dropped out, went to school got the degree, the job, the money, the cool stereo equipment, the single life, the career advancements, the moves, then the family and then all went to hell...
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All of these affect my life because of the expectations everyone else has. I cannot rock my amazing body odor because people expect me to smell like a bushel of jasmine (x10). There are about 1 million of these examples.
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I don't plan on getting a minivan... :/
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I don't plan on getting a minivan... :/
I am in college right now, so I suppose I'm still working on step 1. I've had a job but hated it. Plus, it was affecting my school performance, so I had to give that one up.
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FIRST I did yard work. A lot of it. My dad said that he wanted to have a son so he wouldn't have to do as much yard work.
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That sums me up pretty well.
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That sums me up pretty well.
Except I've always done yard work. I kinda like it.
However, recently sold the mini-van.
Now keep the diamond in a drawer (it kept snagging things and getting cookie dough, mud, etc, in it).
Cashing out my retirement savings to pay for college expenses that keep rising like mercury in a thermometer on an August afternoon.
I've kept the husband.... and he's kept me....it's been twenty two years of adventure, and I hope at least twenty two more! We still make each other laugh and spoon when it's cold at night. It's good to have such a friend.
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i don't have a degree...i got a job straight out of high school...and haven't stopped working in.....10 years....i don't think i have a 401k anymore....no wife...i got a compact car....no baby....and no yard....this narrative...doesn't work fo rme
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Going to college, getting Associate's in May, moving away and getting my Bachelor's and then Master's.
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Going to college, getting Associate's in May, moving away and getting my Bachelor's and then Master's.
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Shizzle.
I'm going to hate school so much.
After all that, who the hell knows?
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Went to college, got a degree, then spent essentially a decade *Trying* to get a paying job. Now a decade behind for retirement
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I saw an old South Park recently where Ike, Kyle's little brother, was having sex with his teacher, a woman.
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