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Do you have ambition? Do you have idea? What do you want to do with your life? (POLL)

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Do you know what to do with your life?

Hi,
I'm posting this because it's the way I feel, and I figured I couldn't be the only one. Recently, I realised I'm just going through the motions. I don't have any passion for my degree, I just thought it was the right thing to do after graduating school.

Now, I'm in the final year of my degree, come september. I always thought I had ambition, I always try hard to get good grades and try to have a positive outlook, but now I realise the last few years has been more about grades and less about reality. Now I just feel lost, now I seperated my grades and thought about a life of working in the field I study in. It's not a life I want to follow, but now I don't know what life to follow. So, in my reality check, I wanted to see who felt the same, hence the poll above.

Thanks for anyone who responds and answers the poll :smile:.
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Original post by thatguy170296
Hi,
I'm posting this because it's the way I feel, and I figured I couldn't be the only one. Recently, I realised I'm just going through the motions. I don't have any passion for my degree, I just thought it was the right thing to do after graduating school.

Now, I'm in the final year of my degree, come september. I always thought I had ambition, I always try hard to get good grades and try to have a positive outlook, but now I realise the last few years has been more about grades and less about reality. Now I just feel lost, now I seperated my grades and thought about a life of working in the field I study in. It's not a life I want to follow, but now I don't know what life to follow. So, in my reality check, I wanted to see who felt the same, hence the poll below.

Thanks for anyone who responds and answers the poll :smile:.


where is the poll?
Original post by ODES_PDES
where is the poll?

Up now! :smile:
Yes I do, and I'm determined to achieve it
I'm excited for the future
Original post by Nursey_nurse
Yes I do, and I'm determined to achieve it
I'm excited for the future



Are you training to become a nurse
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I know what you mean. I dropped a year in 6th form and although it was the hardest thing to do i'm really thankful for it now i think. I actually know where i want to go a little bit more . Its gonna be hard when my friends leave to uni in September but i'm glad i gave myself a second chance and now instead of just going with the norms i actually know the course i want to get to and to work hard for it and the kinda job i want after it :smile: i think there is too much emphasis on just going to uni rather than going to uni for a reason and it makes me sad that people don't get to live life a little more and explore to decide what they want to do.
Original post by Blue_Mason
Are you training to become a nurse


Yeah 👌
Hoping to go into media production, but that could change bc I've never been one to stick on one path. I guess I have ambition, it's motivation that I'm lacking really.
Original post by Samonia
I know what you mean. I dropped a year in 6th form and although it was the hardest thing to do i'm really thankful for it now i think. I actually know where i want to go a little bit more . Its gonna be hard when my friends leave to uni in September but i'm glad i gave myself a second chance and now instead of just going with the norms i actually know the course i want to get to and to work hard for it and the kinda job i want after it :smile: i think there is too much emphasis on just going to uni rather than going to uni for a reason and it makes me sad that people don't get to live life a little more and explore to decide what they want to do.


too true, wish I'd taken a gap year before uni.
I don't have ambition. I do have persistence though. When i get to college and do some exploration then I'll know my passion.
Original post by thatguy170296
too true, wish I'd taken a gap year before uni.


I wish it was more the normal thing to take a gap year then people could learn to be grown up and get a job etc. before Uni. i think it would mean more people would do a course in the job they wanted rather than what sounds awesome at 18
Go to LSE
Become an IB
Be balling like a sphere

That's the plan at least.
My only real ambition is to settle down and start a family. Apparently that makes me a shame to womankind.
Redesign the combustion engine to run off something sustainable, honestly I feel that something so well mechanically designed would be a loss to the world if we just said kill it off. As a mechanic, I feel a lot of jobs would be lost without it. Electric cars are just too simple for my liking.


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I just go with the flow. Planning on trying out different things until I get to something I enjoy. Life is an adventure.
I am not ambitious and never have been. It has just never been in me. I am happy and content by the simple things in life, animals, rain, food, good relationships, golf

Life humbled me early, I dont dream of owning a supercar or a mansion and i love it
Original post by Samonia
I wish it was more the normal thing to take a gap year then people could learn to be grown up and get a job etc. before Uni. i think it would mean more people would do a course in the job they wanted rather than what sounds awesome at 18


I agree, I had to take 4 gap years because of health and I'm so glad because if id carried on with the first degree id started i would be completely lost now
Original post by WillsWheels
Redesign the combustion engine to run off something sustainable, honestly I feel that something so well mechanically designed would be a loss to the world if we just said kill it off. As a mechanic, I feel a lot of jobs would be lost without it. Electric cars are just too simple for my liking.


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What do you mean by saying eletric cars are too simple
Original post by Nursey_nurse
Yeah 👌



Much respect
Original post by Hevachan
I agree, I had to take 4 gap years because of health and I'm so glad because if id carried on with the first degree id started i would be completely lost now


I'm glad that you picked the one right for you later :smile: it all seems to rushed when people chose their subjects when it kinda helps dictate your life

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