Who else is not interested with...?

I'm not interested in academic success, social status or wealth. I'm interested in happiness.

I would be satisfied with a ****** job

Yeah, I lost my motivation to work supremely hard to make a **** load of dollar when I realised I was happiest working on a farm picking apples, making music with some friends and having the affection of a lovely woman.

I know, Cheryl. You always tell me that.

That's what most people think, right up until their mid-life crisis.

Would you rather I stopped posting in any thread made by you? :-)

I don't think I've ever posted that comment before (usually you're saying the opposite of what you've said in this thread), but you do seem to take issue with everything I say.

You and your cliched opinion can **** off.

Would you really? Have you any experience of having a ****** job to make this declaration?

If you've ever actually worked full-time in a job you disliked, you would realise the effect it has on your life and happiness. I don't understand how anyone can be so flippant about how they spend 40 hours a week for 45 years.

Some truths are hard to hear, indeed so painful that some would rather curse the messenger than listen.

You're right. I'm sixteen with absolutely no life experience.

But, I don't know if that's just a pipe dream but what I meant was something along the lines of this:

- an average job, which would give me enough time on my hands to do whatever it is I wanted, i.e, improve my command of the English, French and whatever language it is I fall in love with, get to some serious writing and music making. Pipe dream, eh? :[

I'm not interested in academic success, social status or wealth. I'm interested in happiness.

You're right. I'm sixteen with absolutely no life experience.

But, I don't know if that's just a pipe dream but what I meant was something along the lines of this:

- an average job, which would give me enough time on my hands to do whatever it is I wanted, i.e, improve my command of the English, French and whatever language it is I fall in love with, get to some serious writing and music making. Pipe dream, eh? :[

Don't mind my cursing, I have a bad mouth.

You been through that phase yourself then, man?

Happiness is a function of wealth, amongst other things, surely? Imagine a world with no roof over your head, food..

I thought you were as an IT analyst or something along the lines of that? :\

If that makes you happy, then that's great. I was thinking of doing something along the lines of that tbh. Not picking apples but some not having as much stress while being enough to get me by.

How different do you think things would have been, had you been like, erm, the nerdy kid at school instead of going through the whole 'sex, drugs and rock n' roll' phase you went through? (said so on your profile the last I checked!)

I think its good that you're questioning things, unlike, as you say, kids in the GCSE forum who have no idea why they want what they want.

Welcome to a capitalist economy, where the 'choices' are handed out to you.

Yep, when I was a bit younger than you (14-16). Didn't give a crap about school, all I wanted was time for myself. Ended up nearly failing in school and falling out with my parents. Turning that situation around was so much harder than it would have been to continue and improve my previous lifestyle.

In my opinion, it's better to find work which interests you and either combine that with your hobby (in your case, become a writer or teacher) or earn yourself a position which you can be proud of and which lets you have some time for own interests (e.g. professor).

I smell a conspiracy theory! There's a secret organisation pulling the strings, I tell you!



Noted, sir. Thank you. Very much.

Damn right, it's better but take into account the amount of fiction writers and avant-garde metal musicians (even when not taking the genre into consideration, that's still a hell of a lot. + avant garde metal is apparently less popular than traditional metal) who are far, far superior than I am in many ways, out there and this really slims my chances at making a living through that! So, I should be sticking to the rule book, earning bucket loads of money and using that to fund my main interests, considering it sounds far more realistic than the other way round! (which is using my main interests, music and writing, as my main sources of income)

Either that or...relying on über skillz in convincing people into buying my self produced music. My charisma (or lack thereof) ftw!