The WTF are u doing with your life thread

[Bislane]

Life's a bitch and then you die

that's why we get high

(this thread needs to)

[eggshell]

that's why we get high

(this thread needs to)

not rly... half the time these types of discussions start [ie . why is everyone around me a sheep? i will be different and travel the world and become an astrogeologist blogger] is because someone smoked too much weed

[Bislane]

should have been specific: RandR might need to get high,

[Mr Waffles]

not rly... half the time these types of discussions start [ie . why is everyone around me a sheep? i will be different and travel the world and become an astrogeologist blogger] is because someone smoked too much weed

You need to smoke more weed.

I contemplate the meaningless of life all the time. Anyway you look at it, we are all nothing. Cogs in the fucking wheel. Do what you want, act within how you feel life should be lived. Doing it by others' standards makes you a tool.

It doesn't matter anyways.

go buy some expensive pants and make yourself feel better.

[6ixes&7evens]

[aleopold]

it feels like i am lost in a pit of consumerism don't tear me up randr, please? (7)

[ke1]

You need to smoke more weed.

I contemplate the meaningless of life all the time. Anyway you look at it, we are all nothing. Cogs in the fucking wheel. Do what you want, act within how you feel life should be lived. Doing it by others' standards makes you a tool.

It doesn't matter anyways.

go buy some expensive pants and make yourself feel better.

Hope this isn't serious.

[Kemosabe]

my first term of college is almost over and im diggin' it. i'm hoping to find a career in urban planning. so with that; i'm in a "sustainability" class for the remaining year and more specifically i'm studying some city planning for a report right now. i feel like i have found a serious area of interest and i'm actually excelling in it. i have all the resources and opportunities at my finger tips. maybe the school i chose is just a good match for me.

i also have a dime piece student teacher for one of my classes and sometimes she wears redwings to class. true luv.

[Baeyer-Drewson]

After I bought the diapers I realized that a whole month's supply of them was only $80... I don't know if anyone on sufu can imagine being hard up for $80 worth of diapers for your baby per month when you're in your 30's and married, but yeah, this situation has gotten out of control because of the guy, and that's poverty to the level where you don't even get to choose what you eat, in a country where meals are available for $3 or something.

This is real fucking talk. I sometimes laugh at some of the complaints I read on these boards. Fuck, I sometimes laugh at some of the things I/my girlfriend complain about. Surplus cash is a luxury, it doesn't entitle you to anything. Most people in the world (using the literal definition of most) have trouble just making it from day to day.

On a tangentially related note, I'm now Dr B-D, and cos I'm hard up for cash and can't start a job til Jan, I'm currently washing undergrad chemical glassware in 85% humidity in labs with no air-con. And you know what? I actually don't give a fuck, cos it pays a rididculous sum here and a lot of people have to do my job elsewhere in the world for barely enough to live off.

[f50fan]

I keep typing up a paragraph for this thread, but end up deleting it.

Just wanted to say: This thread has helped me to realize that I still have a choice to direct and change my life however I want, and that its never too late. (i know that sounds mad korny)

[dismalfuture]

This is real fucking talk. I sometimes laugh at some of the complaints I read on these boards. Fuck, I sometimes laugh at some of the things I/my girlfriend complain about. Surplus cash is a luxury, it doesn't entitle you to anything. Most people in the world (using the literal definition of most) have trouble just making it from day to day.

On a tangentially related note, I'm now Dr B-D, and cos I'm hard up for cash and can't start a job til Jan, I'm currently washing undergrad chemical glassware in 85% humidity in labs with no air-con. And you know what? I actually don't give a fuck, cos it pays a rididculous sum here and a lot of people have to do my job elsewhere in the world for barely enough to live off.

word up man, my dad has a Ph.D in something too (I don't even know what it's in) but he's never been making that real mad hectic kind of money, mainly because his drive for something else (which I also don't know what it actually entails) supersedes his drive for money. He lives alright but he ain't pimping a Murcielago and popping bottles of cristal rose anytime soon, if you know what I mean.

But yeah man, up here, everybody 'looks' rich nowadays, because they just invented the bank loan - tons of Koreans getting German cars with values that exceed their total annual income, people ogling IWC's at the duty free before they go to Guam, people kind of half-getting into real estate that is overvalued and still way high for anyone but to rent., but people are out here hustling and there are still pangs of poorness around. There's a saying in Korean that you say people of age/higher status that basically means 'buy me some delicious food!' and I've realized that shit is pretty literal, compared to all the other colloquial yes-no-maybe sayings in Korean and Asian languages. I look at that guy, my gf's friend's husband, and wonder what is gonna happen to him. He's gonna lose his family he's made, in about a month, but I wonder what will happen after that.

The sad thing is, he probably doesn't wonder and dream about doing different lines of work like many in this thread; he only compares raw numbers and has one of those weird entitlement issues to big salary figures, but has no way to prove himself, tbh, and so he will never get an in. People here develop kind of late in life, but I do wonder why he isn't seeing life hit him like a locomotive going 1mph when he's standing still.

[po_boy_fuuma_hatesbargerz]

People here develop kind of late in life, but I do wonder why he isn't seeing life hit him like a locomotive going 1mph when he's standing still.

This is more hearsay than anything else, but wtf is up with native-born korean guys? they seem to grow up pussy-whipped or something. Far worse than any other foreign asians I've seen in the states, and american-born korean dudes are usually pretty chill.

[RandR]

This is real fucking talk. I sometimes laugh at some of the complaints I read on these boards.

seconded, Dr. B-D. My family was poor as hell growing up, and having lived like that for 16 years of my life I can honestly say that it's a way of life that not many people know about or want to know about.

The really fucked up thing is that even though we were poor as hell, at least we ate at least once a day. Maybe it was just rice and kimchi, but at least it was something. I know there are worse off people in the world elsewhere and I shudder to think about the avenues of life that open up for those people in general.

I'd say coming from no money is definitely a motivator is trying to get paid, honestly. People with 1st world problems who have never had to experience anything worse than eating cup ramen instead of homemade food in their dorm can feel free to do anything, but you tell me you want to be a philosopher when you're starving and see how long that lasts.

aleopold, I'm a consumer too. Everyone is a consumer. Not everyone is an idiotic consumer who "wants to be original", like intotherain. You're fine, dude.

[dismalfuture]

This is more hearsay than anything else, but wtf is up with native-born korean guys? they seem to grow up pussy-whipped or something. Far worse than any other foreign asians I've seen in the states, and american-born korean dudes are usually pretty chill.

It's a combination of this:

-Mother has the ultimate word on everything

-Sexuality is repressed as fuck here, patriarchal society, Asian home life that is often way too close to incest for comfort, no pornography here, guys commit technical date rape on girls all the time here, and girls set themselves up for that because that's the only way it goes

-far too many rules and stipulations about trying to get a foothold in society; it's tons of people trying to catch up and nobody really wants to be a leader. There's tons of room up in first class and the tickets are free if you ask, essentially, but people are all cramming into economy for no reason at all.

[Magsåvningsreserven]

I keep typing up a paragraph for this thread, but end up deleting it.

done this so many times.

[BeachHouse]

this is really minor, but signing up for Mint.com and spending a couple hours setting up shit so I can understand my finances was a step in the right direction as far as getting my life together as an adult. I'm terrible with money, so it definitely helps. Now I at least know how broke I actually am.

[aleopold]

do those kind of sites sketch you out at all in terms of security? i think my bank offers something similar to mint for 2 bucks a month or something? you think it's worth it? my problems seem to be in setting certain amounts of money aside and not touching that money. i think?

[BeachHouse]

I looked into it pretty deep, and it got a bunch of recognition in Money, Forbes, Economist, etc... I feel pretty comfortable with it.

[BeachHouse]

I think it's great for average people with average financial needs. Probably not enough detail for people looking to really analyze their financial portfolio, but it's so easy to use and autocompletes most of the data needed, it's perfect for someone like me.

[sawyer]

And this.. again, I am not sure how much you have traveled, but personally, I've been all over the world. My experiences range from staying in extremely posh hotels to slumming it in hostels and guest houses in the countryside. Either way you do it, the shit costs money man, and money doesn't just grow on trees.

agree with most of what's going on in the last few pages but i feel the need to say that this is patently false. i've traveled the US, canada, central america, south america, and the carribean thru sailing, the pow wow circuit and capoeira

none of which cost me a dime and my sailing gigs were paid

[ke1]

Mind going in to detail of how you were able to do so?

Would be foolish for you to say all of that if it all occurred under some special circumstance.

[sawyer]

what kind of detail is there to know?

as a deckhand the boats you work on sail all over the place, this should be a no brainer. pow wow dancing is a real limited kinda thing as you have to be of a certain ethnicity to participate, but that has taken me around central, western, southwest US and canada. with capoeira ive been to brazil and costa rica.

yeah, i spent a little money dining out but i do that even here at home. otherwise my room and board were looked after.

[ke1]

Wasn't aware that you we're a deckhand; really the only detail I was looking for.

[shimshimhae]

i'm transferring into cornell aem this spring ))

[zerofuture]

Having landed a contract doing development management with an $80M property portfolio, I'm back to the hustle. I chose this position over other more financially lucrative offers due to the nature of their projects: namely, architecturally interesting urban infill development. As a bonus, one of the special projects that I get to manage is a craft brewery; who doesn't like free beer?

[Nostalgic]

Going to a local suny for Art history, then Grad school for art history at Yale. (Hopefully haha) become a curator. Live life, be happy. Have Kids, take them to soccer. Watch them Grow. Die, repeat.

[po_boy_fuuma_hatesbargerz]

I looked into it pretty deep, and it got a bunch of recognition in Money, Forbes, Economist, etc... I feel pretty comfortable with it.

The authentication method it uses is also passive, meaning there's no ability to go in and withdraw/deposit crap after you've given it 'access.' I think it's an OAuth variant or something – http://oauth.net/about/

Just if you're interested. There's even a nifty iPHone app that I played with - but tbqh, I just type in all my receipts into a Google Docs spreadsheet when I get home and have a little pie chart set aside for how much I'm spending/earning a month. It's pretty simple, but if anybody wants a template I can PM 'em.

[Desi]

i forgot the password for my mint.com a while ago and it doesn't send me the recovery email so I never got back into it. need to though since my job is never generous with allocating work hours my way.

[bfan]

about to change my major from chemistry to cognitive science/neuroscience...I'm taking a class on drugs and the brain next quarter and I simply cannot think of a single subject I find more interesting. I might be keeping my pre-med classes as well so who knows (you docta yet?)

[TTM]

well now... i'm a green horn on a crab boat in alaska. Pays pretty solid, long hours but its worth it for my baby back in detroit. I love her so much. i'm getting her name tattooed on my hand so when i pick those crab up i know who i'm doing it for.