Current Events > Who else here don't got ambition/drive, or any professional skill

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3x college failure checking in. damn u intro calculus

never had any dreams beyond "quiet life of solitude". no career aspirations, no motivation, no professional skills, no hobbies (beyond video games I guess)

Me... Failed every class I took in Community College and have no practical skills I can put to use anywhere...

Mostly why I'm just a night grocery stocker...

ADHD makes it hard to tell what is or isn't a temporary obsession, not to mention blinds you with mostly wanting anything that can immediately satisfy want for dopamine.

I have no ambition but I do have professional skills. But Id rather live off the land aided by modern tech Skywalker style.

Me. I always wonder wtf I'm supposed to do in life. I have no skills and no talent. There's nothing I want to "do".

random_man9119 posted...

Me... Failed every class I took in Community College and have no practical skills I can put to use anywhere...

Mostly why I'm just a night grocery stocker...

my man. community college was too tough for me

wanderingshade posted...

ADHD makes it hard to tell what is or isn't a temporary obsession, not to mention blinds you with mostly wanting anything that can immediately satisfy want for dopamine.

i have adhd as well, unfortunately i dont tend to get obsessed with stuff. at least i dont think so

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ur in a band tho right? (not gatekeeping lack of ambition, just askin cuz it seems like u got something u like doin on the side)

i empathize either way homie

Ooh, that's me! Did about a month of community college and dropped out because it felt like high school all over again. Lucked into the legal field when a friend recommended me to her record retrieval company. From there, joined a couple of law firms until I got to my current one where I'm making more than I ever have with a really low workload. Most days are a step above "be a warm body around in case something happens."

Dungeater posted...

3x college failure checking in. damn u intro calculus

never had any dreams beyond "quiet life of solitude". no career aspirations, no motivation, no professional skills, no hobbies (beyond video games I guess)

Organic Chemistry was really what fucked my, then I found out that it is considered one of the hardest college courses available.
I took a bunch of chemistry classes, but organic Chemistry was so hard that I couldn't understand shit

I would like to but I'm too dumb and broke to go to college for it.

boomgetchopped3 posted...

I have no ambition but I do have professional skills.

This. I'm quite satisfied with my job and really have no desire to move up the ranks. I don't think I could ever motivate myself to get a graduate degree either. I had a hard enough time getting myself to actually do the work for undergrad.

Calculus sucked for me too and I only got through it since the test review questions were pretty much what was on the test. It was one of my lower grade letters.

OldNastyBastard posted...

Ooh, that's me! Did about a month of community college and dropped out because it felt like high school all over again. Lucked into the legal field when a friend recommended me to her record retrieval company. From there, joined a couple of law firms until I got to my current one where I'm making more than I ever have with a really low workload. Most days are a step above "be a warm body around in case something happens."

i am incredibly envious

Southernfatman posted...

Me. I always wonder wtf I'm supposed to do in life. I have no skills and no talent. There's nothing I want to "do".

perma mood

Thermador446 posted...

Organic Chemistry was really what fucked my, then I found out that it is considered one of the hardest college courses available.
I took a bunch of chemistry classes, but organic Chemistry was so hard that I couldn't understand shit

academia in general is way above my head, but applied sciences are another level

Checking in. I couldn't manage college while also working, and didn't know what I wanted to do, anyway. I've worked labor jobs my whole life and honestly prefer it because I like keeping active at work, but damn the pay is garbage. So I married up. Still just working labor, but now I'm fun money/utilities while the husband pays the mortgage. A few times I've tried to monetize hobbies or interests, but that just makes the hobby feel like a job and I start to hate it.

Dungeater posted...

i am incredibly envious

I'm aware of how fortunate I am for it, but it does have me worry more about my job security than I ever have before. I was "live to work" for so long and recently switched to "work to live" before coming here and kind of took it too far.

absolutely me, i was raised by teen girls and their grandmother on negative reinforcement, no father, but even if i had one in my life, he'd be a teen too, and as my mother became an adult, she became miserable, and i was tought that you live to work, not work to live, and my own adult life experience in 20XX America validates that judgment completely

viewmaster_pi posted...

absolutely me, i was raised by teen girls and their grandmother on negative reinforcement, no father, but even if i had one in my life, he'd be a teen too, and as my mother became an adult, she became miserable, and i was tought that you live to work, not work to live, and my own adult life experience in 20XX America validates that judgment completely

yea life's pretty rude imho tbh

oh oops, taught*

bnui_ransder posted...

Yeah

Didn't even make it to college

i shouldnt have tried. i didnt to try but my folks threatened to put me on the streets if i didnt go. i warned em i was too dumb but they were in denial

oh ofc im the one who paid tho. still in debt lol

math kept me from sticking with college too, it even got me to drop music theory. maybe if you're a music professor, don't undermine the entire thing by saying "it's just math"

i can only take being made to feel dumber than everyone around me for so long, don't try and ruin my love for the arts while you're at it

i somehow got a grant and squandered it, let's fucking gooooooo

viewmaster_pi posted...

math kept me from sticking with college too, it even got me to drop music theory. maybe if you're a music professor, don't undermine the entire thing by saying "it's just math"

i can only take being made to feel dumber than everyone around me for so long, don't try and ruin my love for the arts while you're at it

you are SPITTING dude

i already feel fuckin dumb enough!

Dungeater posted...

never had any dreams beyond "quiet life of solitude". no career aspirations, no motivation, no professional skills, no hobbies (beyond video games I guess)

Yeah that's about exactly where I am.

Don't feel bad; all of us will be replaced by robot workers within the next 5 years.

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it is what it is

Unknown5uspect posted...

Yeah that's about exactly where I am.

solidarity

B18Champ posted...

Don't feel bad; all of us will be replaced by robot workers within the next 5 years.

hurry

No.

Only scumbags tend to have things like "ambition" or "drive"

Me. I even dropped out of hs but that was because of drugs and being a piece of shit.

HylianFox posted...

No.

Only scumbags tend to have things like "ambition" or "drive"

i wouldnt go that far, but they are qualities i generally find unattractive

HighSeraph posted...

Me. I even dropped out of hs but that was because of drugs and being a piece of shit.

gang

I was on this same life road for a long time. I struggled to graduate from hs, got stuck in a dead end low paying manual labor job, kept failing my community college classes, living at my mom's place, and found it real hard to stay away from the bottle. Then one day I met my now wife and her two kids. I figured I was going nowhere fast all on my own so it wouldn't be so bad to pursue that relationship and see where it took me. We ended up moving in together and I took my role as a father very seriously, I guess cause I wanted to set an example and be a better father to my kids than my own father was to me. So with that in mind I wanted to make school feel important to my kids so they wouldn't be stuck with the shitty life that I was living. So I pushed my self to learn how to learn and do well in school, so I could qualify for a better job and get out of my shitty one. I started studying and doing my homework in front of my kids so they could see and familiarize themselves with what the effort looked like. I put myself through hell and finally managed to matriculate to University and get my bachelor's, and from there a better job. Now the little ones are in university and I'm just chilling while working as an accountant. I still wouldn't say I have much of a drive. My whole life I've sort of just did things with the hope they workout, and managed to accumulate some professional skills along the way.

So Idk guys, the best thing for me was to find something else that was more important than just myself.

so tru bestie

Yeah, I've never had drive or serious ambitions. I don't really have any skills that I can market. I do have a job, but it's one that anyone could do.

I basically just exist. There's nothing more to me, just an empty life spent waiting for nothing.

A_Good_Boy posted...

So Idk guys, the best thing for me was to find something else that was more important than just myself.

I'm glad you managed to make a life worth living. That's what I want too, but it's not possible for me.

Dungeater posted...

3x college failure checking in. damn u intro calculus

never had any dreams beyond "quiet life of solitude". no career aspirations, no motivation, no professional skills, no hobbies (beyond video games I guess

I have plenty of aspirations. I've achieved a few of them. But theres more to go.

I also occasionally gain new ones. Thats a skill many never learned.

im sure Hylian was mostly just venting. this is definitely a vent-safe thread

A_Good_Boy posted...

So Idk guys, the best thing for me was to find something else that was more important than just myself.

Idk I have a wife and child and it kinda just leaves me with constant disappointment that I'm never going to be good enough because I don't have a desire to be better.

viewmaster_pi posted...

math kept me from sticking with college too, it even got me to drop music theory. maybe if you're a music professor, don't undermine the entire thing by saying "it's just math"

i can only take being made to feel dumber than everyone around me for so long, don't try and ruin my love for the arts while you're at it

What everyone else is doing really shouldn't matter in the field of the arts. Just do your own thing.

I've never had ambition or drive to do anything in my life. I do/did have skills but I'd never want to do them for a job. The only thing I truly enjoy is not being apart of society. I've spent the last 25 years of my life doing absolutely nothing and I'm happy. I just wish I could get paid to do nothing. Disability would be nice, but I'm not really disabled so I don't feel right applying for it and wouldn't probably be denied anyway. UBI would be nice but who knows if that will ever happen in my lifetime.

I do what I do as a concession to the fact that I live in a capitalist hellscape, so I don't really care deeply about what I do. I just do it to be left alone and so something moderately creative with my time.

I'm not sure it's the same thing. I have professional skills, but no passion or ambition to do more.

TuxedoCyan posted...

I've never had ambition or drive to do anything in my life. I do/did have skills but I'd never want to do them for a job. The only thing I truly enjoy is not being apart of society. I've spent the last 25 years of my life doing absolutely nothing and I'm happy. I just wish I could get paid to do nothing. Disability would be nice, but I'm not really disabled so I don't feel right applying for it and wouldn't probably be denied anyway. UBI would be nice but who knows if that will ever happen in my lifetime.

Wanting UBI while representing possibly the most compelling argument against it is wild tho

Here..but I am "decent" with kids and if you have a degree and "decent" on working with kids, you can kinda put money in your bank account. If I didnt have a hiccup - my ex-gf, I would've have 100K in my bank account this year.

as for as ambitions...I am a pursuing actor. I have been on TV and national commercials...I'm currently in the running for a recurring role on a mid-level TV show and I hope I get it.

but I totally understand TC and everything he said.

some people doing nothing is not a compelling argument against UBI

dont Toonstrack up my topic, i swear to god

Same-ish.

I fucked up by rushing into a college and a degree that was a crapshoot. Should have taken a year or so to build a nest egg and think about what I really should do.

Was never a highly motivated or passionate person so I lack interesting skills, hobbies, and goals.

My one saving grace is wanting to raise a family so thankfully I managed to force myself to be out there, connect with people, and eventually get to marriage.

That said I refuse to be the trope of living vicariously through my children so I let them be the persons they want to be and give them simple and useful wisdoms/skills here and there.

Its sad how all of us would completely satisfied if we could just live quietly with only basic comforts. But even that is asking for too much of this capitalist hellscape

At least we have each other (:

Dungeater posted...

some people doing nothing is not a compelling argument against UBI

dont Toonstrack up my topic, i swear to god

Well I mean all it took to kill UBI talks in the states was for anti-work mods to start talking about themselves.

So

Dungeater posted...

some people doing nothing is not a compelling argument against UBI

Wanting to get paid to do nothing is pretty much the exact argument right wingers make against UBI

I have professional skills but if I didn't have to, I would not work.