Comments on: So, what now?

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:07:14 +0000

Trouble may be on to something. I changed my life when I was maybe 26. New career, new city, etc. I honestly think I’m much happier now than I would be if I had never moved out of Tampa.

By: trouble

trouble — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:34:31 +0000

I went through exactly what you’re going through when I was your age. I think I was 25 or 26 at least. But, i grew up in the yuppie generation, started working in advertising, was making decent money, had an expense account, was doing fun stuff, but it all seemed empty. I trashed my career, started from scratch in a different field (working with low-income kids/gang members), and have been in my field for about 15 years now. I’ve never regretted it, not once.

I don’t make the money I could have made if I’d stayed in advertising, but I do okay, enough to own my own home and raise two kids in a nice neighborhood as a single mom. But I never feel like the world is going to hell in a handbasket and I’m helpless to change it. Well, maybe the former, but never the latter.

I have to say that some fields are just kind of hollow, or maybe you just haven’t found what it is that you are meant to do with your life. So, to me, you have two choices. You can either find something to do with your life that inspires you, or you can start using drugs more often.

Or, you could do both. That works pretty well for me.

By: cinders

cinders — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:10:16 +0000

Hey, at least you’re happier than Terrell Owens. Who knew football players could be more emo than a blogger?

By: Diane

Diane — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:30:30 +0000

Where’s Owsley when you need him?

By: JJ

JJ — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 03:03:29 +0000

Inbred southern redneck?

I’m not so sure about the inbred part.

By: mojotek

mojotek — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:41:31 +0000

I’d go with one of two choices:

1.) Find Jesus toot-sweet
2.) Build a spaceship to find out what’s really in the Delta quadrant
3.) Eat a sandwich, rub one out and take a nap

By: Ev

Ev — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:39:55 +0000

Mikey, that is perhaps the single most profound thing anyone has ever written on any blog, ever in the entire history of internet websites.

Or maybe I’m just an inbred southern redneck. Either or, you know.

By: Mikey

Mikey — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:39:26 +0000

I know it sounds lame, because I think we are a generation of cynics, but maybe looking outward is not the answer. Maybe there is no “answer”. Maybe you just need to chill the fuck out and just be happy with the knowledge that you are alive, which is a glorious motherfucking thing within itself. Even if we are only shit factories and synapses, we are undoubtably alive.

And if that doesn’t help, go hang out with some developmentaly disabled adults. Stoned, whatever you like, those sunsabiches like being alive.

And if that doesn’t work, sell all your posessions, move to Bangladesh and help hookers get off crack, but there is no need to whine about everything you have. Again, in a cynic’s world it is lame, but giving to others is powerful.

Expand your horizons.

By: Ev

Ev — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:08:54 +0000

Maybe eat a sandwich, rub one out and take a nap?

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:58:08 +0000

“What now?”
Maybe read a book or something.