Life in General

[fishstix]

From reading this message board, one would almost come to the conclusion that single people think about nothing but their future spouse and that everything they do is for the sole purpose of one day meeting and marrying that special person. It would seem that all of life revolves around one central purpose - marriage. As a single person, I know that there is a whole lot more to life than just waiting and preparing for marriage. And marriage or the pursuit of marriage is not the central purpose of life. Especially since lots of people don't even know if they will ever get married.

So, I'm hoping that in this thread, the singles of this board can have a discussion about anything and everything other than marriage/romance. I'll start:


If you're planning on working, what sort of career are you hoping to get into? Or if you already have a career, what is it? Lately, I've been thinking that I would really like teaching - perhaps high school science.

 

[SDSUMarcus01]

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[MrsGnomeCrusher]

If you're planning on working, what sort of career are you hoping to get into? Or if you already have a career, what is it? Lately, I've been thinking that I would really like teaching - perhaps high school science.

My job is just a job--not a career. It's just something that pays the bills. I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. I have no burning desire to do "this" or become "that" when it comes along the lines of work. Kind of discouraging, actually. I pretty much figure when things happen, they happen. I try no to stress. Too much. If I'm 50 and finally figure out what I want to do, then I guess I'll have to take that.

 

[wvmtnkid]

I have a job but I am not really happy with it now. I would like to change jobs, maybe even do something totally different than what I was educated in. Just a little scared too.

I wish at the time I was in high school deciding on a career path, I would have had a better guidance counselor. One that would have taken an interest in actually guiding. Or even in college that my advisor would have advised better. I had one professor that told me he didn't think I would be happy in my career field. I wish now I would have listened to him. But he waited until I was a senior to enlighten me.

 

[Apollonian]

I am studying to be a rocket scientist.....no really, astronautical engineering.

I want to figure out what God put "up there". Space exploration is kind of like going on a date with God....you think? Ok, that's sort of rubbing the fixation in, but seriously I think that it is important to explore all that space that God created and we know nothing about.

We've already begun to see the beauties that He put out there...
http://hubblesite.org

Now we just need to go there in person and see what we're missing.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/wallpaper/mer/

-Apollonian

 

[remy]

to me, thinking about a future spouse is losing touch with reality.

now with that out of the way, as far as jobs go, i don't really care for my job or the pay, but it's flexible has been working around my college schedule. my dad has been pressuring to find a real job, but i don't feel ready to take that step.

what would i like to do right now? i want to become a lifeguard for the summer and who knows, work at some fitness center in the meantime while completing my bachelors degree. perhaps i'll become a counselor or start a side-band. honestly, i don't want to stay in retail or work for companies that require me to wear ties that the work-life has glamorized. yeah i could have joined the military when i had the chance but a temporary condition held me back from going to Iraq and a world of saluting and shaving every day. Am I thankful? Sure, I can sit back and say, "at least I'm not an inmate in a Brazilian prison."

[/psychological dump]

 

[klewlis]

I absolutely LOVE my job and want to keep it forever.

I'm also trying to get another job doing the same thing but just part time to supplement my little income.

I work in a transitional home for teens and young women who are (or have been) involved in prostitution and/or sexual exploitation. It is incredible, heartwrenching work and I love it. Their stories are amazing and break my heart regularly and I wish that I could rescue them but just have to keep asking God to do it...

In other news... my car (1990 Tempo!) is about to die... or kill me, I'm not sure which will happen first... so I am trying to get the financing to get a new car, which will be a Toyota Echo 5-door hatchback, electric blue, and I'm pretty excited about that since it should happen within the next couple of weeks--I'll be sure to post pics when it happens! It's so cute, and so great on gas! (praying....)

 

[Donny_B]

My dad was a minister and my mother a teacher, so growing up the kids decided we were not going to be any of those! I knew I just didn't have the talent of speaking in front of a group.

In high school, I wanted to be a civil engineer or electrical engineer, but in the small high school I was attending, I was the only one who signed up for advanced physics and advanced math, so those classes were cancelled. I then thought I would go into accounting or banking.

I ended up in the hotel industry. (We do put Gideon Bibles in all the rooms, so I feel I am helping advance the kingdom, since I didn't become a preacher like my dad!)

The hotel industry is great, you see different people all the time, sometimes famous ones. I have a great view of downtown and work at night with all the city lights.

By the way, we have a new security guard, actually two of them, a father and son. The father is a policeman in the daytime and a security guard at night. And he is looking at training to be a Greyhound busdriver! Wow, the financial pressures of marriage and being a dad must be great, with 2 or 3 jobs. So, in that I feel blessed that I am single and just have to work the one job. It's a shame that the police in my city are paid so low that he has to work a second or third job.

 

[Lbiagm]

I plan on being a sportsbroadcaster after I graduate from college.

 

[Injured Soldier]

I used to be an electronic technician. At school I studied all technical subjects, and excelled at electronics and computers. The year they had a state wide science competition with a large number of questions involving electrical properties, I got in the top 1% in the state. I loved my job when I became a technician, and would work there from 8am until 9pm 5 days a week for the measley amount of money the pay apprecntices.

But unfortunately, I can't do that job anymore, so I'm studying to be a high school history teacher. But what I wouldn't do to be able to be a technician again.

 

[oldrooster]

Nah, I get to hang out with my kids & grandson now. Ill find somebody someday.

 

[LadyDJ]

Looking for or thinking about a future spouse, moi?...nah...

Jobwise, it's a paycheck...as much as I dislike my job, it makes it possible to pay the bills and have insurance for my kids and me.

 

[Stanfi]

Life in general. Wow what a topic. I studied electrical engineering after high school, and have worked as a control systems engineer for a few years now. I often feel that I have never accomplished my full professional potetional, which often give an overwhelming sense of failure. I have often thought about switching jobs and even carreer fields, but I am not sure what I would want to do. Many times it feels like I have worked and worked and not accomplished anything.

I am heavily involved with my church which I do enjoy, and am proud of. I have a desire to help people and to help them grow spirtually.

I have a pretty negative view of life in general. I often find it to be one struggle after another, with no enjoyment in between. I rest in the promise that life here is not permanent, and that I am just passing through where I have a heaven to gain where there will be "no more tears".

 

[klewlis]

In other news... my car (1990 Tempo!) is about to die... or kill me, I'm not sure which will happen first... so I am trying to get the financing to get a new car, which will be a Toyota Echo 5-door hatchback, electric blue, and I'm pretty excited about that since it should happen within the next couple of weeks--I'll be sure to post pics when it happens! It's so cute, and so great on gas! (praying....)

Well I promised pictures, so here they are:

It's SO nice to have a car that works!!!

 

[HoosierCanuck]

I would really like to fill the vacancy left by the departure of Brian Burke as GM and Prez of the Vancouver Canucks! lol!!

But in the meantime.....

I work as a travelling auditor for my 'day' job, a cleaning lady twice a week as my '2nd job' and a dj for a local AM station about twice a month as my '3rd' job. Between the three I can pay the current bills. I would love to ditch this overworked life for one with a fun and rewarding career that actually pays the bills with only one job. Unfortunately, I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. Many people have said I should be a stand-up comedian....probably because at 4'11" no one would see me if I sat down and told jokes! hahahahahahahaha (believe me, that's NOT the best I can do!) I got a degree in radio/tv production and was a news reporter for the radio station for a few years but I HATED news.

As for only thinking about getting married etc.....NOT!!! I come here mostly when I'm in the mood to rant about something or when I'm bored. I can't stand chat rooms.

 

[stubbornkelly]

I love life in general. And my life is pretty good right now, too. I'm working at a job I like, have a good group of friends, my car's in good shape, and I'm moving into a bigger apartment at the end of June. I'm working on my bachelor's thesis, and plan to go to law school in two or three years. Then back here (to DC, and that's if I don't do my JD here) and hopefully to the Hill. I'm private sector now, which is weird to my Hill friends (just as the Hill is completely foreign to my private sector friends), but I'm diggin it at the moment.

 

[FaithfulServant]

I want to be a nurse or a teacher.....or a teacher of nurses!!!

 

[wildthing]

Life is good. I enjoy getting outside riding my bike or fencing with my friends. The job is not working out. It is depressing at times. Family life ain't so good I have sib who was brought thinking that he is a sharp operator, Dad always brag about how sharp he was. Now he wants everything for free. Just having a terrible time with him (even his wife agrees that he is a pain) You know thoes type A personaities. My mother is sick and I am trying to care for her. And my brother is convince that I am not doing right. He feels that I have gone liberal on him and the family. I have stop going to a tradition church service am now going to a contemp service. The worst news was that I stopped being a Bapitist. But with all these problems I am happy.

 

[vibrant]

maybe the posts of singles that aren't concerned about "marriage, dating, future loves etc" are in the young adults forum?

 

[wildthing]

maybe the posts of singles that aren't concerned about "marriage, dating, future loves etc" are in the young adults forum?

Gee I don't know, will an ghizzer be welcome there?? Wait a minute this is the net no needs to know that I am a whizzer ghizzer. Cool!!!!!!