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Does anybody else have no real ambition?

Super VedderSuper Vedder Posts: 1,531
edited June 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
Im sat doing a job that a well trained monkey (well just an average trained one actually) could do. I sometimes feel like i should try and do something with myself and work towards a "proper" job, BUT i have no idea of what i want to do! Surely i can't be the only person in this predicament on this board or in life in general?

I even had a phase where i thought i would train to be a plumber but that was merely an attraction to the excessive call out fees they charge and not due to any actual interest in plumbing. I sometimes feel like life (or work life at least) is just passing me by and i need to do something, but like i said i don't know where to start :confused:

Im good at working with numbers and spelling although i effed up my gcse's in school so my talents arent reflected in exam results, im lost.....
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  • RygarRygar Posts: 8,689
    I have no real ambition.
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    I have a fake ambition to be a Vegas showgirl.
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    Not right now I don't...I'm kind of stagnating. I have all kind of grandiose ideas about what to do with my life but I can't get the motivation.
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  • RygarRygar Posts: 8,689
    libragirl wrote:
    Not right now I don't...I'm kind of stagnating. I have all kind of grandiose ideas about what to do with my life but I can't get the motivation.
    I'm exactly the same way, only without the ideas ;)
  • LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    libragirl wrote:
    Not right now I don't...I'm kind of stagnating. I have all kind of grandiose ideas about what to do with my life but I can't get the motivation.
    You just read my fucking mind.


    Are you single? :)
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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    i've become pretty ambitious lately, which is wierd because i never had it before. i think its because i'm almost 30 and i havent really accomplished anything yet. Acting on it is another story. I'm still a wimp when it comes to asking for raises or working on my portfolio.
  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    LongRd. wrote:
    You just read my fucking mind.


    Are you single? :)


    lol...well it is the truth..not that Im a slacker..well I don't think so.
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  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    I was full of ambition and drive and dreams until I got involved with my last company and they sucked me dry of everything. Now I'll be lucky if I can just pay the bills.
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  • pearljamjenpearljamjen Posts: 13,578
    Right now I don't feel like I have any. I don't really like my job, but I am just saving money and plan on moving maybe next summer. Not sure where. It is tricky because next summer I will still have one more year on the lease on my car, so I am hoping my cousin can take it over. If not, then I might have to wait even longer.

    I just feel like I am stuck in a rut. I want to move and change jobs NOW. But there are factors that are making me wait. I still haven't even decided where I want to move or what I want to do. I have ideas for both, but I have no clue what to decide.

    In the meantime, being in a boring job just kills any motivation/ambition. My coworker and I are both super bored, and we've found that because we are so bored that when we DO get something to do, we either save it for later or just aren't that motivated to do it. Not a fun situation. I hope I don't go crazy before next summer lol.
  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,309
    libragirl wrote:
    Not right now I don't...I'm kind of stagnating. I have all kind of grandiose ideas about what to do with my life but I can't get the motivation.


    Then get up and scream.
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  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    BinFrog wrote:
    Then get up and scream.

    *gets up and screams*

    okay..what now?
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  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    libragirl wrote:
    *gets up and screams*

    okay..what now?

    Do the hokey kokey?
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  • LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    For awhile I had an ambition of just making people laugh and smile, but then I realized that my sense of humor is really dry for some people.

    The wet ones are the ones they like but sometimes are grossed out by it.
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  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    libragirl wrote:
    Not right now I don't...I'm kind of stagnating. I have all kind of grandiose ideas about what to do with my life but I can't get the motivation.
    :D I know what ya mean... I have one specific plan and idea... but it's not so much the motivation but the money that's lacking. Even though it wouldn't take THAT much money!
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  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,309
    libragirl wrote:
    *gets up and screams*

    okay..what now?



    I'm just saying. I've been through phases where I feel like I am in a huge life rut. If life/work is frustrating you or boring you, there's only one person who can fix that: you. God, I know that sounds like a terrible after school special message, or something Dr. Phil would say, but it's true. In the time it took you to post this thread and reply to it several times, you could have updated your resume, looked at a class to take, read up on a new hobby, found a career counselor to talk to, or done any number of other things.

    The realization I had in my mid 20's that I was the only one who could pick myself up and move on was an eye opener. I was sick of complaining and sick of feeling stuck. I picked up new hobbies, enrolled in grad school, started a band, switched companies, and lo and behold I don't have that same feeling of being stuck anymore (at least not as often).

    So get up and scream!
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • Super VedderSuper Vedder Posts: 1,531
    i feel that as ive sat and done this monotonous, dull, no brain yet easy and reasonably well paid job for about five years i have lost all idea on how to breakaway from it.
    i know i should go to the careers office or something but when i get there how do i ask for help in thinking of new work/training if i don't even know myself what i want to do?
    My brain has become almost stagnant and i know i could make something of myself if only i knew what? :rolleyes:

    So after the feeling of doing something about it passes and im still sat at my desk just waiting for 5pm to come every day so i can go home and enjoy a bit of my free time before coming back to boring old work. :rolleyes:
    Black, the greatest without a doubt........
  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    BinFrog wrote:
    I'm just saying. I've been through phases where I feel like I am in a huge life rut. If life/work is frustrating you or boring you, there's only one person who can fix that: you. God, I know that sounds like a terrible after school special message, or something Dr. Phil would say, but it's true. In the time it took you to post this thread and reply to it several times, you could have updated your resume, looked at a class to take, read up on a new hobby, found a career counselor to talk to, or done any number of other things.

    The realization I had in my mid 20's that I was the only one who could pick myself up and move on was an eye opener. I was sick of complaining and sick of feeling stuck. I picked up new hobbies, enrolled in grad school, started a band, switched companies, and lo and behold I don't have that same feeling of being stuck anymore (at least not as often).

    So get up and scream!

    You are right, I realize what I said could have been perceived as sarcasm. I was kidding around but I know it's hard to to decipher stuff on here sometimes.I posted this at work..lol..but yeah if Im posting on a message board I could update my resume, etc...I have looked on job boards while at work though.
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    :D I know what ya mean... I have one specific plan and idea... but it's not so much the motivation but the money that's lacking. Even though it wouldn't take THAT much money!

    well money is part of it for me too..it's a combo of many factors and my Libra indecisiveness doesn't help either...
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  • DissidentmanDissidentman Posts: 15,378
    I have no real ambition, and I'm ok with it. It's who I am!
  • geniegenie Posts: 2,222
    i used to have an ambition :( then something happened with me, i don't know what, aaah i finished college now i'm working in a job that i don't plan to do all my life and i've got college certificate for a job that i don't want to do for the rest of my life either, which is fine by me, but what i'm not happy with is that my passion for being creative is gone...it's just fucking dissappeared. which i need to get back because otherwise i'm not living my life to the full and i'm not achieving my goals.

    oh well at least i still have a desire to volunteer myself....

    don't worry i'm sure one day you will find out whatever it is that you want to do, just go outhere and research what other people do and whether it sounds like something fun to you.
  • EvilMerlinEvilMerlin Posts: 1,865
    Sadly it seems most people's ambitions is to work to just get by. So basically just work to die, with the hope of one day retiring. A lot of people have no real opportunity to do more than that, and that seems to be their life saver if they get that opportunity. With the way we're going today, it seems that's going to be the way of the future for a while unless things change. Sure there's success stories of life, but it seems more people crash and burn than fulfill themselves when they do try and with that we've turned into a giant group of lives just going down the most stable, boring road they can find.

    I'm not sure where I stand on ambitions for myself...I have a get up and go personality as it is, so it could turn out to be a dangerous thing for me where I get stuck in limbo for life if I don't go about them the right way.
  • LoveRock333LoveRock333 Posts: 59
    I have ambition... I just left it... In my other pants.
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  • geniegenie Posts: 2,222
    EvilMerlin wrote:
    Sadly it seems most people's ambitions is to work to just get by. So basically just work to die, with the hope of one day retiring. A lot of people have no real opportunity to do more than that, and that seems to be their life saver if they get that opportunity. With the way we're going today, it seems that's going to be the way of the future for a while unless things change. Sure there's success stories of life, but it seems more people crash and burn than fulfill themselves when they do try and with that we've turned into a giant group of lives just going down the most stable, boring road they can find.

    I'm not sure where I stand on ambitions for myself...I have a get up and go personality as it is, so it could turn out to be a dangerous thing for me where I get stuck in limbo for life if I don't go about them the right way.

    if my life is going to shape into anything you've written in the first paragraph then i will say to hell with everything, and learn how to live off the land and start living off the land.....or at least i hope so.

    i find your post quite scary, thinking about it frightens me a lot
  • EvilMerlinEvilMerlin Posts: 1,865
    genie wrote:
    if my life is going to shape into anything you've written in the first paragraph then i will say to hell with everything, and learn how to live off the land and start living off the land.....or at least i hope so.

    i find your post quite scary, thinking about it frightens me a lot

    It scares me a lot as well. I've had a long talk about this same kind of thing before, and a ton of scary scenarios that are many peoples realities pop up. I don't know, just thinking about how the world is becoming smaller, yet it seems harder to be accessible in it now is just making life scary. It seems we're becoming more trapped within ourselves the easier it gets for the few to control it.
  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    I have less ambition than all of you; I just don't feel up for arguing about it right now...
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  • mole1985mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    A jobs a job, there is no need to let your line of work define yourself as a human being so don't worry if your job isn't exciting or not. If you really hate it then you need to jack it in.









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  • Strangest TribeStrangest Tribe Posts: 2,502
    Ambition makes you look pretty ugly....
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  • geniegenie Posts: 2,222
    Strangest Tribe wrote:
    Ambition makes you look pretty ugly....

    nah, it's actually the other way round ;)
  • EvilMerlinEvilMerlin Posts: 1,865
    genie wrote:
    nah, it's actually the other way round ;)

    Only if it's drunken ambition. :D
  • lastexit78lastexit78 Posts: 618
    I've felt in a rut for a while but that's just life. Everybody goes through phases in which they want to completely change directions. I think it's often the succesful people who know how to deal with these phases without doing something stupid. You don't have to make radical changes, just find a new hobby, take a trip, try something new. Sometimes people think changing jobs will completely re-energize their life but it doesn't work that way. I for one am happy just to have a job, a house and a little free money to travel, go to shows, etc. Now if you hate your job that's entirely different, and a change should be made. But not everybody loves their job. In fact most people don't even like their jobs. I was recently at the Ellis Island Museum while vacationing in NY and realized just how lucky I am. People coming to this country would have died, and actually did to have the life I have. So what if I get bored at work most days. Most of us are living a very high quality of life. It's all about perspective I guess.
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  • Super VedderSuper Vedder Posts: 1,531
    lastexit78 wrote:
    So what if I get bored at work most days. Most of us are living a very high quality of life. It's all about perspective I guess.

    True enough indeed ;)
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