Does anybody else have no real ambition?

LoveRock333

I have ambition... I just left it... In my other pants.

genie

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

EvilMerlin

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.

eyedclaar

I have less ambition than all of you; I just don't feel up for arguing about it right now...

mole1985

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.









Work sucks.

Strangest Tribe

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly....

genie

Strangest Tribe wrote:

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly....

nah, it's actually the other way round

EvilMerlin

genie wrote:

nah, it's actually the other way round

Only if it's drunken ambition.

lastexit78

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.

Super Vedder

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

Chazz

Super Vedder wrote:

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:

Wow that just completely sums up where I am........I am in such a comfortable rut with my job, and just too lazy to get off my arse and change things, even though I know its only me that can do that...its like I'm waiting for some event out of my control to change it for me! So I think about looking for another job and then become unstuck cos I don't know what direction I would like to go......so then I log on to the pit and read threads like this

catefrances

Strangest Tribe wrote:

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly....

thanks for that thom.

Super Vedder

my_small_self wrote:

Wow that just completely sums up where I am........I am in such a comfortable rut with my job, and just too lazy to get off my arse and change things, even though I know its only me that can do that...its like I'm waiting for some event out of my control to change it for me! So I think about looking for another job and then become unstuck cos I don't know what direction I would like to go......so then I log on to the pit and read threads like this

And uncannily this is what i do also