I fucked my life up, now I'm paying for it.

jammerfall

pjfan31 wrote:

I know there are so many people worse off then me...

You are so right.

You're in your mid-twenties, you still have time to get your head out of the muck and go for what you want.

Just do it.

stupidcorporatewhore

Are you in debt? I read your post three times and I don't gather you're in debt. am i wrong?

you are YOUNG dude! Don't put the weight of the world on your shoulders. Someone's going to put it there eventually. You have time to figure it out. Think it out, make a plan. Think four years ahead. when you figure out where you want to be the path becomes clear.

DO NOT under ANY circumstances get married or have kids until you are at least 30!

If you are spending money on ANYTHING that does not relate to LIFE SUPPORT (shelter , food etc) STOP IT IMMEDIATELY!! sell everything else.

This is the time where you work your ass off SAVE MONEY, MAKE INVESTMENTS.

go sit by the ocean and listen to pj every day!

that is all.

walkunafraid

This reminds of a talk a had with my high school (10th grade) students a few days ago. I have to teach them how to write a business letter, so I decided to make it authentic and have them write to a college/university that they are interested in knowing more about.

I soon learned that my students know pretty much nothing about colleges/universities and how one gets into them. Most were under the impression that they could just graduate from high school and choose wherever they wanted to go. Many of my students with low grades (I have many who are in the 1.0-1.5 range) were expecting to go to Stanford, UCLA, etc. What a wake up call!

So I spent a day talking to them about colleges and the realities of getting into them. I took them to the collegeboard.com website and showed them how to look up a college and see what it's requirements are (for example, 90% of entering freshmen at UCLA had a GPA of 3.75 or above). I also emphasized to them that most universities look only at 10-12th grade grades; so even if they screwed up last year, they were exactly at a point in their lives where they could turn things around if they chose to do so.

Now I'm seeing a number of students who were previously lazy and apathetic beginning to flourish. It's amazing how much of a wake up call it was to them.

I suppose the point is that it is important for young people to be shown, told, and explained the realities of what happens after they leave high school far before they actually get there. Sadly, I have had a number of students in the past who had high aspirations, only to learn the realities of college entrance a few months before earning their diploma. I firmly believe that many would have taken a completely different path in life -- for the rest of their lives -- if they had been aware sooner.