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  • "What you will do when you grow up"

    I understand saying this to kids who just turned 18 or younger who aren't really there yet still living at home their parents handling the bills and such.

    But I get bothered when I am almost 30 have been a father, a husband, a Soldier and have a steady career and then people say about my not knwoing what to do next, "So you don't know what you want to do when you grow up"

    When it's said as a joke it doesn't bother me but when people are serious it does when they are discounting everything that I have done before like it never happened because obviously until I am doing what I want to do for the rest of my life nothing else matters.

    I am sorry I may never know. I may find something to do and then go another direction after that.

    The question at my age isn't "What will you do when you grow up?" It is "What will you do next?"
    Jack Faire
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  • #2
    For me it would be grow up... cause I refuse.. I am a firm believer that you don't stop playing when you get old you get old because you stop playing.

    But yes that is annoying as hell to feel like your previous things were idle fancy that mean little...

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    • #3
      Or, int he words of XKCD:

      "We're adults now. That means it's our turn to decide what that means."

      Boo-fucking-YAH!
      All units: IRENE
      HK MP5-N: Solving 800 problems a minute since 1986

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      • #4
        ya know I still get the same thing at 50.

        started out in fast food and "progressed" up the ranks a little not really wanting to do that all of my life.

        daughter came along so I decide to finish college and go out into the "real" world. found out how "fun" that was.

        partially got fed up with having a cell phone/pda/crackberry chained to me 24/7/365 with phone calls at all hours of the day or night. yeah the money was a hell of a lot better than what I am making now but.,.,.....

        I sort of fell into pizza delivery after vowing years ago NEVER to go back into fast food, but ya know what, I enjoy doing it.

        Yeah I mgith be 50 and running pizza pies all over town but I like it.

        Oh and I will NEVER grow up anyway. MY RULES MY WAY
        I'm lost without a paddle and I'm headed up sh*t creek.

        I got one foot on a banana peel and the other in the Twilight Zone.
        The Fools - Life Sucks Then You Die

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        • #5
          I'm sorry, but this subject is making me think of this song:

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpz8n0gtarA

          XD You know it's true. Anyway, I hate people saying to me, "When are you going to get a real job?" -.- Look, I love my job. I like talking to people and working with a small team. I'd go nuts stuck in an office, which is what a lot of people term a "real" job. If I'm happy doing retail, then it's none of anyone's bloody business.
          "Oh wow, I can't believe how stupid I used to be and you still are."

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          • #6
            I can add only this.

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            • #7
              I know I am only going to be 30 but I already feel so much older than many of my peers many of them are just starting to settle down and such but I feel like I crammed a lot of living into the last 10 years and kind of want to slow down relax enjoy my escapisim and my solitude while exploring the world on my own.

              Letting other people drift in and out of my life as is their desire.
              Jack Faire
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              • #8
                Ask me when I'll grow up and the only answer you'll get is a whistled rendition of the Toys R Us song.
                "My in-laws are country people and at night you can hear their distinctive howl."

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