Life Goals

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Joined: 26 Dec 2011
Age: 42
Gender: Male
Posts: 590
Location: Kansas

08 Apr 2012, 6:23 am

I remember my goals as a child. I wanted to be an astronaut. I tested so high on IQ tests and showed a lot of scholastic talent. My folks just knew I'd do great things. I also wanted a family, with a wife and children. Now I'm 29. I'm married, but we're not planning on having children any time soon. We're barely making enough to get by. What I want out of life now, more than anything, is a job I can make a modest living at with as little stress and effort as possible. I never saw myself as lazy, but now I just want the world to stop attacking me. I would be happy spending 90% of my day at home watching movies or playing games, because then I wouldn't have to deal with all the hurt outside.

What the hell happened to me? I never thought I'd end up hating the world this much. How do I get my dreams back? Should I?

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Joined: 23 Apr 2011
Age: 65
Gender: Female
Posts: 2,696
Location: Twilight Zone

08 Apr 2012, 3:20 pm

Have you considered self employment? If there is something you like to do, like a hobby, perhaps you could turn that into self employment. Alternatively, you could do all sorts of self employment work. See below for some ideas.

- Yard work (should have a pickup and mower for this).
- Handyman
- Errands
- Pet sitting/walking
- Tutoring
- Carpentry
- Bookkeeping/accounting
- House cleaning
- Clearing out garages, attics, barns, etc. (should have a pickup for this.)
- Cooking/catering
- Writer
- Sewing/knitting

There are many other ways to work for ones self, too. Give self employment a thought. You would be able to set your own hours, and only take on what you can handle--don't over do it. We on the spectrum don't handle over doing it well. It's part of our neurological processing problems. We have enough trouble handling the regular amount of mental processing without a lot of added stress from extra stuff.

Now, put on your thinking cap, and give this some thought.

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Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away.--Henry David Thoreau

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