The answer to my life

Post Reply New Topic

Go to college, go to university, become a psychologist, stop wasting time and effort on other things, fixate in my job, live a healthy and 'on-the-go' life, have a few friends (but keep them distant), keep men away (no time to get hurt), as long as I only have my mind on acheiving and doing well for myself there will be no room for anything else, just fixate on working my way up to being a psychologist, the only thing that would be bad about this is I would get lonely, but I know what it's like so I could handle it if everything else is ok

Anyone else done this? Is this a good idea?

Substitute "musician" for "psychologist" & you are describing my life plan, when I was in college - but you left out the part where you find out no one wants to hire you as a psychologist & you're forced to go to "plan B." Be sure to expose yourself to things other than psychology.

Hope for the best, but expect the worst.

(Oh, and still being alone when you're 50 is not the fun-filled thrill ride one might expect. )

Thanks, I'll try my best though, put all of my effort and use all of my experiences and emotion to get it, I'll do something involving psychology, a counsellor or a social worker.

Substitute "Engineer" for "Psychologist", and "keep money-grubbing, suffocating, domineering, meddlesome people away" instead of "keep men away" and that's pretty much my life's plan.

I don't want to discourage you, but I owe over $30,000 in student loans for my two master's, one in psych and one in counseling. I just couldn't make it on the actual job. My social skills weren't good enough to be a human services professional. I do write books now on psychological subjects, but that's really all I can do with those degrees.

That's also my plan, but with physics. Luckily I don't need social skills to be successful as a scientist.

^ If you go to grad school there will be politics.

I've wondered about the social skills side of it, but counselling would be a fall-back plan, I've laways een interested and naturally good at concluding and having enthusiasm for pshycological subjects, I don't think I would need much social skills to be a pshchologist, I just want a job where I am learning and concluding why someone has a certain illness and I'm interested in the whole chil abse and murderes side of it too, could someone give me more feedback on those things please?

Thanks for your comments!

It depends. Is this your own personal plan, or is it what your parents (or whoever) are pushing you toward? If it's what YOU want, by all means go for it. If it's what you've been convinced to try, take a bit to try to think hard about what you really want.
That's all I've got.

Sounds good to me. (Although, like Whitetiger said, be careful of debt.)

I'm envious of people who know what they want to be when they grow up. I have never gotten the foggiest inkling of what my calling is. I've ruled out quite a few things, though. I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I'm not cut out to be a rock star, a circus clown (yes, I seriously considered that at one point), an anthropologist, an Air Force inflight refueling specialist, a computer scientist, a waitress, or just about any job in which I might be called up to drive a vehicle to an unfamiliar place or answer a phone.

I'm still narrowing it down.

I imagine it will come to me in a flash of inspiration on my death bed.

No this is what I want to do, but I have ADHD and when I'm in my creative mood I dream of being a hip-hop/streetdancer or film director, something ceative but when that mood goes so does msot of my creativity but I know I'ms afe if I stick with Psychology.

And debt is my problem right now, I don't want to share a cheap flat with anyone and live off pot noodles becasue of student debt, I'm thinking about staying at home so it'll be easier to pay it off here bu that would mean I'd probably be here 'till I'm about 25 and I want my independance, it's somethin that I have to think about and plan but I'm determined and I'm gonna try for it, it sounds like alot of people on here are int he same position, I don't feel so alone with it now,

Thanks again, and to Elderwanda there must be something you are good at, why not talk more about what you're good at on my post, I'm always interested in what others want to do etc

I might be able to do the same thing if I had ambition, if I knew what I wanted to be.
Still, I'm trying to work on my resolve and focus and stop obsessing over this girl. I'm trying to be more practical.

If you can do it, do it.

i agree with zeichner's take on things here. wish i could say otherwise......
i have the plan A in place, but the trouble is that i am OBVIOUSLY eccentric and odd and all f****d up in the social skills department and that means i am about as progressed as i am ever going to get. people steer clear of the "weird one."
so i bury myself in the studio instead and glean enjoyment from my special interest as my life narrows yet again to the point of tragedy.......

hope things are better for you.

I'm 'weird' too, but I tell msyelf that it means Ia m different and at least I am interesting I'm not like the majority, take pride in it, I am eccentric too, people should be more open-minded but they're not so they're ignorant, and I think that's a good opinion.

Best of luck to everyone!
(:

ur special

Who was that aimed at? lol