For those out of school, what have you done with your life?

[Haruhi-chan 486]

Since we have a topic asking what you WILL do when you are out of school, I figured this would be more appropriate for the ones already out of school or graduated.

 

I haven't done much of anything. I can't work due to personal reasons, and I can't go to college because of the same reasons. I do a lot of writing at home, and I try to busy myself like any normal person would. I don't think there's much I can do with my life because of my special needs either. D:

 

So, what about you?

[Treble Bolt 1,122]

Got married, bought a house, and am back in school....learned about blacksmithing, welding, steam engines, machining, ponies, hedgehogs. Have grown a library of over 2000 books (90% read), acquired my second cat, and hope to help my husband achieve his ambitious dreams....

 

I'm crazy...yes I am..

[VitalSpark 1,830]

I'm married, with two kids aged 4 and 5 (both are MFP fans), two cats aged 8 and 8 (not sure whether they like MLP), and I work as a freelance computer programmer.

[Rohinar 72]

I also went back to school.  Long story short, got an art degree, had a mental breakdown, recovered, went back to school in psychology to help other people avoid mental breakdowns!

 

Or something.  Haha.  I'm taking the GRE next year and applying to grad schools after that.  No kids, but I have dogs and a husband (none of them like MLP... yet).

[Shadowed Watcher 183]

Been outa school for only a couple years, but... nothing. Damn nothing. I stopped writing after school, same with reading, and I uhhh, just... got mentally and socially worse! Yep. I have worked tirelessly since graduating to make myself a worse person. I fucking suck!

[Gone Airbourne 21,977]

Currently trying to finish up my 2 year degree unless you are talking being done with high school.

 

Trying to focus on getting that done and I have had a lot interfere with me finishing with moving states and such. So just working and saving up money now and start classes again in January. Hoping to meet some new people as well when that happens but just keeping my hopes up in the mean time.

[The Mint Pone 2,294]

Been outa school for only a couple years, but... nothing. Damn nothing. I stopped writing after school, same with reading, and I uhhh, just... got mentally and socially worse! Yep. I have worked tirelessly since graduating to make myself a worse person. I fucking suck!

This is pretty much what I was about to write.

[cuteycindyhoney 13,307]

Got married, bought a house, and am back in school....learned about blacksmithing, welding, steam engines, machining, ponies, hedgehogs. Have grown a library of over 2000 books (90% read), acquired my second cat, and hope to help my husband achieve his ambitious dreams....

 

I'm crazy...yes I am..

Hmmm, are you guys planning on taking over the world, or colonizing another one? Either way, can my husband and I come along? 

LOL!

[Scootaloodle 1,622]

Went to college (not University type) for three years after I left school and tried to make up for getting bad exam results from school because I used to mess around, and did pretty well and got some IT qualifications.

 

And after have been failing to find or secure a job for about six years.

 

I spend my time making music, and doing stuff like that and volunteering at places.

 

Not exactly the best place right now but far from the worst. 

[~Chaos~ 3,967]

It's been slow going since I got out of school, don't know what I want to do.

 

It's tough sometimes but hopefully one day I'll know what to do.

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,161]

Got a job at a local bank where I have progressed through the ladder from a teller to a loan clerk, I still live with my parents, but my income stream and lack of overall payments allows me to indulge in my favorite hobby, I'm close to paying off my car loan, and am able to take on my own life insurance & such.

 

I can't complain too much.

[Tao 7,756]

I work 50 a weeks in two jobs but one job is helping me

to get to a better post in the company I work at,  yah

its stress but that comes with becoming a adult and having

bills and a job!

[Odyssey 5,716]

Since I got kicked out of school, I'm on the lookout for another education. I have thankfully found one, but it'll take the next year to finally get into it.

 

In the meantime, I'm teaching myself the basics of living independently such as cooking dinner and keeping the house as clean as possible. I'm also going out more and doing some shopping for my family.

[Stalliongrad 982]

Since i graduated i have seriously reevaluated what it is that will make my life worth something. The fact is you must first determine what it is that will make you happy in your life. The problem is in High School you are pretty much only given 3 options. College, Military, Or work. There is nothing wrong with any of them but you have to be sure that what you do is what you really want.

 

When i graduated i felt like i was left behind because all of my other friends got accepted into big fancy colleges and i was still working a crappy job. I allowed this to be the reason why i went to college. I got sucked in by one of those "TV advertising colleges" that dont really have the proper credentials. This means even if I had stayed and graduated my degree would have been worthless. And now I am in Debt because i thought that is what i wanted.

 

I realize now that I just want a "comfortable" life. I dont care about being rich or the best at anything. I just want to be comfortable. I want a nice house a, decent car and to be able to take a vacation every year. I read about this program that trains people in getting their Commercial Drivers License (which you need to drive trucks and buses) and i went for it. Now im making pretty decent money and have good benefits driving transit buses for my local transit authority. After a few years i could transfer to another department in the company. But i like driving. I get to meet some of the same faces on my route everyday and i feel happy about what i do. I take people to work, home and any other place they need to go.

 

If you cant work because of a disability thats ok. Just find out what it is you can do with your life that will make you happy. Dont allow other people's vison of happiness to corrupt you and make the wrong decisons. If at all possible, find a way to travel and find inspiration for your writing.

[Flutter's lover <3 8,205]

After High-School I landed a job as a CNC machine builder. I basically built  3 Axis machines from the ground up. Though, turns out the boss was a huge fraud, so we all got laid-off from that...and we were out a lot of money in wages(Which we never got), after that...Looking for a stable and secure job. Which is had to find around here..I've had a few temp jobs but nothing worth noting...all minimum wage factory assembly line BS. I've got a 1st year electrical apprenticeship, though no one is looking for 1st years.If I can't find something in that field, I might move on to a mechanic of some sort...welder, or some other trade.

 

 

Aside from my job situation, I've been living at home. Working on getting my license again, as it expired and need to do the tests again. I didn't drive much to begin with.

[Sir Hugsalot 9,348]

My life was pretty "oridinary" after I finished school.

 

I had much easier start than most of people I know. I got to work for my dad. It isn't my dream job and it definitely is not something I am going to do for my entire life but it allows me to pay for my needs and for my school so I am satisfied with it (even if sometimes I really dislike what is happening here). During first two years after school I also still had lots of friends who I can meet so being alone was not an issue back then. Only issue was huge disappointment about a school I've chosen. 

On 2nd year of that school I was seriously considering leaving it. Only thing that kept me back was the fact that parents would be... furious. I hated it, because I learned nothing and got good grades anyway for no reason at all. I hated it, because my group was doing some kind of stupid rat race just to get silly money from school. Money that was about 1/20 of what they had to pay for it. I hated it, because it took almost every weekend I had and in process took away most of my free time. 

Eventually I said myself that I will not be in school like this and decided to leave it. Of course parents were angry. Really angry. Dad considered even throwing me away from house and all that made me really sad (especially since it was combined with other very bad event with crush I had back then involved). But I left it anyway. Of course dad did nothing, after all those were just another tough words not backed up by any action so I carried on without school from that time on thinking on what to do now. 

Eventually it all affected my mood heavily, I began to wonder if I did right choice and started questioning myself a lot. That had very negative impact on my social skills and quality of my work when I was in the office (it never was perfect, but I blame procrastinating which is my huge problem for that). I was unable to concentrate on anything and just carried on unable to even meet my friends pretty often, because they already started leaving town (no jobs here so they have little choice if they want independence or just normal life without having to depend on parents fully). 

Then last year I've found new school. It was not far from my town (40-50 km) and it sounded like it would actually be much better from the one I had last time so without much thinking I signed in there. I had hopes about it (engineering is now valued a lot) but also fears (I would know literally nobody there and with my shyness it is very difficult to make friends with only strangers around You). Also in the meantime I joined mlpforums which was one of better decisions I've made

And then... well, first day in school, of course no familiar face but I eventually managed to get over my shyness on the very first day. I made my first friend and with him I got to know more people. So... *almost* everything is back on right track now. I still have almost no people to meet here, but from time to time I can afford meeting friends who live a bit further from my place. Only thing left is procrastinating but that I hope to fight off with help of therapist.

 

 

...wow quite a story it is and it is not even detailed

[boiteporte 591]

Well, after I got out of Uni, my degree helped me to secure a job. I do not enjoy it but it pays well, so I have no right to complain.

[FlutterAether 421]

After leaving school I went straight into College I've been in college for 2 years and have one more year left, though I'll probably take a Gap year (before University) and travel before starting any heavy commitments. 

 

I haven't planned anything after University ;-;

[Justin_Case001 4,889]

Watch Welcome to the NHK.  Take out Yamazaki, Misaki, and Simpai.  And there you have the story of my f*cking life.

 

You could say I'm a worthless deadbeat.  Yeah...you could say that.  But although I haven't achieved financial success, I've actually done a lot with my life that I'm very proud of.  But, like Sato, I always seem to wind up back in the same place.  The depression and the loneliness hit again, and it's "Welcome to No Future."

[Admiral Regulus 2,769]

I went back to school, simple as that. Since I graduated high school more than two years ago, I've had only one summer off.

[Invalid 54]

Watch Welcome to the NHK.  Take out Yamazaki, Misaki, and Simpai.  And there you have the story of my f*cking life.

 

You could say I'm a worthless deadbeat.  Yeah...you could say that.  But although I haven't achieved financial success, I've actually done a lot with my life that I'm very proud of.  But, like Sato, I always seem to wind up back in the same place.  The depression and the loneliness hit again, and it's "Welcome to No Future."

 

I've watched that anime and as much as I loved it after finishing the whole thing, I've reflected on myself and saw how I'm not that much different from the main character's way of life. Which left me depressed for a while, and although those feelings aren't completely gone...

 

I've been just as much of a deadbeat since I finished high school back in 2006. Never went to college due to personal reasons, and since then, I've never accomplished anything worthwhile nor anything I can truly say I was proud of. I did some back breaking jobs I never want to do ever again and my life progressively spiraled around mundane responsibilities I had to do involving family and other jobs that were mostly stress inducing with little to no benefits.

 

And here I am, still trying to get by with what shred of self worth I have. Not much has changed for the better since school.

[Envy 6,163]

Like... Nothing. Because almost instantaneously out of high school I stopped living for the future, and started living for now.

 

As if I could act like that is anything good... I told myself that there is no way I'll still be alive today... And as one may imagine if you really believe that, which I did, it can really mess up everything. And that it did. But my problems that led me to believe that are not even remotely gone, in fact they're still there full force.

 

So... I've gotten... an Associate's Degree? Tried to go for further, but it was too late for me. For many reasons. So instead I'm a job I can't say I ever even remotely wanted to do; one I originally joined to fund me going back to school, only to have to leave school and end up back at it for probably the rest of my life... Oh, and for personal reasons I will most likely never again be in a relationship, even though I am one who really wants/needs love. It's just the way things have to be...

 

I should have just been honest with myself...

 

Okay, that's just too depressing... Happy time! I did achieve some of my high school dreams, even if some only partially. For example, one that is partial but I still count as achieved because I'm sure my high school self would have been thrilled: This is highly simplistic and probably silly to others, but when I was in high school I desperately wanted to learn the bassoon and then join a professional orchestra, and furthermore I wanted to get to play in a beautiful concert hall. I didn't join a professional orchestra, but I got to join a really good one at a university. That would be a simple matter for someone with actual talent in music, but not so much for me. It meant a whole lot, and I even got to travel all of the way across the country and play in a beautiful concert hall, just to finish it up.

 

It doesn't sound like much, but it all really came out of the middle of nowhere. Especially the fact that we traveled the one year I was there.

 

On a lesser note, I got all three of my favorite instruments (since high school)! It's particularly nice that I got to buy my oboe myself. I didn't think that would happen, either.

Edited November 26, 2014 by Envy

[BastementSparkle 20,326]

Essentially nothing. I've been sitting in my room, browsing the web, playing games, talking online, and watching cartoon equines. I've done almost nothing, for a year and a half I think. I had a job on Sunday for a little while cleaning tables, but I hated it and kinda got fired because I'm incapable of making myself look happy or cheerful when I'm not, and the customers could tell I hated it. Also, it was really hot and every day made me feel really tired and I had a terrible headache by the end of it usually.

 

 What do I want to do? I don't know. Don't really want to go to college, can't stand school environments at all and I have no idea what I classes I would even take. A job? I don't know, I can't think of any job or career that sounds enjoyable, and I don't really have any skills I think would make me good at anything. No interest in relationships, I'm terrified to learn how to drive, I can't hold a real conversation that isn't online...I pretty much have got nothing.

 

 I hate living with other people, but I'm also really scared of living alone. So, I just feel stumped.

[Tameless 979]

Haven't done much besides working. Not too much..

[Blitz101 56]

I work at a gas station and I stack crates almost all day just got back