A little advice?
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- dablammit0
Sigh.
I dunno, I don't think NYC is for me, but perhaps it is. Longest I ever spent there was two weeks. It was a blast, but I like the ability to get out of the city easily.
Oh and I dunno what I said earlier, I meant move back north FROM Tampa.Alright, I am gonna work for awhile, maybe I will quit in a month.
- SlashPeckham0
If you shave just one leg it'll feel like you have a woman in bed with you?
soz
- dablammit0
Is anyone currently in DC/NoVa?
Just wondering what it has been like recently, I have a lot of family there so its a viable moving place if I decide to do the move. I mean, if I feel like I still need family support. No word from my girl lately, I am just gonna figure the worse - she's not coming back.
- dablammit0
Hey, sorry to bring this back up, but... I have been doin a lot of thinkin, and these are the most recent progressions.
I have ony had this job for about 6 months, it is a startup software company that I really don't see going anywhere, but I feel like if I skip out on them now it would look bad on a resume. My girl says she loves me, but is moving back up north whether I do or not, so is it worth it? I am only 21, fairly young and no telling if she is the one at this point.
I hate Tampa, but have a feeling that if I leave now without a plan that I could jeopardize my future.Any thoughts?
- RoyalSapien0
Hey man. I'm 22 and moving to San Francisco in a month with my best friend. I don't have a job there yet, we don't have a place confirmed, and I've never been there for longer than a week at a time, but we're going anyway because we know it's where we want to be.
If you're that fed up with Tampa, I encourage you (along with a lot of other people, apparently) to get the hell out and live the life you want to live. You may be only 21, but life can be really short sometimes, so make the most of what you got.
As for the company, if you're miserable there and in the city, you shouldn't sacrifice your happiness and potential to enlighten the world with your design for their not-making-you-happy asses.
Whether you're with the girl forever or not, at least you can credit her for getting you out of Tampa, which will most likely always be a fond memory.
My two cents. Good luck.
- GreedoLives0
dude you're still young and unattached. if you hate the place you're at, why stay? in another ten years just picking up and moving around the country will be a MUCH harder and more involved decision than it is right now.
If you have skills, you'll find a job. I personally left NoVa/DC because i couldn't stand it there, but it might be for you. Plus, when you're removed from what's comfortable and easy, you'll learn more about yourself and what you really want than by being miserable and in a rut for the next five or so years.
- toe-knee0
"When people say "life is short". What the fuck? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever fucking does!! What can you do that's longer?"
-Billy Connolly
- blackspade0
"Man cannot discover new oceans until he has the courage to lose sight of the shore"
- blackspade0
re: life is short...
"Time is an equal opportunity employer,
Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day.
Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes.
And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Time is not a line, but a series of now points.
We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite.
Time to be."
:)
- dablammit0
lol...yeah, i guess all thats true.
I'm just young and dumb, i dunno where to go or where i wanna be, i just need to find out. But adults make it sound like its impossible to just pack up and start somewhere else, like im shooting myself in the foot if i dont stay in a place i hate for 10 years just because the job MAY turn out alright in the end. Thing is, i know that even if the job ends up payin well, its not for me, i need something more creative.I dunno, im havin the urge just to say Fug it, pack up and hit the road. The worse that could happen is that i run outta money and have to go back to workin a shit job, and living in a shit place until i get back on my feet, but a shit place in a great city is probably better than a okay place in a shitty city?
- blackspade0
i am in a very similar situation 2 u, im 23
at the end of the day adults are always gonna tell u to do the 'sensible' thing...
better to regret somthing u did, than somthing u didnt do,
right?
- TenaciousG0
"Life is 10% what happens to me, and 90% how I react to it."
-Charles SwindollDude, there are 300 million people in the USA. A little over half of them are women, and at least half of those are of age. That's 75 million eligible women. One of them will tickle your fancy. And as far as the job, if you hate the city, then the job isn't worth much. Go where you'll be happy, and the money will come. Keep the faith, man!
- toe-knee0
I left Ireland to live in sydney at the age of 27, left a great job, all my mates and an 8 year relationship. If i can do it at 27 you can do it at 21.
- dablammit0
Man, i have done so much that i regret, but would never think of ever going back and undoing them. lol. Too many memories worth keeping...or wondering what really happened. No doubt.
I picked up and left everything in Baltimore and come here, realized now that it was a mistake.
Doesn't mean I wanna go back there. But isn't it logical to stick it out a bit longer and search for a job somwhere? Or is it easier to just move somewhere im sure i would like, perhaps get a shit job and then search for a job that fits me?
J/W
- blackspade0
i think u already know the answer to yer questions
u just need to ask yerself what is gonna make u happy man
- dablammit0
no diggity.
feelin better though...thanks for your thoughts.
- TenaciousG0
Get some leads on jobs where you want to go, then take off! The world is your oyster.
- lind0
I probably shouldn't give any advice since I lived in the same place my whole life but MOVE. It's not even your hometown, you don't even like your job, there's no such thing as job security and it's easier to move at 21 than 31.