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Re: Kiss the future

2018-03-08T14:36:58-04:00

found this thread by accident and liked it. would be good to hear updates from people i sort of 'know' a little.

Statistics: Posted by kickingthefly — Thu Mar 08, 2018 2:36 pm

Re: Kiss the future

2017-10-22T13:24:46-04:00

i want to have so many dead vans authentics i can make a rag carpet with them

Statistics: Posted by can- — Sun Oct 22, 2017 1:24 pm

Re: Kiss the future

2017-10-21T15:32:57-04:00

in five years, i'll be 24 years old, probably have a B.Sc in Biology, hopefully in Occupational Therapy school for my OTD.
Beyond academics, in five years I want to be a stronger, happier person. It's lofty because who knows if i'll get there- I'm figuring it out one day at a time.
back to studying for my exams.

Statistics: Posted by mahi-mahi — Sat Oct 21, 2017 3:32 pm

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2016-08-20T14:55:17-04:00

I have this ultimate goal of by the time I'm old (around retirement age): I want to own a really small (10 seats max) cafe, where the concept of the cafe reflects my life in what I have collected over the years. The mugs would be my highly irregular collection, hopefully with some good (and bad) memories associated with them, with the art, decor, furnishing, and vinyl records following suit. No wifi, because I don't like people sitting around on their phones all day. Real simple menu - one rotating choice of pour over coffee hot or over ice, and toast with seasonal fruit jam, some kind of rotating nut butter, or avocado (former two hopefully housemade!). Just a warm, simple place for people to relax, talk, exchange stories, and maybe flip through some books and magazines from my archive.

From a business perspective, I'm not even entirely sure such a model of selling pour over coffee and toast is financially viable, especially considering coffee culture in the US (or many western countries for that matter). There always seems to be this sort of emphasis on always being in motion - grab a cup of coffee to go in the morning and drink it quickly while rushing to work, which this cafe concept doesn't cater to (and ideally I wouldn't want it to). Small number of seats is also a detriment to the throughput of the cafe, but I wouldn't want to give it up for the cozy atmosphere. So it'd probably have to be established in a pretty densely populated city that can get a lot of foot traffic to get enough daily customers.

Probably will be an office drone for a lot of my years to sustain this collecting (which I'm dreading to a degree), but I figure I still have 40+ some years to collect slowly. In any respect though, life is about the journey and not the destination, so I intend to do whatever I can to enjoy it and try not worry about having this specific goal in mind when considering every decision.

Statistics: Posted by fun_yunchables — Sat Aug 20, 2016 2:55 pm

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2018-12-02T20:20:09-04:00

Statistics: Posted by ASTROCHIMP — Sat Aug 20, 2016 12:29 am

Re: Kiss the future

2016-08-19T22:31:12-04:00

hey man, bumping this thread to ask, 3yrs later: are you doing better? I know we've never met but I would consider you a friend, and I would hate for a friend to feel like they are stuck. If you ever need an ear, I'm always around.

Statistics: Posted by mahi-mahi — Fri Aug 19, 2016 10:31 pm

Re: Kiss the future

2014-04-07T13:46:05-04:00

Man, this thread hits right in the feels.

I never really had much for talents growing up except for perhaps being pretty good at playing WoW and not doing homework in high school. For whatever reason though, my playing with Legos as a child and building houses in the Sims for months on end led me to pursue architecture in high school. After four years of being part of a tight knit community of people looking for the same thing, I decided my senior year that I wanted nothing to do with it anymore. I didn't really have anything else to do, nor did I know what else I could do. I didn't even know what the hell an engineer did.

Decided to go for business at a state school and hated it. I didn't necessarily mind the major but I really didn't enjoy the school, but I managed to get good grades. I left after a year, decided I wanted to go to art school for photography, which was a hobby that I managed to pick up and still try and partake in today. Got into a pretty good school and got offered a ton of money, but realized I still could afford a couple Porsche 911s for the money I'd pay so I decided to bail out. Went to community college to finish up that business associates and made some good relationships with a few of the department heads. One of them pushed me towards my current school where I started a few months ago, and I decided to apply. Got in for management and then realized that it was a useless degree and that I wanted something that actually had some specific skills that have some sort of application to them. Before I started, I looked into the majors a bit more and settled on "Global Supply Chain Management" which is basically a fancy name for supply chain management. Realizing that it actually had some sort of applied skills that I actually found interesting, as well as being in demand, I settled on it.

So now I'm a few months into that. I've battled some depressed feelings over the past few years in relation to my future, at times almost wanting to drop off the face of the earth and live in the woods because I spent too much time on the internet reading about how worthless you are unless you are an engineer or a programmer. I realized that sitting around in a cubicle isn't for me, and I hope to work in a field that allows me a bit of travelling or at least not working in a traditional office setting. SCM is great because it often involves working in manufacturing settings. I have found that I would much rather spend time in a manufacturing setting with the type of people that end up there than some soulless office that I loathe.

Ultimately I'd like to apply my SCM education and get into the fashion industry. I'm not too sure how to get into that, but I expect it would be after college and I would need to move to New York. I also have been making a conscious effort to just attempt to live more happily. I read more, I take more photographs, I have been planning out a photobook and a trip this summer that will hopefully give me a new project to work on, I have an amazing girlfriend that I don't tell her how much I appreciate her as much as I should, and I often find happiness in the littlest details. A clean room can bring some sort of happiness. A perfectly fitting shirt is something I can find happiness in. The feelings I get when imagine how rad my fits are gonna be this summer rocking my new qlo linen pants make me happy. Daydreams about a nice little apartment with minimal decoration and a few plants that I hope to learn how to not kill makes me happy.

So yeah, I try to stay optimistic about my future despite how hard it can be. I at least have some sort of goals, and I figure that if I keep creating things then I will be happy. I seem to get most depressed when I go into periods where I do not produce anything. Whether it is my photography, or cooking a pizza or something, or even come up with an analysis of a book that I haven't thought of before, I feel as if we as humans have to produce something for us to feel fulfilled. If I end up wanting to kill myself after 5 years in my career, I plan on hitting up trade school and become a welder or opening up a nice little pizza shop.

Statistics: Posted by zayg — Mon Apr 07, 2014 1:46 pm

Re: Kiss the future

2014-04-07T10:29:58-04:00

Realistically right now it looks like I have a job doing product management at a small but well funded start-up after my graduation next year, so I'm incredibly thankful for that. I hope to gain some experience there, then move out to San Francisco and work a similar job. End goals are a postgrad degree, either an MBA or MArch depending on career goals/aspirations at the time (essentially if I'm burnt out or not). I would love to get to a point where I can do product management work internationally, preferably in Berlin.

Product management toes a good line for me as far as enjoyability/feasibility/compensation. The work isn't my passion per se, but I do feel challenged at work every day, which is important to me.

On the short term, I'm incredibly excited for my last year of school, the classes I'm slated to take first semester are a the first half of a full year honors english thesis, an intro to pottery class, and a electronic music production class. I'll be creating so many awesome things! Also, my best friend will be back from India and I'll be living with him again, which will be so great. If the GF and I continue the way we currently are, it seems like the making for a perfect year...

Statistics: Posted by CMYK — Mon Apr 07, 2014 10:29 am

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2014-04-06T04:22:10-04:00

Struggled last 2-3 years to get accepted into a US MD school due to just average MCAT/GPA. Finally got accepted into a school in Chicago

Academically I want to be in the top of my class passing classes with honors so that I never again feel the regret of not studying hard enough and being limited in where I can go and what I am allowed to do

Personally, make new/more friends in Chicago, allow myself more liberties, have the courage to be less frugal and allow myself to do/buy what I want as opposed to what I need, organize my life, sleep earlier

Statistics: Posted by Kudegra — Sun Apr 06, 2014 4:22 am

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2014-04-05T23:56:22-04:00

Saturday night musing while I take a break from finishing work:

academic/career goals:
6 months - Get to the point where I both practice programming/drawing daily (producing meaningful things in general instead of simply consuming)
1 year - Finish my first year in my new program, become more involved at school (instead of wasting time on the internet), expand my current businesses (lol this is so weird to say but w/e)
2 years - *Hopefully* get accepted to study abroad at the Bauhaus (a personal dream of mine, s/o to Gropius) for a semester, hopefully score a position as a research assistant
3 years - Go to grad school (this has always been a goal of mine)
5 years - Find a job that is both challenging and stimulating (hopefully somewhere warm or with some history)

Personal goals:
- Get healthy (i.e. continue w/ therapy to hopefully get off my anxiety meds)
- Show my love/appreciation for everything, being happy and positive in general
- Do more for others
- Make new friends, find more mentors :-)
- Own more junya

Statistics: Posted by exprof — Sat Apr 05, 2014 11:56 pm

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2013-12-16T16:51:18-04:00

1-2 years: Have the body I want. Making my return to the gym when I go home for break.

4 years: Earn my chemical engineering degree and either (a) have a job offer or (b) go to grad school.

Post-education:
-Move into a small place of my own and build furniture/decor for it
-Achieve wardrobe nirvana and lose that feeling of desire for more garms

Statistics: Posted by ptozzi — Mon Dec 16, 2013 4:51 pm

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2013-12-14T22:59:46-04:00

I will have started in gym at the start of the new year.
I will be fit by March if not April, so I can start wearing medium sized shirts and 30 waist pants, instead of wearing XS and 28 waist.

I will have found out what I want to study before summer 2014 and I will start studying it after the summer of that year.
I will have moved from Aalborg and will have said thanks for a great year, to the people who has made my time in Aalborg enjoyable.

I will move to Copenhagen and study whatever my future study might be.
Space doesn't mean much to me at the moment. I just want to be in the big city where things happend often (concerts, sample sales, outdoor activies/events), and not once every month.

Most educations in Denmark, provides the oppertunity to study abroad on either your 2nd, 3rd or all of your study years. I really like the idea of studying somewhere else than Denmark, at this every moment.

A year from now I will have done atleast a fourth of my bucket list, which I am currently building up from my everday wants/dreams/hopes.

Arrange a meet up in Denmark/scandinavia or attend one.

Statistics: Posted by Prince of Scandinavia — Sat Dec 14, 2013 10:59 pm

Re: Kiss the future

2013-12-13T16:09:10-04:00

it would be nice to live in a place that is less cold

Statistics: Posted by SteevMike — Fri Dec 13, 2013 4:09 pm

Re: Kiss the future

2013-12-12T21:18:36-04:00

you appear to be at a healthy weight, what's your height, weight, and BF% if you know

Statistics: Posted by thug — Thu Dec 12, 2013 9:18 pm

Re: Kiss the future

2013-12-12T20:57:38-04:00

lose enough weight to fit flatteringly into 19cms, detroits and balmah bikers

Statistics: Posted by can- — Thu Dec 12, 2013 8:57 pm