When I was a kid I wanted to be a CEO of a tech company. (Which was turbo cringe.)
Now I’d like to have a boring job and be someone’s mom/aunt.
As a kid I wanted to be a Will Wright or Sid Meier or John Romero
Now I’m just happy anybody at all plays my games lol
tbh even making a friend seems out of reach
WELL GOT I AMAZING NEWS FOR YOU . I COULD BE YOUR FRIEND. IM NOT SURE IF WE ARE COMPATIBLE IN ANY WAY. BUT I WOULD MAKE AN HONEST EFFORT.
if you are interested my dms are open.
EDIT Being an Ansar Allah fan is already a green flag in my book
I am also very shy, but I am open to making friends with anyone who uses this website
You’re all good eggs
I can be everyone’s cool nonbinary uncle
Nbuncle
You have been making me grin real big for years, for every time you made me think “that’s a lot like what I wanted to say, only better”.
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miz u are one of my fav posters tbqh
thanks, that is nice to hear
I wanted to move to Alaska and be an adventurer or a animal vet. Now I just want my own apartment.
To me, adventuring in Alaska just sounds like a way to get mauled and/or killed by a random bear during habitable weather. The rest of the year it becomes a lesson in the dangers of extreme cold.
It’s the moose that’ll getcha
Yeah and it’s funny because now as an adult I hate the cold.
I used to be hot all the time, as I’ve got older I’m feeling cold a lot more and I don’t like it.
Or getting stuck in mud.
Doesn’t Alaska get really wet and muddy during the summer, or is that somewhere else I’m thinking of?
‘Break-up’ season, yes: after a week or so above freezing, months of accumulated snow start turning into mud.
The people who studied veterinary science I personally know all do fucked up shit like animal testing. Maybe you lucked out.
Mine have actually gotten progressively more wild. First it was just having a stable job where I could afford basic comforts. Then, realizing happiness in that scenario is a pipedream, I moved onto changing my sex/gender and overthrowing capitalism. Now I’m trying to learn necromancy and how to kill god with the power of friendship.
how to kill god with the power of friendship
Weird way of saying you play DnD but I’m here for it
who said anything about DnD
As a kid I wanted to be a doctor, veterinarian, or anthropologist with a countryside home and sporty car. Now I do eco-Marxist urbanism and want an urban homestead with a few livestock pets and a cargo bike. The pay is a third of what I wanted to earn but I measure my success by my gardens and how they change my city. Everything has been conditioned by climate change and economic collapse, so my goals are realigned to be a comfortable solarpunk life. By 2050 a really optimistic goal is being able to still drink a weekly coffee I grow myself.
How does one get into eco-Marxist urbanism?
Horticulture is one of those fields where you don’t necessarily need a degree, or at least a 4 year degree, to get a job with scheming court eunuch influence at a city department. Then every radical idea can be framed as sustainability and cost/labour-saving, with a very receptive audience because your coworkers observe those problems every day. I used that role to start a municipal native plant nursery from municipal pollinator gardens used as community seedbanks, while pushing for redevelopment where public land can do more socioecologically. Within a couple years the city went from $100k/year in non-native annuals to having an infinite supply of effectively free native plants that are rapidly changing all of its planting philosophy.
Landscape architecture is much more formal, requiring at least a 4 year degree and usually a masters, but it’s much larger in scale and more consciously interdisciplinary with a strong focus on the humanities. It’s the field where you can be equal parts historian, sociologist, modernist artist, architect, environmental engineer, and natural scientist while making decent money. The most radical David Harvey and Henri Lefebvre books are just daily conversation and the systems you practically work with. I’m going that route now to develop entire swaths of urban greenspace instead of changing it bit-by-bit. With the full MLA you can have a huge amount of influence in a department like parks planning.
I have a four year degree in plant bio and feel like I should’ve looked more closely into Landscape Architecture - I kinda assumed based on what I’ve seen from others that it’s mostly a combo of CAD and permits. I’m currently in a large, somewhat progressive city so it might also be a challenge to break in. But it sounds worth giving it another look. Thanks for the info! And awesome job on using the scheming court eunuch influence for good.
There’s a lot of technical drawing and CAD, but that’s just the final stages of a project after all the fun drawing and research. With your degree you could easily go the professional horticulturist route as-is or jump into an MLA bridge programme. My crew is a geologist leading two horticulturists, a wildlife biologist, an entomologist, a biochemist, and a political scientist. We’re all overqualified, but in the interview the qualifications were less important than saying why you care about public land and how you’d want to better it. Especially with urban greenspace, it’s so interdisciplinary that any kind of scientific background has some important role. Parks feels like doing communism every day so it’s an amazing workplace full of passionate environmentalists who make those spaces their babies.
Appreciate the insights! I’ll start asking around.
As a child, I was immiserated and despised so dramatically by my peers, and failed so drastically by the institutions around me that I wanted nothing to do with contributing to this “American society”. I wanted to do anything in my power to ensure I gave exactly as much care and love to this place as it gave me.
Now I’m normal I guess and I have basic goals idk
Seeing as how I thought I could seize control of the world when I was younger, my current dreams of “Not dying” and “live comfortably” are noticeably more mundane
I just plan to survive another day at this point.
I just want to be content
No, in my youth I really wanted a 9 to 5 factory job for a life of peaceful consumption. Instead my young adulthood consisted of surviving a series of exploitative room-and-board situations in remote areas at the mercy of some real characters, until I got on disability. Now I’m a late-blooming artist who can’t stop thinking of revolution. I can’t have what I was led to believe was a normal life no matter what.
do you share your art on here? I’d love to see some!
I wanted to be a paleontologist as a kid. Still love dinos …which is kinda cool. I also worshipped Satan for a hot moment and Tiamat as a teenager.
Now I just hope I can keep working a chill office job or maybe get my youtube channel to take off.
I might become a woman I guess.
Oh I still pray sometimes.
Most of my life in school was spent being told not to get pregnant young and to get a job to build a good career. I bought into it, and now I have a good career, but I would trade it all in for a family in a heartbeat. The prospect of that ever happening is disappearing quickly.
I appreciate this is kind of “coal mine enjoyer” shit but it’s the dumb bullshit truth of my life goals changing.
If age is a concern, adoption is a thing
Aye, I’m aware of the options, thanks.
I think that’s just part of being an adult. You have fewer possible futures when you’re older, plus you have a better sense of who you are. I wanted to be a power ranger until I was like 10.
plus you have a better sense of who you are
i feel like this is an underrated aspect of it. when i was younger i always wanted to live in a kewl city like NYC or seattle for the nightlife, but then i got older and realized i don’t really vibe with that scene, so nowadays my goal is simply to move somewhere where the environment (both built and natural) is pleasant enough for me to go outside most of the year. same with jobs, back then i thought i would be this elite software engineer working on cutting edge systems, then i actually got into the tech industry and realized i’m not that driven or passionate about computer to reach those levels, so now i’m willing to do whatever as long as it pays the bills and isn’t completely miserable.
then i actually got into the tech industry and realized i’m not that driven or passionate about computer to reach those levels
I enjoy programming, but dear god I’d be constantly angry at crap not working.
Plus I don’t thing anyone wants some woman in a cubical constantly screaming at computers and cursing software developers.
for me it’s that i like programming but i hate that there’s always some new thing or another you’re pressured to learn, otherwise you’re falling behind. and like you said sometimes the new shiny doesn’t work, either because it was slopped together (was a thing even before AI code) or they changed shit in an update just because, and then you have to spend a bunch of time troubleshooting that instead of actually programming
Idk why but a lot of the 3rd party stuff I try to build always have irritating problems. Fucking annoying.
For a couple years, my childhood life goal of being a prominent scientist was fading as I underachieved academically, and I didn’t come to terms with it until I fully embraced my new radical (and poorer) self as part of an anarchist collective.
But there was another turnaround point, where I started to realize how dumb most capitalist bosses are. Now I want to start housing land trusts and get workers’ co-ops off the ground, and go on a bunch of commune-building adventures.
If anything, the plot has gotten less mundane.
Literally my only life goal now is to “get a job and move out of my parents basement”, and even that is way too ambitious.
I want a job, but porky’s such a perfectionist he will only hire the creme de la creme for everything. Why settle when everyone is a fucking prodigy these days?
