Life decisions suck

[citiboyz]

Do what you enjoy doing, whatever it is. Look at those of us here on the GWW board.. for the most part I don't think there's anyone here who doesn't like what they're doing... in spite of long hours and other frustrations. Loving what you do makes all the difference.

[CorbinFisher_BD]

Life decisions do suck. That's why I avoid making them entirely and rely instead on horoscopes and a gaggle of ind. contractor tarot card readers to make them all for me.

But seriously... (or was I being serious?!)

One of the wonderful things about being young is that you don't have to stress too much just yet.

I'm NOT saying the issues and decisions facing young people are trivial in the least.

But I am saying that many answers will come along on their own, and you're also in a position to be able to adapt and adjust quite quickly and, relatively, easily.

I recently interviewed a candidate for a position we're filling here who was in their late 50's, recently laid off from a government job, caring for a family of 5, and having to make - at that stage in his life - major career changes. Not an envious position!

I think that at your age you're best served appreciating even difficulties as learning experiences that will set you up so well later in life. Keep your wits about ya and stay open to learning from what you're going through and you'll find that, regardless of what you're doing several years from now, you'll be so much better off and enjoying yourself thoroughly.

[gaybucks_chip]

I used to work in management for a nonprofit involved in holistic cancer treatment. We had strong issues with American Cancer Society simply *because* they were so crass about fundraising... not to mention their very negative attitude on anything other than their "party line" about what works for treatment.

In general, the large nonprofits are no different than businesses and tend to work their staff members very hard. Unless you really like selling/begging for money, it probably isn't the right job for you. On the other hand, a bar full of drunk people isn't exactly a healthy environment either.

I don't think Skyler had the intention of using this thread for this purpose at all - and he'll probably yell at me for it -- but I'll be crass and put a shameless plug in here and say SEND SKYLER TRAFFIC!! He directly profits from his site, and it's our goal for it to be his full-time gig to pay his way through school.

We just put up a bunch of nice hosted video galleries (4-30 sec clips at 500K) and traffic has been building quite a bit since then... so any of you guys that have traffic, I know Skyler will be happy to do interviews, fansigns, and we have a new lil something we're going to be announcing pretty soon that I think will be fun too

Anyway, off the shameless plug and now back to your regularly scheduled thread.