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pinkdevil16
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 Posted - 2011/05/23 : 12:14:30
I'm doing sports science at college and work part time as a lifeguard
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Hard2Get
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Posted - 2011/05/23 : 13:32:03
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Originally posted by Hard2Get:
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I'm in care.
You're abit young to be in an old persons home surely? :P
You didn't tell us what you do Matthew? No obligation to reveal, I might add.
Didn't even think about it when i posted lol. I do bugger all at the minute! Maybe i should join you in Vietnam.
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JayHH86
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Posted - 2011/05/23 : 18:17:45
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Didn't even think about it when i posted lol. I do bugger all at the minute! Maybe i should join you in Vietnam.
You'd be well received. It's a magical place.
If it helps sway you, this is where I'm heading next. It's an island off the south west coast of the Mekong Delta. It is quite literally the vision of everyone's idea of paradise:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&xhr=t&q=phu+quoc&cp=5&rls=ig&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1366&bih=643
And to everyone else:
a) You're more than welcome to come and stay with me in Vietnam (I sleep naked, bare that in mind)
b) Thank you for all your responses. I feel like I know you all so much more now! Some very, very interesting things you all do!
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Hard2Get
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Posted - 2011/05/23 : 18:34:06
Oh wow, you lucky lucky bastard. And I'm not just saying that either; that kind of location is exactly where i want to be spending my time. It is the ultimate to me. If i actually had a passport and it was affordable to get there/live there i would totally go.
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JayHH86
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Posted - 2011/05/23 : 18:49:03
I am incredibly lucky mate. And I try to remind myself of it ever day. I have great parents, and they're fairly well off. So as soon as I started working I was able to save money quite well without having to pay rent at home. I fcuked up my education though - I was always bright, but never applied myself. I developed a bit of a drink problem in college and only got one AS-Level after two years. Not even one actual A-Level, just a half. I bummed around for 9 months, then my cousin - Sales Manager - got me a six month temp job at her company. Stayed for 5 years and had multiple promotions. My dad forced me to save from a young age, so when I felt I was being drastically underpaid I said "Fcuk you" to my company and booked a one-way ticket to Vietnam, for a year.
And that's the story of my adult life.
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Hard2Get
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Posted - 2011/05/23 : 19:02:15
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Originally posted by JayHH86:
I am incredibly lucky mate. And I try to remind myself of it ever day. I have great parents, and they're fairly well off. So as soon as I started working I was able to save money quite well without having to pay rent at home. I fcuked up my education though - I was always bright, but never applied myself. I developed a bit of a drink problem in college and only got one AS-Level after two years. Not even one actual A-Level, just a half. I bummed around for 9 months, then my cousin - Sales Manager - got me a six month temp job at her company. Stayed for 5 years and had multiple promotions. My dad forced me to save from a young age, so when I felt I was being drastically underpaid I said "Fcuk you" to my company and booked a one-way ticket to Vietnam, for a year.
And that's the story of my adult life.
Well done for not comforming to society. You did what you wanted and now you're living a way in which most people only ever fantasise about because you can. Sounds like a success if you ask me. Not many would agree though.
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JayHH86
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Posted - 2011/05/23 : 19:11:33
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Well done for not comforming to society. You did what you wanted and now you're living a way in which most people only ever fantasise about because you can. Sounds like a success if you ask me. Not many would agree though.
Ha ha, well thanks man.
I've thought about it a lot in my mind, and I don't know whether it's a case of not conforming, or whether it's a case of simply not having the motivation to work - and subsequently delaying employment, despite it being inevitable, for a year. I just thought "When are you ever going to get the chance to bum around for an entire year again? Never. So let's do it now.
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Hard2Get
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Posted - 2011/05/23 : 19:39:43
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Originally posted by JayHH86:
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Originally posted by Hard2Get:
Well done for not comforming to society. You did what you wanted and now you're living a way in which most people only ever fantasise about because you can. Sounds like a success if you ask me. Not many would agree though.
Ha ha, well thanks man.
I've thought about it a lot in my mind, and I don't know whether it's a case of not conforming, or whether it's a case of simply not having the motivation to work - and subsequently delaying employment, despite it being inevitable, for a year. I just thought "When are you ever going to get the chance to bum around for an entire year again? Never. So let's do it now.
You made the right choice lol.
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Warnman
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Posted - 2011/05/23 : 20:29:26
Yeah Jay, that's a way to go!
You remind me of some former israeli soldiers, I have seen in a tv-documentary not long ago. After their national service, they told their old life to f**k off and went to a very long journey to Goa doing drugs, meditation & other spiritual stuff, party, etc.
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Vitalism
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Posted - 2011/05/23 : 21:34:23
wow, you actually did what we all wish we could do. living the dream life from "the beach"
(what are you doing in vietnam for monies there, living off savings? or... )
back on topic, i work at a liquor store and i am a gardener of sorts here in beautiful British Columbia.
somehow this large city managed to appear in the middle of nowhere in the mountains, quite the place to live actually!! http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/dkl/photos/Nelson%20aerial%20view.jpg
i'm still pretty jealous of that vietnam beach
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m0nst3r
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Posted - 2011/05/23 : 21:59:53
I was working in a hotel as a waitress in the mornings and nights and working at the same hotel as a housemaid during the day.
Now I'm living off savings waiting to see if i got into my course, if i did then the government shall be giving me money...if i dont get into my course....well time to look for another job
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Hard2Get
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Posted - 2011/05/24 : 00:05:10
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back on topic, i work at a liquor store
The same one you hated so much years ago?
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NekoShuffle
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Posted - 2011/05/24 : 02:20:01
I'm in my first year of uni doing some IT course and getting danged decent cash thanks to grants and bursaries that I don't even have to pay back. It's all gonna be gone very soon though, I can't stand uni and will not be carrying on, it's a ridiculously isolating experience and if I am brutally honest I don't think I have ever met so many people with their head up their own arse, I have been blanked so many times it's unreal.
I used to be good at IT but Uni totally killed my interest in computers full stop but it's the only thing I'm really qualified for. I did get loads of experience and knowledge stuff under my belt when I was at college but I just really don't wanna work with them...however I haven't got a clue what else there is I can do out there that will bring in the dough I am still in shock that I have to go and work, I'm still in shock that I'm nearly 20 years old, I think of myself as like 12 and don't really think about stuff like work or employment or jobs...it sort of sounds fun though, I would love to be like doing something really interesting and cool but I dunno what's out there really.
I wish I could work for like cartoon network or Nicktoons or something but I don't have anything to offer them at all apart from knowledge of cartoons
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Brian K
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Posted - 2011/05/24 : 03:23:34
I'm the evening lead microbilogist for a lab that takes care for most of central Indiana's hospitals & outpatient clinics...I play with feces, blood, & urine for a living =P
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latininxtc
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Posted - 2011/05/24 : 03:24:35
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I'm the evening lead microbilogist for a lab that takes care for most of central Indiana...I play with feces, blood, & urine for a living =P
sounds delicious
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