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[Berserker]

I've been real busy lately with my future and particularly what I'm gonna do when I finish my bachelor. I'm probably gonna leave the company I work for now, cause of the limited capabilities I have here for personal and financial growth. On the other side I want to get my MBA someday and maybe I'll get the chance here.

So what are your current jobs/schools and future plans?

[Aubrey McFatum]

I'm still undecided. I have too many ideas, but none very convincing. At the moment I'm just planning to move somewhere else. After that I'll see what I can find that suits me and my ambitions.

[Berserker]

Are you attending school at the moment or a fulltime job?

[Pu the Owl]

I'd like things to get more stable at home. I am now forced to stay at home with parents, mainly because there is a situation that requires my presence. After things will get a little better, or at least clearer, I will be able to be more constant in work projects and such things. I can't stay here forever anyway, so...

[Berserker]

Are you still at college Pu? You studied arts right? Do you find it difficult to decide what kind of job you want to do for the rest of your life? I know someone who went to college and got his dutch language master, really cool if you do...but the job possibilities are rather limited if you really want to do something in the field of that master.

[Pu the Owl]

I never got the degree. I had only a few exams left, but never completed them. I didn't like their methods, and you had no perspectives once you got the degree anyway. In Italy, if you don't get hooked to the "right" people and you don't go to specialistic schools that are very elite you're out of the world of arts, especially cinema and TV, which is what I studied for. Seems banal, but it is not. Here it's not like in more advanced countries for this kind of things, like the UK or the US. even Mexico from what I know has better situation. You really don't have hope to work for anything involving cinema just because of your merits. You have to have "something else". I don't know if you get what I mean. Techs are the same, it's not only the directing, acting or screenwriting. It's still a world where mainly sons and relatives of people entered in the field ages ago work, and they leave the spot for their friends and relatives once they abandon their place. It's still feudal. You can't be indipendent here, laws don't allow that. You also can't hope to be noticed because you do something of value. My professors at uni were the first to be unable to complete their own projects because of these reasons, and because they lacked funding, etc. They were forced to choose as a careeer teaching and writing books and essays on the techical and historical side of the subject because of that, you know. Isn's that ridiculously discouranging? So I said that wasn't for me, not as it is intended here.

[Berserker]

It's probably the same around here, ol' boys network all the way. I can understand the frustration that comes with realising it. The whole tv/cinema is a strange world, I know through some people I know 'bout some people that are in the dutch showbizz and from what I hear that's not something that I would like to be part of. A lot of backstabbers, conmen, yesmen..the whole lot.

[Pu the Owl]

For now I intend making some money with webdesigning and move out once and for all. I can't give my life away because my parents made the wrong choices and now are suffering the consequences. It would be stupid and unfair. After I can have more space and indipendence to move around as I wish, not having to run errands all the time for them and so on, I have some ideas I'd like to develop. But not now. First I have these things to do. I don't know if I'll ever get a degree. What for? For a work in public administration? For teaching? No way.

[Berserker]

You don't always have to get a degree in order to get some specific job, it can also suit you just for the expand of knowledge. Maybe someday you'll just pick it up for the sake of that?
Do you do webdesigning freelance or for a boss? Freelance is the way to go IMO, I would love to do some kind of freelance work.

[Beretta55]

I really don't have anything set in stone for myself, there are things I want to do but I'm not sure yet what is the "one" so to speak. I'm finishing high school right now via a home school tutor system. I'll most likely finish this year and then take my GED for the diploma.

As for my future plans, I don't see myself going to college, the only thing I remotely want to do that would make me go to college is a future in video game design, but that's more of a pipe dream then anything. I mostly plan to go to a trade school. I also plan to learn how to weld so if the trade school doesn't work out (even though I don't see how it won't) I do have a trade to fall back on so that I'll never be out of work.

It may not be as glamorous or "reaching for the stars" job wise but I've always liked working with my hands and don't want a job that sticks me behind a desk or in a cubicle, or I'd go mad. It's also the best way to actually work for yourself and earn a steady income, which is what I want; I don't want to work for someone my entire career.

[Phenom]

It's been real rough around here in Michigan seeing how I still don't have a job, so I'm pretty much just helping my brother off and on with his coaching job in teaching kids. (It's more volunteerish on my end, but partial time killing as well.) He's a gymnast.

My aunt just put me down on a list at AAA since there's been a bunch of lay-offs there. (Michigan and these lay-offs I tell you...)

And then I have a friend whose step dad has his own construction company that I'm calling a little bit later on.. (The construction business slows down in the winter, but hopefully they're getting started now.)

As far as college goes. I'm relocating to either Phoenix or California to UTI. I'm hoping to move between July and October of this year.

My only thing is that I know nothing about the Arizona area outside of the blistering heat. Anybody here lives or been to Arizona that can share some details? Side activities? Not like I'd have time to do anything anyway, but I'd like to know what else is there to do there.

[Meiko]

I'd like to do more volunteering work now. I am currently doing some for a local hospital and I like it. I am also working at a local jewelry shop. It's nothing special, but give me time for other activities. I don't know what I'll do next.