Smart Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 i was pretty psyched for all this but i may not actually get into any courses which is a worry, there are much more talented people out there who would be chosen over me. if i get into a course i'm thinking of deferring and doing whatever-the-fuck for a year just knowing i have something to fall back on. meeting wymmenz is a secondary to me, i'd rather improve my drawing/sketching/painting skills in all fields (not just graffical dance) Didn't your dad teach you not to step on your own balls? Go out for the courses. Don't be surprised when you get picked up... You can draw/paint whatevs no matter what AND the waiter suggestion is a hot tip for meeting women but you can pick up a coke habit that way quick too... Go to school, be aware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tavaruawon Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 No. You could attend 'bartending school' but that in itself is a fucking joke. You don't need anything but a good personality and quick hands. Learn how to pour a Long Island and it's many variations and you're set. All you really have to do is pretend to care, smile, and take care of your regulars. Getting a job here as an Aussie? I don't imagine that it could possibly be harder then getting a job in the AU as an American. Shit's fucking next to impossible. You're gonna need the right VISA's... and there is a 'right' way to go about all of that if you're really intent on coming to the states and making a living. Don't declare yourself with an intent to stay... there's a lot more where that came from but I won't digress. PM me if you're really concerned and serious. I got advice. Also you need to be 21. Don't let that hinder you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swindle Posted October 11, 2009 Author Share Posted October 11, 2009 Didn't your dad teach you not to step on your own balls? dad just taught me that i don't wanna end up like him. and he taught by example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tavaruawon Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 ... the waiter suggestion is a hot tip for meeting women but you can pick up a coke habit that way quick too... Go to school, be aware. haha hella true. STAY WARY SON. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 I finished high school with a transcript that would let me go to univ later. I took a year off, worked in a gas station and smoked too much weed. Went to college for a year, met who I would eventually make my wife, and then dropped out after a year. Worked again in several different fields over the course of a few years and "worked my way up the chain" so to speak. It led to me getting a job where I was paid to get my current education, I bought my first house that year and I did it all before turning 25. Next on the list is travelling with my old lady before we have any kids. Tl;dr ... Don't feel rushed into anything, you're young and have plenty of time to do something with your life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 The job that provides the most access to loose women is cab driver. No shit, you'll get more than you can handle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tails0nE Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 life after high school was and still is kinda lame... at first they didnt wanna let me graduate because of all my tardies.. yes im serious... because of some fucking tardies... what WAS gonna happen is i was gonna have to stay back for another year to catch up on my credits but only be in school for like 3 or 4 periods a day, then i would graduate with the next class.. but thank god my counselor came to me the last week of school with some options.. she said, "ok, you can either come back for another year and get your credits like that which i know you dont want to, or you can do the summer work program and night school till december and get your diploma then.." so i said fuck yea ill take that idea... in order to be in the work program course you needed a job, which i didnt have... so i said i got paid cash to help my pops with heating and air conditioning and would just bring a booty ass note saying i got paid this much this week... then i went to night school during the winter, met alot of people, and finally got my diploma... ever since then ive just been kicking it and on this job hunt.. but this job hunt isnt looking so good right about now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn1_fuckos Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 Life after high school is a drag, I'm at a city college before diving head first into a life time of debt it saves me and my fam money since they're helpin me out. Pretty much i feel like I'm learning meaningless information before i get to study what i want which is photography. I don't get financial aid because they think my fam doesn't pay bills, eat or buy gas for the cars but theres other people im at school with whose parents make much more then mine and they still get a freakin financial aid check. I know if i would have gone to a big university i would have just sunk myself into huge debts and cost my folks alot of money because i wouldn't have been doing shit! Workin and school at the same time is a bitch it leaves little time to do any type of homework and even less time to get sleep sometimes ill accumulate 24 hours of sleep in 7 days its a real drag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leland Palmer Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 The only thing I'll say is, whatever it is you do, don't do it half hearted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 after high school was community college for about a year...and worked a few shitty low end jobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acer910 Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 i have no fucking idea what im going to do after highschool. probly 2 years of community college to get a degree in a trade as a fallback and then transfer to some liberal college in the mountains. who knows. but all i know is the "college fund" i have wont pay for 2 years of community college and about the only scholarship i apply for is the volunteering scholarship and thats only 1 grand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RELAPSER Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 i graduated last may, ended up moving to boston. going to school out here, juggling a relationship. hustlin bitches and and hustlin chumps. sippin, smokin, and generally not giving a fuck. it's pretty legit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_R_O_N Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 at the moment im at a local community college and making moves to transfer to san fran state. lately ive been having thoughts on joining the marines. i need to go on an adventure. EDIT: being black and a male is fucking AWESOME! all types of scholarships being thrown at me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedoe Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 finna graduate in june, probably fuck around for a year then try and get this independent living shit started Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwampFightOner Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 I spent the year "after highschool" (what really should have been my last year, since I dropped out after junior) working fulltime, getting my GED, getting my license, meeting the girl I dated for a few years, moving out of my parent's crib, and realizing how much I loved alcohol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__ __ __ __ Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 i didnt even read this shit i was just expecting tits and i looked that them and am now leaving this comment to let you guys know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slept_on Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 get a job at a bar/restaurant so you can drink early lay some serious pipe in as many ladies as you can ride the childhood wave as long as you can, because life only gets more ridiculous as you get older Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smellycheese Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 life sucks. work, drink beer, write on shit, pay taxes and bills, die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manute Bol Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 I dropped out as a junior, got drunk with friends all the time and went wild in the streets for a few years. I quit my job at a market cause it sucked after 3 years of bullshit and I hated my life. My Mom kicked me out of her house, the first few times I lived with ayebee then the last time for good with my boy until he died. I actually moved out before he died though cause his girl got pregnant again and I couldn't live with a kid cause, well..I party too much. Now I got this in law apartment deal at my grandmas, shes mad old so I kinda take care of her and shit. I crash at my parents a lot too cause it's closer to the city which is where I'm always at. I work at a tattoo shop now and things are getting better cause the money is rolling in again. Hopefully I'm successful. THE END. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwampFightOner Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 My crib is always gunna be the main crash spot, cuz I'm the only one who consistently has my shit together. That's actually really sad, and says alot about us as a group of people haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimetime Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 went to trade school for something.. 3 years later found out it wasn't for me. went back to school, traveled the world. You have to make time to see the world if you can manage it. Bum your way through it for a year or two it'll change your entire perspective on life. Found a cool girl, made babies, now i work my ass off to give my kids a better life than i had. the end. By the way i just read some guys giving you "get a bartending gig" advice... do it! i had some of the best years of my life working in a bar. Met mad cool people, slept with more girls and way hotter girls than i should have been allowed to. Just make sure you work in a fun spot but do it, mad money and mad hookers. Man i need to write a book or something about how i would relive my life if i had the chance, or try one more time and try to have a son. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 EDIT: being black and a male is fucking AWESOME! all types of scholarships being thrown at me. Well, when you make it out here throw some of those scholarships my way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tipsycripsy420 Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 What Tron said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrasivesaint Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 i toured the country for a couple months, had no idea what i was doing, still dont, had 80$ in my bank and have no idea how i made it through that year, have my shit half together, as always. still dont give a shit. not much has changed at all since i left high school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cats and snakes. Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 i'm in the exact same spot as you swindle. i have no idea where to go right now. ... fresh outta highschool. i just got a job putting together furniture and shit. making no money. living at home. i'm taking art classes at a tech school. it keeps me somewhat sane. but i'm not satisfied. i don't want to die a nobody. ... this thread is very useful. opened my eyes. thanks d00dz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrasivesaint Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 dont worry about dying a nobody my dude, worry about living. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauler5150 Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 You should travel Swindle, whether it be overseas, or doing as my best friend did and just getting a van and driving around Australia getting jobs doing whatever in whatever place you are in. Obviously barwork is the way to go if you want to meet women, but be prepared, there is a whole set of politics in the game if you are working clubs and shit and being a barman isn't as good as it is cracked up to be if you aren't working with the right people. When I graduated, I went straight to uni, didn't work, lived off the govt, and just surfed my days away. It was a cushy life until a 4WD ran up my ass and totalled my car, so it kinda fucked me, but really I wish I had travelled and just lived on the edge a little more like my friends I met while travelling. I mean as Smart said, you can save up cash and then go when you are older and ball outrageous (which is what I did) but I seriously think it would have been more of an experience going when I had little to no cash and was forced to try and survive off my own wits, not relying on my cash I had put away. But whatever you do, do it with passion, and seriously, art degrees are about as useful as toilet paper, in fact, in the shitters at my uni, they even had that printed above the looroll, "Art degress, please take one", as you will just accrue a debt that won't help you get any job. So my advice is to travel, see other places, and you might just not want to come back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cats and snakes. Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 gahh, it's hard man. life seems so damn contrived and limited these days. it fuckin' sucks. i wanna "do something that makes me happy", but it's so much easier said than done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SerialSkiller Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 I know a few that have met people through working at offices even at factorys, telemarketing bullshit etc. I just feel I missed out on meeting alot of new women from not going to Uni and as a person that sucks at the insta-pickup at bars and clubs that shit could have came in handy. yeh im like that aswell. my friend works at Jay Jays (clothing store) in the city here. He picks up so many fuckin chicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard nixon Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Wait. isn't that why people go to art school in the first place? Because they don't know what they want. Art school is a waste of money for most people. I think it looses it's appeal when your friends who went to "real school" start getting well paying jobs and you learn to paint pretty shit. After I graduated college, I dicked around for a year or so. then I opened up a children's art center. I am 23 and I teach art during the day to kids. I do whatever the fuck I want the rest of the time. Don't stress over life. Laugh at dickheads. Be honest. Do your thing. But! If you do go to school, you will end up with a much bigger and better (for the most part) music and movie collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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