I absolutely and truly sympathize.
Existential Crisis Emergency Kit:
Fuel - Bottle of whiskey, to be administered as needed no more that 3 nights per week. (Alternate for non-drinkers: Replace with 2-hours physical exercise in an outdoor setting)
Readings - 100 Years of Solitude; Schrodinger’s Kittens; The Stranger; Who’s in Charge?; Johnathan Livingston Seagull.
Viewings - Lost in Translation; Doctor Who (The David Tennant years); The Goonies; The Royal Tenenbaums.
Softly stir the above ingredients with infusions of candlelight and the random impulsive drive/walk with nowhere particular in mind as a destination. Let settle and breathe before serving resulting contents.
Coalesce wrote:
I absolutely and truly sympathize.
Existential Crisis Emergency Kit:
Fuel - Bottle of whiskey, to be administered as needed no more that 3 nights per week. (Alternate for non-drinkers: Replace with 2-hours physical exercise in an outdoor setting)
Readings - 100 Years of Solitude; Schrodinger’s Kittens; The Stranger; Who’s in Charge?; Johnathan Livingston Seagull.
Viewings - Lost in Translation; Doctor Who (The David Tennant years); The Goonies; The Royal Tenenbaums.
Softly stir the above ingredients with infusions of candlelight and the random impulsive drive/walk with nowhere particular in mind as a destination. Let settle and breathe before serving resulting contents.
This made me smile :) Thank you. As for the fuel, how about 8 hours a day in the burning hot sun? No? Kay well, that’s what I’ve got to do ;P
I will take a look at the readings and viewings.
How do you NOT feel like your life is outside of your control? I know I’m young but this is some serious ********. As you can see, I’ve taken up to cussing. That too was on my no-no list.
If cursing is on your no-no list I would suggest that you may need to unwind a bit; start by getting rid of your no-no list.
After that, life is about living life … It’s not any more complicated then that.
Now that can mean different things to different people; the key is to find out what it means to you. What is it you want out of life? … What ever it is make it happen.
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Da-11 wrote:
If cursing is on your no-no list I would suggest that you may need to unwind a bit; start by getting rid of your no-no list.
After that, life is about living life … It’s not any more complicated then that.
Now that can mean different things to different people; the key is to find out what it means to you. What is it you want out of life? … What ever it is make it happen.
That’s a lot easier to say. How? What happens when I don’t have the connections? Or the “luck”? Even if I said I wanted to be a millionare, which I do, it takes money to make money. What I REALLY want to do in life is out of the question at this point so how do I get a job to support myself out of college? What do I major in in college? What do you do when you don’t know what to do?
I haveee noooo clue!
It’s not what we leave behind on our journey, but how we get there. Nobody said that life was going to be easy and they ran out of instruction manuals right before I got up to the table.
I would say that the meaning of life is to enjoy it and be happy. Eat, drink, and be merry (but remember to do all of these in moderation).
Find your passion and pursue it or find something that you can be passionate about and do it on the side or as a hobby.
Most important… Just live!!!
I’m working towards becoming either an anger management therapist or a guidance/grief/trauma counselor.
The most important thing that you need to remember is that you need to keep your focus and continue down your path because you seem to be doing a good job so far and it sounds like you have a pretty good head on your shoulders.
The important thing to try to understand right now is that one day, you will find out what your specific purpose in life is.
If you don’t mind me asking (and since it isn’t on your profile page), how old are you?
red_rebel_lion wrote:
I’m working towards becoming either an anger management therapist or a guidance/grief/trauma counselor.
The most important thing that you need to remember is that you need to keep your focus and continue down your path because you seem to be doing a good job so far and it sounds like you have a pretty good head on your shoulders.
The important thing to try to understand right now is that one day, you will find out what your specific purpose in life is.
If you don’t mind me asking (and since it isn’t on your profile page), how old are you?
I am seventeen. I would love to continue down my path, if I knew what it specifically was ;P I know what I like to do, not necesarrily if its feasible. I want more than anything to work in the music industry doing as much as I can. Performing of course but producing, songwriting, etc. The thing about the music industry is that it comes with no instruction manual or “ladder up” like other profesions. Very tight knit and I happen to have 0 contacts. How do I approach something like that? I know that’s what I want to do because everytime I try to do something more “realistic” I always end back up in the same place.
In the music industry, very very few people go from ground to glam on the fast-track. Most had to garage-band it, making recordings in their basements for half-a-decade or more before they got local interest. Run another several years building from a local base (some side-income playing gigs but still not the main job) until they can start to tour a bit. Once at that phase, that’s typically when a musician can hit national attention and net a contract. If you really reaaaally want to work in the music industry… just do it!
Start recording some stuffs, be your biggest promoter (build a music page with demos, distribute free demo copies through local cafes and music stores, set up small volunteer performances say at local bars or clubs). The more you work your own stuffs, the more you are exposed to ‘the scene’. As you gain exposure, you’ll meet people and gain opportunities. Maybe an up and coming group sees how hard you work to promote yourself and offers you a bit of cash to promote their stuff too. Maybe you get an offer from a bar or cafe to manage their entertainment, maybe you get enough local interest that you can start touring and getting regional attention.
For the very very few, they burst onto the scene nearly overnight. For the vast majority, it’s a series of baby-steps over years and years, fueled by the personal conviction that this is what they want to do. Whether they make it big, or make it at all doesn’t matter to them so much as that they tried and stuck with it down the line.
Depending on how you impact the scene has a lot to do with how their career is going to be. If you play an instrument, this will also help you make a name for yourself because you might be able to play in local venues and whatnot. Another thing I would suggest would be the possibility of going to an “American Idol” audition if you can make it (and if they still do that, I’m not sure).
Ultimately, I am sure that you also have other passions besides something to do with the music industry. Try to examine any other things that you might be passionate about and try to come to a decision as to a potential “fall back” in case the music thing doesn’t work out for you. Look at some of the classes that you are taking and whichever ones excite you or interest you are ones you should focus on.
I never really had any idea what I wanted to do for the rest of my life when I was 17, but I found that with each step that I took was a step towards where I am now (even though it’s not where I thought I would be).
Most importantly, stay in school. No matter what
But definitely keep us posted on what’s going on.
Alright, first of all, thanks guys for the info. Honestly, I was considering building a webpage and putting tracks on it and also blogging about the things I’m doing etc. That sounds like a good promotional opportunity. Most times it just seems like a “when” thing. When I move out, when I get to university, when I have money, when I look like this etc. I do not intend on living off of my dad forever. Yet I have this really scary feeling that I’m running out of time and fast. If I don’t do it now then I’ll miss my chance. I have no problem with putting all of my energy into it because I love to do these things, but as of right now I have AP classes, school in general, volunteering to be competitive for college, sports for the same reason, and all that. There’s like, no time. Sometimes I wonder how singers that are already established did it. I don’t want to have all these excuses because someone somewhere trying to reach the same goals as I am is putting forth 100% and it becomes a “if you really wanted to do it you would have made time” situation.
School (at least, being successful in school) and a music career don’t mix. Most singers, when asked about their biographies, either dropped out of school or were really lucky to find something right out of high school.
It sounds like you already have a lot on your plate at the moment, but you still sound like you are keeping up with what you have going on. Honestly, it sounds like a career in music might not be in the cards for you right now because of the short-term goals you mentioned, (to not live off your dad forever, to go to school, when you get a job, etc.).
I don’t know why so many people feel as if they are running out of time these days, but trust me; you have plenty of time left to live a full and rewarding life, whether you can get into a career in music or not. I know it might seem difficult to believe, but it is the truth.
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