School has destroyed all the interests I had

[JavelinParticipant 167]

Hi.

So I’ve been thinking recently about my childhood. When I was a kid I wanted to become a builder, an inventor, a soldier, a sailor, or an archeologist.
After 8 years in Highschool, 3 years in College, nothing of that curiosity remains. My brain is just distracted by video games, Facebook and other useless things that keep my mind asleep.
I’ve no idea what to do with my f~~~ing life.

I hate schools. People here are so blind, boring and their path is already fixed.
I don’t want that, but I’ve no idea how.

I’m afraid of taking action and risks. I want to learn something more useful than coding, accounting or gender studies (lol).
Still in my father house. I’m 22. no degree except the one you get before uni (idk the name in English)

The thing I enjoyed the most when I was a teen was working as in construction. I think I’ll go for that. Maybe in house painting. Or in gardening.
I think if I’m going to school once again I’m gonna throw up.

F~~~ that.

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[AwakenedParticipant 35204]

The construction industry ALWAYS NEEDS strong young men in all the building trades !!

Research them, focus on one, seek employment !!

In a World of Justin Beibers Be a Johnny Cash

[RoyDalParticipant]

Big rig truck driver.
Automobile mechanic.
Diesel mechanic.
Electrician.
Plumber.
Carpenter.
The guy who climbs electric utility poles.
Etc.

Society asks MGTOWs: Why are you not making more tax-slaves?

[Buller100Participant 2189]

Javelin wrote:

Hi.

So I’ve been thinking recently about my childhood. When I was a kid I wanted to become a builder, an inventor, a soldier, a sailor, or an archeologist.
After 8 years in Highschool, 3 years in College, nothing of that curiosity remains. My brain is just distracted by video games, Facebook and other useless things that keep my mind asleep.
I’ve no idea what to do with my f~~~ing life.

I hate schools. People here are so blind, boring and their path is already fixed.
I don’t want that, but I’ve no idea how.

I’m afraid of taking action and risks. I want to learn something more useful than coding, accounting or gender studies (lol).
Still in my father house. I’m 22. no degree except the one you get before uni (idk the name in English)

The thing I enjoyed the most when I was a teen was working as in construction. I think I’ll go for that. Maybe in house painting. Or in gardening.
I think if I’m going to school once again I’m gonna throw up.

F~~~ that.

Plumbing and heating is a great trade, funny enough I read somewhere in the UK there is a skill shortage as young people don’t want to get dirty ?

Once you train its easy to start on your own as a sub contractor , if you are good you can earn good money through price work, be design you will learn other things in the building game so its good for rental business further down track.

[Truthseeker82Participant 6406]

Some careers like real estate don’t require a degree. If you are motivated you can make $$ on the side, but it’s hard to make a living off it.
A buddy of mine from my teenage years took HVAC courses in High School and became certified. These repairmen are always in demand and best part – usually few if any women to work with (except maybe in the office).
Your young age is an advantage in that you have strength and energy. Use it to your advantage. I’m in my mid 50s now and wish I had heeded the advice I give today back then. Best of luck.

[TwistParticipant]

Javelin wrote:

The thing I enjoyed the most when I was a teen was working as in construction.

I think the education that works today is something along the lines of civil engineering. The world needs to be built, maintained, and re-built. Its often discussed how few can change their own tires or oil today. What about delivering water, sewage, energy, etc. Those needs will never go away.

[Anonymous 42]

F~~~ it, retire now, be a bum while you’re still young, go skiing and surfing while busing tables in a restaurant and eating while they’re not looking, one small bit from every dish will go unnoticed unless it’s a sandwich, then only trim the edges.

[AttonParticipant]

I’m afraid of taking action and risks.

Ask yourself why and move past it else their is a cost associated.

A MGTOW is a man who is not a woman's bitch!

[John DoeParticipant 743]

Javelin wrote:

Hi.

So I’ve been thinking recently about my childhood. When I was a kid I wanted to become a builder, an inventor, a soldier, a sailor, or an archeologist.
After 8 years in Highschool, 3 years in College, nothing of that curiosity remains. My brain is just distracted by video games, Facebook and other useless things that keep my mind asleep.
I’ve no idea what to do with my f~~~ing life.

I hate schools. People here are so blind, boring and their path is already fixed.
I don’t want that, but I’ve no idea how.

I’m afraid of taking action and risks. I want to learn something more useful than coding, accounting or gender studies (lol).
Still in my father house. I’m 22. no degree except the one you get before uni (idk the name in English)

The thing I enjoyed the most when I was a teen was working as in construction. I think I’ll go for that. Maybe in house painting. Or in gardening.
I think if I’m going to school once again I’m gonna throw up.

F~~~ that.

Take a week off. Go into the woods (through national park, some remote area, etc.) Live there for a week. Take whatever gear and food you need, but not much.

Spend time thinking, being quiet, and fasting. It will hurt, but its okay. The goal is to “purify” yourself of any internal and external distractions so that when you decide to make a decision you as a whole will be “clearer”.

Will you find your priorities? Maybe, maybe not. But you will have a clear sense of being able to define both yourself and your surrounding environment. And that is what you need: The ability to both be defined and to define.

Don’t be afraid.

[KevinStylesParticipant 2580]

Learn a trade, you can do your schooling and get into actually working as an apprentice an work the ranks . I’d recommend electrician, plumber or HVAC. Always going to need those people, they make a lot of money and much job security.

On the tech front if you want high paying with job security go with programmer or network engineer.

All those careers you can get to 100k in time and it can lead to be your own boss type of work.

[Freeman_KParticipant 3524]

Idea of school is to turn you into blue pill cog who works for the system and thus no wonder it killed your personal interests. That is the whole idea. Welcome to the red pill.

I went through a lot of schooling and i am still trying to deprogram a lot but i know that i have kept my soverignity. But most of the people i am meeting are brainless zeds.

The choices we make, not the chances we take, determine our destiny

[MutineerParticipant 1467]

Anonymous wrote:

F~~~ it, retire now, be a bum while you’re still young, go skiing and surfing while busing tables in a restaurant and eating while they’re not looking, one small bit from every dish will go unnoticed unless it’s a sandwich, then only trim the edges.

Are you serious?

"The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage." - Thucydides

[KeymasterKeymaster]

Javelin wrote:

I’ve no idea what to do with my f~~~ing life.

That’s OK, some of the most interesting people I know STILL don’t.

I always thought deciding in advance and committing to that for life was as stupid as a woman’s idea where she goes into a first date looking for a “serious relationship” or a “commitment” with someone she hasn’t even met.

School has destroyed all the interests I had

“In this life, figure out what you’re NOT good at, and then don’t do that thing”.
– Most Interesting Man in the World

There’s truth in that.

Javelin wrote:

People here are so blind, boring and their path is already fixed.
I don’t want that, but I’ve no idea how.

Society wants you to commit to one thing and keep you a good little slave. In fact, it’s “weird” if you completely switch careers, or paths, or even geography too often. You’re made to feel like you’re unstable and unreliable.

So perhaps throw away any pressure to resign the next 40 years to something you need to decide today, this year or the next. Because you don’t. It can also be TOO LIMITING if you do.

Rather than looking for interests….

BECOME INTEREST-ING.

Javelin wrote:

Maybe in house painting. Or in gardening.

Who says you can’t do both?

The picture above ^ from @freeman_k is really great. I couldn’t see the difference between school and prison either. They both cultivate controlled thought and “institutionalized” mentalities. What is the first thing a man does when he gets out of prison? Often, he commits another crime to go back to what he knows – to the state of a slave. What is the first thing a man does when he gets out of relationship / divorce? Looks for another wife/girlfriend and goes back to what he knows. The state of a slave.

No need to decide “what to do with the rest of your life”.
Just get busy living.

If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.

[Knight ErrantParticipant 179]

Read the book “The Underground History of American Education” by John Taylor Gatto. It will give you great insight as to why you’re feeling like this. It might also light a fire under your ass and get you excited about the possibilities the world offers.

I remember when I was in your shoes. I felt exactly the same. I got a job I hated in the trade I learned in college. Then I quit and spent years doing s~~~ jobs and studying what really interested me in my own time with the help of the internet. It took me years until I finally felt happy about my life. You’re young and many good things lie ahead, you just need to fight for them, but they are worth it.

I'm no white knight, Sir. Give me a strong suit of armour, a swift steed and the open road and stick the hand of the princess up your arse. I've no ring to put on it and I'm fresh out of fucks to give.

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

The very fact you have the presence of mind to know you really don’t know what to do with your life is a mark in your favor.

Higher education used to be just that—a mechanism to raise you up and make you think critically, to read an learn etc. Now higher education is nothing but a political indoctrination program…and is useless.

Even though I am what you would call highly educated–notice I gave it all up for a trade…and I really enjoy working with my hands and creating things of value–things that have use and purpose.
Just some advice.

[TwistParticipant]

PistolPete wrote:

you have the presence of mind

To keep it in perspective – at your age I knew pretty well what I would do. Get a business degree, then a MBA, they go and make money. I did all that.

You? You found MGTOW.com at an early age. You are light years ahead of where I was!

Stay open to opportunity and it will reach up and grab you. Speak to interesting people and see what motivates them.

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

OK in fairness TWIST is right. Yes I’m a tradesman NOW but I did the lawyer thing for years in order to make enough money where I could afford the luxury of my part-time trade in retirement.
So at your stage of life TWIST is right–you need to build wealth and resources for the future. ((BUT some trades do pay a lot–I just paid a plumber $190 to spend an hour capping a leaking pipe.)

And without some succubus draining your wealth those $190’s add up!

[narwhalParticipant]

Keymaster wrote:

I always thought deciding in advance and committing to that for life was as stupid as a woman’s idea where she goes into a first date looking for a “serious relationship” or a “commitment” with someone she hasn’t even met.

I decided on getting a mechanical engineering degree. To this day, I couldn’t exactly tell you why. Probably because my Dad was an engineer, and had aptitude in math in science. Half way through, I decided I wasn’t all that excited about it, but was always told to stick with my commitments. I ended up with a s~~~ty government job that I hated. My coworkers were reading trade magazines in their spare time, and I couldn’t be more bored by it.

Lucky for me, IT was booming a the time, I was able to transition into IT consulting with pretty much no experience whatsoever. Never looked back.

The funny thing is, I was always good with IT, I just never really let it sink in that it’s what I wanted to do and was built to do. Instead, of focused on what seemed like the right thing to do.

My kids are still young, and there is time to change, but I am more hopeful that they will opt to learn a trade and take online night classes, then go to full time college.

I learned a lot in school, primarily learning how to do critical problem solving. However, it’s not as if I would have learned nothing in those 4 years if I worked in a trade or something of that nature instead.

The other aspect of my education is it taught me to stick to the program…which is bad advice. I never learned how to be comfortable taking risks in my career, while I knew others in my profession that took different, riskier paths, and were much more comfortable. Take risks while the younger and the potential damage from failure is low.

Ok. Then do it.

[Anonymous 11]

If you can be a tradesman, who can manage to not let alcohol and drugs take over your life you will be at the advantage. Most importantly you must always be on time and honor your word. You will be in demand. I know an electrician who I do some consulting for on occasion who started in a van and is now worth a few million.

I recently had to fire one “tradesman” after he fell behind schedule on the project, stole my very expensive sea kayaking knife, and made off with materials I had paid for use in the project. C-Pig’s intel network runs everywhere in my town. I learned that the times that he told me he had another job that he was parked at the bar getting tanked. I have a business to run myself and needed him to honor his commitments so I could be selling new jobs or making billable hours.

“You’re fired!”

I’m now doing it myself. It’s actually quicker that way.

I told one of my business clients about him. He just did a massive renovation where I had to bail him out after a sorry contractor did not deliver some needed goods for him. We both had a good laugh. He used to work for another one of my clients and raged about them. I know the owner, and the guy actually cares about his employees and is honorable.

I’d be a licensed gas line plumber no s~~~ and great pay.

narwhal wrote:

learning how to do critical problem solving.

Calculus and Differential Equations do have that lifelong benefit.

[RockmaninoffParticipant 1641]

Hey Javelin! I’m your age, well perhaps a year older, but not that big of a difference.

Great thing at our age is that you don’t have to know what you’re doing with your life. Now, if you were married and had kids, a family to support, that may be a problem. But fortunately, you’re free (I think?). You can be anything.

". . . elle, suivant l’usage des femmes et des chats qui ne viennent pas quand on les appelle et qui viennent quand on ne les appelle pas, s’arrêta devant moi et m’adressa la parole"—Prosper Mérimée

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