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Reply #30 posted 03/26/06 10:37pm

CinisterCee

Spats said:

You have to meet tons of women before you can know who your "Partner in life to be" is. I have met sooo many women and been with my share and i still have yet to meet or know any that i would ever want to spend the rest of my life with. hell it's hard to find a woman who you want to spend more than 20 minutes with. lol


Amen, brother. smile
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Reply #31 posted 03/26/06 10:38pm

charlottegelin

Spats said:

You have to meet tons of women before you can know who your "Partner in life to be" is. I have met sooo many women and been with my share and i still have yet to meet or know any that i would ever want to spend the rest of my life with. hell it's hard to find a woman who you want to spend more than 20 minutes with. lol
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but the more you meet, the more disillusioned you seem to be getting. If you did meet the one, would you have spent enough time with her to recognise it?
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Reply #32 posted 03/26/06 10:39pm

CinisterCee

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@ 25 as long as you have a decent job that you dont mind working at then enjoy life for awhile. Just be smart about your choices as many of them can come back to haunt you later.


Well I didn't plan on having a porn career, or getting arrested for anything. What else could come back to haunt me?
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Reply #33 posted 03/26/06 10:41pm

CinisterCee

charlottegelin said:

Spats said:

You have to meet tons of women before you can know who your "Partner in life to be" is. I have met sooo many women and been with my share and i still have yet to meet or know any that i would ever want to spend the rest of my life with. hell it's hard to find a woman who you want to spend more than 20 minutes with. lol

but the more you meet, the more disillusioned you seem to be getting. If you did meet the one, would you have spent enough time with her to recognise it?


Thats true even for meeting new friends. You wouldn't know how much time you could enjoy spending with someone until you get to know them and open up a bit.

But I am not looking for new friends. Aha.. you forgot that tricky part of the dating game!
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Reply #34 posted 03/26/06 11:01pm

JPW

Spats - you don't like women very much do you?

As for me, I am 27 and don't have a job, but I am working towards my AMus degree in music performance, which will enable me to become a teacher and pro. musician with any luck and hard work.

I am about to get married later this year, but other than that I don't think I've achieved a great deal due to an illness I acquired in my early twenties.


confused
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Reply #35 posted 03/26/06 11:01pm

abierman

@ 25 I was already living in Munich for one year, starting my second job. I had just decided not to do a MBA in the US, didn't want to return to school. Enjoying the life in Munich, work, a lot of skiing & sailing, driving my old car-wreck, getting into trouble all the time and about to meet my first real love.

It was a good time, can't believe it's already 10 years ago!
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Reply #36 posted 03/26/06 11:30pm

CinisterCee

I think I'm more of a fatalist in where... if I am doing what I am supposed to be doing, following my true interests, I should bump into that special person.

But I oughta start making passes more often. Not at work though (?)
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Reply #37 posted 03/26/06 11:32pm

CinisterCee

JPW said:

I am about to get married later this year, but other than that I don't think I've achieved a great deal due to an illness I acquired in my early twenties.


No excuses! hmph!


Again another person about to get married. Jeez!
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Reply #38 posted 03/26/06 11:33pm

CuntOMatic

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You should be fucking everything that moves, that's what.
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Reply #39 posted 03/26/06 11:35pm

CinisterCee

CuntOMatic said:

You should be fucking everything that moves, that's what.


That's kinda what I was thinking! smile
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Reply #40 posted 03/26/06 11:44pm

badujunkie

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you should stay my friend.

i dunno seriously, i have the same thoughts. it's cool you're so along in your hobby and so good at it...try to make your hobby your job maybe ?
I'll leave it alone babe...just be me
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Reply #41 posted 03/27/06 1:51am

MarieLouise

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I'll be 25 this year. I just broke up with my boyfriend, moved last night to another house and my job-situation is not exactly what you call stable...

So don't worry biggrin I don't expect anything from you.
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Reply #42 posted 03/27/06 6:26am

Spats

charlottegelin said:

Spats said:

You have to meet tons of women before you can know who your "Partner in life to be" is. I have met sooo many women and been with my share and i still have yet to meet or know any that i would ever want to spend the rest of my life with. hell it's hard to find a woman who you want to spend more than 20 minutes with. lol
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but the more you meet, the more disillusioned you seem to be getting. If you did meet the one, would you have spent enough time with her to recognise it?


It's better to meet a lot than not very many. You have to experience everything that's out there instead of experiencing very little. I will be able to recognize her. First of all, if she annoy's the f**k out of you after 20 minutes then she isn't it. Second, if she annoy's you at all she isn't it. Third, if you think she is ugly she isn't it. You just keep going from there. Just keep narrowing things down. You may find her, you may not. But that's the best way to do it.
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Reply #43 posted 03/27/06 6:28am

Spats

JPW said:

Spats - you don't like women very much do you?

As for me, I am 27 and don't have a job, but I am working towards my AMus degree in music performance, which will enable me to become a teacher and pro. musician with any luck and hard work.

I am about to get married later this year, but other than that I don't think I've achieved a great deal due to an illness I acquired in my early twenties.


confused



I only like some women. I would never be able to post a tribute to the entire female gender like some other people. It would be innaccurate.
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Reply #44 posted 03/27/06 6:34am

susannah

Im 22, and Ill be graduating when Im 23, possibly staying on for a masters til im 24 (if it doesnt drive me mad by then) then I guess Ill be working full time. I already work part time and they want me full time when I graduate, so...yeah. Apart from that, I dunno hmmm Ill still be in mountains of debt, still renting (see aforementioned debt), driving, maybe even a company car...

But as Im pretty sure everyone on this thread is older than me, youre bound to understand that the most important point is: you cant predict the future. So while that seems to be where ill be, it may not end up like that. So whats the point?!

Oh-my-god-im-gonna-be-25-soon-and-working-and-driving-company-cars-oh-my-god! *starts to hyperventilate* scary stuff! eek

Oh yeah, and, do whatever you want to do cinisterc, lifes too short! In this day and age theres no set plans anymore like there used to be, by the time youre 25. if you wanna go back to college, do it! Good luck thumbs up!
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Reply #45 posted 03/27/06 6:42am

Mach

CinisterCee said:

So I'm 25 years old. My best friend is also turning 25 this week.

What were you doing at 25?

If you're not 25, what do you expect to have established by this age?


hug i cant say what you should be doing with your life ...it's yours to do what feels right

i was married with 2 young step kids ... a baby on the way and building our house ( by ourselves )

i was very busy and focused on my family ... i still am

rose
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Reply #46 posted 03/27/06 6:51am

Lammastide

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You're a slacker, Cinister. By 25, I'd conquered all the lands and tribes adjacent to Cleveland. Just ask Psychodelicide... There's a statue of me at the mouth of the Cuyahoga river. I look cute, too, I must say.
Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ
πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν
τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.”
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Reply #47 posted 03/27/06 6:53am

Spats

CuntOMatic said:

You should be fucking everything that moves, that's what.


Well, not everything. Just the pretty ones. biggrin
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Reply #48 posted 03/27/06 6:57am

XxAxX

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are you kidding? 25 years old???? but you're a true youngun, too young to even worry about this. you have time to do what you want and not worry about things much.
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Reply #49 posted 03/27/06 7:14am

CalhounSq

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The only thing I'd accomplished @ 25 was getting into grad school neutral

Don't worry kid, you've got time...
heart prince I never met you, but I LOVE you & I will forever!! Thank you for being YOU - my little Princey, the best to EVER do it prince heart
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Reply #50 posted 03/27/06 7:28am

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If I were 25 again, single, owned no property and had no debt, I'd resolve to see all 7 continents before I turned 30. Maybe even spend some time living in other places.

You could find work and/or college enrollment at any number of credible American internet-based institutions, so you could be getting steadily paid in American dollars -- and earning your degree (depending on what you want to study) -- without being anchored. You could even match your travels, etc., to the field you're studying. That kind of experience would be EXTREMELY marketable -- both professionally and socially -- later on in life. Heck, some airlines are hiring anyone who breathes -- so right there you could get a steady paycheck, travel benefits, the possibility to transfer to affiliate airlines all over the world, etc. You won't get rich, but it'll finance an humble, yet adventurous, young adulthood. And the money you'd otherwise waste on cars, erstwhile lovers, amassing a bunch of material crap and anchoring yourself could be saved for later.

Sell that car. Pay down some debt. Don't make no babies. Go see the world!

...And take your time and enjoy yourself, Cinister -- this ain't a race.

twocents
Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ
πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν
τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.”
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Reply #51 posted 03/27/06 7:30am

jerseykrs

Sheesh, I already had a 4 year old son, a daughter on the way and was planning a wedding. I also owned a home.


I now am divorced and rent a duplex. So it's all relative my man.....
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Reply #52 posted 03/27/06 7:50am

SHANNA

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Lammastide said:

If I were 25 again, single, owned no property and had no debt, I'd resolve to see all 7 continents before I turned 30. Maybe even spend some time living in other places.

You could find work and/or college enrollment at any number of credible American internet-based institutions, so you could be getting steadily paid in American dollars -- and earning your degree (depending on what you want to study) -- without being anchored. You could even match your travels, etc., to the field you're studying. That kind of experience would be EXTREMELY marketable -- both professionally and socially -- later on in life. Heck, some airlines are hiring anyone who breathes -- so right there you could get a steady paycheck, travel benefits, the possibility to transfer to affiliate airlines all over the world, etc. You won't get rich, but it'll finance an humble, yet adventurous, young adulthood. And the money you'd otherwise waste on cars, erstwhile lovers, amassing a bunch of material crap and anchoring yourself could be saved for later.

Sell that car. Pay down some debt. Don't make no babies. Go see the world!

...And take your time and enjoy yourself, Cinister -- this ain't a race.

twocents


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Reply #53 posted 03/27/06 7:54am

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XxAxX said:

are you kidding? 25 years old???? but you're a true youngun, too young to even worry about this. you have time to do what you want and not worry about things much.



Co-sign. nod

Do what you want to do, Cinny. That probably seems like lame 'advice' - and only you can decide what that is - but as long as you're happy with where your like takes you and you make the most of it, then you can deal with it as you're going along. It helps to have a plan, of course, but life's there to be lived. Before you know it, you'll wonder where the years went by...

So don't worry about it and enjoy the ride...
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Reply #54 posted 03/27/06 8:01am

IstenSzek

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25

hmmm

i can't really remember. i think i was doing the same thing
i'm doing now which is absolutely nothing but wasting time,
money and affection on trifles

smile
and true love lives on lollipops and crisps
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Reply #55 posted 03/27/06 8:19am

onenitealone

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IstenSzek said:

25

hmmm

i can't really remember. i think i was doing the same thing
i'm doing now which is absolutely nothing but wasting time,
money and affection on trifles

smile



Same as me. lol
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Reply #56 posted 03/27/06 8:57am

Novabreaker

I'm close to being 27 and I am a total loser. When I was 25 I was a total loser but I guess I had still some hope left. On each birthday I'll think "this year will be a lot better, this is the one I'll get all those things (a decent apartment, proper girlfriend, more money etc.) that most folks have." But it never happens. It must be because I still spend most of my time confined inside my home and listen to noise records. Some things never change.

Cinister, you're a really cool guy. Don't worry about the age yet. You have a record out, go and make another one. I'm sure you'll understand if I'll say there's nothing better.

... oh, and good luck on that plan with going to college without having to end up in huge debt. smile
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Reply #57 posted 03/27/06 8:59am

CarrieMpls

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onenitealone said:

IstenSzek said:

25

hmmm

i can't really remember. i think i was doing the same thing
i'm doing now which is absolutely nothing but wasting time,
money and affection on trifles

smile



Same as me. lol


Me too!

lol

I pissed away my 20's having fun. I sorta wished I'd done a little something more useful. Like care about my career/school etc. But overall I had a hell of a time. So not really any true regrets.
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Reply #58 posted 03/27/06 9:10am

CinisterCee

touched Thanks for the comments everyone. biggrin


Novabreaker said:


... oh, and good luck on that plan with going to college without having to end up in huge debt. smile


Haha. wink Actually what I meant is I currently don't have any previous student debt to worry about as I look ahead to returning to school.
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Reply #59 posted 03/27/06 9:11am

onenitealone

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CarrieMpls said:

onenitealone said:




Same as me. lol


Me too!

lol

I pissed away my 20's having fun. I sorta wished I'd done a little something more useful. Like care about my career/school etc. But overall I had a hell of a time. So not really any true regrets.



Absolutely! highfive

Of course, there are loads of things I could (and should) have done differently. But that was then and this is now. That's how we reacted to those events as best as we knew, I'm sure.

So no regrets.

I know a few people who will never be happy until they have THAT house, THAT car, THAT career, THAT relationship, THAT whatever. It's like they won't have any sense of personal fulfilment until they attain these things. Yeah, it's good to have a plan of some sort but you could spend your entire life trying to fulfil certain goals, reach them, and drop down dead the next day. What's the point of that?

I'd rather enjoy my life as it goes along.

But you've had a pretty cool life, Carrie. I'd love to have travelled as much as you. nod
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