<p>Well, Loserman, I am flattered that you use my advise in your quote. After reading more about what you had said, I have to say this. What your father did is truly an act of love. You will know what I mean when you become a parent someday, if you survive from your current situation. As other folks said here, you hold the keys to your future. There is a saying, “Beggars can’t be choosers”. At this point and time, this issue is not “what job is not good enough for you”. The issue is survival. You need a roof over your head and food on the table. After you have shelter and you are fed, you can talk about your dreams and such. You must change your attitude towards the society and reevaluate your own situation and options. If I were you, I would find a way to live for another day, before pick and choose what I wanted to do for my life.</p>
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<p>This is a great plan. Go for it!</p>
<p>you’ve been wrongly advised on two counts, my friend:
- “There are an infinite amount of choices to make I know, but I need a general direction.”
wrong. wrong. wrong. until something changes, or you decide to change something, you are in fact what is commonly known as “poor” (as opposed to the pc term “poverty-stricken”). please know that the poor have very few choices. so the first thing to do once you realize you are in fact among the poor is to get familiar with how such folks live. it sounds like it may not be exactly the same as what you’re accustomed to. </p>
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<li> you might take heart in the fact that you have a lot of company, but in any case here’s a website that may help you make the best of things:<br>
[How</a> to Live Rich When Poor | eHow.com](<a href=“http://www.ehow.com/how_2113209_live-rich-poor.html]How”>http://www.ehow.com/how_2113209_live-rich-poor.html)</li>
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<p>asking for advice on this particular website is not going to help you very much as it’s about sending kids to college, after which they graduate and owe a lot of money in education loans, and can’t find a job anyway, and may in fact be poor as well. but you don’t have this particular problem at the mo’.</p>
<p>I don’t know, I guess I understand what some of you are saying…if my dream was to get a two story house to raise a family, two cars, insurance, and savings for childrens’ college, basically to pay the bills and make a comfortable living. But I don’t think that is my dream. Even if it was, I wouldn’t want to go through college to get there. Forgive me for being argumentative, but I think my dreams compared to most other people are just different.</p>
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<p>What a joke, probably 90% of current college students shouldn’t even be in college. On my first two day of classes half the kids in my class were texting on their phones.</p>
<p>Anyone else sense trolldom?</p>
<p>"What a joke, probably 90% of current college students shouldn’t even be in college. On my first two day of classes half the kids in my class were texting on their phones. "</p>
<p>ok. so what?</p>
<p>You need to look at the big picture…and then take it one step at a time.</p>
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<li><p>Yes you have loans to pay off. That being the case, you need a job…not “the” job…a job. </p></li>
<li><p>You need to find an inexpensive place to live. I would suggest you look into renting a room someplace. Once your income becomes more stable, you can reconsider your housing choices.</p></li>
<li><p>You need to set a budget that is realistic for your income and expenses. </p></li>
<li><p>You need to take ownership of all of this yourself. You say you have left college four terms, three consecutively. Did you really expect someone else (even your parents) to continue to bankroll this? They made a hard decision, I’m sure, to cut you off financially. BUT to be honest, my kids had two choices when they were of college age…either attend college (with grades above C in all classes) and live at college, OR get a job and live on their own being self supporting. There was NO in between. The reality is that you have made some choices which is your decision…but you now need to own up to being responsible for your decisions and choices.</p></li>
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<p>Hopefully you can look to the future in a positive light once YOU take responsibility for your actions. You will only be a “homeless man full of misery” if that is what YOU allow yourself to become.</p>
<p>Michael Moore is a ■■■■■</p>
<p>Nah I don’t think you’re clinically depressed.</p>
<p>Some of the most spiritual people I know hold down jobs. The job may not define them, it may not be what they thought they would do and it really doesn’t “interfere” with them as people, but it pays the bills, gets food on the table and a roof over their heads. Most of these friends have the most interesting books on the seats of their work vehicles. Learn to paint (like houses inside and out)…many of the most spiritual people we know are painters…maybe something about the quiet, the rhythm who knows…you’ll find something. Come to think of it we know a bricklayer that listens to classical music while he’s laying bricks. Find something to do with your hands so your mind is free and your bills are paid. Go learn how to frame houses…framing is for the young and strong of back and it’s mystical…ask any framer. </p>
<p>If you are 21 go ahead…bar tend…it’s an honorable thing to do at your age and you learn much standing on the other side of a bar.</p>
<p>Try to mend fences with your dad somewhere along the line. I agree, he did you a favor by setting you free.</p>