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Tackling life after high school.

I don't know how to do it. Everyone keeps asking me, what are you gonna do? Where you gonna go? I have no idea. I don't know what to tell them. I wish I could just live life and become some kind of roaming layabout and discover my dream while backpacking across some distant land. However it seems that is not a choice I can make.  I know it's probably not correct to say that I am not an interesting person but I just don't feel like one. I haven't explored space, mastered the art of taming beasts, or learned to juggle. Nothing about my life is extraordinary. I'm a suburban kid, in a modest home, with decent grades. What's there to sell? No one could have lived a more mundane existence. 
 
Some would argue that there are big choices before deciding what you'll do after high school. From what I've seen so far, I would disagree. Life so far has been a very linear track. Go to school, meet people, drive around, and generally fuck about. Now I have some significant ability to determine how my future plays out and I'm scared and confused. I feel like every passion I've devoted myself to has no way of helping me out in the practical pursuit of wealth. Video games, movies, and guitar all happen to be the industries that are impossible to extract a steady job from. I'm at a loss. I'll just pick a career that I can stand and hope that one day I'm in a position where I can tackle my dream.

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man, sounds kinda similar to my life

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KaosAngel was my boss.

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@Djeffers03: I worked for a studio that recorded the voice actors(es).  Donna Burke was my boss, she's pretty famous in Japan, and ended up doing the Peace Walker love song.
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@KaosAngel said:
" After high school I moved to Japan, hiked the largest mountain in the country, made love to my first woman, taught english, went to business school, transferred to Law School, met Kojima, people from Square Enix, and had the greatest video game voice actresses as my boss.  Dude, the gates are open, just head out there and charge in.  You'll be fine, just focus on that resolve.  Also, take lots of chances, no point living if you're not willing to risk everything for something. "
Sounds like an awesome life. Do work in the video game industry?
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You don't seem to know what you want to do with yourself yet.

I can tell you that you've got to figure that out for yourself.  You're on a gaming community website, so you might pursue that in some way.

There are lots of important decisions that you have to make before you get out of high school.  You might have missed them, but picking what activities you're involved in, where and if you volunteer, and whether you work on building your marketable skills or not are all important decisions.  You sound like you have lots of opportunity and don't know what to do with it.

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@KaosAngel: Cool, thinking about moving someone crazy.
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I feel very much the same way.
I plan on becoming a vagabond!

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@Dylabaloo: I started with a host family for 3 months, but in that three months I saved up about 4k, and that was enough for a downpayment for my own apartment and whatnot.  Since then living in Japan I was making about 3-5k a month depending on the students.  Enough to save up and go back to Law School in the States...and yes it was my money and not my parents. 
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@KaosAngel: Did you just move to Japan with no house there or did you move into an uncle or somethings house?
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You sir are an inspiration. 

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After high school I moved to Japan, hiked the largest mountain in the country, made love to my first woman, taught english, went to business school, transferred to Law School, met Kojima, people from Square Enix, and had the greatest video game voice actresses as my boss. 
 
Dude, the gates are open, just head out there and charge in.  You'll be fine, just focus on that resolve. 
 
Also, take lots of chances, no point living if you're not willing to risk everything for something.

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I don't know how to do it. Everyone keeps asking me, what are you gonna do? Where you gonna go? I have no idea. I don't know what to tell them. I wish I could just live life and become some kind of roaming layabout and discover my dream while backpacking across some distant land. However it seems that is not a choice I can make.  I know it's probably not correct to say that I am not an interesting person but I just don't feel like one. I haven't explored space, mastered the art of taming beasts, or learned to juggle. Nothing about my life is extraordinary. I'm a suburban kid, in a modest home, with decent grades. What's there to sell? No one could have lived a more mundane existence. 
 
Some would argue that there are big choices before deciding what you'll do after high school. From what I've seen so far, I would disagree. Life so far has been a very linear track. Go to school, meet people, drive around, and generally fuck about. Now I have some significant ability to determine how my future plays out and I'm scared and confused. I feel like every passion I've devoted myself to has no way of helping me out in the practical pursuit of wealth. Video games, movies, and guitar all happen to be the industries that are impossible to extract a steady job from. I'm at a loss. I'll just pick a career that I can stand and hope that one day I'm in a position where I can tackle my dream.