Matariki;459593:m097: said:
Ok, what the hell should I be doing with my life?
[MENTION=1815]Matariki[/MENTION],
Well, you've just demonstrated a capacity for Shouldism, so just jump into one of the J occupations dominated by Shouldists and you can bypass all those roles, activites, and pre-occupations requiring Couldism or/and Is-ism. ;-)
My mother (EXFJ) wants me to be a chef and my father (INTP) wants me to be a detective.
Have you tried merely `being' human?
In the absence of that, have you discovered who you `are' and taken up the fine art of `being yourself'?
I know I could do well in either profession but that's not where my passions are.
I want to be a film director, however there are no job opportunities here in New Zealand at the moment.
You may have too narrow a view of `film' directing.
If you used a computer to compose this post then you have the actors and locations at your disposal IF you could condescend to `direct' a
stop-action animation `film'.
You can also write while you are awaiting funds and opportunities to boss humans around.
Here's something I've recommended to my friends for composing scripts of many sorts.
As broke as your imagination? ;-)
Come on! Get brain storming!
If I take a leap of faith and jump straight into art school I could potentially end up in debt and stuck in the country trying to pay off my funds.
Yep. Many gamble and jump out of the school of hard knocks and into an institution requiring remuneration on speculation that their class mates won't both have the same degree AND connections with employers on graduation day.
I also have a confession to make, I hate school and I'm academically retarded.
Me too.
Fortunately I already have a few college degrees and without the academic constraints the retarded/arrested state is left behind in
academia.
I've never done well in school, hell I failed primary school (elementary school) and had to teach myself during my teens, and I was only interested in the arts, food science and philosophy.
`Food for thought', a new film written, directed, and produced by ______________
A philosophical approach by a budding food scientist
cum stop-action film director and autodidact in training ... to life and living on the fault line of liminality which is the cusp between childhood and the mental retardation which is adulthood. A thought provoking film. You'll relish it!
Because of this I also failed art school, not because I couldn't do the work but because I wasn't used to the amount of work that I had to complete within the time period given.
Perhaps it's time for a stop motion re-make of `Modern Times'.
You can re-present the factory boss of Chaplin's version as an Academic Task Master ... enslaving his artsy minions to produce `Fine Art' on a fixed budget of time.?
I tend to be slow and methodical when it comes to study.
I like to do things properly.
Well ... there's always room for you in the sex trade if you can't prostitute your talents on the Procrustean Beds of the`art' world ;-)
They say slow and steady wins the race, but not in my case.
As if `the race' were over for you and you could look back with 20-20 hind sight?
Surely, you jest.
I feel like a dumb-ass for failing school (three times in a row) and its something that I am extremely insecure about.
The concept of school makes me shake in my boots.
My father doesn't really think me going to university would be ideal because I'm not academic.
At all.
Its a shame that most things these days require a piece of paper, and one that I can't seem to get.
Damned good thing it's only `MOST THINGS"
these days, eh?
My mother says that its a waste of money for me.
I dunno, am I really that retarded?
Well, technically, if you're 25 or older -- and your brain has congealed into that of an adult -- then yes, you've undergone arrested development and mental retardation of the processes of childhood and adolescence.
Though you might want to consider the source as I'm probably at least twice your age.
But then again ... what if it takes one to know one? ;-)