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[JohnnyWalkerBlackLabel]

I consider myself happy........................
I find that I am often around people that are miserable and I need to focus more on avoiding the "misery loves company" folks.................

All in all I have nothing to complain about, each day we wake up is a blessing in itself.

[GroobySteven]

Extremely happy but it took until I was 32 (couple of years back) to be so.
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[lar336]

Yea I consider myself happy also and I consider myself very fortunate. Yea I worked hard throughout my life, but a lot of my blessing have come through share luck and I thank god everyday for that.

But I know the feeling Angela about school. I went to school for 10 years after high school and as time went on I would think to myself a lot "what the fuck you doing, is this fuckin worth it." Trying to find ends meet day after day and staying up all night was the most tortuous experience of my life. But now I am out working, I love my job to death and I would do nothing other. You would find someday the sacrifice is worth it and the days of schooling will soon be behind you.

Additionally, I think we need more tgirls who are educated and go to college so they can own ends meet without having to resort to escorting and the adult industry. Not to say that is bad because some tgirls have to do that otherwise they can't get the money for hormones and surgeries and such. But having an education allows you to have a better choice than that.

[BeardedOne]

Someone once told me that I will never know when I'm happy. Huhn! I hope someone helpful clues me in.

[MacShreach]

Just curious. The closer it gets to the end of my college years the more it freaks me out and I wonder if I'll have the education/skill I need to provide for myself. Of course that all doesn't need to come from school nor do you have to go to school to provide for yourself, but I just have a huge feeling that I wasted 4 years and that I should've attempted a different major. I wanted to transfer my first year actually but it was easier not to Just going over a lot of varied thoughts concerning all aspects of my life. Gotta go before I can even finish typing them out.

Please contrbute anything you wish (I'll post a less serious thread later, lol)

Oh Angela, honey, lighten up on yourself, please. Most people do that at some stage at college. It's a completely normal part of the self-examination that degree-level education makes you go through. Just don't worry about it. I know you're close to graduating, so do the best work you can, stay focussed and get there. I know how tough that last push can be, believe me I woke up with the "FINAL SHOW COMING UP" heebee-jeebees for well over a decade after I graduated, and the surprising thing is how many people I know have had the same experience.

Once you've graduated, take a wee while to yourself. Charge your batteries and talk to lots of people to focus your career path. Give yourself a huge pat on the back and do some things YOU really want to do. You will have made a great achievement, something to be proud of. You are a smart, articulate, intelligent person. Of course you have what it takes.

Have a big hug, you complete sweetie. You'll be fine.

[hwbs]

yeah i def try to keep away from the glass is half empty crowd, lol...

[Donko]

Just remember that the only skill you need to be successfuly over any type of skill is the ability to get people to trust and like you. If you can do that, you will be successful.

You also need a clean ass, so make sure your dirt hole is not muddy.

[Ecstatic]

Cosign what MacShreach said, very well put. Angela, I was an English major: graduated summa cum laude (3.86 GPA, summer scholarship to Trinity College, Oxford), then earned my Master's in English with a 4.0 GPA and a Fellowship. What did that get me? A year later (after one year teaching in a very small college in Copper Country, Michigan), I was temping for Olsen and other office temp groups for 7 bucks an hour. What a come down. But I didn't regret it at all; I wrote a novel as my master's thesis (still unpublished, sadly), and eventually taught for seven years (adjunct faculty: great experience, no money) before stumbling into web design in 1996. There have been ups and downs since then, but I'm doing OK. So don't fret your degree, even if you go in a completely different direction. Just be true to yourself, and let your brightness shine.

Am I happy? Yes, most of the time. Also sometimes frustrated, angry, and sad, but most of the time happy.

Joke time: An engineering major asks "How do you do that?" An economics major asks "How much does that cost?" A philosophy major asks "Why do you do that?" An English major asks "Do you want fries with that?"

Regarding the glass being half full or half empty: I'm an optimistic realist, I see the glass as half full but out of reach.

[brickcitybrother]

I am generally a happy person. As far as your situation... you are so young and starting out - take EVERY chance you can now. Make the mistakes (if you make any) now, when you can recover.

[yourdaddy]

I wish i could adopt you.