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Rob · New User Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 6 Career Advice: +0/-0

So I'm 19 years old and haven't had a steady job... I don't know what career I want... but I do know a few things such as: I don't like what's happening to society, I don't enjoy working indoors or doing anything that isn't for an important or noble purpose (I'd rather be saving someone's life than flipping a burger for them)... I really dislike the modern world, how so many people take advantage of what they have... The rich upper-classes are growing more and more rich while there are children in the world starving to death...

I consider myself a hopeless romantic because I'm deeply in love but I fear that the world is going to pull us apart by not allowing us to survive, or by taking up all of our time and not allowing us to enjoy each other's company while we can... I love nature and I love to help people, but I want to be able to spend time with my wife when we get married... It would be ideal if I could get a job where she can work with me or be in my company whenever we want... All I need is enough money to pay the bills, what's really important is the type of work im doing... I want to do something that is going to benefit someone in some way... I want to save people, help people, give to people... I just don't know where to begin... and where to live... If I live anywhere near a city or in an urban environment it really makes me depressed... whenever I drive by a bar it gets me down and I feel sad for society because I cannot stand anything bad, drugs and violence, promiscuity, these things just get me down and depressed, and I need to get away from them... so if there's some country that has a nice countryside to live in, some place far away from the corruption we see every day, it would be ideal for me to be able to live there and survive (unfortunately money is necessary, and often a lot of money...)

I don't know if im making much sense, Im kind of desperate, if anyone could offer me some help advice or anything it would be greatly appreciated... I'm very lost right now because of all of the things going on in my life... which I wont talk about here but suffice to say it's enough to make some people go crazy... I'm just patient and calm, and hopeful...

I've been doing a lot of research and I've sent out a few emails, here's two I will paste because it might help detail what im interested in... but my scope is much broader than this, im just trying to offer every sort of information about myself and what I need in order to get some good replies...

[Online job possibilities?]
I'm naturally gifted when it comes to giving advice and helping people... But I myself need some help. I'm interested in being a counselor for people who are suffering problems and need someone to talk to, or to get advice from... Mostly with questions dealing with life and spirituality, people who are suffering inside. I can help these people and I would love to be able to... The thing is that I need a job as well, and it would be nice if I could make money doing this, just enough to pay the bills so I don't live on the streets... life is very complicated now adays and I am just a humble person who wants to live a simple life and enjoy it and help others enjoy it as well.

[Outdoor job possibilities?]
I really don't like the fast city life and I don't care much for tv and games... I want to spend my time in nature, or being able to help people in some way... I was wondering if you have any advice or job opportunities perhaps for me--something within a national park or reserve--all I need is enough money to survive, I simply want to have the opportunity to enjoy the fresh air and outdoors... I love to rock climb and hike and work with youth... I have had a lot of experiences that make me a good peer advisor or counselor.

lexa10881 · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:20 am Post subject:

Maybe a job in the natural sciences, either to save the environment or to help animals? You might also consider nursing or something that helps people. Any of these will require schooling; if you do something that your love also does then there is an increased chance of sharing you r day and maybe location if it requires traveling. First decide what you like and want to share together, including career.

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julian · Expert Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 255 Career Advice: +2/-0

Forget the online job possibilities because it is obvious that you should work with people, outdoors. From what I have read and from what I can only assume, you'd be great as a volunteer at the beginning and then as a member of an ONG or something. I can see you're a family man, even if you don't have your own family...yet. I think you should establish some priorities and degrees of availability. Are you willing to travel, are you willing to make sacrifices and what would those imply? Have you ever thought of havign your own business? This could actually be a good choice because you will not depend entirely on a system which you hate so much.
I have also observed that you have a paradoxical nature....your profile is that of a lonesome person, but you do want to work with people and for the people. So the steps you take in life seem to be harder for this matter. I'm also thinking you're quite afraid of the unknown because otherwise you would try to risk getting into something just to feel how that is. I'm talking about a job. You seem to expect for the right thing to come but it's difficult when you don't really know what THE RIGHT THING for you is.So you gotta try some things in order to find the best one.

Ok....I'm gonna finish now...lots of talking....

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All the best!

Katja144 · Expert Joined: 22 Aug 2005 Posts: 177 Career Advice: +2/-0

Unfortunately, when you're young, it becomes a matter of "take what you can get and try to gain enough experience and skills that you can hopefully later apply for the sort of jobs you actually WANT to do."

I feel much the same way as you do. My "place" certainly isn't as a bank administrative assistant or doing data entry for the gov't and I'd far rather be doing something for Habitat for Humanity or HRC or something...but, in the end, those places passed me by

You may end up doing what you have to to get by for a while and volunteering on the side and try to work up to what you want to do later...

Rob · New User Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 6 Career Advice: +0/-0

Thanks everyone for your advice... And Julian I was impressed by your observations... I am a hermit, I stay by myself because the world around me makes me depressed... But I'm in love with a girl who lives far away from me and I want to be with her but I don't have a career and I don't have a goal... I want to move some place peaceful and relaxed... I was thinking about Thailand perhaps because of the monastaries they have there, I could perhaps give motivational and spiritual speeches for a living, and volunteer helping people... I don't know exactly, but I really need to get away from the buildings and cars atmosphere... if you know what I mean...

Thanks again, best of luck to everyone

Randy · Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 3:40 pm Post subject:

I know exactly what you mean. The world's too damned noisy, too fast-paced, and 24/7 is slowly driving us all insane but thanks to brilliant marketing, most people think it's the greatest thing in the world. Commerce and consumerism are killing us all and damn it, that's the way we like it!

Nothing but the best to you. Leave a light on for me if you find "that" place. For me it's sitting on my kitchen floor, in the middle of the night when the house and quiet.

The "solitude of the soul." Most of the world hates it because it leaves them confronting just how truly empty their lives really are. They have great jobs, lots of money, and no damned life.

Oh, hell, this one's my hot-button......I'm outta here.....

Rob · New User Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 6 Career Advice: +0/-0

I am good at helping these people who, as you said Randy, "have no life". I have a lot of spiritual insight that helps me through the trials of life and have allowed many miracles to work throughout my days... I wonder if there's a way for me to make a living, do you think, by teaching this to people and helping them to explore their souls? That way more and more people could get away from the material life, which you described, and begin to realize the true essence of what makes us, as humans, happy, satisfied, and enlightened...

I've thought about this, but I wonder what steps I should go by in order to do so... where I should do so... etc... I am very spiritual, but not religious, however I have read a lot on Buddhism which, in the relation to spiritual happiness and meditation, has similarities with what I've experienced and what I believe, so I am thinking of perhaps going to Thailand to live and see if I can find more wisdom within the Buddhist circle, to help me reach a higher level of this spirituality.

Thanks Randy, and if there's anything I can do to help or you want to talk about, let me know, I'm a great listener and I love to help people, even if it's just to help them "vent". Razz

Take care, good luck, peace and love

Randy · Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 4:51 pm Post subject:

quote="Rob"

I wonder if there's a way for me to make a living, do you think, by teaching this to people and helping them to explore their souls?

You're on slippery ground here, and you already sense that, I'm sure. Despite the most noble of intentions and genuine help and insights, the second the exchange of monetary value enters, there's the very real risk of cheapening the whole thing for all involved.

Think "television evangelist" and you get the idea.

That way more and more people could get away from the material life, which you described, and begin to realize the true essence of what makes us, as humans, happy, satisfied, and enlightened...

But the inherent irony is, naturally, that it's *their" focus on materialism that affords them the luxury of rewarding *you* financially for, in essense, doing their thinking and investigation into spiritual matters for them! And maybe that's part of the whole grand design, right? I mean it's for sure that there will never come a time when *everyone* is going to say, "To hell with all this working and making money. It's madness and I can't take it any more." So there is clearly a convenient synergy going on.

I've thought about this, but I wonder what steps I should go by in order to do so... where I should do so... etc... I am very spiritual, but not religious, however I have read a lot on Buddhism which, in the relation to spiritual happiness and meditation, has similarities with what I've experienced and what I believe, so I am thinking of perhaps going to Thailand to live and see if I can find more wisdom within the Buddhist circle, to help me reach a higher level of this spirituality.

Between you and me, it's very easy and entirely too convenient to lay claim to great "spiritual" insights and enlightment while living in an environment relatively free from the madness you'd be presuming to tell others how to escape, or at best, endure with a modicum of sanity. Face it, anyone can be "one with the universe" when surrounded by the calm and serentiy of nature. It's quite another to do it with the sounds of subway trains and overhead jets and piped in music and blaring car radios and and all the rest.

Put this way: I'm not a gambling man, but I bet the Dalai Lama would lose his "oneness" in less than a week of being out there with an over-the-road truck-driver. "It's enough to make a preacher cuss" is more than just a saying. It's the truth of our way of life.

The trick, of course, is to try to instill in people a sense of contentment with their lives they now have. Learn a little gratitude and maybe the insatiable greed and cravings for more, more, more will slowly subside and eventually, just maybe, things will settle down for all of us.

You take care of yourself. Just don't get so busy looking for "the" way or "a" way that it gets in the way of what life has in store for you. Being a "wounded healer" pretty much bites.

Rob · New User Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 6 Career Advice: +0/-0

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