When you hit that age......

RockNRollNghtClb

RockNRollNghtClb

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When you turn that age where you lose the ignorance you now long for when the world was all about skiing and hanging out with your friends and you hit brick wall after brick wall of realization. When you realize that you are going to one day be a grown ass man and you are gonna have to support yourself fully one day. When your thoughts are constantly philosophical about life and your outlook on it and what to make of it. When you think about pursuing a passion and never copping out and getting some shitty job and working it for the rest of your life. When you wonder how many people think that exact same thing and have their dreams shattered one day and they cop out. When you realize just about anything amazing that is out there in the world is the product of people that give something 110% and it makes you realize that your never gonna do anything fucking great if your lazy about it.
 
Careful buddy, you may be getting lazy about your spelling. It's a slippery slope "your" on.
 
Also, there are plenty of sick jobs out there ( as long as we return to a laizaiz fair economy with less gov intrusion and less taxes) but with the way things are going you can look forward to welfare from obama and shit like that. With a small government the economy would come roaring back and there would be great jobs at every level. Think about trade school for something like auto mechanic or something like that once you get a job as one you have a cushy job and are set for life. But yeah if you want to make it big yeah you do have to give it 110 percent like doctor lawyer financial analyst etc but dont worry drugs are going to be legalized eventually and coming from a scagboy all of the problems you are worrying about fade away into the background when you have a sincere and truthful junk habit
 
Cool, so you're 16 and got your first job because mommy and daddy won't give you an allowance anymore?

Welcome to life.
 
Here's what I'm going to do:

I'm going to graduate University with my teaching degree, I'm going work all these terrible jobs while living out of an RV with my friends so we can ski every damn day and work every damn night. Then I'm going to travel, whether it's to ski other places or travel the world doesn't matter. Just going to disappear off the map with some buddies. All the while in search of a perfect woman to wife and settle down with.

Once I feel like I've lived enough and it's time to somewhat grow up I'm going to become a teacher through all the work necessary. I'm going to work all week and ski all weekend and repeat. I'm going to find a woman and travel the world with her in the summertimes after we're married and continue that lifestyle.

When we've saved up enough to retire after raising a family we're going to buy an RV and travel North America together and die peacefully.

Take it easy by all means.
 
it's shifting priorities.

Ask some of the older members. Everyone used to be like most of the kids on here, and lived to ski and never imagined doing anything else with their free time.

Eventually your situation changes, and other things come up, and suddenly you can't ski every day. Then it becomes every weekend, and hopefully stops there, but otherwise you get a few days in a month.

The strangest part of it all is not being too bothered by it.
 
I feel you man, there are definitely bad aspects of getting older but there are also good things. Yous just have to weigh the good with the bad.
 
deep shit..

but really, it CAN only get better and better, you just have to be a stubborn hardass and make it happen, rather than doing what your told and what society expects you to do.

after going to college, seeing and being friends with all the people that are going to follow the same path of.. do good in high school to get into a good college, get into a good college, party and get drunk a lot so you can dumb yourself down to the point where you are constantly too out of it to realize your life is already sucking, get a piece of paper, use that piece of paper to work for someone, get married, then do the same fucking thing every day until your like 60 something. i realized i wanted nothing to do with that, so now im pursuing unrealistic dreams, if those fail, ill find something else, if nothing works out, i will have spent my 20's and 30's going for it and having the best time possible as much as possible.

you can settle down in your fucking 20's and have the same life for the next like 70 years till you die, or you can spend your time exploring, finding passions, trying new things, traveling, etc.. probably making shit for money, but by the time your in your 40's you will actually really want to, and enjoy settling down. and relaxing a bit more, having a family, enjoying some stability etc..

i know it sucks not having your parents support you anymore, but after a little while, you realize you spend probably less time working than you did in school/homework. and when you realize that, and take advantage of your free time, you can do more than you ever did in highschool/college, its a very "freeing" feeling. maybe im lucky with my job, but i really dont make much, and i still find plenty of time to travel, explore, try new stuff, ski, mtn bike, hang out at the lake, dirtbike, and just fuck around, a lot. and i get by just fine.

i dont know if any of that made sense.. but i feel like the "hard workers" who do really good in school, get a serious job, work constantly straight out of college and make lots of money, are the lazy ones. its safe, easy, consistant, and reliable. you are basically guaranteed not to have any problem getting by with that lifestyle. its the people who put their job 2nd, and life experiences/ dreams 1st that are the hard workers. my buddy who lives out of a car pursuing his dream of motorcycle racing, those guys that are 30 years old working night jobs so they can still ski every day, barely getting by.

theres what i think about it, you dont have to "grow up" and settle down, its not human nature, you can spend your 20's and 30's LIVING more than you did in HS/College (lolz at HS/college being the good days anyway, fuck that) but it will be uncomfortable, and uncertain.

 
Annnd with this thread I have realized I am way to old for this site and must remove myself immediately. You're 17 and not even in college yet. You don't have a clue what you will know in the next 5 years. Hell you don't have a clue how your dick even works yet. Don't be a pussy and go do something.
 
this this this.

once responsibilities start popping up, i.e., rent, bills, etc. your priorities do shift. a lot. i used to ski all of the time but now i'm lucky if i log double digits for a season.
 
Life absolutely can get amazing after you free yourself from your parents. Hell, I wouldn't go back to being supported by them if you were torturing me. Fuck that shit, a man takes care of himself and his family and that is reward beyond what you can imagine.

Also, the idea that you have to work some shitty job that you hate forever is utter lazy bullshit. The idea that you need the government to change to give you the perfect life is utter lazy bullshit.

The idea that you are unable to find something that makes you happy, and that someone or something else changing is what is going to make that happen is utter lazy bullshit.

You get out there, you find a job that you love more than anything in the world - and if that job doesn't exist you make it exist.

I wake up every single morning ecstatic that I have the gift of attending yet another day at my job. I don't ski as much as I used to, because I love my job so much that some days I'd prefer to do it than I would to hit the slopes. It sounds crazy, but just like you can be stoked on skiing, you can be stoked on other things.

If you end up in a shitty job that you have to do for the rest of your life, you have nobody but yourself to blame. This world is absolutely chock-full of opportunity, and if you're willing to work for it - you can accomplish anything.

 
a shitty job for a long period of time should not happen, life is too short. Really need to strive toward a goal you can take pride in, not one set by the man. It can be a long process, shit does not change overnight which makes it easy to lose focus on the goal at hand, happiness. Make it about yourself, not money, and positive stuff will happen.
 
Not everyone can find a job doing what they love. Work is in most cases the shit that your superiors dont want to do so they pay you to do it for them
 
i never saw a good post from you. i thought it was a nice motivational post.

fact is, if you dont want to work 40 years in this treadmill, fucking do something about it. go to the carribean and become a barkeeper at the beach. money is not the final argument
 
then dont work for someone else? start a business? even if you're working for someone else, its not hard to find something you enjoy, a good friend of mine didnt even graduate highschool, and now he's works at an offroad shop as a fabricator building rock crawlers, makes 20 an hour, and he loves it. another friend makes like 25 an hour as a river raft guide, at 22, thats a pretty sweet deal..

 
yeah priorities are part of it, skiing was never the one and only thing i wanted to do though, its always just been a hobby, but one of if not my biggest one. i used to ski like 70+ days a year, now im down to 30-40. but its because i have another passion, and like a million hobbies, i want to keep doing and trying new shit and skiing alone isnt enough for me, its like i have this huge desire to do and be good at everything that appeals to me so if i spent all my time skiing it would just hold me back.

the thing is, im much happier now than i was when skiing was pretty much my life. it used to be ski, school, sleep, like every day. and it got old. now its skiing, mtn biking, wakeboarding, trail running, archery, guns, offroading, dirtbiking, camping, multi day hiking trips, climbing, skateboarding, learning to snowboard, track days, and my new goal this summer is to do a lot of skydiving. ive got something different to do every week if i want and it keeps me from ever being bored. some of the more expensive things i cant do very often, but other than that ive got 2-3 days a week and after work to have fun.

the people i know who bitch about how they have to work so much and dont get any free time are the guys who spend their weekends shit faced sitting around doing nothing on the weekends, when they could be out having fun. its not that they cant go out and do cool shit, its that they are too lazy to put in the actual effort to get off their ass.

 
you clearly are still being 100 percent supported by your parents if you think you can just start all of those sports. hell i am in highschool and am being supported by my parents and cant afford to do more than half of those

 
haha this.

and I'm pretty sure op just hit puberty and realized that his parents' bank account isn't infinite and he'll have to get a job one day and not spend every day dicking around on flat boxes in jiberish. it's a hard realization.
 
dub post also a lot of those people who "bitch" about having to work a lot is because they don't have infinite amounts of their parents money to just try new things all day and have to actually support themselves instead.
 
and bishop's post is spot on.I'm stoked to move away. I'm going to miss a lot of shit but hell, I'm going to school for snow resort operations. I'm going to ski many many days,from what I'm told this program is full of dipshits so I'll excel in the classroom, and I plan on making a lot of new friends and partying lots. on top of that I have job connections in the city I'm moving to.

jelly, OP?
 
I support myself and try new things all the time. I'd just rather spend money on a beacon than on a cell phone, on snow pants over $120 jeans, on a paragliding set up over a car.

Priorities.
 
haha no, im still on their healthcare plan, but i pay them 50% of it. but thats it. i bet i spend less than 2000 a year on "equipment". and i could be spending more if i wanted. its really not that hard to do all those things. i guarantee most the people i know who think they cant afford to go out and do this shit spend more than what i pay in equipment costs, but in alcohol and weed. when your drinking every weekend or more, that shit gets very expensive. i probably spend like 25 bucks on alcohol a year at most, its about as low as it can get on my priority list.
 
those people that bitch about having to work a lot, i bet in general, work less than me, and a lot of them are still supported by their parents. like someone above said, its all about priorities. its not that they dont have free time, its just that they dont do anything with it, just waste their money on weed and alcohol, and maybe clubs and bars.

they're just plain lazy, instead of getting to bed early friday night so they can go up skiing, they get drunk, sleep in, do nothing all day, smoke a little, get drunk again sat. night, and do nothing sunday. they probably spend more on alcohol than i do on gas. their places are filled with nice tv's and stereo equipment, other pointless BS, while my money goes to equipment.

I know so many people who used to always be down to come do shit with me but they just fell into that negative lifestyle. they can literally come climbing, biking, hiking, skiing (if they got a pass) etc.. for free, but they would rather sit on their ass all day. they dont have to work a lot, they just look for excuses to do nothing.
 
its my friends boat, so im lucky, but shit you can find decent ones for 4-5. both my cars together cost less than 10. obviously i dont go through 2 cars a year, so thats not the yearly equipment cost i was talking about.... again, instead of spending 20k on an audi to look cool, i can spend 10 to have both a fun as shit car and a reliable daily driver. its really not that hard to afford with a halfway decent job..
 
You are dumb for thinking that booze and dope has to be a negative influence on peoples life.

I'm a full time student, go out and party almost 4 nights a week and have skied 45 days this season so far and am still passing my classes. Those people you are describing are just lazy, booze and dope has nothing to do with it.
 
well your part of the minority. i never said it HAS to be a negative influence, but for the large majority of people i would say it is. i honestly cant think of one person i know who didnt used to drink or smoke, then started, and their active lifestyle DIDNT diminish at least a little bit.
 
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You are hanging out around the wrong people then. My friends and I are extremely active drunks you could say. Same as smokin pot, fuck sitting on a couch eating a bag of chips and veggin your life away.

We use our substance abuse to enhance our rad activities like skiing, climbing, hiking, camping, fucking, urban adventuring you fucking name it.
 
well thats good, i just dont see many people like that. i know a lot of people who camp and "hike" a lot, and are basically constantly high or drunk the entire time. but they're basically doing the same thing, sitting around the campsite, all day, being high. either way, its money and time id rather save for something else.
 
my quality of life has increased substantially since I began smoking weed. I'm sure it's like 70% coincidental, but I have more friends, get more stuff done, and I'm just happier all around. never been happier in my life than I am right now. the only thing it took a small toll on was my running career, which I never really cared about in the first place and I can't even run anymore because of my knee.
 
hey man each is own, I do those things and smoke pot, without bashing drunks. Don't get cocky because your drug of choice is legal...
 
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