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[Altena]

Since we are going all emo on life choices and career etc (even though this isn't a good thread to really discuss it :P)~

I completely disagree with what most of you have said.

If I continued study, I would be working in a boring white collar job, for a person/company that I hate, pushing paper around a desk and spending all of my time sitting on a computer..

Instead of this, I work for myself, doing something that did not require a college/uni degree, getting enough money to get me by, but a much more flexible lifestyle and freedom to do what I will. Money can't buy health, good company and a happy lifestyle. The only thing that you get for free in a high end job is less free time, more stress, and bad health.

If I continued my degree, I wouldn't be able to surf any morning I wanted to, I wouldn't be able to cook a nice meal for lunch, and lastly I wouldn't be able to wake up and say "I don't feel like doing anything today".

Value your time, value good company, value your health - and you will be much happier then any high paying job can give you.

[Denmo]

I know how to live as a freelancer comfortably and am therefore a rare and curious thing to behold

... is what I read.

If you can find that niche, great. But a lot of us can't. and it's not something you can recommend to just anyone.

[AdorraEloom]

Since we are going all emo on life choices and career etc (even though this isn't a good thread to really discuss it :P)~

I completely disagree with what most of you have said.

If I continued study, I would be working in a boring white collar job, for a person/company that I hate, pushing paper around a desk and spending all of my time sitting on a computer..

Instead of this, I work for myself, doing something that did not require a college/uni degree, getting enough money to get me by, but a much more flexible lifestyle and freedom to do what I will. Money can't buy health, good company and a happy lifestyle. The only thing that you get for free in a high end job is less free time, more stress, and bad health.

If I continued my degree, I wouldn't be able to surf any morning I wanted to, I wouldn't be able to cook a nice meal for lunch, and lastly I wouldn't be able to wake up and say "I don't feel like doing anything today".

Value your time, value good company, value your health - and you will be much happier then any high paying job can give you.

I agree with you, problem I'm having is what I want to do, is nearly impossible to achieve and make enough living doing it. So been stuck doing a job I do not really like, I'm good at my job, and that is the problem, the better I am at my job, the more people I guess I rip off for my company..... and I hate it! My dream job/life I guess would be to move to Africa or a place that has lions, and start a lion preservation camp, where I would bread, and take care of lions as their numbers are dangerously low. I love big cats and ya.... basically what this guy does:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMQzLl08W-I