Your ambition in life? tricky one..

Booner! said:
I am slowly getting there. It's for the back of a business card and a website blog.

p.s I like the Internet - serious business link going on there ;)
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Sticking it on a business card would be a colossal mistake IMHO, particularly if you're going about giving people cards with the idea that you aspire to be a cumballer on the back of them. Stick a philosophical quote on the back, something impersonal that makes you look deep.

Lord Acton said:
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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Coco Chanel said:
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
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Henry Ford said:
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
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I would love to either be this guy or at least enter into business with him:
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At 19 I wouldn't really worry. At 26, my age, I'm beginning to be concerned that I don't know exactly where I'm going. In 5 years you could well have changed your perspective anyway.

Personally, I just want to find a career which uses my best abilities, keeps me financially comfortable and doesn't cause stress.
Low stress being the key to happiness and health
 
Booner! said:
I am 19 and finding it very hard as I don't totally know what I want in life
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"The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't."

I've kind of run out of ambitions at the moment, seem to be slotting the buggers away post haste. My current ones are more along the lines of self actualisation, things like falling in love, having a family etc. For 22 my cup runneth over :)

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travel
be happy
get married to someone who makes me happy without trying
^ someone who doesnt get comfortable(crap-comfortable)
have children
Have enough children to form a world famous football team(england senior beach football team most likely)
 
I wanted to become an IT technician travelling around the country solving problems while being able to stick it out with enjoying it.

Luckily i started that dream on Monday and its going good so far ;).

my other dreams were dashed as a child when i said to my parents what i wanted to do for a job quickly dissolving into a "you dont want to do that its a horrible job".

so that put me of about 5 careers i was genuinely interested in and generally lost interest in school as i used to rely on my parents support a lot.

just goes to show now, i can achieve the things i want.
 
Stringy said:
"The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't."
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Baz speaks some wise words :)
I often think back to that song when 10 people in a day ask me what I want to do and can't give them an answer
 
Should have written:

"I want to be more successful than youm you paper pushing nobody."
 
Low stress being the key to happiness and health
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^^ agree 100% whats the point earning tons of money if it buggers up your health? One of the reasons i work part-time now.
For me life isnt about 9 - 5 then being "free" to get wasted at the weekend.
 
I'm on the track to my dream 'life', as it may be. Pushing away all comfort zones and just going for it over the next few years.

I've stopped claiming JSA without having found a job, and I'm working (slowly) to earn that amount through Graphic Design and Web Development. Once I reach that, I will slowly build a client list, trust and a good reputation which will be born with me being the sole operator of a business.

When I get to £8k~ per year (September/October this year) I will move out to Asia; living and working in every country out there that I can. At first, it'll be the ones with lower living costs, such as Thailand, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, etc. Then bigger and better from there - Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Thus allowing me to live my life how I want and be entirely responsible for everything, while doing something I thoroughly enjoy. It will also allow me to continue my love of language study and immersing myself in different cultures.

But there is a lot of hard work to be done yet. :)

Although I may never make a huge amount of money, I'm sure I'll be 'comfortable' in 5 years (by UK standards). Most of all, I'll be happy.
 
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