would you say your life moves forward

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in a positive and good direction?

the reason i ask, is because i have hopefully got myself out of the unemployed rut and have really had to fight for it.
whilst dwelling on my unemployed circumstances, i would often think of how my life has gone since i left school. i thought back to 1996, when i started college and initially i thought what a great time that was but digging deeper, i remembered that it wasn't that great at all; i had very little money, was working as a trolley collector on the weekend and couldn't drive, this then lead me to think where i went from there, and, although there is days when it doesn't feel like it and although my lifestyle is humble at best, it has, now i look back on it, always moved forward and moving forward has always been the aim to obtain a comfortable lifestyle.

i was wondering if there were any users who accelerated to great success after school but lost it somehow and had to take, what may be considered a step back in comparison to a lifestyle they had once enjoyed? or perhaps someone who has been unfortuanate and hit dead end after dead end?
 
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In two days I'll have been in my current job 6 months. Before that I was unemployed for (only) 3 months. It was one of the scariest times ever.

Things have moved forward a hell of a lot in the past 6 months.
 
Been in the RAF for 2 years, and although it's great, it's obviously not quite the same as when I was at uni living a completely unsustainable lifestyle with next to no responsibility.

I do however feel that I've been "moving forward" as you say. Having more fun does not mean you're moving forward.
 
Most definitely. Been promoted about 2 months ago and still climbing the ladder at pace... Next jump gets me a £9k/year pay-rise, so quite looking forward to that in about 8-10 months :D
 
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I lost my direction for a bit, if that's what you mean. I used to have a very successful career, sponsored as a student with a top profile placement and prospects, but it all seemed to fall apart after I graduated. I pulled it all back together eventually though.
 
With working for IT contracting companies sometimes you can get placed at a site and it seems like a step backwards technically. For example i was working at one site as the primary IT person, full access to the systems and handling everything to do with IT. Then after that i was placed at an investment bank and was taking 80 calls a day, with zero access. That was a real step backwards and i hated it, i was depressed and stressed to hell. So i changed companies and now i have a good job again. You might get a set back but you can always learn from it and move to something else.
 
Life moves on, be it forwards or backwards. Hence why friends need to be more fluid and roll with the changes ;)
 
I've had my ups and downs - not sure what I'm currently on, but that's life :D

I love talking about this kind of stuff with old friends that I haven't seen in ages.....oh wait :D
 
Got a job!! :)

Being unemployed is horrible because of the no sign of the end of the tunnel.

I'd LOVE unemployment if someone would say 'Listen, we will sign a legally binding contract employing you from April 2011'.

FANTASTIC -- computer games, travelling, whatever.

But when you're sitting for an 'undetermined amount of time' unemployed, god knows when you're next paycheck will come in so you better not spend any money and why arn't you job hunting for 23 hours a day you scum? , very, very miserable indeed ..
 
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My life has definitely not taken the direction I'd imagined when at college (same as the OP - 1996 to 1998). Though I didn't know then (and I still don't know now) what I wanted to do when I "grew up"

I fell into IT after college, my A-Levels had nothing to do with an IT role, but somehow it happened and now I'm stuck in a rut really at my current job. I now run a Service Desk for a college and the job is changing more than I like. Decisions being made that I haven't been consulted about. But at the same time I have a job and I'm grateful for that fact. I've been there just over 9 years now.

But, the pay is pretty good, it's not a long commute and at the end of the day I can forget about it. As long as that remains the same, then I'm happy enough. Hopefully though before too long I'll be starting a family and will be able to head my life in more of the direction I have wanted for the past few years.
 
Mostly forward... it has stalled for the last 2 years and its odds on to take a massive step backwards soon... possibly unrecoverably so :(
 
It has its moments. I've generally moved forward both education and career wise.

Education:
GCSE's - A Levels - Degree

Work:
Sainsbury's shop floor assistant - Vendor at a the Apollo - Admin Assistant at a energy company.

Of course there have been times where I've felt I've been in a rut or felt I'm going backwards especially when unemployed but generally life seems to be plodding along fine.
 
Work - forwards (ish)
Love - flatline
Friends - forward

As a person - forward, lots. I am a much more confident, thoughtful, less impulsive and wiser than I was.
 
Was on a slight slope downwards (for all aspects) for a few years, now flat-lined at a fairly low point.
 
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