poll: to what extent do you feel like you pretty much just know what you want? feel free to clarify and elaborate in the replies
- confidently know17.3%
- kinda know some things52.6%
- pretty lost28.6%
- idk / other / results1.5%
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would be amazing to have a larger sample, finer grain, and results filtered by age but i am too lazy so just this smol poll for now i guess
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agh there's also a lot of different scales. like there's small scale "i know what kinds of food i like" and there's large scale "i know what i want to do with my life" and idk how distinct they are
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I have a pretty clear vision of what I want, it just doesn't align all that well with what I feel like doing
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one benefit of having a childhood where I didn't get much choice in what I did is that I take freedom very, very well. never related to elder millenials crying about "adulting," how is that not leagues better than having every decision made for you every day
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my worst days as a bill paying adult are my fault, my worst days as a kid are someone else's fault. the frustrating part was not being able to learn from my mistakes and change, I just had to watch adults make the same poor decisions and be impacted by them
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career-wise: every time I've taken a job because I needed the money I've found something awesome in it, and the only time I've taken a job I thought I'd really enjoy and actually liked it is my current job, conditioned by twenty years of "I thought I wanted it but it went bad"
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Does this poll include knowing how to achieve those ends or is it just about knowing the various things you want/need and/or having a reasonable understanding of why?
"What I need," "Why do I need it?," and "How will I get it?" are all really important for this question.
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I definitely know things that I need, I don't always know how I'll get them, and for some things I have a hard time breaking down exactly why I (feel) that I need them.
It's a tangled rhizome with redactions at key junctures.
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How did you just describe the experience of being alive so succinctly?
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