Where are we heading anyways.....

New Zealand
January 27, 2010 5:25am CST
I am forced to write this more out of my experience than just my views. I study in a Business School and trust me I even love the subject I am studying. What bothers me is my life and the pace at which it is going away from me. I joined university to learn about the subject I was so interested in, but turns out, this is not the place for it. All I take back from college everyday is a pile of assignments to do with zero scope for learning (who has the time for it after the heaps of homework they give). In fact I have started to wonder, is this what I really want to do in life..read and then write till I fill up pages without retaining anything.. Of course people tell me that once I graduate and get a job I would have a comfortable life. My question is, what about the life that I am ceasing to live NOW trying to pursue knowledge but eventually acquiring nothing because there are the academic formalities of doing innumerable researches just so that the world knows which college has more number of research than the other...knowledge, definitely has taken a backseat.
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@bing28 (3795)
• Philippines
27 Jan 10
They said get the course you're most interested in, you'll enjoy doing no matter how hard or whatever hindrances occur. Sometimes we only apply few of what we learned in school in doing our job. More on the experiences. So don't think you never learn, as long as you're doing something for sure you'll absorb new ideas. Happy Mylotting.
• New Zealand
28 Jan 10
I will have to agree with you on the "enjoying no matter how things seem to be", and I DO enjoy every bit of what am studying. My only question is why are the course so structured that one doesn't find time even to breathe!!! I love studying....but please that's not all that is there to life..not at least in my life...I can't remember the last time I went for a long drive without having to worry how many assignments I have for the next day or is it actually OK to go for a walk when I know I have so much school work left!!!
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• Philippines
16 Feb 10
Hi there fella! I understand the situation you're in. I once was a student too and had a similar experience. I was forced into nursing school by my parents, it was their choice and not mine. In college I learned to love the course because the subjects where challenging not just intellectually but physically as well. To make the story short I graduated belonging to the top upper 15% of my graduating class and passed the board exam during my first take. Quite surprising for someone who was just pushed into taking something she did not like. I did my best so as not to disappoint my family but I was unsure of myself. Well, I thought I was sure of my decision to pursue nursing but after experiencing burnout from my first nursing job I called it quits. What burned me out was the workload and the pay was not good. When I graduated my parents no longer supported me financially and I was just being paid very minimum. I was having a hard time making both ends meet. I was paid 5 thousand the most in a month that's net pay. I have to pay 2 thousand for my rent, the rest was just for food. I could barely afford a ride to work and though it was scary during my afternoon and evening shift I just walked from my dorm to my workplace. Until now I still ask where am I heading to? What is it that I'm really suppose to do is this it or that How would I know. Believe until now I'm still trying to figure out. I have worked as a nurse in the clinical setting and as a clinical teacher, I even worked as an HR officer, a call center agent and now as Finance Officer and still the question is unanswered. Not to sound religious but I know that if I ask God He will answer me but well that's according to his own sweet time. Patience is a virtue I am still learning, most often times when I ask I don't have the patience to wait on Him, well guess that's why I still have no answers. But I am hoping very soon I will get an answer and that He would show me the way. Didn't He say " Call to me and I will answer you, I will tell you great and might things you don't know of"? I think the strategy is Ask Him with all of your heart, wait for Him and He will answer you. Hope this will give you some insight. Happy mylotting!
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
17 Feb 10
mindeclipse oh please grow up a bit at 23 s urely you know you cannot play when you are in college or the U most of the day and still learn a damned thing. so if you are studying and love the subject, you are learning even if you wish you were out there playing.so do the blooody homework, the assignments as you are learning for sure,you cannot both play and study and learn all at the same time. time for playing when college is out in the summer,right now its time to learn for a lifetime ahead of you and one thing you need to learn right now is there are reasons for all the stuff you think is just too much.stick to it and when you graduate you will know it was for a good cause, to make you able to think and to better yourself. be darned glad you have this chance at a good to excellent education.
• India
27 Jan 10
i know where i am heading to. im gonna do my engineering in poland. ill get a job and settle there or somewhere else in europe with each day im heading towards my goal. that is to make above $70 in here before the last of january all i can say is i am heading towards my first payment hahaha
• India
27 Jan 10
actually its february not january
• New Zealand
28 Jan 10
Adding on to your elaborate answer, like you, I too proceed to graduate with an MBA and then go on to work in the Finance sector, obviously get paid heaps...this however is not the ONLY meaning of living life!!! I know I will be highly qualified at the end of my study, land a good job, and make lots of money...but What about the things i am forgoing now??? I don't want to sound ungrateful for things that I do have, but I wonder what have we really made out of our lives. Today we all study hard to get the best jobs, having spent few years in the job and we feel more depressed and pressurized in the work place than alive and excited...and it's then we think we want a change or wish life was better.... when do we actually stop worrying about our lifestyles and instead spend time living life rather than just elevating the standards. I will have to appreciate one thing in you though, you attitude! Glad that you have your short term goal planned and on the verge of great execution as well...only piece of advice: think beyond when you turn 50yrs..it is then when you will wonder where you are heading!
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