Have you ever...?

[snow_happy]

Done something totally unexpected (not totally financially stable or planned-out)? Like travel working odd jobs after college instead getting a full-time job or going to grad school? Working your way through europe for a year? Studied with Tibetan monks?


There are so many things I want to do but feel like I am so hung up on financial stability and "planning things out" that I can''t just pack up and leave. I''ve always lived my life according to plan and expectation. Has anyone ever not done these things but wanted to and regretted not doing them?


Just throwing this out there

 

[Sunni79]

No, I''m quite boring

 

[jorman]

Oh- this is so fun!

Well, as of this past Thursday, my bf and I learned we will be moving to California from Texas. He landed an awesome job and we couldn''t turn it down. I have lived in Texas MY WHOLE LIFE, so I guess this adventure is fitting. I am so excited!

On the other hand, when I was in college, both my roommates studied abroad, but I never did. I I regret it now.

 

[tawn]

Right after I graduated from college, I met my husband at a bar and he sent me plane tickets to visit him in Boston. I went to visit him and fell madly in love. I went back home and packed my stuff and went to Italy with him for almost a year! Everyone thought I was totally insane...

I think I may have been a gypsy in a past life! Every spring I get the strongest urge to move away somewhere new...and do crazy things!

 

[mingagreen]

This is a fun thread! I guess I used to consider myself fairly boring, although I really wanted to be spontaneous, I just had no money and a BF who was super boring. After we split, I thought that was my chance to do things I always wanted to do, travel, party all night, etc! Well the traveling never occured,(still had no money!) I was having fun while I met my now DH. He was older and "worldly"! So we hit it off started dated...... He worked from May to October and then had October to May OFF! So here was my chance to do things!!! I took a leave from my job, and we took off to the Keys. Big Pine Key, where I spent half of my childhood. We "lived" in a camper for 2 months. We fished for our food,went to Key West and just got to know eachother, we hadn''t really been able to spend alot of time together b/c of his work schedule. We had SO much fun. So we came home, hung out, I went back to work and we made it through another summer of his crazy work hours and then I quit my job and we were off on a 1,900 mile cross country trip fromPennsylvania to the keys (where he proposed) to Arizona (Grand Canyon) to Colorado, to staying in a friends party "mansion" in Vista, Ca (crazy experience, this guys name is Joel Silver, like the director, and we went out in San Diego, telling bouncers he was Joel Silver the director, we were treated SO well!!!!) To Arcata, to Portland Oregon, to Washington and then making it back home to Pa on Christmas day after driving 28 hours straight! The 1968 Pontiac Bonneville we were driving started smoking 1/2 hour from home and the wheel seized on our driveway!! But we made it home for X-mas dinner!
Since then we have taken little trips, our honeymoon was awesome, we stayed on a small island off the coast of Mexico, which was amazing. We now have things like a house and children and he has a "real job" so traveling isn''t going to happen, for now anyway! We do miss being able to just get up and go but wouldn''t trade our life for it. Our time will come again, we might move to Hondarus or something someday!!
The only regret we would have, if that is what I had to call it is that we maxed out one credit card on the trip and that hurts BUT we remind ourselves all the time how worth it it was!
OH the memories!!!!!!!!!

 

[LadyluvsLuxury]

You and me both!

 

[ammayernyc]

Well, right now I''m toying with the idea (although not seriously considering it...yet...) of ditching my job in politics to go and work with animals. Something along the line of doggie day care or pet sitting or aspca (although I don''t think I could work anywhere where I would have to see hurt animals).

I kind of feel like it would be too intellectually vapid, but I just want to be really happy at work for once. I think I could get over the embarrassment factor of, ''what do you do?'' ''oh, I play with dogs all day'' if I were really happy doing it.

I have a feeling that if I really do it, the transition will be gradually over the next year. But my bf is surprising and extremely supportive!

Keep you all posted!

 

[jaysonsmom]

I don''t know if this counts, but I used to just drop everything, ditch class (during college) and drive 6+ hours to see my boyfriend....just because I wanted to susrprise him. I was in So. Cal, and he was in Northern Cal. Now that I think about it, it was to stupid. It took so much out of me (and my poor beat-up car), and the relationship lasted less than a year because it was energy draining.

 

[AChiOAlumna]

I left my job of 3 years without confirming whether I had another. I was so stressed out by my job, that DH wanted me out regardless of the back-up. I had an interview and it looked promising, but I turned in my resignation without any confirmation of whether I got the new job! I did get the job, but now (a year later) we''re dealing with another uncertainty...

This new job didn''t work out like I had hoped and out of nowhere, my boss drastically cut my hours to about 10 hours a week. I am in the midst of building a new private practice independently, but current marketing doesn''t bring in automatic revenue. So I''m making about $250/week currently and hopefully clients will start coming in...but I''m totally stressed out not knowing how I''m making ends meet. DH has his job and it covers about 85% of our expenditures, but that last 15% has always been dependent on me...

So I keep applying for additional jobs, temp work, etc. But I don''t like this feeling at all...I know something will work out, but until it does.....

 

[LadyluvsLuxury]

Date: 5/23/2005 5:25:28 PM
Author: AChiOAlumna
I left my job of 3 years without confirming whether I had another. I was so stressed out by my job, that DH wanted me out regardless of the back-up. I had an interview and it looked promising, but I turned in my resignation without any confirmation of whether I got the new job! I did get the job, but now (a year later) we''re dealing with another uncertainty...

This new job didn''t work out like I had hoped and out of nowhere, my boss drastically cut my hours to about 10 hours a week. I am in the midst of building a new private practice independently, but current marketing doesn''t bring in automatic revenue. So I''m making about $250/week currently and hopefully clients will start coming in...but I''m totally stressed out not knowing how I''m making ends meet. DH has his job and it covers about 85% of our expenditures, but that last 15% has always been dependent on me...

So I keep applying for additional jobs, temp work, etc. But I don''t like this feeling at all...I know something will work out, but until it does.....

Sorry to hear about your uncertain future ACOA.... but I know that not too long from now you''ll be on here posting about all the [$$)][$$)][$$)][$$)] you''re raking in. Life many times is like stocks, the more risks you take the higher your return!

 

[AChiOAlumna]

Date: 5/23/2005 5:38:02 PM
Author: LadyluvsLuxury

Sorry to hear about your uncertain future ACOA.... but I know that not too long from now you''ll be on here posting about all the [$$)][$$)][$$)][$$)] you''re raking in. Life many times is like stocks, the more risks you take the higher your return!

Thanks so much for your kind words...I can only worry about what I can control and as long as I keep job searching and marketing, then I can''t say I didn''t try, right?!