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I smell like shit and college
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Epishade
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Suichoy
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P7GAB
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Starcraft 2
United States64 Posts
Do your parents really want you to run their business without any college education or business experience? Or would it be one of those hands off and let the CEO do all the work while you roll in the dough deals. On March 27 2013 11:47 P7GAB wrote: you sound pretty anti social tbh ^ and you should probably work on the smell thing if you want to be a businessman since there's a lot of human interaction | ||
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B.I.G.
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Seriously still staying over at grandma every week? So little interaction with regular people that noone told you you smelled? You think living 40 minute away is FAR? And most importantly: You want to run your dad's company eventually? Seriously, go to college. Even if you hate it it will be a good experience for you. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States44019 Posts
2. Why are you so against going to college? (College isn't for everyone, but you seem quite unhappy with the fact that you might go and get a better education and fantastic experiences.) 3. If your college is actually just 40 minutes away, you don't have to move on campus (especially if money's an issue for you). I commuted every year of my college experience (as well as throughout graduate/ doctoral programs) and I live 40 minutes away from campus as well. Especially since apparently you're quite upset with the fact that you need to leave the house for college... do you really need to leave everything behind when you start college? 4. "I always had the idea that I would start my own business and become first overnight billionaire." Yeahhh I think you needed a wake up call, one way or another. At least you still have options that can move you towards happiness and success. Good luck!  | ||
Heyoka
Katowice25012 Posts
It takes me an hour just to meet my friends at a bar and they live in the same city I do. I once dated a woman who lived in another country. You'll be fine dude. | ||
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obesechicken13
United States10467 Posts
Making your own company instead of inheriting one also sounds like a much more challenging task. | ||
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Bagration
United States18282 Posts
To top it all off, my mom apparently got a call from the nurse's office from school today. Somebody complained that I stink in class to the front office lol. Unless this was just some asshole who did this to mess with you, this is kind of a big issue. If your BO is bothering other people in the vicinity, that's a bit of a problem. Go to college with an open mind and a positive attitude. If you go to college (or anything) with a shitty attitude ("I'd rather be somewhere else, this sucks, etc"), it will be a self-fulfilling prophecy. College is anything you make it to be, good or bad, and that's the same with life. | ||
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Scarecrow
Korea (South)9172 Posts
Online courses are a terrible idea. You're like the sheltered protagonist at the start of a coming-of-age college movie who needs a shove out the door. Once you're out in the real world you'll realise stepping outside your comfort zone was the best thing you ever did. | ||
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jackstitties
United States43 Posts
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docvoc
United States5491 Posts
On March 27 2013 13:11 Scarecrow wrote: You should be relieved your life isn't planned out. Running the family business forever and regular grandma sleepovers sound dull as shit. I moved 5 hours away from my hometown for university and still kept in touch with high school friends and now live in a different country, 40 minutes is nothing. Online courses are a terrible idea. You're like the sheltered protagonist at the start of a coming-of-age college movie who needs a shove out the door. Once you're out in the real world you'll realise stepping outside your comfort zone was the best thing you ever did. Pretty much this. You need a kick in the pants. Your closeness to family is something to be admired, sleeping at your grandma's house is nice and I like the closeness, but you have to grow up a little here. You have to make new friends, enter a new environment, and make it. You have to do these things, because if you don't, life is gonna get really boring really fast. This will force you to make new friends, work on issues you have that others make issues of, and most importantly learn to cope in a system that isn't home. You'll be better for this, just find yourself a bit . | ||
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CecilSunkure
United States2829 Posts
Okay let me break this down for you: this blog is so silly that I can't actually tell if you're trolling or not. If this is all serious, then man you have no idea what life is like beyond the veil of your small family interactions. You desperately need to experience things for yourself and make your own decisions. You hang out with your grandma every week and think 40 minutes away at college is a long distance. Dude I used to drive 40 minutes to school, one way every day twice a day five days a week, sometimes more. The funniest thing is that you call all these changes happening to you "dramatic". Man you don't know what drama is. You don't know what anything is. Go out in the world and make some decisions. Learn. It's important for you to realize that you don't know anything or have any experience. If you're trolling then well, you're pretty good at it. | ||
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Sega92
United States467 Posts
let me take you through the full list --before was engaged going to college full time parents were separated when i was a kid, nbd but i had a good relationship with both of them 3/4 grandparents were alive and even 3/4 great grandparents had my own house my father was able to buy with his business for me to live in while i was at school --after single have to work full time to pay bills father in prison, mother has stage 3 breast cancer- my mother was the one that lived in my childhood home, now she lives with her mother because of my father's business...let's just say it hit a brick wall (made of FBI agents) 2/4 grandparent and 0/4 great grandparents was kicked out of that house moved to apartment #1, roommate SUDDENLY moves out leaving me with no way to pay the rent had to move to apartment #2 now I lost my job and am gonna have to find somewhere cheaper to live and move there because of other expenses all of that before i was 21...between 19-21 I LOST EVERYTHING you feel so "dramatic" now? just for reference, do you live in a small town? because thats the mentality i get from you | ||
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babylon
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There are way too many kids who go to college just because "they're supposed to," and then they wind up wasting $$$ drinking away their brain cells and flunking out (or getting such bad grades that they actually put themselves in a worse position than they were in when they just graduated from HS). Take some time off, get a job, look at your life, and ask yourself where you want to go. Then get off your ass and start walking. | ||
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synapse
China13814 Posts
Also, moving 40 minutes away... the horror lol | ||
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ZeroChrome
Canada1001 Posts
I assume you have had a VERY sheltered life so far because none of the things you described are even close to being dramatically life changing events. Go to college. You shouldn't try and live this sheltered life forever. Also I'm sure 99% of the people reading this blog (including myself) would jump at the opportunity to have their college/university education funded by a family business. | ||
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Aelonius
Netherlands432 Posts
On March 27 2013 12:44 heyoka wrote: haha It takes me an hour just to meet my friends at a bar and they live in the same city I do. I once dated a woman who lived in another country. You'll be fine dude. Oh the pain of distance dating ^_^ Had the same problem, me being in the Netherlands and her being in China :p Edit: @OP: You're complaining about 40 minutes to travel somewhere? It takes me at least 1,5 hours to reach my university each day, back and forth, in order to get studying. Hell, if it were only 40 minutes I'd do it by bike. You've got to drop the balls, become more ballsy and stop being so dependant on the family. They will never be around for an infinite time, so the earlier you learn to be independent, the better chances you get in later life. Other than that... Deal with it. | ||
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Frits
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Butterednuts
United States859 Posts
* Moving 40 minutes away and you can't keep in contact with your friends? * Sleepover at your grandmothers, how much longer do you honestly thing you're going to be doing that? When you're 21? 25? * Oh no, you don't have an already successful business to inherit, now you have to go to college and further your education to make yourself more marketable to future jobs. Woe is you? * Your life has changed dramatically? No one died, no one went bankrupt, no one went homeless, no one is abandoning you. I'd say your changes are mild and boring compared to perhaps 80% of the population with actual problems and decisions to make. Stop whining, go shower, and leave your comfort zone. | ||
CTStalker
Canada9720 Posts
On March 27 2013 22:21 Frits wrote: lmao welcome to real life, where you actually have to work and shower looooool to the dude who said don't go to college: take a look at average income for a high school graduate in the US edit: i agree that he shouldn't rush into choosing what to study, and taking a year off to decide is alright. but a career with a high school diploma is going to land the OP on disability or food stamps some day. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States44019 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + It was changed by a mod from "I feel like shit" to "I smell like shit", right? | ||
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Burrfoot
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endy
Switzerland8970 Posts
On March 27 2013 22:53 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: Oh my god, this new blog title is hilarious ^^ + Show Spoiler + It was changed by a mod from "I feel like shit" to "I smell like shit", right? No, did you read the blog ? OP said that people actually reported that he stinks. edit : nvm, title was changed indeed | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States44019 Posts
On March 28 2013 00:56 endy wrote: No, did you read the blog ? OP said that people actually reported that he stinks. Of course I read the blog; that's why I commented in depth about his problems. I just thought that the title was changed (obviously to make fun of his odor issue). EDIT: On March 28 2013 05:16 Epishade wrote: Wtf who changed title. See?  | ||
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Pulselol
Canada1628 Posts
also it's a great idea to shower every day. | ||
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freeshooter
United States477 Posts
Change can be good, you might like college. But life isn't about having things planned out for you. Some plans won't go accordingly, as your father's business shows. Sorry to hear about the business, but perhaps this is a sign for you to go out and experience the world. Seriously, sleeping over at grandma's, getting called out for smelling bad and dreading 40 minute shouldn't be on your mind. I'm the same age as you, and it's pretty daunting to think about the future, but that's what happens in life and you have to adapt. | ||
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Epishade
United States2267 Posts
I do shower everyday guys. I put on deodorant before I go anywhere except for school. I just figured my DAILY morning shower would hold for the day. Guess I was wrong, but not really a big deal here. I'll just have to bring some with me and put it on before class. Update is that I asked my mom about online courses. She won't let me take them and says they suck and are a waste of money. I suppose I kinda agree here, as much as I would prefer staying home to take the courses than going. Some of you guys got it right. I am pretty anti-social. I do prefer solitude most of the time and don't actively go out of my way to be with friends. My problem with being a WHOLE 40 minutes away (not a lot for most of you) is that I have little experience with driving. I don't have a parking spot for school and the only place I drive to is to work at the family business and g-mas. The business, for those that were wondering, buys and sells ink cartridges online. If you've ever bought one online, chances are likely it passed by us. Edit: Jeeze, everyone seems to hate me from this blog lol. Maybe I shouldn't have included that BO problem in the op. That just gave you guys more fuel for the fire. I do live a sheltered life, rarely go out, and have never wished for anything else. I've had all that I ever needed right here for me. As it so happens, a few months from now, my brother will end up inheriting the family business, with no room for me to join. So college it seems is my only choice. It's not that I wouldn't want to go to college and meet new people as much as it is I don't want to leave me old life. But because there isn't really a choice anymore, none of this really matters. College was my last choice when working with the family business was an option, because then I could actually take care in my work, knowing I was helping out the family, as well as be financially set without worry. I expected the "grow up" comments because my life is rather sheltered. I just didn't know it would change so quickly. Had I known about this a few years ago, back in sophomore or even junior year, none of this really would have mattered as much as it does now because I would have had time to think about my decisions I would make in college. Starting to regret making this blog as everyone is ragging on me about being a baby. Oh, and the overnight billionaire thing was a typo. I meant trillionaire. | ||
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CecilSunkure
United States2829 Posts
On March 28 2013 05:16 Epishade wrote: Wtf who changed title. HAHAHAHA On March 28 2013 05:16 Epishade wrote: My problem with being a WHOLE 40 minutes away (not a lot for most of you) is that I have little experience with driving. I don't have a parking spot for school and the only place I drive to is to work at the family business and g-mas. The business, for those that were wondering, buys and sells ink cartridges online. If you've ever bought one online, chances are likely it passed by us. So dramatic! Still not dramatic. Eventually you'll read this blog and laugh with us "I put on deodorant before I go anywhere except for school." Put deodorant on every day. | ||
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Snuggles
United States1865 Posts
It also takes me an hour and half to commute to school, and its a 4 hour drive to pick up my little brother and drive him home from his school. 40 minutes, is extremely trivial. | ||
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CecilSunkure
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TylerThaCreator
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Recognizable
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Heyoka
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Epishade
United States2267 Posts
On March 28 2013 06:29 heyoka wrote: You might want to rethink your "be really successful at business" plan if the adversity of people teasing you on an internet forum is too much to handle. Indeed. I sure wouldn't want to be well-known and famous enough that people would make bad posts about me online. That might just make me sad enough to consider a different occupation. Nah, yesterday I was in a bad mood when I made the op. Now I regret making it because it makes me sound like a whiny brat who's not capable of anything. Today I'm feeling a bit better and would have worded it in a more positive light. Some things aren't meant to last and I'm sure college will probably change my life for the better. + Show Spoiler + You changed the title didn't you! | ||
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ninazerg
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Servius_Fulvius
United States947 Posts
On March 28 2013 06:41 Epishade wrote: Nah, yesterday I was in a bad mood when I made the op. Now I regret making it because it makes me sound like a whiny brat who's not capable of anything. Don't sweat it. Most of the advice here is bad, anyway. It's ok to feel disappointed and sad when plans fall through. Your parents are trying to steer you in the direction they think is best, and while you are free to make up your own mind, parents usually have great perspective. You will find over the years that plans for your life constantly change. The trick is to take it in stride, recollect, and move on. Good luck | ||
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Sega92
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