Throughout life I have heard the many speeches of "follow your dreams, do what you love, use a talent you have" and others ect. that I assume are used to guide you to a successful, happy life or career. Well that is hopefully, but my main question is how? I cannot find something that I love to do that could become a job, or a talent I have that is useful.. I mean I have (or I am supposed to have) a high intellect, so I could probably work my way into a moderate college. But I do not know what, I know I am quite young but just curious.

If not, feel free to post how you found your talent/talents or how you found a job you would love. Being a parent will be considered a job in here

This post has been edited by Wurlon: Oct 29 2005, 02:27 AM

That's the point. You're what, 13? I'm 16, i still don't know what I want to do. it takes time, it takes experience. You have swim around, figure out what you really love to do and stick to it. The really difficult part is making it applicable in our society.

I have a talent for writing... poetry, reports, letters, stories, everything. I'm considering journalism but it's sport of complicated, it's not any job I can get a pen and paper in. I also want to travel a lot, and live and get to know different cultures from all over the world. One option is in writing novels I could get a grant from my publisher to travel for inspiration. I'm considering that, but I don't want to give up activism and journalism is more practical in consideration of activism. That is my dilema.

finding a job you love can be a challenge. Knowing what you are good at is one thing, but just because you are good at it does not mean you enjoy it. The most important thing is to find out what you enjoy doing. College is usually the best place to figure it out, as before college you shuld not be thinking about specifics but about broadening and opening your options. Also You have to remember tp keep certain things you enjoy as a hobbies, as the stress in the workplace can slightly dull you joy from the job.

Also don't put money first as many people do.

I love water, and I love biology. and so I am studying to be a Marine Biologist. It is definetly not a high cash job, but I believe I will enjoy it, though I will not find out until I get and internship and see what the day to day job is realy like.

I do not really care about money, it is just depressing how I cannot find one single talent I can actually do. For an example, I used to like to write poety in fifth grade after we did a segment on them, but as I entered seventh grade I realized my poems were complete trash compared to others... not because I wrote them when I was younger either. There are so many things I would want to do , but I simply cannot! I wanted to try and write a fantasy novel... or brainstorm it at my age but as I read my current skills in writing, they are not "attractive" as a book should be. I love video games, yet I cannot draw/sketch anything whatsoever!

Still as young as I am, I really question if it would be worth trying in High School as my sister will be going to college to be a Nurse or whatever, and being the middleclass family we will barely be able to afford it, since the damn government thinks we can skip grocercies and supplies and just pay for college.... which means a few years down the road my family, nor me shall have any money left for a college. I may be bright but there are plenty of people that outmatch me. I am defected socially, no one wants to be my friend or near me and I am insulted far too many times to count in one school day. I'm worried..

I have good writing skills, but my poetry isn't great. I have, on several occasions, began a fantasy novel, only to think of a better idea and trash the first, and then never gotten any farther on the next one either. If I'm going to make a novel, I need a partner, not so much for ideas or writing style but to keep me on task, cause I tend to get lazy if I don't have someone forcing me to do something. How's this for an idea? Co-authoring. We can work together on a novel, alternately writing chapters or in different spots or viewpoints or whatever, and do this through a pm or emails. If you want, I can brainstorm some ideas and pm them to you, along with a few smaples of my writing so you can see if you like it.


I'm lucky. Kind of. I'm the firstborn, so my parents will still have all their cash when I'm getting into college. However, we're lower middle class, and I have been told I can pay for it myself or die trying.

Right now, I'm planning on learning programming and such, learning computer stuff. What I want to do is to create videogames, as it seems like a perfect job for me, but I'll take just about anything with similar skill sets needed for it, because I like the computers and learning to use them and using them as much as I like the idea of making games.

Writing is a craft and takes work. Just because you don't think you're any good at something doesn't mean you're not talented. Don't compare your work to the greats... what amde them greats was not being excellent at your age but being really really stubborn and loving what they were doing, not caring about how good they were but doing it because they loved it.

Go read my latest writing piece in the Tes F'ruum forum section, look for my topic I just posted.... I believe it is quite crappy since I did not get to edit it. Feel free to leave comments too...

And I just realized something really important.... I'm usually a perfectionist when it comes to work... heh I may not be that bad after all, it is just I am never satisfied with myself I do not know..

I have plenty of idea for novels, trust me, the first one I would like to try would be called The Wolfman Prophecies - A Rude Awakening... of course. The only difficult task I see in it is attracting readers to it.... I will not reveal any plot though so bug off'. (joking). Co-authoring is probably not an accepted practice because two minds usually are not always on the same track when being free. One guy might love wolfmen (me) and a girl might like dragons ( no one I know of ) so trying to write together would be like.. the wolfmen charged with an undying fury... and then a dragon appeared! When the battle was over the men retreated .. as a dragon appeared! It just gets silly mixing two things together like that.. well that might not have been the best example. How about mixing ash salts and corpus weepings? Not exactly appetizing.

Want to know another reason I want to write a fantasy novel/novels? Eragon... I hated how the name was so close to Aragorn, it felt like a mimick of it and I simply could not read on.... I want to create a fantasy book that would rock the world like LORT did for a short period of time, but maybe not as crappy I'm sure there would be many difficulties doing this, since the only support I have is myself...


Edit: by the way poetry only works for me when I think of it, like during class or something. Sitting in front of a computer gets me nothing, so I guess I should have a little notebook for my poetry I think of or something.. I have had some really deep poetry, forgotten it and then remembered it days later when I didn't feel like writing anymore...

This post has been edited by Wurlon: Oct 29 2005, 11:52 PM

We're our own worst critics. It's the ability to think your work always needs to improved that makes it better. It's natural to think your writing is not as good as it really is.

You're still young, don't worry about it. Writing is not something you're born with. If you love it, then do it despite how good other people are or how good you think you are. When you think a work is publishable, you publish it.

Coauthoring is done oftenly in the modern world but not usually one chapter each as it requires a lot of planning. Two minds not only create ideas faster but act as a quality control on each other making sure the bad ideas are weeded out. Usually though only one guy writes.

Example: Ray Bradbury. He keep sending in stories ( and getting rejected) until one actually got him i na magazine, then he had to story his way up that latter till he got to a actual book (which ammounted to a bunch of short stories that together formed the novel's overall story).

Writing is fun, and something you got to keep at, I roleplay alot because it gives me a chance to write without having to do a big huge block of writing entirely my own because the other people are helping drive the story too.

It also helps me be more realistic, through RPing I've weeded out unrealistic actions when a more experienced player pointed things out.

Anywho

Point is find something you love and keep at it. I'll probablly end up as either a Programer or writer because I like programming (as frustrating as it can be, its fun to actually write a program and go "Hey guys, look! I made a password-program!" (which I've done, hehe. Its simpler than I thought.)

hey all
I'm 13 and I know what I'd like to be when I'm older!

An airline pilot!
If a airliners pilots both died, I bet I could fly the rest of the route to land safely at the destination. But, onlt if it were a Boeing, Airbuses fly weird IMHO

The only downpoints of beeing a pilot are:
Bad Pay when you start off, keep in mind, not all pilots are 777 pilots
Increased change to have cancer because you aren't sheilded by ozone because you are flying in it.
Away from home

cya

Well some critics get punched for being very bad, and I definitely do not punch myself.... I rather get all the credit for a book thought anyway, but I would be glad to hear stories and give opinions on them. I guess I'm just a wishy-washy person, one minute I feel "who gives a flying crap, I like my writing" and the next I will be "crap that Sara girl has amazing writing! wtf was I thinking?" so you get the idea. Sometimes I think I am psychotic, but I'm just not in agreeance (sp) with myself. Heh the one kid who is like the closest thing I have to a real friend was using my heritage or whatever it is named (where your bloodlines run off to , example Scottish-Scotland) to idenify most of my personality. I'm half polish, half irish and he is like , since your irish you are easy tempered and since you are polish you are very stubborn. I don't know what I just said that but I like it hah go figure.

I'd like to thank you guys for advice and stuff..... and those who actually bothered to post, for some reason no one ever posts after me when I start a topic...

Oh well, I guess I'll have to use my own ideas for a novel. One that will almost definately not be based on wolves, or include wolves in anything other than a small mention. Wolves aren't exactly my forte. Anything written by me is either semitraditional fantasy or sci-fi. Come to think of it, if I did have someone to make me keep to a deadline, my writing style would be cramped, forced, different. Just wouldn't be the same. Probably the same would go for yours. And you're probably right, co-authoring would be a bad idea. I know many books that were co-authored and came out pretty good, but the two people actually worked personally together on it, so they were able to collaborate better than through emails. Not to mention our writing styles probably wouldn't hash very well.
Poetry come to me when I can't write it down, usually when I'm about to go to sleep. Either I get up and write it down immediately, or it looses it's original appeal and sounds wierd.


I actually had an example of this in school today. I have a special semi-study hall once a week. We've been working on stereotypes. Last week, we were assigned a stereotype, and told to write a diary entry pretending that we were stereotyped like that. The teacher personally chose which stereotype we had to do that from, and purpsoely made it far from what people actually stereotyped us as. I had to do one as a skater. Everyone finished in class. This week, we split into two groups of seven and read ours to our group. The two best ones were chosen from each group. Mine and someone elses, a girl who had to write from the perspective of being an emo. I thought mine was horrible. Her's was pretty good though. The two people chosen from the other group were a girl who had to write her entry stereotyped as a dreamy school girl and a girl who had to write her entry stereotyped as a scumbag. (person who never washes and smells bad) People actually clapped for me, despite the fact that a. they didn't have to clap at the end of reading our diary entries and b. I thought mine was horrible.

Here is that journal entry that I wrote:



Oh, and if you were wondering why there were three girls chosen and only one guy, it's because my study hall has three guys and eleven girls in it, so the odds were slim that more than one guy would be chosen by the groups.


Good advice. I'm pretty good at writing, but it's not the career I'm pursuing and I'm far from as good as the greats, for obvious reasons.. I'll write stuff for fun, but I'll try to write something publish worthy. If I write an entrie novel and the publishing is denied, maybe I'll post it on these forums, one chapter at a time, and get constructive criticism on it until I have a better idea of how to write better.

Not everything I do includes wolves you know, but I dislike being forced to write stories about modern days. If you have stories you want to send me feel free to , I'lll send comments or editorial help......... but for now I shall wait....


I just use wolfmen a lot, I like that idea of a creature....

what are the odds?
<---future pilot for the airforce

my talent is being extremely adorable. What can I say.....its a gift.



Seriously though I can make people laugh.....its just my forum jokes that suck.

are you pehaps a.....girl?

if so: OMG!!1one

we have like 3 female members or so....yeah....

ding ding ding! We have a winner!

really? only 3 girls? I woulda thought Alex and them would be bringin' in all sorts of ladies

*blows kissies to alex and epy* <----see? adorable!




This post has been edited by Epy: Oct 31 2005, 11:24 PM

Nope, just you, mergirl... and... who am I missing? Possibly Neela... anyone else?







Just kidding Minque

This post has been edited by DoomedOne: Oct 31 2005, 11:30 PM

I have never seen the wub emoticon used before, amazing... and not that crappy candy bar!

I wish I had a kiss

Yeah, I figured that not everything you wrote could involve wolves. After all, while wolves are a very broad subject, there's a limit to how much you can write about them.

I also hate writing about modern days. I got a 94% on an English paper because I prefer writing things more set in the past. While our story had to be something true that happened to us, that still helped me because I know how to drive up the suspense in a story, and my writing style hardly differs if I'm writing something fun. And that was a fun story to write, no bout a doubt it. It was about this one time I explored an old building, which was mostly abandoned except for the first floor, and it was only a few people there. My story made it seem haunted without ever coming out and saying so. So I got extra points for not liking the present. Yippee!