Finishing highschool soon, and I just want to be prepared for life after it. I know the old saying, have no regrets, but lets face it, there's always something in our life that we ask ourselves;
"What if?"
So I'm asking you;
How is life after Highschool?
Did/didn't you achieve your goals?
Things that you ask, What If?
... Life isn't always cherries and cakes, Please don't sugar coat the answers.
2007-09-17 01:23:18 · 41 answers · asked by Curious about the World 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I graduated High School in 2004. My goals were to go to college in either Ireland, Scotland or England. What to study, I didn't know yet. That didn't happen. I started dating a guy and fell deeply in love with him. I couldn't see myself living abroad from him.
I haven't gone to college. I married the guy, and I had a kid with him. Now, I spend all my time in the house caring for the baby. I am not complaining, I just wish I did more things before I got started on my family. Like, dated more (husband was my first), partied a little more, traveled more and had more fun.
This is my advice for you. Date a few girls, separately, go to some parties with your friends, go to college to experience college life (however some people regret going when they didn't know what they wanted), and wait to start a family until you're at least 26 years old. If you want to avoid a hole in your bank account, wear condoms! Don't have babies on one night stands. This is what I would have done if I chose it.
Good luck.
2007-09-17 02:19:49 · answer #1 · answered by Red 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life after High School is OK, more fun in college, so...GO TO COLLEGE! j/k.
But yeah, there are alot of things i regret, like the people i hurt, skipping school too much, and not doing everything i wanted to do. If there is anything you want to get done, then do it, don't hold back! You probably won't see 90% of those people ever again! Live your life and be happy :)
Don't waste a minute of it because i GUARANTEE on graduation day, when everyone is leaving the ceremony, you will already miss it. All of those "i can't WAIT to get out of this SH:T HOLE" feelings will be gone and you will wanna go back. Maybe even not right away, but you will in a couple of months for sure.
Oh, and if you get grounded for something stupid, break the rules. Sneak out. Do whatever you want to do, because whatever it is, you and your parents will just look back and laugh about it later in life.
2007-09-24 06:21:05 · answer #2 · answered by Renee 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's good. I used to spend a lot of time making plans though and life has a way of taking you on trips you never intended, but the truth is, reality is much better than anything I could have imagined. Just learn to enjoy what you are doing each day - your entire life is made up of these moments.
So if there is any advice I could give you is try to be positive! Plan for the worst but hope for the best. Life really does have a way of working out for the better, even if there are some painful lessons on the way.
2007-09-24 21:43:20 · answer #3 · answered by Mystic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ya know what? High school life becomes such a distant memory so fast. I know while you're in it, it seems so important, & in a way it is -- character building, etc -- but when it's all over & you're immersed in your next phase, it seems almost like just a mini-drama series you were part of. Even college was just a (very expensive) learning phase & another distant memory. I like that people tend more to take you seriously in "real life."
Answers to your questions:
Life after highschool is just fine.
I've achieved my goals in some measure (hope to do more).
What if questions can be endless if you start that mind game, but it really is not helpful. You can't worry about what you can't control.
2007-09-17 01:42:34 · answer #4 · answered by Phoebe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you will never be prepared for life after high school. most people never do what they go to college for. life is what you make it. If you want it, you get out there and fight hard because nothing in life is free. All ways remember think before you speak and think before you leap. If i knew what i knew today i would have become a professional student and let my parents support me as long as i could. because its hard out there and i promise you its not getting any easier. i went to college and i am doing some what i was trained for. but cancer knocked me down. Work hard and enjoy life in a moral concept. I guess if i had to do it all over it would be the same, just wish id married a rich old man. But i did marry the old man. lol. good luck on your future
2007-09-24 16:30:37 · answer #5 · answered by sunshine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life sucks for me. I didn't have any goals when I graduated. Just figured I'd go to work and be myself. What a joke. Low-paying, dead end jobs and struggling all the time were sucking the life out of me.
Went to school for 6 months to take a secretarial course. Better job.
Now I'm in school again for Criminal Investigations. Life is starting to look up for me.
Life lesson: Continue your education while you're still young so that you can enjoy life when you are sufficiently employed.
2007-09-24 12:03:32 · answer #6 · answered by brenderderder 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life after HS was surreal, because I was an adult. I was responsible for if I went to school or work. I had to start watching the news. I had to be concerned with gas prices. I wasn't concerned about my weight. And, I got into my first adult relationship. I didn't achieve all my goals because of that first adult relationship. I'm just now making up 15 yrs later.
2007-09-24 05:46:44 · answer #7 · answered by lawstudntbynite 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LIFE is a challenge ... and High School quickly fades into the emeory of time passing ... College becomes the reality, job is part of all that.
From the time you get up in the morning to the day you lay down for your final rest -- YOU are RESPONSIBLE for ALL your choices ... good/bad, the BENEFITS and CONSEQUENCES of your actions (whether it is SUCCESS or Failure ... Good Works or Jail or anything in-between).
Study hard ... obtained that degree while working full time. Enter SERVICE to your Community/Country -- VOLUNTEER! SERVED in the US Armed Forces (and RETIRED eventually ... obtaining MORE Degrees and Graduate Degrees along the way -- Certificates to Practice in my Field and Licenses too) ...
Went/was stationed/visited/deployed or went TDY around the globe -- where else in the world would a kid from the poorer side of Chicago EVER get an opportunity like that -- and to be able to see some of the GREATEST Artistic/Cultural/Heritage sites this world has to offer at the same time? Where in the world do you get to meet NEW people all the time either ... and change locations .... be able to be a "Shining Example" of the Generosity, good nature and willingness to help/lay down your life to help others and for the ideals of a free government/society?
Sure, there are also obstacles along the way ... so many disasters ...
Short disasters of marriages (to abusive, violent sociopaths ... who empty your bank accounts, ABUSE the children you had with him, ABUSE you, destroy your property, and even almost 2 decades AFTER the divorce, he STILL Torments you by once again Assuming your Identity as well as Burglarizing your HOME (August 2006)) .... Having to constantly file police reports and testify against him, having to deal with people who have no conscience (and steal/beat/rob/destroy others/property), r\etc.
Raising your CHILDREN as a Long Term Single Parent ... the ONLY Provider too (because the Ex NEVER provides or complies with the Child Support Order) ... YOU HAVE to keep working EVEN After your Military Retirement because the KIDS need to be cared for, eat, have a roof over their heads, and yes, they have Disabilities).
Then ... there comes the day when they are FINALLY ADULTS .. (and unfortunately) the Adult Child now can make their own choices .. and the Adult Child does -- which is to WILLINGLY HELP the ex (who NEVER supported them or even visited EXCEPT when he abused them or was COURT ORDERED) BURGLARIZE your home ... and ... in one fell swoop ... you now file police reports against the EX and the child at the same time .. demand prosecution ... have to testify ...
Now ... Empty-Nesting Beckons .. STILL Single .. no dates for a couple of decades .. and while visiting relatives ... one gets "SURPRISED" by Fate/God ... a special someone from a neighboring farm (one of their single siblings) notices you ... and goes to your own sibling asking if they can take you out on a DATE! Well ... a couple of months later ... and finally ... after both sets of siblings drop numerous hints, you agree to a DATE .. and another ... another ... and more to come .. What a special time .. you are very happy ...
So instead of going home to your home alone ... you decide it is TIME For transition once again ... and now .. in your retirement ... you are establishing YOUR new Independent BUSINESS ... selling the home you raised your children in ... and yes, Burying the "Ghosts of the Past" to start ANEW ... with NEW Goals, NEW farm, and the promise of (at least) very good NEW Friends where you are relocating to ...
2007-09-17 01:48:00 · answer #8 · answered by sglmom 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's HARD!!! Paying bills, trying to make ends meet... It's hard being a grown up! I wish I had started actually SAVING money from the moment I got my first paycheck. I wish I had never fallen into the "easy credit card" trap when I got to college. I wish I was more careful with my cash.
Other than that, you NEVER stop learning. Now I know what I'm going to tell my kids once they start working. I know I am going to do my best to make sure they enter adulthood with savings account and a good head on their shoulders, and not a block where there brain should be.
2007-09-17 01:30:16 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was great! I got a job and had my own money for the first time... that I of course blew on beer and crap. I tell you one thing... start a savings account NOW and DONT get into credit card debt.
I ask myself how it would have been if I never joined the Army and where I would be now.
I have a college degree, so yes, I have acheived one goal. They keep on coming, though, so I am still working on other goals.
2007-09-17 01:28:30 · answer #10 · answered by skigod377 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋