Hi! I've never written in a forum before but I thought this article was amazing and I think Steve Pavlina is a GENIOUS (although I've only read a dozen of his articles so far). I know that may seem extreme but this article truly articulates so many things I've been trying to articulate myself for years. I'm only 21, I'm from Canada and my family is lower-middle class so I've been working since I was 15. After 3 years at my public high school I was fed up with how pointless it all was. I got good grades so I got into a private high school in New York (scholarship/financial aid) and now I've finished 2 years at Amherst College in Mass.. I kept switching schools searching for something better, something satisfying or something worth while and now I'm on voluntary leave from Amherst trying to figure out what to do next. College only leads to a job and I just can't think of a job that could make me happy. Yes, I want money, but the only reason I want money is so that can have the freedom to not have to work. I just want to be able to pay my bills and buy food, nothing else important to my life costs any money.
Everything Steve wrote in that article seems perfectly logical to me, I wish I could send it to my friends and family to help them understand what's "wrong" with me right now. Everyone who knows me thinks I'm "depressed" and maybe I am but that's only a symptom of what's really wrong. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO! I'm certain I can do anything but I can't force myself to do what I don't want to do, I can't trick myself into believing that trading 8 hours of my time, energy and thought is worth 50 or 60 (cnd) bucks! That's only less than a tenth of my rent.
The past couple days, I've started to really believe that what I want to do is start a website. It's incredibly overwhelming though, I've been reading a lot and playing around with blogs and other stuff but I could really use some advice or guidance. I am very serious about this, I've always wanted to help people, I'm half done a sociology degree and I think I have a amazing variety of life experience to share or use. I'm sorry this might have run on too long...
