Yep.. I'll check occasionally and a lot of the people I went to high school with have no ambition or plans for the future, it's depressing to log on and see nothing but pictures from trashy parties and trucks that people just took out a fat loan for. I doubt I'll go to my high school reunion because of this, it's pretty sad to see old friends talking about how they went from 12 to 17 dollars and hour and now "they're making that big money". It is actually decent money if your'e 18 or 20 but when you work in an industry with no room for advancement and no hope to gain any useful skills you're going to regret that in about 5 years. Sorry for the rant, this just hit close to home so I figured I'd share my thoughts.
I don't have any highschool friends on facebook. And most of the people I know from highschool and earlier are pretty much exactly where they were when I left. It's amazing to see them all still stuck in my hometown, while I'm pretty much forcing myself ahead of my current peers. I'm kind of glad though that I don't see them on facebook. It'd probably get depressing after a while :\
Yea, I have a group of friends who are all relatively ambitious and wanting to do something special before they get older. It seems like people who share similar goals tend to attract to each other. I have a hard time understanding people who want to stay in their suburb hometowns and never go anywhere else. I live in a suburb of a relatively major city that most people would say has been on the decline since the 40's and it sucks pretty bad.. While the suburbs are still pretty good there is almost nothing to do here. It gets annoying when people ask you what local company you are going to work at when you graduate and you tell them you're planning on moving away. This causes them questions how it is even feasible to move away, "how can you move away?? don't you have family here??". I usually just say yea and then people call me selfish haha. I just don't understand how someone could be content with lives knowing that they haven't experienced more than one or two towns in their whole life.
I completely agree. Most of my life was spent moving from state to state and constantly changing schools until HS...which, funny enough was the smallest school I ever attended. I think my class was about 125. They never seemed to ask why, and most secretly wished they would too...but the subject of moving was always met with a 'Haha, yeah right. You'll be working at (insert factory name) like the rest of us.' Thanks guys.
Yea, I get that all the time. Everyone wonders why I want to move pretty much all the way to the other side of the world. And I question back, why do they want to stay put? Luckily, most people I meet at my university all have aspirations and want to do big things.