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bmarx wrote:I'm half way through university
coldharvest wrote:What are you studying?
bmarx wrote:and yes, i'd love to just buy a ticket somewhere without a real plan for work, but the thing is when I call my parents up from wherever I end up and say hey by the way I dropped out of university
bmarx wrote:coldharvest wrote:What are you studying?
cognitive neuroscience...
I'd like to have a plan for something
redharen wrote:Yeah, finish school. And you know, it's not so hard to go see the world *while* you're in school. Most of them have exchange programs that won't cost a dime more than what you're (or your parents are) already paying. So go live somewhere else. Work during school, travel during the summers. Do you have any idea how far you can go in three months? Fly someplace the week after finals, bring a backpack. Bring a bike.
Look, there are people here who've used their summer vacations to walk across countries, ride bikes across continents, and hitchhike halfway around the world. If you don't see the possibilities that are staring you in the face right now, what makes you think you'll see 'em any better in some far-flung fishing village? When I was an undergrad I would knock off school on Friday afternoon, get in my car, and see how far West I could make it before I hit the halfway point of the weekend and had to turn around. I put thousands of miles on my car that way and fell in love with deserts.
Holy cow, you're in New England. So am I. You know what keeps me awake at night? The sheer number of amazing places that are within 12 hours' drive of here. In the span of a weekend, you can drive all the way up into Canada to places where there aren't even any roads. Think about that. Or drive up to Maine and be the first thing the sun hits when it rises over America. Climb Mount Washington and think about the fact that the wind blows harder there than it does anywhere on earth (and hang onto something). Or, I don't know, go drive around and visit the places all those Transcendentalists got all high about and see whether you think they were full of it or not. This is your chance, maybe your best chance to go try to figure out the world. And I guarantee you, if you go get a grasp for the way water runs down mountains and forms its own paths and drains out into the ocean, you'll navigate the paths that run through people's brains a thousand times better than those other yahoos in your program can -- the ones who've read it in a book but can't see how everything is interconnected.
bmarx wrote:I'm half way through university and I've gotten sick and tired of it. I'm looking to get the hell out, but my parents are going to kill me. Anyone know of far flung places (I'm in north western north america, so far away from here) where I could get a job. My skills are pretty basic, nothing technical, but I'm willing to do pretty much anything so long as I leave this rainy shit hole. Again, I need some place far far away, and hopefully with the promise of a job. Thanks.
thewalrus wrote:Literally, the farthest and most obscure place I can think of? Fly to China, buy a well equipped Land Cruiser, pack a Yurt on it, drive to the middle of the Taklamakan desert and set yourself up a Bactrian Camel Ranch.
Another highly obscure and remote location would be South Georgia Island.
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