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Looking at the "where are you going to be in 5 years" thread got me thinking again about somthing I think about on a regular basis.

Why does everyone seem to aspire to about the same thing. A regular 9 to 5 job with a Spouse (kids if they are straight) and not much else.

Where are the people who want to have some adventure, I mean real adventure, not a safe little trip with a tour company. People who want to join the armed forces, and deploy, people who want to be Merchant mariners on the Sea's, Geologists/Medical aid in a war torn nation, hell even an Air Line pilot or Crusie ship crew, where your always on the move, and never at home? You get the point about what I mean.

How about being single and not tied down to a "one and only"?

Just curious, is there anyone else like me who wants to live for adventure?

hell even an Air Line pilot or Crusie ship crew, where your always on the move, and never at home? You get the point about what I mean.

I said I wanted to be a pilot.

Sometimes I wanna be tied down, other times, I wanna be the master of the Universe, partially because I wanna see cool new planets. :cool:

my life goal is to be the first man that launches himself into space and forgets about the whole returning to earth thing

I said I wanted to be a pilot.

I was talking the vast majority. :P You and I must be the only ones who wanna be pilots

I was talking the vast majority. :P You and I must be the only ones who wanna be pilots

Question: what makes a pilot glamorous, but a bus driver banal?

Question: what makes a pilot glamorous, but a bus driver banal?

You go everywhere.
Bus driver drives a cheap vehicle and doesn't fly and has a set path.

You go everywhere.
Bus driver drives a cheap vehicle and doesn't fly and has a set path.

1. The value of your vehicle doesn't rub off on you: you are working for it and its passengers or cargo, not the other way round.

2. Tigers don't fly. Tsetse flies do. Are we to conclude that tsetse flies are more glamorous than tigers?

3. Are you claiming that commercial pilots don't follow set paths?

I wanted to join the Air Force and couldn't because of my tatoos, so the armed forces can screw off.

Although, I'm rather content with my want to get my MD and perhaps eventually a wife. There is no point in me going women hopping because I'll end up 60 and alone, and I'm alright with getting my MD because hopefully I'll be a lot happier and a lot more sucessful then some kid who joined the military at 18 because he had nothing better to do with his life.

Where are the people who want to have some adventure, I mean real adventure, not a safe little trip with a tour company. People who want to join the armed forces, and deploy, people who want to be Merchant mariners on the Sea's, Geologists/Medical aid in a war torn nation, hell even an Air Line pilot or Crusie ship crew, where your always on the move, and never at home? You get the point about what I mean.

Why does not having a home equal a life of adventure? When you're working with disadvantaged people in the inner city, I'd say that's pretty adventurous. Yeah, I like to travel sometimes, but I don't agree with the war and I don't feel the need to take part in it in any way, okay?

Seriously!

I wanted to join the Air Force and couldn't because of my tatoos, so the armed forces can screw off.

I don't understand. Tattoos are enough for them to reject you? That's just stupid, but then again, it's the military, so I shouldn't be surprised...

Looking at the "where are you going to be in 5 years" thread got me thinking again about somthing I think about on a regular basis.

Why does everyone seem to aspire to about the same thing. A regular 9 to 5 job with a Spouse (kids if they are straight) and not much else.

Where are the people who want to have some adventure, I mean real adventure, not a safe little trip with a tour company. People who want to join the armed forces, and deploy, people who want to be Merchant mariners on the Sea's, Geologists/Medical aid in a war torn nation, hell even an Air Line pilot or Crusie ship crew, where your always on the move, and never at home? You get the point about what I mean.

How about being single and not tied down to a "one and only"?

Just curious, is there anyone else like me who wants to live for adventure?
because life's complicated enough without all that? because that's simply what makes most people happy? i don't know, but those two certainly apply to me... plus, i like home, i like my home comforts, i like people and loved-ones - being away from home having my own "adventures" would most likely mean being away from them.

the only adventure thing like that i'd like to do is be a roadie for a big metal band, but even then i'm pretty sure the day-to-day practicalities of it would suck balls (i'm not cut out for the rock & roll lifestyle :()

I was offering info about why it was like that.

Driving around a cheap simple disel bus is cool....if we didn't all drive. Very few of us fly.

What's more grand? A $100,000 bus or a $80,000,000 plane?

A tiger is a lot larger then a fly. :P

1. The value of your vehicle doesn't rub off on you: you are working for it and its passengers or cargo, not the other way round.

2. Tigers don't fly. Tsetse flies do. Are we to conclude that tsetse flies are more glamorous than tigers?

3. Are you claiming that commercial pilots don't follow set paths?

Commerical pilots fly to most of the nations and cities on their airlines service routes, which with a big airline, is most of the world.

A bus driver drives along main st, turns left on industry rd and then U turns and does it in reverse.

A commerical pilot can often pick his 2 days off out of 7 (his "weekend") in many exotic and cool locations, a bus driver has his at home, every time.

A pilot gets a set of Golden leg spreaders(his wings), and bus driver gets a pair of blue leg closers (Bus drivers uniform):P

Lets not even go into flying military flights, or unschedualed things like Coporate charter. Where your're going to all kinds of really weird places, on no set standard.

I wanted to join the Air Force and couldn't because of my tatoos, so the armed forces can screw off.

Although, I'm rather content with my want to get my MD and perhaps eventually a wife. There is no point in me going women hopping because I'll end up 60 and alone, and I'm alright with getting my MD because hopefully I'll be a lot happier and a lot more sucessful then some kid who joined the military at 18 because he had nothing better to do with his life.

You can Be MD and do aid work in Sudan or somthing... thats still adventure vs working at a clinic everyday til you retire.


Define happiness and success. You wont be any happier then someone else who is happy.

Sucess, you may be richer money wise, but if someone doesnt count that as success (like me) then no, your not. :P

I have no intention of having a 9-5 job, or a spouse and kids.

I have no intention of having a 9-5 job, or a spouse and kids.

Thats good to hear! The world need someone people to do the stuff the average person doesnt :P (whatever it may be)

I want to go into engineering, so I'm going to be moving at least 1-2x early in my career. I'll see the world that way.

Thats good to hear! The world need someone people to do the stuff the average person doesnt :P (whatever it may be)
Well, I've never been the average person...

I don't understand. Tattoos are enough for them to reject you? That's just stupid, but then again, it's the military, so I shouldn't be surprised...

Yeah, just another one of their really stupid rules.


You can Be MD and do aid work in Sudan or somthing... thats still adventure vs working at a clinic everyday til you retire.


Define happiness and success. You wont be any happier then someone else who is happy.

Sucess, you may be richer money wise, but if someone doesnt count that as success (like me) then no, your not. :P

If you read what I wrote you would realize that I said I have tatoos and got rejected because I have tatoos, therefore, I cannot be an MD and do aid work in Sudan or something.

And happiness for me is not watching young men and women dying, or coming in after being blown up by some suicide bomber. Sucess is not having to remember any of that and doing exactly what I want to do rather then doing general military work and spending 4 years in the armed forces when I want to go into neurology.

Aid work isnt done by the military, its done by private charities, ;) they wont reject you on tattoo's

For me happiness is thrill and adrenaline, to the top degree, so that might invovle in men and women dying. Oh well, everyone dies.

Sucess is having alot of stories to tell, ones that people would actaully want to hear (you know, like stuff movies and books get written about)

So that once again may invovle people dying, and perhaps me being the cause of it, but price of being successful (not to mention keeping North America and Europe free) is dropping a Mk84 on a Taliban tent, or firing a 3 shot burst into a suicide bomber, so be it.

Mind my above post, this thread was a question, and thanks to everyone who gave a good honest answer. :) Not looking for a flame war here, just looking for peoples opinions.

For me happiness is thrill and adrenaline, to the top degree, so that might invovle in men and women dying. Oh well, everyone dies.

You sound like a hyperactive 13 year old. Why don't you try actually helping people? It can be very exciting and it isn't what you'd call a 9 to 5 job.

...as for not getting married, you sound like you'd be a terrible husband and father anyway. No argument here.

You sound like a hyperactive 13 year old. Why don't you try actually helping people? It can be very exciting and it isn't what you'd call a 9 to 5 job.

...as for not getting married, you sound like you'd be a terrible husband and father anyway. No argument here.

Actually I'm 19 and I'v already done my paperwork for the force, I'm going off this fall. That is helping people...or would you rather be subject to some foreign terror group. I guess I should'nt expect hippies like you to understand the importence of the armed forces. Somtimes, violence is the answer, tool.

YOu sound like a hippie, go have a bath. That might be the rush your looking for.

Ilie and Azarbad, you may consider yourselves both officially warned for flaming/flamebaiting. Knock it off.