No direction in life, but not depressed

[FallenofTrack]

Originally Posted by Dre53

I'm pretty much the same. I go to school but have no real ambition about what I will do after it. I'm just doing it because it's what I'm "supposed" to do and it's what everyone else does. I've worked a full time job before and don't really mind it at all, but I have no ambition or desire for any particular career. I'll just take what comes, and enjoy myself along the way.

This was me in college, and for a few years after. I ended up dropping out during my senior year of college, and after that, I worked different jobs but I didn't have any real motivation or ambition. While I was in college, I really didn't know what I wanted to do. I stayed in one program of study, English Literature, and even had a couple of minor concentrations, but as far as having any actual career goals, I didn't have not a one. i was basically just floating through the experience without any plans or any direction, whatsoever. I really just started to become more goal directed within the past year, at the age of 27. I finally realized that there is one career path that I am interested in pursuing, and I started back to college online, about a month ago, in order to finish my BA in that program of study, and in the meantime search for jobs that are related to that field. These are things that I never really thought about my first time around at college.
My sister, on the other hand, is very ambitious and as a college student, who started in "09" she has gotten more accomplished in terms of personal goals, within a two year period, than I did during my three and a half years when I was originally attending college. It just really shows the difference in peoples mentalities when it comes to personal motivation and being goal directed.

[PickleNose]

Strange enough, this is exactly where I always thought I'd be at this point in my life.

I never had any goals or dreams or ambition to do anything but keep breathing. At various times, people have tried to motivate me but all they really succeeded in doing was pissing me off and causing me to avoid them and withdraw even deeper into my world.

I honestly don't know what I'm going to do. But just like the OP, I'm not really depressed. Not in the strictest sense of the word, anyhow. No more depressed than I was when I was in grade school, my teacher asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up and I said "Nothing".