Online Personality .vs. Real Personality?

[SSJup81]

Originally Posted by ivi0nk3y

Actually its funny, i'd say 80% of people on my msn list are female.. not cos I actively only talk to females but I just make friends easier with females.
I get on with both genders pretty well on and offline.

I don't actively just talk to guys either, it just seems to always turn out that way.

Do you feel like you're happy with your life then, all that being said?
What would you change.

I'm content with my life socially. The only thing I wish I would've done was stayed in school when younger. Maybe I'd have a decent job now or at least one with benefits...then again, money was the reason I didn't, then again, maybe if I had stayed, I'd have made enough so that I could move out of my parents' home. To me it's an embarassment to be turining 27 and still stuck at home because I can't find a decent job or can't find one where I made enough money so that I could be out on my own. I will admit that I am stubborn, and am definitely better off living by myself. It's just not affordable in this day and age to get an apartment by yourself making barely $20k, $21k a year that's not in a decent neighborhood or something. ^^

[ivi0nk3y]

Originally Posted by SSJup81

I don't actively just talk to guys either, it just seems to always turn out that way.I'm content with my life socially. The only thing I wish I would've done was stayed in school when younger. Maybe I'd have a decent job now or at least one with benefits...then again, money was the reason I didn't, then again, maybe if I had stayed, I'd have made enough so that I could move out of my parents' home. To me it's an embarassment to be turining 27 and still stuck at home because I can't find a decent job or can't find one where I made enough money so that I could be out on my own. I will admit that I am stubborn, and am definitely better off living by myself. It's just not affordable in this day and age to get an apartment by yourself making barely $20k, $21k a year that's not in a decent neighborhood or something. ^^

Well you definitely need to take more initiative it seems, from what you've told me. I dunno, not trying to be mean but you do seem quite passive.
Perhaps you should do some sort of diploma or course that can get you into a job and onto the ladder. Do you think that would help ? What if you and a friend or two share an apartment?
If not that then just move. I'm sure you'll be able to find a job in that huge country of yours
I personally don't mind taking my time with a job cos I just don't wanna be tied down in that way at all. I wanna learn all I can and do as much as I can and not be dependant on anything.
Even though I can have a full time job, I actively don't want one. Always part time with good money and hours I can choose. That's why i'm a freelancer.

[SSJup81]

Originally Posted by ivi0nk3y

Well you definitely need to take more initiative it seems, from what you've told me. I dunno, not trying to be mean but you do seem quite passive.

Kind of hard to get jobs when people aren't hiring or they go for experienced people since it costs the company money to train or they feel safer with someone more experienced in the field as opposed to someone who's relatively new. (This is why I get annoyed with the "experience" argument that was constantly used against both Obama and Palin).

Perhaps you should do some sort of diploma or course that can get you into a job and onto the ladder.

I'm already working on my Bachelor's. Besides, I already have diplomas from other places that didn't help me at all. As for the Bachelor's, I'm almost done with it.

Do you think that would help ? What if you and a friend or two share an apartment?

Only problem with this, is that I'd have to have a stable job. Every job I've had, I was treated as if I were expendable and I didn't have health benefits or vacation or even sick time. If I missed work for any reason, I didn't get paid. That is not stability. I would never move into a new place where there's no stability in whatever job I have. Just call me overly cautious. It's embarassing to be stuck at home, but it's even more embarassing, imo, if you move out and then have to end up moving back.

That aside, with the exception of maybe a couple of friends, seems most are in the same boat. Stuck with family because of the job issues or just can't afford a decent place and would need too many roomates just to pay the rent. Some apartment prices are so high, it'd be simpler to just go by a house for what they want a month.

My ex has his mother living with him since she's diabled, and they have to pay a little over $1000/month for their way too small apartment for that price, but he pays most of it, so he's always broke, and, ironically, that's a discount price.

If not that then just move. I'm sure you'll be able to find a job in that huge country of yours

There's still that issue of having the money to do so, which I don't have since I can't find a job in a place where people are losing them left and right and then competing with those people to get any that do become available. Just recently, it was mentioned on the news that a place is about to close here and 500 people at said company are going to be out of work soon. That's 500 more people I'll be competing with in my city for work.

That aside, we seem to be heading towards a recession. Can't give people jobs, if the jobs aren't there to give. You should see our want ads here. They're getting so thin it's not funny.

I personally don't mind taking my time with a job cos I just don't wanna be tied down in that way at all. I wanna learn all I can and do as much as I can and not be dependant on anything.

Aside from food and board now since I finished my last job, I'm not all that dependent on my folks, even though it bugs me I have to rely on them for that. Usually, whenever I did manage to get a job, I'd pay utilities and rent in a "subsidized" type way, but right now, I've just been using my credit card for everything. Big mistake, I know, but now I'm close to maxed out on that, so I am now at the point where I do have to fully rely on them and scrape some cash together to make a payment for the month. -_-;

Even though I can have a full time job, I actively don't want one. Always part time with good money and hours I can choose. That's why i'm a freelancer.

I don't think I'd like freelancing much by itself. There's not much security there, imo. I'd freelance on the side along with a full time job, but I wouldn't solely rely on it. That aside, I've looked into freelancing multiple times, I still don't understand how one can get started with it. I wish I could freelance but I don't know the ropes of it. Any advice or words of wisdom (I guess in a PM since I did take this OT) would be highly appreciated.

[gravelgill]

i'm reletivly quiet,respectful,well-mannered,and very passive but do something wrong infront of me and i turn vigilantie!!

[CarleyGee]

Hmmm.. Honestly sometimes I think I'm losing my mind.
^_^

I'm a lot more talkative online than I am in life.
I think because it's easier to get my point across.
In life people tend to not listen.

[gravelgill]

Originally Posted by CarleyGee

Hmmm.. Honestly sometimes I think I'm losing my mind.
^_^

I'm a lot more talkative online than I am in life.
I think because it's easier to get my point across.
In life people tend to not listen.

sorry were you saying something?
j/k

[CarleyGee]

Originally Posted by gravelgill

sorry were you saying something?
j/k

Haha. ^_^
I was a little slow getting that.

[gravelgill]

no prob i should have also put a bad sense of humor for my personality..exept thats the same for both on and off line.

[Hazuki]

What I notice is that the people who usually tend to be real cam-whores and act out like they are really interesting and funny people on the net, are the opposite in real life. Have some experience of talking to these types of people and then meet up with them in real life, which usually ends up of me walking home wondering if that person really was the same one I talked to on the net?

People who are into special styles like emo, goth or like these days the popular Jrock/visual kei style, seem to compensate the looks with their boring personality. So don't try to be something you are not and stop the acting on the net, because you are only going to get a broken heart in the end or find out that people do not really care about your looks that much, but who you are as a person

[Hyakushi]

Honestly I'm very loud, I like to talk to people even people I don't know and joke around but then sometimes I enjoy the silence. I can't stay in one place for a very long period of time, I like climbing trees and hanging upside down on monkey bars. I like running and walking around places but I also like talking to people far away on the internet or telephone. I say what I think alot of the time and I get into trouble for it alot, guess i don't think about the outcome of the things I say infront of people. I don't pay much attention to people around me, mostly I just go off and do my own thing to keep my self intertained. I don't drink coffee and I walk really fast, sometimes I run to places for no reason at all just because I can. I'm somewhat of a neat freak, I like things to be tighty and someone organized. I like challenging things, fighting, brainteasers and things like that. Thats me, sometimes I get down in the dumps but thats when I start thinking about the past mostly and trying to figure out what I'm going to do next. I like camping out with friends instead of being in a house all the time, I can't do that I go crazy v_V.
Dunno if thats any different from how I act on here, maybe a little.