So about a year and a half or two years ago I came remarkably close to moving to Europe. I don't really regret not doing it, and I still hold it out there as an option for the future. But the window sort of closed on that idea because some great opportunities came along here at home. Looking back it's a bit of a shock "Wow, I really almost did that...". A little over a decade ago, I did a similar thing. Just after our wedding, my wife and I just quit our jobs on a whim and moved halfway across the US---just because we had found a place we would rather live. With no job waiting for us and no money to float on until we could find one. Now that I'm a little older I would have thought that crazy "what the hell" attitude would be gone as a relic of youth. But nope. I'm still liable to make insane life-changing decisions like that if I get a burr up my ass. It's kinda scary.
So what wacky plans did you never actually go through with? I seem to remember Tamas wanting to come to the US. Marty was London-bound but ended up in Brussels instead. Jaron quit JIB to move to San Diego or somesuch way, way back then, but don't remember exactly.
Successful Big Plans I can remember: Beeb moving to the Yukon and Siegy going from the IDF to become a Mossad mole in the US Army. Oh, and did Dan Cook really become a tornado chaser?
I've made two big moves in my adult life.
The first you identified, moving to Yukon where I didn't know anybody. But that wasn't that crazy a move - I applied for an open job, got it, and then (and only then) did we decide to move.
The earlier one was a bit crazier though. I did my law school in Manitoba. In order to become a lawyer in Canada you have to go through a one year clerkship/apprenticeship program called articling. And at least back then in Winnipeg, all the big firms (and not so big) got together and did all their interviews in the same week, and they do a big "match" process where the firms rank their preferred students, and students rank their preferred firms, and then a computer "matches" people together. It's a fairly neat system, but if you don't get "matched" your stuck articling at a much less desirable firm.
So anyways I grew up in Winnipeg, went to school there, and I had a few connections and ties. I think I would have definitely gotten a job somewhere.
But I got the itch to move to Calgary. Calgary also had the same system of "matching". And it had it's interviews the same week as Winnipeg. So I couldn't do both. And I didn't know anybody in Calgary, and didn't have any connections or "ins" with any lawfirms.
But still, 1 week beforehand, I dropped out of the Winnipeg match and drove out to Calgary. If I didn't get matched there I was screwed. But I did, and a year later I was in Calgary.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on September 17, 2009, 06:06:39 PMmy wife and I just quit our jobs on a whim and moved halfway across the US---just because we had found a place we would rather live.
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Successful Big Plans I can remember: Beeb moving to the Yukon and Siegy going from the IDF to become a Mossad mole in the US Army. Oh, and did Dan Cook really become a tornado chaser?
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Oh yeah: Cal sold his house to a sex offender and moved to North Dixie. Happy? :P
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on September 17, 2009, 06:31:38 PM
Oh yeah: Cal sold his house to a sex offender and moved to North Dixie. Happy? :P
No, sold my home to a drunk. :) He didn't become a sex offender till later. :yes:
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on September 17, 2009, 06:06:39 PM
So what wacky plans did you never actually go through with?
Killing a certain girlfriend.
My big moves are well known here. Going back to Hong Kong was the best decision I made in my life.
But a recent thought struck me. I was wondering why some students/kids these days can care so little about their future. I concluded that a lot more kids now have rich or at least middle class parents.
Then it hit me. My parents do well. So well, that in theory they can support me for the rest of my life and I don't need to work for a day. And I am the only child. Instead of working hard for grades, and suffering day after day at work, I could achieve my goal in life by doing nothing.
Not nothing really. The price is to kiss their asses. Starting from a very young age, I didn't get along with them. I don't realize it until now, but I must have made the decision subconsciously not to go down that path a long time ago.
Quote from: Monoriu on September 17, 2009, 07:21:26 PM
My big moves are well known here. Going back to Hong Kong was the best decision I made in my life.
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I went to Korea to teach English, and I'm thinking of staying here another year.
I may still move to Aiken, South Carolina, if this hideous bitch of an incompetent lying woman lawyer gets elected chancery judge.
I never took that trip to Mars. :(
Quote from: Scipio on September 17, 2009, 08:20:45 PM
I may still move to Aiken, South Carolina, if this hideous bitch of an incompetent lying woman lawyer gets elected chancery judge.
Maybe you shouldn't have married her then.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 17, 2009, 06:37:12 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on September 17, 2009, 06:06:39 PM
So what wacky plans did you never actually go through with?
Killing a certain girlfriend.
The guys that went through with theirs generally seem to be happy with their decisions. Maybe you should have done it. :)
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on September 17, 2009, 08:25:30 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 17, 2009, 06:37:12 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on September 17, 2009, 06:06:39 PM
So what wacky plans did you never actually go through with?
Killing a certain girlfriend.
The guys that went through with theirs generally seem to be happy with their decisions. Maybe you should have done it. :)
Yeah, I'd probably be getting out by now anyway. Horrid nightmare experiences, yes. But also some really cool tats.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 17, 2009, 08:27:36 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on September 17, 2009, 08:25:30 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 17, 2009, 06:37:12 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on September 17, 2009, 06:06:39 PM
So what wacky plans did you never actually go through with?
Killing a certain girlfriend.
The guys that went through with theirs generally seem to be happy with their decisions. Maybe you should have done it. :)
Yeah, I'd probably be getting out by now anyway. Horrid nightmare experiences, yes. But also some really cool tats.
Probably a real badass pair of homemade kneepads too.
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on September 17, 2009, 08:46:13 PMProbably a real badass pair of homemade kneepads too.
Perhaps. But she'd still be dead. And that's something positive to think about and take one's mind off the black cock in one's ass.
I've went through with everything I've actually went some way in planning :blush:
Quote from: MonoI could achieve my goal in life by doing nothing.
I'm curious...what is this goal of yours?
I am still in Hungary. :P Can't say that I have given up on my cross the Atlantic for good plans completely, though.
Well, only running away when I was about three - all very well planned too - food tied up in hanky on the end of a stick, map, old fahioned clothes to look the part - I think I'd seen something on the TV. Got quite a way up the main road too! But this has made me think - how different would I have been if I'd taken the 'other' choices? Surprisingly, if I'd looked at this say 15 years ago, I'd say very different, but now all the different choices seem to be coming together again
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 17, 2009, 08:47:52 PM
Perhaps. But she'd still be dead. And that's something positive to think about and take one's mind off the black cock in one's ass.
But would you have the respect of the yardies?
With just 2500 EUR in my pocket I left Germany for Austria to study German literature. Well, the studying thing didn't work out so well, so I'm an accountnat for DA MAN again. Still in Vienna, though.
That big novel I've always planned on is also not quite coming together.
I've done numerous things on a whim on my life. Quitting my lucrative labour relations job with no other job lined up, choosing my second and third degrees out of the blue after getting my first BA, moving around Canada and then to China. I tend to get bored with life easily. Next year I'm off to Kyoto.
The one plan I regret not doing was going to study in Germany during university. But then, that was more of a my parents not having any money thing than anything else.
hmm I've done some of those things. Moved to Winnipeg (knowing nobody) Moved to Vancouver (knowing only Winnipeggers) Moved to Tokyo (again knowing only a Winnipegger there) Moving back to Cnada was even kind of a big deal. I could easily still be in Tokyo making 3 times what I do now, having way more sex.
I'd guess the things I haven't done yet that I have planned at various times... would include finishing any number of manuscripts and trying to get published. (though I have done self/small press publishing in 3 separate ventures - Magazine, comic book, chapbook)
and there's old gender switcheroo that I came very very close to, but, never went through with. (I'm far too lazy and fearful)
oh and I've switched career/jobs more times than most people can count.
Taking a job in Topeka, Kansas with Frito Lay.
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 18, 2009, 11:51:02 AM
Taking a job in Topeka, Kansas with Frito Lay.
Cargill :)
Quote from: Tyr on September 18, 2009, 06:22:27 AM
Quote from: MonoI could achieve my goal in life by doing nothing.
I'm curious...what is this goal of yours?
To live comfortably without the need to work.
None come to mind.
Mono's gonna be 50 years old and have enough to retire on and in a month he'll realize he's bored as hell.
I'm bored as hell and I'm happy. Just like poor MB was.