In my early adulthood i lacked ambition and still do

[Lifer]

college wasn’t important to me. making lots of money wasn’t important to me as i chose easy jobs for work. now it’s all coming down on me, and i wonder how i will continue to support myself in the future. i wish i was more ambitious, im still not that ambitious but content to work the system, only making as much is allowed by social security and working part time instead of full time.

and i think of my friend who is the opposite of me, who is very career oriented and just finished his masters, owns a nice house and nice car.

i was just in a haze and had no direction when it was important in my life.

its like my retirement years would never come when i was working so i would often quit jobs without a worry about the future.

[anon67051439]

Schizophrenia reduced my ambitions early in life starting around 16 y.o.

[Lifer]

i put all my eggs in one basket thinking i was good enough to get an athletic scholarship. my life was sports, when that didn’t pan out, i turned to my other loves, weed and music, and wasting time.

i once heard it said, we are free to make choices, but we are not free from consequences of those choices.

[anon67051439]

I wanted either working as an athletic therapist on field or in rehab but I didn’t have the grades for master/specialization which is required. Now I can just work with physiotherapists in a clinic. I need to do extra courses to be able to open my own clinic.

[Truemist8]

I lost all my hopes and dreams when my mum took me to Sweden as a child.

I felt apathy and hopelessness and started failing at school and hating school.

My mum was doing the best she could and was working single mum and escaped from a man who was dangerous and threatened her.

My stepmother used to do homework with me and I got good grades but I just felt I couldn’t do anything and there was no point and I was stupid.

I have done university maths and enjoyed it and had correct answers but now adays I can’t do primary school maths even.

I had no ambition when I was moved I was just surviving and suffering.

Ambition never came back to me.

As a teen in Onsala I was bullied by some boys and became destructive towards myself.

I can’t remember ever having ambition but before I moved to Sweden I remember I thought I would be a dr.

My mum thought a vet would suit me better because I love animals then she thought I would make a great director.

My school grades were bad and I wagged but I actually got top grades in some subjects in college despite wagging.
I only did one year if college.

I did aged care certificate when I had cancer I completed it and then I was ambitious because I said I want to have my aged care certificate before I die.
I got my aged care certificate before I die so completed that goal but couldn’t work.

I think if I had a compatible client and only one or no more than three and no boss that I could work with this but unfortunately I couldn’t the way it was.

I don’t have ambition now .
Thankfully on pension.

There are lots of professions I would enjoy but I can’t now.

I want to be a good person and I want to be on a vegan diet for the rest of my life and I want to be a animal rights activist and a environment activist.

That’s about it.

I am not looking to study or work.

I really wanted to work with aged care after I got my certificate.
It would have to be on my terms and no boss just deal between me and client we both agree on.

I have not been ambitious.

My dad used to criticise me and say I’m stupid and slow and I should be more athletic like my friend who won the running competition.
I stopped playing chess after my dad was shocked at my stupidity for a move I made.
It upset me so much the way he reacted when I lost in chess to him so early in the game.
He didn’t think I was smart but that I was dumb.
I’m scared of playing chess now.
He thinks I’m intelligent now he said because his x girlfriend with a high iq said I’m intelligent and he takes her word for it.

[firemonkey]

I’ve never had much ambition when it comes to things that most people would be ambitious about…