gabrieldevue

There are writers who went full swing when they retired, there are military careers with paths to "civilian jobs" (i am working with people, who work in a technical medical field - shipping medical machinery and repairing it, there is a specialized optrician for military purposes and so on - there are so many ways to do "military" that can give you an outlook.)

I went to university right after high school and regretted it. i went into a creative field and i was just not far enough yet and lacked the technical skill, my design classes asked for. I barely scraped by and struggled with basic tasks, the 25-35year old people that already had learned a trade like carpenter or metal worker or had studied something else before, could accomplish. There is a program in my city that'S awesome: its for graduates of different levels and 9months of traveling though workshops - from printmaking to metal work to all kinds of fine and not so fine art. That's for people to figure out their passion and broaden their horizon. During all of this, it helps to work a job with some hours that pays the basic bills.

This is all entirely different once you have people depending on you. But even then... I wish for you to find what ignites your passion. you are so SO young and yeah, there will be judgemental people pestering you about your GOALS. let that goal be - being happy and content. preferably... starting... now.

I grew up in a totalitarian system where authority figures meant a lot. I really, really, really wish i had been taught what you write here. I remember being devastated and deeply conflicted when i figured out that people I held for an authority did mistakes. and that they sometimes had harm in mind.

I recently came across this program: http://www.fluechtlinge-willkommen.de/ These are activists who make it possible to give empty rooms in living communities (WGs - sorry, don't know the proper translation) to refugees. While providing a room is not in everybody's possibility, doing micro donations to help these initiatives might be.

I personally think, it might help to educate fellow Germans about empathy. You seem to have a lot of it, if you ask a question like thi : ) - i hear so much fear of the foreign in many discussions, I like to tell the positive stories i had with "the foreign". How my cousin, a Girl born in Hamburg, converted to Islam and is NOT ungerman now, how people, who risk their lives in tiny boats probably don't do this for a welfare check but have to do either this or DIE. sorry... i get really worked up about the stupidity of people who are afraid. We're such a wealthy country and we also needed help in our history. We can and should share.