Does anyone feel like their life is going according to plan? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Sunroc@lemmy.world to c/casualconversation@lemmy.world

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A house, two cars, a healthy relationship ,a career, livable wage, 2.5 kids, a dog. ya know, the expectation many children were told in school.

Everything I hear on social media says this is a myth.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Nope. Already tried to go for my dream and mostly failed, so now I'm just taking it day by day.

[-] Sunroc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

What was your dream?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I wanted to be a professional VO actor. I got to do a few things, but not enough for it to be fully sustaining. Once my daughter was born, I decided enough was enough and we moved out of L.A. and back to Indiana where we came from so my daughter could be around her grandparents and I could be with those same people in their last years.

So I do wish I was still doing it sometimes, but if I hadn't given it up when I had, I wouldn't have been able to be with my father and help him through his dementia for the last years of his life and my daughter doesn't have to go to a shitty L.A. school (not that Indiana schools are a massive improvement, but still better than the school where we could afford to live).

And now AI is going to destroy that whole industry anyway, so...