Isit worth risking doing bad at school, to spend all my time working on possibly being more than mediocre?
I've got 3 things I'd rather do than just be a bore like most people I know:
-Play guitar and get paid enough that I can always play it
-Work on motorcycles and go to Bonneville to set a speed record
-Write comics similar to Tintin, coz I like drawing and writing and I know how if it wasn't for Tintin I'd never have read, I'd have done crap at school and been completely different:) and I'd like to do that for someone else.
-Or I could just be average, if I had to choose a job I'd be a teacher, I could combine this with the 2nd one maybe the 3rd if I wanted I suppose.
Anyway so is it worth spending all my time (like about 10hrs a day) practicing guitar to try and get good enough? I can come up with songs pretty easily, I'm just sitting around and something's happening that makes me think that I can write a song, then I go to my guitar and write one (like last night there was a storm, and I couldn't hear myself think, then power went out (I was home alone) it was silent except for drizzling rain pouring off gutters, and I came up with a kind of sleepy blues-jazz song). I've written about 10 songs so far, not including stuff that I listen to the next day and feel ashamed:). As for skill, I've had my guitar (it's a Squier Strat) for about a month now, and after 2 weeks I could play about 20 songs, the hardest one was the intro to Crazy Train by Randy Rhoads/Ozzy Osbourne, then I started lessons and now I'm learning theory and technical stuff like scales and chords, and I am getting better at reading music, but I don't think my teacher's that impressed with me, he made a point today of saying how we could have done this and that but we weren't coz I hadn't learned my chord transitions enough. But I practice heaps, on the holidays I played 10-15hrs every day. n by the way I'd prefer drums and I've tried them and found them very easy and fun, but my parents won't let me get them. And I don't want to just be a rockstar n get drunk party n have sex every night, I wanna play guitar n let people hear it.
With the comic drawing stuff, I like drawing, and although I only started about this year (I'm just 14, yr9) I can pick it up with less practice than lots of other stuff, like sports (it took me about 2-3 years before I was good enough to beat anyone good at tennis:). I've had to write heaps of stories and stuff for school, I'm good at that. I can draw caricatures, city skylines, country scenes, weapons, guitars, cars, I'm still learning perspective, and I haven't tried lots of other stuff yet.
And for the motorcycle thing, thats kind of like a last resort to me if I end up not being much good at the other two. That's not really something that I have to give up all my time to practice for, I can ride a bike fast and do a few tricks, and know lots about motorcycles and cars.
So do you reckon its worth risking doing next to nothing at school and homework and ending up being an .umm.. upper class layabout for the chance that I could do something more exciting than everyone else seems to? i dont care if im not rich coz most rich people just piss me off coz they're snobs. Like what's the chance that I'll end up doing either the guitar or writing stuff, if I work at it for the next 3 years in all my time? I know lots of people don't make it coz they don't risk it, so I'm not sure if I should risk it or not.
and what category would you post this in?
it also probably means no help from my parents too, they want me to have normal job etc
and i'd like to help people too, thats regardless though
My English is not this bad normally, it's just Yahoo. English is my best subject.
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January 27th, 2009 - 23:47
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yes it is worth. but if you could do both would be better.
January 28th, 2009 - 21:10
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I don’t think it would be worth it.
You need a high school education to get by these days, even if you don’t think it’s worth it. You might be only 14 now, but in the future you may regret ever making that decision when you have kids (if you ever have any) and they ask you for help on certain things. I am 19 and I am currently still in high school (12th grade) and I thought about giving it up at 13-14, but I did not. I kept going. If you think something else will be worth it, then you may want to think it over twice before you make that choice. I tell you, it will be worth it if you do that.
As from what you mentioned about certain jobs?
If you wanted a job as a teacher, you would need a high school diploma and a college education.
Being a teacher requires a high school diploma + college degree in teaching and a teaching license. If you really wanted that, then you would really need to cut back on that “10 hours a day” of whatever you were practicing or doing.
Not to be rude or anything, but you seem to have a lot of spelling/grammar issues there. I would recommend staying in school, because you’re still young and need the education. The more you know, the more people will respect you and the better jobs you will earn in the future.
No lie there. Dedicate your life as a life-long learner and you will lead your life that way.
You really need to think about your future before you decide to do something and then there is a slight chance you could mess up & then later wish you would not have done what you made the decision to do.