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uncoolguy
05-12-2010, 07:50 PM
Not sure what section to put this in ?? but here it goes ..

To introduce myself I’m a 21 year old university student, I have a major problem in my life at the moment and need some advice/assistance on what to do. So if you have time please listen to my story and give me some advice, it would be much appreciated.

Basically as I was growing up I was a bit of a failure/looser, always going to school late and failing exams and assignments and getting in trouble and mixing with shit people. Yet I had a lot of friends always around me and had someone to always talk to or go see or party with etc.

As I finished high school I had realized I didn’t want to end up having a crappy job and wanted better things in life for myself. Since I had a terrible score to get into any university, I had then enrolled into a community college, during high school I didn’t really mix in with any “academic” students, it had hit me that a lot of my friends were basically loosers and were going to stay that way for either a long time or fore ever, So I decided to make some new friends from the same high school at the time.

After a year of community college I had realized that I was very enthusiastic about what I was studying and towards the end of the year I had spent many days and hours applying for junior position jobs and going against university students for junior positions. Luckily one interview was with a large company and I had to complete a test to make it further into another interview, I had even beaten some university graduates to make it further and in the end I had received the position.

As soon I had received this position, I had realized that some of my friends have stopped talking to me. I had spent a year there and after that I had decided I wanted to go to university so I had applied for university the following year and made into a medium grade university through my grades at the community college. From this point I had lost a lot of friends and I couldn’t figure out why ?. As I had become fairly competitive I decided that I wanted to attend a better university. I worked my ass off for the year and stayed up for days and days so I can achieve good marks, after that I applied to one of the top 50 universities in the world (without naming any) and made it in.

From there I had applied for a part time role with a large firm in my industry while attending the good university, I got in and I now have a fairly good job and a lot of responsibility for someone my age. After this the new friends I had made after high school all stopped talking to me and ever inviting me out.

The problem I have is that I pretty much have no friends left and I have not done anything wrong to anyone, I never even speak about myself or anything and I love going out and being social, I’m not a awkward guy or anything at all.

Keep in mind these are all guys..... every girl I meet doesn’t have a problem with what I do or where I am studying or anything about me.... I just can’t make any guy friends.. So I pretty much spend my days screwing broads that I meet here and there .. Why ? ... I don’t even know .. maybe to make myself feel better ??.... but I don’t have any guy friends at all .... To be exact I have lost about 8 or so really close good friends that I would go out with on weekends and see on weekdays for no absolute reason.

I have even attempted to meet new people in my course but as soon I tell them where I work and what I do, the next time they walk into the lecture they don’t make eye contact and ignore me.

As bad as this is going to sound .. but my suspicion is that a lot of these people are jealous of me, maybe because I was like them when we were younger and now I am a little more successful than them ? and maybe I remind them of their failures of life because I was probably worse than them in high school (academically and in general)...

I don’t really know what to do .. I was thinking I could start lying to people and telling them I work in a butcher or something ?

Its been 4 years since high school has finished and I have gone from a guy who had tons and tons of friends and going to house parties every weekend... To staying at home on weekends and sifting through facebook to see if theres anyone whos bored and wants to go out for a drink somewhere or come around for a game on the playstation..

If any of you guys have any advice on what I should do .. or how I should go about this.. that would be great ...

smackie9
05-15-2010, 03:08 AM
How about giving back to your community and do some charity work. It's a great way to meet non judgemental people, and your peers will change their opinion about you for sure. If that's not your piece of cake, try joining a club or join a beer league and play baseball.....something that's social, positive and that has no connection with your business life. And next time someone asks, just be vague and act like it's no big deal......if they push for more say you are here to relax and have fun, who wants to talk about work anyways?

packagedealx3
05-15-2010, 07:04 AM
Activities are a good idea but idk, unless you are a vice president of something I don't know why you would keep meeting males intimidated by your success. Is it possible to tell people what line of work you are in and leave it at that? Have you tried giving less information up front but if people are persistent, opening up the conversation by saying well, I have been really blessed by a couple of opportunities that someone with my background probably would not have had and have worked hard and now I am in X doing X. Given the fact that I barely managed to graduate from high school but found the motivation to get the best job I could find and go on with my schooling, I am pretty amazed at my good fortune and try to make sure I encourage people to stick with their schooling because it will pay off.

Maybe when they find out what you do they assume that you got there by your parents money or sleeping your way to the top?

I'm not a guy but I haven't run into that many that seem so competitive they won't associate with someone higher up on the corporate ladder, in many cases, they see that type of person as a good networking contact even if they don't really like you.

Would it bother you to divulge your industry and level in the corporate hierarchy? I'm just having trouble wrapping my brain around you ascending so high that it is intimidating to other men, particularly when some of your classmates are also working and not full time college students.