Ambitions you have that might sound silly to others

Victor Mildew wrote:

site23 wrote:I think it's interesting that the "silly ambitions" thread is filled with people wanting to make something creative and/or go experience a different culture. There's nothing remotely silly about either of those things, but I can definitely sympathise with the worry that you're wasting time or being frivolous.

Maybe it's just the circles I move within, but it seems adult life is 'supposed' to just be:

Work
Watch tv
Buy gooseberry fool
Mobile phones
Kids
A holiday if you're lucky.

Anything that falls outside of that is 'a waste of time'. Ive tried talking about my music with people and generally people just don't give a gooseberry fool, not even remotely interested. If someone told me they had a load of stuff that theyd made, be it music or games, or writing, I'd be all over asking to see it. Even those that play games as a big part of my hobby scoff at me for SIM racing (just buy a car!!!!!).

The challenges presented by my disability mean I live almost entirely outside of the 'normal' adult lifestyle and I genuiinely couldn't be happier with the fact that I don't have to do the whole daily grind of work, dealing with kids, paying bills and the multiple other bits of mundane gooseberry fool that nearly everyone else has to do, to me that isn't living, its merely existing.

I mean there's lots of things I'd like to do that either can't do or aren't really practical for me but I still wouldn't wamt it any other way.

Not sure what point I'mtrying to make here

Ironhide wrote:

Victor Mildew wrote:

site23 wrote:I think it's interesting that the "silly ambitions" thread is filled with people wanting to make something creative and/or go experience a different culture. There's nothing remotely silly about either of those things, but I can definitely sympathise with the worry that you're wasting time or being frivolous.

Maybe it's just the circles I move within, but it seems adult life is 'supposed' to just be:

Work
Watch tv
Buy gooseberry fool
Mobile phones
Kids
A holiday if you're lucky.

Anything that falls outside of that is 'a waste of time'. Ive tried talking about my music with people and generally people just don't give a gooseberry fool, not even remotely interested. If someone told me they had a load of stuff that theyd made, be it music or games, or writing, I'd be all over asking to see it. Even those that play games as a big part of my hobby scoff at me for SIM racing (just buy a car!!!!!).

The challenges presented by my disability mean I live almost entirely outside of the 'normal' adult lifestyle and I genuiinely couldn't be happier with the fact that I don't have to do the whole daily grind of work, dealing with kids, paying bills and the multiple other bits of mundane gooseberry fool that nearly everyone else has to do, to me that isn't living, its merely existing.

I mean there's lots of things I'd like to do that either can't do or aren't really practical for me but I still wouldn't wamt it any other way.

Not sure what point I'mtrying to make here

Due to my health issues I only work 16 hours a week,so this gives me a lot more time for hobbies and such so I kind of relate to the point your making here

Victor Mildew wrote:

site23 wrote:I think it's interesting that the "silly ambitions" thread is filled with people wanting to make something creative and/or go experience a different culture. There's nothing remotely silly about either of those things, but I can definitely sympathise with the worry that you're wasting time or being frivolous.

Maybe it's just the circles I move within, but it seems adult life is 'supposed' to just be:

Work
Watch tv
Buy gooseberry fool
Mobile phones
Kids
A holiday if you're lucky.

Anything that falls outside of that is 'a waste of time'. Ive tried talking about my music with people and generally people just don't give a gooseberry fool, not even remotely interested. If someone told me they had a load of stuff that theyd made, be it music or games, or writing, I'd be all over asking to see it. Even those that play games as a big part of my hobby scoff at me for SIM racing (just buy a car!!!!!).

I wish you were round the corner from me pal I'd happily grab a coffee with you and ask you stuff about your music....

So far I've made 1 minute of my short horror movie, might sound crazy but with recording editing adding the sounds I wanted etc it took far more work than I'd like to admit and nothing happens...

Speaking of sounds and music if you wanted something to do I'm looking for suspenseful person being chased instrumental music,I don't have the cash to pay anyone so looking for someone who would be happy with getting credit and appreciation.

Some nice ambitions here and good luck everyone.

Ironhide wrote:
The challenges presented by my disability mean I live almost entirely outside of the 'normal' adult lifestyle and I genuiinely couldn't be happier with the fact that I don't have to do the whole daily grind of work, dealing with kids, paying bills and the multiple other bits of mundane gooseberry fool that nearly everyone else has to do, to me that isn't living, its merely existing.

I genuinely felt a lump in my throat from reading that. You come across really positive. Can't imagine the difficulties that come with having a disability - yet you focus on the positives. You're an inspiration dude!

And yes; you are correct a lot of the 'normal' adult lifestyle is indeed 'mundane gooseberry fool'.

I want to change how the world sees autism

shy guy 64 wrote:I want to change how the world sees autism

I love the fact that where I work there are currently 3 of us who are autistic and there was another lad who was who left a few years ago as it means lots of the people I work with have kind of got experience of different people with autism and released it's a spectrum and not everyone is the same cause there on it as this seems to be a belief I meet a lot ...(lots of people seem to think if you have autism your either rocking in the corner and won't leave your house or your rainman).

kerr9000 wrote:

shy guy 64 wrote:I want to change how the world sees autism

I love the fact that where I work there are currently 3 of us who are autistic and there was another lad who was who left a few years ago as it means lots of the people I work with have kind of got experience of different people with autism and released it's a spectrum and not everyone is the same cause there on it as this seems to be a belief I meet a lot ...(lots of people seem to think if you have autism your either rocking in the corner and won't leave your house or your rainman).

exactly. its so frustrating

kerr9000 wrote:or your rainman).

And I was just about to invite you on an all expenses paid trip to Vegas.

Moggy wrote:

kerr9000 wrote:or your rainman).

And I was just about to invite you on an all expenses paid trip to Vegas.

I should have kept quiet till we got to Vegas then lol

There are some nice ambitions here. More importantly most are realistic and most seem to be working towards them which is admirable. I think of ambitions as realistic desires you actually intend to do as opposed to "dreams" which are more fantasies (which is also ok to do). Its important to be honest with yourself about your limitations and what you are / aren't capable of achieving. I have a bucket list of things I WILL DO before 40 (mainly seeing / doing / learning things as opposed to achievements). Then I will do the same for my 40s. Good luck to everyone!

Preezy wrote:I would love to climb up Mont Blanc, I feel like that would be a real achievement and something I could look back on with pride. Maybe one day.

I did that when I was a lad. I've done a bunch of those kind of things various mountains in America, Kilimanjaro and others in Africa (a lot of which which were basically intense treks as opposed to technical climbs). I found Mount Blanc one of the more difficult ones - its definitely doable.

Vermilion wrote:100k subs on YouTube, the only reason is so I can get one of those play button plaques to put on the wall.

That's incredible you have enough to subcribers to nearly fill Reading stadium already. Your channel looks amazing by the way well done. Its amazing you get to make money from your passion too (is it substantial? apologies if that's inappropriate to ask). Are you looking at making youtube your career - very cool if so and seems like you totally could. Amazing!

Tsunade wrote:My ambition is to just finish all the projects I've started and learn some more craft things.

You are incredibly talented!

Victor Mildew wrote:
Maybe it's just the circles I move within, but it seems adult life is 'supposed' to just be:

Work
Watch tv
Buy gooseberry fool
Mobile phones
Kids
A holiday if you're lucky.

Feel like the watching TV has got both better and worse. We are in the golden age of hanging out and these days watching TV is like going out and could almost be considered a hobby you engage with-there's loads of streaming services and quality programmes. Feel like prior to roughly 2010s people were doing what you were describing but with TV they wasn't even interested in - just staring at whatever was on.

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I haven't done it in a long time so can't hook you up with sites but it's an easily achievable goal.

The main issue these days would be finding the time!

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shy guy 64 wrote:I want to change how the world sees autism

Interesting. Are you able to elaborate at all please?

kerr9000 wrote:So I am always thinking about things I want to do, not massive things just projects

Currently I want to do the following in the next 4 Years

Make a short 8 to 10 minute horror film

Make a New Years special YouTube Video where I review the whole year

Make a audio Commentary where I talk over the original Night of the Living Dead

None of these are that big and most people would think there silly but what about everyone else ?

All of those are great and you are definitely someone that follows through which is admirable (e.g. the standup and you know I enjoy your videos). Hope you do these things (very achievable) and maybe update us - would love to see these!

Preezy wrote:I would love to climb up Mont Blanc, I feel like that would be a real achievement and something I could look back on with pride. Maybe one day.

Some what similar, I'd like to do the entire Pacific Crest Trail.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Crest_Trail

Starting at the Mexico-USA border and walking/hiking all the way to the USA-Canada border.

If you start in March / April and average 10 miles a day I think it'll take to the end of September to complete.

Looking at some of the hazards along the route though and I think I'd want bear mace and a shotgun alongside the standard camping utilities.

Can't imagine it's something I could make time for until retiring which is still many decades away.

I have a few little ambitions, but I wouldn't have thought they sounded silly. Creative writing, piano composition, reading more classics, learning more about cooking... I'd like to come up with lots of little ambitions.

The problem with TV is that it is bloody brilliant. The quantity of high-quality programmes being made is incredible, and it is so very easy to find yourself spending several hours weekly or even daily sat in front of the box. Particularly after a day at work, when you and maybe a partner/friend want something to enjoy together with your evening meal. TV is obviously perfectly suited to that. And there's nothing inherently wrong with it.

Preezy wrote:I would love to climb up Mont Blanc, I feel like that would be a real achievement and something I could look back on with pride. Maybe one day.

I took the cable car up to the summit of Aiguille du Midi a couple of weeks ago, which is just across from Mont Blanc and 3842m high. Honestly just being that high up, and having that view is a profound experience that I'll never forget.

That said, the hypoxia at that altitude is a real deal. Just walking around the visitor centre at that height I was having to be careful with my breathing and a few times got a bit wobbly. I'm not sure how I'd fare with having to manage that and also still hike up another 1000m or so.

Barnsy! wrote:

shy guy 64 wrote:I want to change how the world sees autism

Interesting. Are you able to elaborate at all please?

yes but it may turn into a rant. as was mentioned before people seem to think it's either one extreme or the other. although i've had plenty of experience with people who just don't get that not everyone's brains are wired the same way.so i feel people need to be educated on such things. one way to do it would be through better representation in pop culture. have autistic character go on adventures and be the main characters not just the source of some mother's melodrama or some sci-fi villain's super computer. there's a real problem in such things where its about the other people rather than the people with autism. but everything has it's own problems movies treat us as oscar bait, tv shows the source of another person's drama, comics as psychos, video games as super nerds. and the best known book by an autistic person about an autistic person is a massive walking sterotype. that's not his fault but it does tie in to my belief that the most popular form of representation are the ones that enforce people's sterotypes. that's why a number of my characters have autism in my stories, why i want to give the doctor an autistic companion, they i want to write a disney movie about an autistic princess. show the world we're more than what they think we are

Barnsy! wrote:That's incredible you have enough to subcribers to nearly fill Reading stadium already. Your channel looks amazing by the way well done. Its amazing you get to make money from your passion too (is it substantial? apologies if that's inappropriate to ask). Are you looking at making youtube your career - very cool if so and seems like you totally could. Amazing!

Thank you

I wish the amount I make from YT was enough to live on, but sadly it's not the case and really, is just about enough pocket money to cover most of my travel costs.

I would love it to be my sole career, it's the most successful thing I've ever really done, but for that to happen i would need a 8-10 fold increase in ad revenue.

I keep plugging away and doing all I can to make the channel more successful, but growth has slowed somewhat over the last couple of years and I'm just not getting the views and subs I need (being a one man band living in the sticks also makes my filming options more limited compared with folks who live in the big cities, hence I have to travel long distances when I can to get stuff done).

What I've sadly noticed, is that a lot of the most successful channels use movie and tv footage, but I will never do that as I'm not prepared to risk getting stung by copyright (same with music which is why I use youtube audio library tracks). I'm also not prepared to get all shouty into the camera, talk endless waffle about nothing in particular while using a clickbait title, start getting all political, argue in the street with police, or film dead bodies which seems to be how a lot of the biggest youtubers became successful.

Still, today I am out filming at an arboretum so am getting lots of neat shots of the early spring flowers like snowdrops and daffodils.

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:
The problem with TV is that it is bloody brilliant. The quantity of high-quality programmes being made is incredible, and it is so very easy to find yourself spending several hours weekly or even daily sat in front of the box.

Ob Bob watches Love Island.

I always wanted to own the Dallas Cowboys.

Skarjo wrote:I always wanted to own the Dallas Cowboys.

You'll take the Denver Broncos and like it

Vermilion wrote:
Thank you

I wish the amount I make from YT was enough to live on, but sadly it's not the case and really, is just about enough pocket money to cover most of my travel costs.

I would love it to be my sole career, it's the most successful thing I've ever really done, but for that to happen i would need a 8-10 fold increase in ad revenue.

I keep plugging away and doing all I can to make the channel more successful, but growth has slowed somewhat over the last couple of years and I'm just not getting the views and subs I need (being a one man band living in the sticks also makes my filming options more limited compared with folks who live in the big cities, hence I have to travel long distances when I can to get stuff done).

What I've sadly noticed, is that a lot of the most successful channels use movie and tv footage, but I will never do that as I'm not prepared to risk getting stung by copyright (same with music which is why I use youtube audio library tracks). I'm also not prepared to get all shouty into the camera, talk endless waffle about nothing in particular while using a clickbait title, start getting all political, argue in the street with police, or film dead bodies which seems to be how a lot of the biggest youtubers became successful.

Still, today I am out filming at an arboretum so am getting lots of neat shots of the early spring flowers like snowdrops and daffodils.

You are like a little celebrity - picture 20,000 people and think of the specific view count number - all people that want to see what you've created. The fact that you have a massive number of subscribers avoiding the things you've mentioned and the inherent drawbacks of being a 'smaller' content creator is incredible. You've carved out a nice little niche. I have never accomplished anything like it - its extremely impressive and you should be very proud. I did take a look at some of your videos and really enjoyed them - very professional, well put together / edited.

Its a little bit of a shame you can't entirely make a career out of it, but at least you are making some money from your passion rather than it costing you money like most peoples passion. Regarding the need to travel - don't pretend you don't love it

shy guy 64 wrote:
yes but it may turn into a rant. as was mentioned before people seem to think it's either one extreme or the other. although i've had plenty of experience with people who just don't get that not everyone's brains are wired the same way.so i feel people need to be educated on such things. one way to do it would be through better representation in pop culture. have autistic character go on adventures and be the main characters not just the source of some mother's melodrama or some sci-fi villain's super computer. there's a real problem in such things where its about the other people rather than the people with autism. but everything has it's own problems movies treat us as oscar bait, tv shows the source of another person's drama, comics as psychos, video games as super nerds. and the best known book by an autistic person about an autistic person is a massive walking sterotype. that's not his fault but it does tie in to my belief that the most popular form of representation are the ones that enforce people's sterotypes. that's why a number of my characters have autism in my stories, why i want to give the doctor an autistic companion, they i want to write a disney movie about an autistic princess. show the world we're more than what they think we are

That's a noble ambition.

I think there are autistic like characters that are more than their autism but they are few and far between. Sheldon (Big Bang Theory) and Dwight (The office) are played for laughs but certainly the latter is competent, intelligent, successful, weirdly compassionate and driven - carved out his own path, made lots of friends and pursues his interests. Note it hasn't been outright stated that either of these characters are autistic, perhaps writers are wanting to avoid stating directly to avoid scrutiny. But perhaps some of their more stereotypical traits are exactly what you are hoping to avoid and educate people on.

I think you are right, autistic characters often exist in relation to other non-autistic characters.

Barnsy! wrote:That's a noble ambition.

thanks

I think there are autistic like characters that are more than their autism but they are few and far between. Sheldon (Big Bang Theory) and Dwight (The office) are played for laughs but certainly the latter is competent, intelligent, successful, weirdly compassionate and driven - carved out his own path, made lots of friends and pursues his interests. Note it hasn't been outright stated that either of these characters are autistic, perhaps writers are wanting to avoid stating directly to avoid scrutiny. But perhaps some of their more stereotypical traits are exactly what you are hoping to avoid and educate people on.

I think you are right, autistic characters often exist in relation to other non-autistic characters.

well i know the writers of BBT said that sheldon wasn't deliberately autistic but people saw what they wanted to see as usual. i don't know the other one as i've never seen the office as i can't stand gervais. honestly the characters who i'd say are good representation of autism are few and far between and i'd have to think a for a while about them

Well, I've done the self-publish books thing. I've done the create a website and share my passions thing. Travelling around would be a lot of fun. Already done a few major cities last year, but I want to be doing more rural places. Only problem with that is the rural areas are more difficult to get to. Careful planning is required.

Barnsy! wrote:You are like a little celebrity - picture 20,000 people and think of the specific view count number - all people that want to see what you've created. The fact that you have a massive number of subscribers avoiding the things you've mentioned and the inherent drawbacks of being a 'smaller' content creator is incredible. You've carved out a nice little niche. I have never accomplished anything like it - its extremely impressive and you should be very proud. I did take a look at some of your videos and really enjoyed them - very professional, well put together / edited.

Its a little bit of a shame you can't entirely make a career out of it, but at least you are making some money from your passion rather than it costing you money like most peoples passion.

Thank you again.

My main content is my travel vlogs, i also do the currency stuff but that mainly helps to fill the gaps as they're much easier to make.

I doubt you've seen some of my favourite creations as they're a few years old now, but if you get time, please take a moment to look up my videos from Paris and Austria (the playlists of both can be found on the playlist tab on my main channel page).

Barnsy! wrote:Regarding the need to travel - don't pretend you don't love it

Well yes that is true.

DarkRula wrote:Well, I've done the self-publish books thing.

I've also done that, self published a few plays (of varying quality, they were all written in my early/mid 20's and so were never going to be mastepieces anyways), and i did photo yearbooks for a time (i only stopped those after delaying the 2016 one due to losing my dad, and after that i never really felt like doing another).

One photo book i made of my local area did actually end up on sale in the local bookshop which was neat.