100 things to do if your atar is doo doo
rethink your initial aim to get into higher academia & make your family proud, do tafe instead
do a gap year bc atar is redundant after a bit
volunteer, if you accept peanuts as payment
offer your skills at your local library, do existential bookreadings for kids
wail
say bye to your friends who are getting accepting into their courses
ponder socialist utopias
get lost in anarchist papers
become a tap dancing clown
brace yourself to write a book about your inspiring rebound
work at maccas
get into graffiti
become an underground legend
make trash sculptures
actually go to headspace to get support in work/study
start a blog
write your manifesto
become a countercultural icon
busk (if you have skills like that)
capitalise off your mediocrity (mass appeal)
print a stupid amount of resumes to handout
dont resort to drugs and things
consider a career in comedy
actually take a cert in a marketable skill thats in demand
sell at a market
make stickers
join a cult
become a gutter punk
start an onlyfans
become a menace to society
read stories about successful people who 'didn't need uni' to get to where they are now
bitch about nepotism
pray to god you get a job with a liveable wage
launch an instagram for something weird, because you have nothing to lose
watch every single college acceptance video on youtube, yt knows its a fantasy you'll never see
get into cooking mean shit
decide to publish songs recorded in your basement onto spotify
dedicate hours to read religious texts, to find a path
start a youtube channel
publish a found-footage film
start writing poetry, but only free-form lyrics
read textbooks to replace higher education
regularly gather around fires
get jacked, give advice you're unqualified to
accept your fate
consume an absurd amount of self-help material
wonder where and when it all went wrong
get dragged further to the depths of nihilism
binge [insert anything]
make responsible financial choices
sell AI art as NFTs
consider crypto
contemplate your life
get into drag
do bartending
laydown
practice a bunch of foreign languages
be one of those mascot guys
train-hopping/hitchhiking
become a filmnerd
complete a barista course
clean your room
join a discord
become a DJ
produce techno
become a performance artist (search: Petr Pavlensky)
live in a sharehouse
defect, escape the clutch of the atar
make shitposts about your 'situation'
go to indonesia, become the modern Gauguin
wander alone into a forest
live off the grid
join the circus
watch youtube videos to teach yourself shit you didnt learn in VCE
busk as a mime
meditate
watch Netflix's entire catalogue in a week
consider a career in graphic design
set up a ponzi scheme like that movie
reminisce how good it was as a kid
get into seriously exploitative work to eat crumbs
ruminate whether or not you're mentally challenged
live off youth checks
visit real estate properties as a spectator, not a buyer
cultivate an enthusiasm for vintage cars, something out of reach entirely
literally become Bernard Black
regret the fact you didnt do any subjects that taught you how to handle money
get tatted
try to think of a list of jobs unlikely to become automated in the next 5 years
come to a conclusion that nothing can replace real human service
wait tables
lend an ear to the homeless
time manage like a mf, to make up for how time was thrown around
catastrophises
compare yourself to your graduating peers
compare yourself to country students
compare yourself to the sweats
consider a life of crime: jail provides a food , water and roof over your head
steal lemons
resort to extreme methods to establishment yourself in this dog eat dog world...
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