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I am worried for all my gifes and talents that i will find that they are usless to make an income.. well a one with which I can live in confort..

I mean my main talent is in philosiphy.. that is not much use.. at least I dont think so.

youuu are not allooooone :]

i think that goes for most of us, and our funky little eccentrisms

It's good toknow that im not alone but I hate the idea of my gifts being wasted

its not WASTED. it depends what you define as a good use of your gifts.

you can use your gift without earning money OR wasting it, by teaching people about philosophies online.
not everything has to create an income in order to carry value :]

i know an income is better tho. just saying :]

That is a big worry.

Have belief that some skills may be useful in other odd ways.

perhaps it's delusional but I've all ways felt capable of somthing great.. not the norm .. nine to five job or even shif work... I want to afect to word in a big way.. as with other gifts im good at science, maths and english also i will be learning computer programming.. all of which sound useful but for the first time in my life im doupting my usefulness to the world.

Scorpileo;

I don't think your at all delusional, and I suspect many of us have spent most of our life feeling this way. Where I see the problem is that most of us have wasted our resources doing things that are non productive.

As I see it, we all have two resources to draw on: time, and our mind. If you use those toward things that you are fundamentally deficient in, the outcome is predictable. If you use them in ways that circumvent predictable failure, and direct them toward some tangeble goal, your odds of success are greatly improved.

My advice:

1) Pick a carrer path that involves some special interest to you.
2) Study the lifes of those who have been successful in those fields.
3) Structure your life in such a mannor as to avoid pitfalls and funnel as much of your resources into your goals as possable.

Good luck:)

@,NOBS thank you for advice but im not in a poition to alter my life as yet, also another problem I have is choosing a carrer path as I have so many interessts.. though I am only 17.. though I took several mental age test which I came out at mid forts which seems to fit


and thanks everyone for the advice.. I am look forward of hearing more.

Hi Scorpileo. I am 44 years old---the age that when I was your age I thought I would have owned an amusement park due to the money I would have made from playing music. Well...I am teaching high school instead. Failure---No. I love working with the gifted kids at my school. But, my gifts are mainly in music and writing---I am not earning a living from them. I am a professional musician, but I don't play enough gigs to earn enough money for one fancy dinner for two. But...those gifts are not wasted. Things have an interesting way of working out. It might take a lot of time---but it usually happens. I began playing the church organ in 2003---I love the organ---a childhood passion. And my amusement park? Well, I kind of got that...in model railroad scale (Ho 1:87 scale) in my basement. So...to be rewarded with your gifts doesn't mean you have to make money from them. And, whatever you do with your gifts doesn't matter as much as those gifts making you happy. I feel wonderful happiness playing the organ in the privacy of my own home---wonderful joy. Making yourself happy with those gifts is a goal you should meet rather than worrying about making it big with them out in the world. And who knows what will happen with those gifts. Just let them do what they are going to do and don't worry about it. In my 30s I worried about wasting my gifts---I think that is normal in us. You are young yet and have a whole future before you. And remember, our gifts are our gifts---and they are never wasted as long as we enjoy them.

glider18, thank you for insight, as I said i know that im young but... I still whant to be afource n the world.. also I understand that gits can be used in small ways