My name is Eric Hacke, and I am addicted to change. I take almost any opportunity to change things about my life. I wake up at a different time everyday. Anywhere between 6:30am and 9:00am. I rather impulsively bought an Xbox 360, GTA 4, Halo 3, an extra controller, and the wireless adapter a week ago after having a conversation about console gaming with a friend.

by louder

In February I decided that I would get rid of my car and instead take the bus for an hour and a half each way to work. This was brought on by a couple of things, the main one being the cost of owning a car, and my desire to take public transit if there was an opportunity to do so. But I gave up after 3 months of paying for  TTC, GO Transit, and a car because people repeatedly backed out of the deal.

by Steve’o

I bought a new laptop after my desktop failed to boot one day. Turned out I was able to fix the desktop with a $5 SATA cable replacement. Now I have two computers.

by dawpa2000

I recently decided that I’m going to get into web development. I know C programming, but I’d like to be able to freelance on the side and earn a little more cash to subsidize my implusive nature. So I’m in the process of learning XHTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL. In fact I’ve already got some web development work I will be doing for my parents company, and a larger job that I may be sharing with a friend.

by CalEvans

I often flirt with the idea of quitting my job and going back to school. To be honest the largest thing preventing me from doing that is not so much the idea of once again becoming a student, but the fact that I cannot decide whether I want to get an Art-based PhD, Science-based PhD, or an MBA.

by vasta

I’ve contemplated joining the military, working for an NGO or charity, moving to a foreign country with a different native language and starting over.

This is the way my mind works, and this is the way I live my life. That’s why it comes as huge shock to me when I meet people who have the exact opposite approach. Those who attempt to reduce everything to a concrete routine where nothing changes and everything is predictable. A woman that works for my parents company recently told my mom in a very worried tone “Can you believe that groceries for my family this month cost me $43 more than the previous month?”. How she could possibly know that it was exactly $43?. She proceeded to explain that she buys exactly the same food, of the same brands, on the same days, every month of the year and therefore is able to track her spending to the cent.

by SummerTX

That is just one example of a conservative approach to life, but how can anyone live like that? How can you strive to eliminate all variety from your life and condense it to a series of repetitive tasks? To the point where even the food you eat is as predictable as clockwork. In similar vein I know many people who have their lives planned out for the next 5-10 years, just working the same job, the same days, the same hours, so they can eventually retire and remove one more element of potential excitement from their lives.

by Enidanc

Some people critize my lifestyle. They can’t understand what they perceve to be the reckless and haphazard way I make decisions. I don’t know what I’m having for dinner tonight, I don’t know what I’m doing this weekend, I don’t know what hours I’ll be at work next week, I couldn’t tell you with any certainty that I would still be holding this job in 6 months, or where I will be living in a year. But I couldn’t live any other way.

by static416