Feel free to pick a context:
- Interview
- Describing yourself
- Describing what you want in a partner
- When you see the word on a dating profile
- When you see the word in an obituary
- When describing a business plan in your DnD game
Feel free to pick a context:
To me it’s having a goal and a deep burning desire to fulfill that goal.
If you’re trying to ascertain what my ambitions are: I have none. You know in Office Space when asked what Peter would do if money was no object and he said he would do nothing? That’s me. I don’t want to do anything. In that way, my ambition is to do nothing while also not being stressed about doing nothing.
I left the question fairly open just to kick off conversation. I was mostly thinking about dating profiles after being on apps too long.
I can identify with a lack of a big neon sign goal or a bucket list. I don’t really want to do nothing though. I have hobbies and the internet bill doesn’t pay itself. It’s just that my career goals are mostly avoid going into management and retire with enough savings. No need to be CEO or famous or get awards.
Like a lot of people struggle just to keep a roof over their head and food on the table. I haven’t needed to chase promotions or hussle all the time to achieve well beyond that. Decent pay and some stability sounds pretty good to me. Maybe that’s just boring to some or they’d just want next thing once that got the current thing.
Ambitions don’t have to be professional though. That’s something that I see a lot, where someone is deeply motivated to do something, but it doesn’t involve money, so people blow it off. It’s a little crazy. I don’t actually see wanting to make a ton of money as being ambitious, I find it to just be greed. To me ambitious means doing something for a reason OTHER than money and power.