What is your life like outside of nationstates?

[Mintonity]

Personally, I've got a degree in arts, majoring in history and politics. Decided I didn't want to be a teacher and just finished a degree in nursing. Now looking at what I want to do next. So I'm riddled with a student debt.

Also live in Australia, live with my boyfriend and our dog. Play to much Netflix and enjoy bushwalking a lot. Don't follow politics as much as I used to and nationstates is a guilty pleasure. Oh and I quit smoking two months ago.

What's your life like?

[Lawattsia]

It's rather boring, really. I live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I'm 29. I live alone. I make my living by doing a little bit of whatever I can, really. I do standup comedy in my area, I work in local theater, I have worked for my local independent pro wrestling promotion... Just about anything like that, really to pay the bills.

I never went to college/university, mainly because I have an overwhelming fear of being in debt. Having grown up in a low income household, it is a terrifying experience to wonder if your parents won't be able to pay the mortgage that month... They never hid that stuff from my brothers and I because they argued about it all the time, so I grew up knowing how precarious our situation was.

I follow politics and get way too into it, much to my own detriment. I also like to watch the Steelers and Penguins...

Oh, and I weigh over 300lbs. So that's a fun statistic.

[Freeland Newworldia]

I'm a 16-year-old kid from Massachusetts in my junior year of high school. I play the trumpet, play soccer and basketball, and run long distance and throw stuff on track. I also spend way too much time on NationStates and running an low-quality educational Youtube channel. I have anxiety and a left-handed disability. I have a fairly big interest in politics, but my anxiety that is heightened when things aren't looking good politically like today. I'll probably major/minor in Geography, Anthropology, International Relations, Environmental Science, and/or History in college.

[Hirematia]

I'm a 14 year old kid from Georgia and a third-generation Indian-American. I'm a high school freshman, and I do marching band (I play trumpet), Science Olympiad, and a lot of other nerdy stuff. As far as athletics go, I have a second degree black belt in karate, and I'm trying to get my strength up at the gym. I first got into politics during the 2016 Democratic Primary, and I've been into it ever since. In my free time I go biking for a few hours a week, but I mostly just spend way too much time online (although I'm getting better about it). Not really sure what I want to major in yet, but I'm most likely going into STEM.

[Dermin]

An almost 16 year old gay Jew from Ohio. A freshman in high school who does all the nerdy stuff in school that I can. Very short and too thin for my age, and worried about both. I'm incredibly into politics and I wish there was more ways for people like me to get involved in it. I've been told at first glace its hard to tell if I'm a boy or girl, it's even harder to tell the more you get to know me.

I plan to become a teacher or politician, something to help people. This is a little bit more private, but I live in near constant fear that my sexuality will come to light. I live in a conservative town, I worry what will happen to me and my family. My household is low income, and I'm anxious about it, especially recently.

[Freeland Newworldia]

Apr 22, 2017 14:21:10 GMT Hirematia said:

I'm a 14 year old kid from Georgia and a third-generation Indian-American. I'm a high school freshman, and I do marching band (I play trumpet), Science Olympiad, and a lot of other nerdy stuff. As far as athletics go, I have a second degree black belt in karate, and I'm trying to get my strength up at the gym. I first got into politics during the 2016 Democratic Primary, and I've been into it ever since. In my free time I go biking for a few hours a week, but I mostly just spend way too much time online (although I'm getting better about it). Not really sure what I want to major in yet, but I'm most likely going into STEM.

Hey I play trumpet too!

[Avaerilon]

I'm a 24 year-old British guy currently embedded in the Netherlands. My first degree was a BA Hons in Celtic at Aberystwyth in Wales, which involved doing an ERASMUS semester abroad, and I chose the Netherlands. I fell in love with it, and decided to do a second degree there. I'm now in my second year of English at the University of Gronigen, which is a fantastic old city. My minor is in European history, and I also do some arts history, architecture and philosophy subjects on the side, alongside Dutch. I'm aiming to do a research master's and hopefully a phd, specialising in English literature, and would very much like to continue doing that in the Netherlands.

As well as my (incredibly busy) academic life, I do a lot of drama as part of the Groningen University Theatre Society, where we mostly do plays. This is something I've done basically since I was 11, bu I've diversified into doing one-man comedy sketches as well. I also like to tinker with films, which some of the older residents of the region might remember. I enjoy gaming, mostly on Steam (if you fancy, ask and I'll ad you), and currently act as a Dungeon Master for a DND group with some friends. I also occasionally do some voice work, most recently for the English language visitor information an narration for the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.

Personally, I'm a member of the UK Liberal Democrats, and have been for 7 years now, and enjoy a little political debating every once in a while, although my days as an active participant in that regard are probably over. I have a wonderful Dutch girlfriend, with whom I've been in a relationship since late 2015, and we enjoy doing a lot of things together. I love animals and have a veritable zoo of pets back home in Britain, while I'm practicing my skills as a cat-charmer over here with every feline I meet xD

Physically I'm relatively tall for a Brit (about 6ft), although decidedly average over here in the Netherlands. I'm lucky enough to have a fairly athletic figure, but am working on improving my cardio and general fitness in the meanwhile. I'm left-handed and am fairly clumsy, which isn't helped by large feet, and as a very active and capable cook I tend to burn myself quite frequently (no pain, no pleasure, am I right?). I reckon I look fairly Irish, which makes sense given I'm mostly of Irish and Welsh descent. I'm an ENTP, though I break the (incorrect) stereotype of extroverts in loathing large parties, clubs and general rowdiness, preferring a quiet evening with a few good friends and a glass of Armagnac, listening to good rock music, new wave synth or classical.

I have a fear of being within a large crowd of people, which makes going out for shopping on a busy day in a city a lot of fun, haha. However, I have no problem being in front of a crowd, which is good for me as an actor. I'm also blessed with collapsed arches n hayfever, although I'm grateful these are quite minor things in the grand scheme.

(::)

[Lawattsia]

It's got to be tough being a LibDem... Charles Kennedy was one of my favorite British politicians. Shame about what happened to him.

[New Ireland and Wales]

America.

[Harndon]

Hi.
I'm a 17 year old from North East England (UK).
I'm a sixth-former doing A-Levels this year (and so is currently feeling a sense of impending doom) in Maths, Further Maths and Physics (as well as a Chemistry AS-Level last year, but that was a bad decision, so I dropped it after year 12). If I do well at A-Levels, I'll hopefully go and study a spacecraft engineering course at Southampton, where they have work links with the European Space Agency. I may or may not emigrate to Europe, depending on whether that'll actually be possible.

I'm fairly active, and enjoy going on expeditions up a side of a windy mountain with my mates. I enjoy strategy computer and board games, including DnD, where I'm really far too competitive (I keep grudges throughout the entire length of the game and then enact my revenge towards the end). Music is good. We like music. Anything really from Taylor Swift and Mumford and Sons to Breakdown of Sanity and Persefone, excluding jazz, opera and most dance. Books are great, especially Sci-Fi and fantasy, though I do read other stuff as well (and having a mid-grade author as a dad means you can get books from your favourite authors for free and then meet up with them for a drink. Result.)

I have a worryingly unstable mental state, at times, and I'm bi, but haven't quite got around to telling most of my family or friends yet. Which is terrible. But hey.

I follow politics and current affairs, for my sins, and play NS far too much. It's turning into a love-hate relationship.

I am, strangely for my family, who are mostly INTP, INFP. I'm chronically shy, and my friends often make fun out of my uselessness (but only in witty ways), although I'm recently trying to get my act together. Trying to balance that with a desire to campaign and stand up for my views mean I'm silent most of the time, until someone says something stupid, at which point I suddenly turn into Tony Benn.

I enjoy nature, and go around chasing cats on the way to school. They've finally got used to me and now assent to my tickling of them.

So yeah, that's me. Sorry for rambling on a little (::)

[Mintonity]

I'll just say on the telling people about being bi, you do you dude. Don't feel any pressure from anyone to do it when you're not ready. You've gotta think about the circumstances you're in and the way it'll affect your life. I don't think it's worth adding to already existing mental health issues yb worrying about telling people. That shit can come later.

My boyfriend is 30 and he's family only found out very recently about his sexuality.

I'm loving reading about everyone's life.