You know what? I'm seventeen years old and I have no idea what I want to do with my life.
Sure, I could be a chemical engineer. Get paid out the wah-zoo, work for some company, all that jazz. But is that really what I want to do with the rest of my life?
I used to want to be an OB/GYN. I thought that would be the coolest job, working with pregnant people and delivering babies, but I realized that I couldn't afford all of that college, money wise and time wise. I could be a mid-wife, I suppose, but what is this? The Middle Ages?
I would love to work with babies and small children, but the problem is is that I love my nieces and nephews. I will love my children. Other peoples kids are just ugh. I see it all the time at Panera, mostly parents who don't know how to parent, but more children these days are spoiled, rotten little brats. Not mine, of course!
It's the most frustrating thing in the world. All I know is that I want to get married and have a family, but job-wise? I'm totally clueless. I feel like everyone is so in-sync with what they want to do. My boyfriend knows he wants to be a diesel mechanic, and is already on the road to doing so. Me? I could be working at Panera Bread for the rest of my life if I don't start looking at my options...
I completely understand where you're coming from. I honestly didn't know for sure what I wanted to do until like last December, and then I started school in March. I'm 19 years old now but I can remember feeling the same way you did. It seemed like everyone around me knew exactly what they wanted to go to school for and had their whole life figured out.. but not me. I decided to take some time off and discover what I loved to do and had a passion for. I went to Haiti for 3 months and while I was down there I really discovered that I wanted to be in the medical field, especially dentistry. I think it's cool that you love kids too. I work at McDonald's and know how you feel about the spoiled kids that get whatever they want. It bugs the crap out of me how parents just let their kids act the way they do. Don't give up hope though. I took a while for me to finally know what I wanted to do and when I did, it kinda hit me right in the face and now I've never looked at anything different. Think about what you're passionate about and go from there. You won't be working at Panera Bread for the rest of your life :P Just take one day at a time (: Good luck!
ReplyDeleteI am extremely glad to see someone else as confused as me in regards to choosing what they want to do with their life. Doesn’t it aggravate you to a high degree? How you’re only like 17 or 18 years old and all of these authority figures are pressuring you into planning your whole life when it is not even close to half ways over? I do not know about you, but it is really starting to make me buckle under pressure. When I was a kid, I was going to go to Bluffton University for a teaching degree. A few years later, I was going to be a Marine Biologist. Then, I wanted to be a biochemist. And, even though I am still highly considering this, I am starting to look at degrees that contain a lot of public speaking, such as a politician or maybe a motivational speaker. I think the issue today is not that kids have too few choices to make in terms of getting a degree, but too many choices in regards to getting a degree and an occupation. I could easily see myself living in South Carolina, studying the effects of radiation on a blow fish just as easily as working in a lab, pursuing experiments on the ionic connection between a sulfate ion and a hydrogen atom. There are so many possibilities out there! So, now, because all of these people are trying to get me to find what I want to do for the remaining years of my life, my head is basically spinning. I hope you find your Career Path, because I certainly know I won’t for a while. :/
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh! I know exactly how you feel! I talk to everyone else and I just feel like everyone knows what they want to do and what college they want to attend. Every time I see someone they ask me what I'm going to do with my life. I'm pretty sure my answer changes literally every single time. I could see myself teaching... or maybe I can't. I could see myself being an actuary... or maybe I can't. Maybe a chemical engineer? And study at Wright State University? Or maybe I can't. Sometimes, I think about culinary school and about opening up a cupcake shop. Because, I mean, wouldn't you shop there? I guess I'm just into too many things to decide on simply one. Sometimes, I think I'll be stuck at Panera forever. (Hey! Maybe if I work there 'til I'm sixty, they'll finally promote me!) I don't know, maybe some grand sign will come along one day and I'll just want to know what I want to do with my life, and it'll be something I never thought about, like.... being a puppeteer or something? Good luck to you, though! Just remember, you're never alone in your aggravation in finding a career path!
ReplyDeleteHello Leah, I would not worry too much on what you want to do for the rest of your life. Yes it would be nice if you knew everything that you wanted to do and be. I think that you are on the right bath so far and the rest will come in time. I would like to tell you that I’m thirty-four years old and I’m just now figuring out what I want. That is not to say that I still may change my mind down the road. My point is that life through all kinds of stuff at you and you have to make some turns along the way. I don’t believe that anyone has a strait path to walk their whole life. If they do they better thank of their selves as being lucky. You are so young that I think the fact that you have gotten this for and you at least know that you want something more about of life. If you truly love chemistry that mush why would you want to do anything else. As far as the whole nerd thing goes there is nothing wrong at all with being a nerd. My son is going to be one I think any ways and I live him for that. For not being afraid to be something that people might make fun of. For being strong enough to know who he is, that is what I think a nerd is. So I will let you go on that one and have a good day.
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