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Originally Posted by 4n7hr4x
Well don't feel like you're the only one, I AM EXACTLY LIKE YOU AND WORSE. You at least have a plan for next year I DO NOT. And I'm already going to community college and I still don't know what to do. First I thought I would become an architect, then I changed to a business major because I'm already working for my dad and the line of work he got me into I figured I would always be in even if I went to work for myself, but now I'm not even sure about that. It's just too overwhelming for me right now to decide what to do for the rest of my life. I don't want to be the person who one day realizes that I HATE MY JOB, but doesn't want to give it up because I spent 10 years in school preparing for that job that I now realize I CAN'T STAND. I honestly think I need to take a few years off from school to clear my head, but thats never gonna happen until I move out, and my parents may not realize this but the last two years of college have been a total waste of time for me, because I went in knowing I wasn't ready, but my parents were so persistent they didn't care to hear the truth....
God damn, why does life have to be so complicated?
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yeah, right there with you on that one man. I kinda have a unique issue with the whole what to do with the rest of my life thing. I had this plan to join the Air Force and get some free education, earn a degree, become a pilot, advance in my career, because that's pretty much all you can do in the military, advance, unless you do something stupid. But anyway, the war sorta skewed my view on that whole plan, so now it seems like the last 6 years of my life, starting from 9th grade, have been a waste of time. I guess I'm still on that track, I figure it's 7 years away till I set foot in a jet, and that's kind of a long time, maybe the war will be over, so I'm just gonna stick to that path and hope it works out for me. The start of which consists of 87 units I have to earn at community college, engineering degree, then transfer, and get a bachelors.
As for the original poster, I think the best thing to do would be to prioritize what's most important to you, do you want to make a ton of money, do you want to have a blast doing your job, do you want to be close to family and have the freedom to travel, that kinda stuff, once you figure that all out, it kinda limits what your options for a career later on are, so that would probably help. Also, I always tell people to do something they like, because yeah, you may get into a job that offers a really good pay check, but sucks in the long run, where as you could get into a job that's decent paying, and you love doing. So you're probably more likely to stick with that job, and make more money in the long run. Just look at stuff logisticly and you should be fine. Don't think you've wasted any time, as long as you spent time in college learning new things, your advancing yourself as a person, and we're all still pretty young, most of us at the start of the prime of our lives, so live it up while you can, and don't stress out over things that you don't have to.
