I feel so pressured to know exactly what I want to do with my life. I get crap about it from my parents and teachers everyday. Every single freaking day (especially lately with class registration) I'M A SOPHOMORE! GIVE ME TIME! Of course I'm giving it a lot of thought (who isn't? - it's required by student services), but that's just that- I'm THINKING ABOUT IT. I don't even trust myself to make a good decision this early on. All of my friends who want to be food scientists or engineers artists are fine and dandy- just don't make me decide right now. Please? Don't rush me. I'll figure it out for myself thanks.
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08:47:05 PM
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You're on the right track. Relax, enjoy highschool, just make good grades and everything will be fine. College is for finding out what you're good at. Eventually you'll find something that will ignite your passion, but until then just chill.
Personally i knew what i wanted to do when i was 14. But i didn't really know until the beginning of junior year. When i get to college i'll probably find out that i didn't know then. Life is a process, take it one step at a time.
It's almost spring of my junior year, and I'm still figuring things out myself, OP. Just enjoy the next few years, take the classes that interest you while fulfilling the requirements for graduation, and you're set.
This year, freshman year, was the first year that someone told me to pick classes based on what I wanted to do in the future. I still have no idea "What I want to be when I grow up."
the average person will experience like 6 careers in their life time.
who always gets stuff right the first go at it anyway?
and if you're in university, you're learning and if you love learning you can't go wrong man.
You have to know somethign of what you want to do...We get some choices throughout elementary and middle school, but High School is where you get a great deal of flexibility in what you take, especially at a place like enloe, and depending on your future career paths one class may be a great step in the right direction.
That said, in high school unless you're sure you want to specialize in something to get into a very exclusive and specialized place such as...let's say Julliard, then good grades and scores in any classes are what you need to get into a college and not necessarily one subject (indeed most colleges like sat 2's in a few different subjects).
So yeah, you should be thinking at least in the back of your head, but no decisions quite yet is probably a good decision.
Don't worry. I'm senior and only about half of my friends really want to know what they want to do with their lives (and besides they're probably wrong). My sister changed majors 9 times in college until she ended up with something obscure like "communications". Now she's so freaking successful it's not even funny. Just goes to show that not only do you sophomore classes not matter (as long as their all honors) neither does your diploma. Just -learn-! That's your only job for the next few years.
There are so many fast responses to this post because we've all felt this at one time or another. You're not alone.
My bio teacher gave us a speech yesterday about how the first college that you go to is for growing up and finding out what you want to do and who you are. Like if you still need the support system of your friends then you would go to a college near all of your friends even if it isn't the best college and you might find your passion and career there. Then you could attend a college that really supports your interests and needs. I thought that this was a really interesting concept and it is not exactly what I think but it is another approach.
In my life, I've wanted to be a meteorologist, a rabbi, a pilot, a businessman, the president, and a senator. These days, I want to be a journalist. Perhaps it will change again. We’ll see.
Don’t feel like you have to make up your mind now. Life is not linear. You won’t go from college to graduate school to a successful career to a family with 2.4 kids without any hiccups. The journey is more important than the destination.
^Let's hope so, seeing as how the destination is death.
Good point.
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