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ever feel like you'll never figure out what you want to be....
I'm feeling left behind
Replies: 5Last Post May 7 5:09am by theatreminelli
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i have always been the type of girl who wants to build a successful career, get married, have kids and live happily ever after, preferrably in that order (i know, fairy-tale right?) but right now i feel like the career part is gonna hold me back from the rest of my life.

I did well in HS and graduated w/ Honors so i'm not completely stupid n_n but i love to do so many things that i can't find a job i could stick with forever and be happy. I'm artsy so I've considered Game developer, Advertising, custom painter, photographer, writer, etc. also quit college i was attending for Culinary Arts. Also Marine Biologist, Homicide Det., etc. but all have cons that beat the pros. And starting a business is a big risk and takes a bit of capital which i would lose if my business failed.

Now is where my own girly-ness gets in the way  . I'm 22 and i know that certain degrees would take me till i'm 30 or darn near 40 to get and i want school out of the way before i have kids and get married... loans, mortgages, and college saving for the kids do NOT MIX! i can't wait to start what i think of as "real life" but having no set career in life makes me feel stuck in one spot i don't dig the housewife path i want to make my own money and I refuse to bring kids into a household that can't support them. duh! Been considering vet school, i love animals, anyone attending have input?

Anyone else feel this way, or DID before they found the job for them?



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I feel that way. I want to go into editing, but at the same time, I fear that I won't make it there because I'll not want it as a job. I didn't even figure out that much until this year.(I'm a junior in college). However, it's normal to feel that uncertainty

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I'm on my chosen path to be a journalist

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I'm still in high school but I know I want to be a doctor and maybe specialise in surgery. I might change my mind but I know I defo want to work in medicine.

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Blue Baby


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I was like that when I was in high school. Like you I had vague plans like I want a career but I couldn't decide on the details like what career exactly. Since I'm more analytical, I couldn't decide whether I'd go to engineering or physics or computer science. I don't know how I came to be a Statistics major. I guess it's because I just have to decide and one of my best friends have the same major. I, then, took Computer Science after I graduated Statistics. Right now I'm a math and computer science teacher and I'm loving it.

I realized that it's not really the field (engineering, computer science, etc.) that matters to me; all I really wanted is a career that allows me to keep learning and growing. Being a teacher, I have to keep studying and updating myself; I also learn a lot from my students.

Post edited at 5:42 pm on May 7, 2008 by Blue Baby

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I totally feel like this. The only place I have ever felt at home is the theatre. But I have no idea how to achieve my goal to become and actor. I have toyed with the idea of other jobs but it always brings me back to...well but I won't be an actor. :(

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