Life. A huge part of life is figuring out what the heck to do with it! How do you decide what career path to take when you are in your early 20's?
When I think about what I should become 'when I grow up', I always ask myself if I am going to enjoy that particular job when I am 50 years old...then I do the math and consider that 50 is nearly 30 years away...at this point I take into account that I haven't even been alive for 30 years...so I pause to reflect on how much I have changed in my 20-something years...then I realize that something that may seem interesting and intriguing now, could quite possibly bore me in 2 months. There are too many options, and time's-a-tickin'...I need to figure this out! Here is where I am right now:
Currently I am attending university, working towards getting a psychology major and a sociology minor so I can become a counselor someday. I am considering being a marriage counselor, but then I realized that I enjoy and seem extremely comfortable talking and learning about sex, so now I am thinking about specializing in sex therapy. However I love carpentry, tools, plastering and creating with my hands...which is like chalk and cheese when being compared to counseling. Another thing I am interested in is acting; I would love to act, host a radio show, or be a news anchor. I also have a passion for expressing my thoughts and opinions through writing poems, blogging, or even just simply scribbling down a thought in the notebook that I always have under my bed. Something else that I take great interest in is animals -I would love to work in a zoo, or save puppies from puppy mills, or try to make a difference in cutting down the amount of animal abuse that exists in our unexplainable and cruel world. I also have this hunger to open my own little cafe. I would love to add my own special touch to the place and make it a unique and comfortable place where people can do what I love to do most: meet up, chat and laugh over one of those cups of tea that makes one say, "Oh, now that's a good cup-a-tea!".
WHAT IN THE *BEEP* AM I SUPPOSED TO CHOOSE!?...Can I do it all?
So, my point is to show you where my head is...and that is all over the place. Every week there is a new idea of something I would like to do 'for the rest of my life'. So, I wonder...if my mind is changing so much in such a short amount of time, then how the the hell am I going to stay interested in whatever it is I choose to be when I grow up? How do I make the right choice so I don't ever have to say, "If I had my time back I would have.....". Hahahaha, ohhhh Life.
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1 comment:
Why does it have to be a commitment for the rest of your life? Why choose anyway?
Psych and sociology can help you in almost ANY field of work, especially if your ambitions and career path bring you into mgmt or an entrepreneurship. Take up woodworking as a hobby, learn how to play a guitar and write poems but call them lyrics instead (maybe I'm green, but performing in a musical act can be kind of like acting). Eventually, when you get bored from all that, open your own little coffee shop that serves tea... Oh, I know... make it a dinner theatre cafe, so you can get the acting in there!
The only thing I can't really relate to is the taking care of animals... saving puppies and such. Not that it is bad work, but I can imagine that it is highly depressing and not very financially rewarding.
So, in other words... do it all. Or do what makes you happy NOW (in the near term). There's no rule that says you have to stick with something for the rest of your life. Look for ways to grow and build upon your past experiences and bring them forward into your new ones.
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