You just don't know what it is that you want to do?
I mean, I've been interested in a lot of things over the years: science, movies, technology, history, business, politics, philosophy, and so on. But it just seems like I can never really come up with a straight answer of what I want to do or what I'm actually interested in pursuing.
I've taken a lot of those Briggs-Myers and the like personality tests, but I find them too absolute and not really fitting to my own mind or personality. I mean, in an academic sense, they have a lot of similarities, but I just don't think it really helps at all.
Do you ever feel this way?
You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you.
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger,
You'll learn things you never knew, you never knew.
Last edited by Adrian Ţepeş; October 11th, 2012 at 08:23 PM.
I feel like it is an unfortunate thing that man should be relegated to 'one' thing. Life isn't one genre, so I don't see a reason why mine should be; I want to be a painter, poet, engineer, rodeo clown.
I feel like it is an unfortunate thing that man should be relegated to 'one' thing. Life isn't one genre, so I don't see a reason why mine should be; I want to be a painter, poet, engineer, rodeo clown.
I definitely understand that. But I think it's more of a psychological aspect. I mean, I've always had this kind of thing sticking in the back of my mind like, "Is this the right way to learn things? Is this something I'm even interested in? How will enhance my life? Why do I even bother?"
Things like that
You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you.
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger,
You'll learn things you never knew, you never knew.
Last edited by Adrian Ţepeş; October 11th, 2012 at 09:43 PM.
I definitely understand that. But I think it's more of a psychological aspect. I mean, I've always had this kind of thing sticking in the back of my mind like, "Is this the right way to learn things? Is this something I'm even interested in? How will enhance my life? Why do I even bother?"
Things like that
I had those thoughts a long time ago, before I developed the particular world-view I have today. I think it takes a great degree of confidence to be able to live life happily and not simply want to fit into the mold that precedence and peer pressure has made 'acceptable' for your life.
While you should certainly give your all for the career that makes you money, never confuse it with your 'life', as if it is devoted to that specific thing. Live to be happy and to make the people you love happy; once you realize this is the highest priority, the importance of what you do to fuel your quest becomes less important.
Why pick just one? Be greedy. I want to do lots of things with my life, enough things that I wish I had more lives. There's not enough time.
I think sometimes, I've not been in work for an awfully long time, when you add university onto things - and you can't really call that 'work' - and before that I didn't go to school. If you subtract the time people waste at work, and school, and the time they spend travelling and so on... I've probably lived a very long time by comparison. Especially if you start talking about the information density of the activities that people take part in rather than just number of years lived.
It's thoughts like that that get me through a lot of things - if something goes horribly wrong, well, I've had my share. You know? Even though you always want more.
Or... do you? Some people get to retirement and they haven't really lived a day in their lives. And the sad thing is that mortality rates are strongly correlated with retirement. They get out of work and they don't have anything left to live for. They die but you can't really call it death, they died inside a long time ago - it's just that their body hasn't stopped going through the motions yet.
Pick an interest to pursue first, and ride it out as far as your interest in it goes. That's what I'd say. If I hadn't had that sort of mindset, I imagine I'd be much less at peace with things.
When I first arrived at college I came in as undecided. While this didn't seem ridiculous at all to me, I found it ludicrous that we were such a small percentage of the student body. My first year I was completely discouraged because it seemed that most people I talked to had everything worked out already ("What are you majoring in? I'm doubling in accounting and finance, want to start my own firm. I'm majoring in political science and want to work for the FBI" etc.) But the facts don't lie - everyone's still facing the same questions you do. I believe that college students change their major twice on average.
You just have to have the mindset that their is a job that can suit your interests. I have a lot of varying interests; I love sports, exercise, gaming, talking and meeting new people, music, the list goes on and on. I encourage you to do your research and look at everything that's available to you. I initially discouraged the thought of Business because the image that was crafted in my mind was that of being stationed at a desk and relegated to boredom; until you either retired or died.
But after looking into a bit I realized you can make it what you want it to be, and that Marketing actually tended to my talents and interests. Its a long and grueling process that takes a long time to complete - now I have to think about where exactly I want to work, internships, etc.
But don't think its set in stone either - that its one shot hit or miss. Tons of people (my father included) come out of school with a major and end up doing something completely different. You can never really plan for life.
I came to the realization that I don't want to become a teacher at a point in my university career that it was kinda late to start over with something else, and there aren't really many other things you can do with a history degree (that aren't depressing, mindless, cubicle-oriented office work). When I was in school my history profs always liked to say that a history degree wasn't useless, that it opens many doors careers-wise, but I guess that was just their routine morale-boost for disenchanted students because that's a steaming pile of BS. Looking for jobs post-graduation, employers take one look at the arts degree and move along, everyone wants some kind of specialized degree these days.
At the time when I realized I no longer wanted to become a teacher, I began thinking that, career-wise, I will likely never be happy doing any kind of work, so I might as well do something that I can at least tolerate but not hate. As long as I can pay the bills and have time to pursue my hobbies and interests outside of work, I can at least be somewhat happy.
"Do you want to know the terrifying truth, or do you want to see me sock a few dingers?" - Mark McGwire
No, personally I know exactly what I want to do, but I don't know how to execute plans to make it happen, Such as wrangling the dolphin and funding a project to design a under-water slip resistant dolphin saddle.
I've just started my second year of uni, I'm doing Mathematics and to be honest, I've no idea what I want to do with it. Don't get me wrong, I love maths, it's always been my favourite subject (close victory over Computing though). I just don't know if I want to continue into research (already interested in Cryptography and Chaos Theory) or if I'll do an apprenticeship with BAE (engineering) or in something finance/business related. Or, well, anything. Part of the reason I chose to do maths is that it's open to most careers.
So as far as I'm concerned, I'll look at jobs fairs and what-not, but in the end, I probably won't decide on anything until the choice is thrust upon me and I let my gut instinct choose. Because, who knows what you'll want to be doing in a few years?
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