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Still having a hopeless feeling after highschool
I steel feel hopless after fining high school
am not sure how to take the next step to the future
I just want to know how I will take the next step
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Maybe give some free advice about: Colleges & Universities?
Well, first off, you are entering adulthood and that means you don't have parents who will be around forever to take care of you. All cares are financially based. You need money to rent a place or by a house, to buy a car and take care of maintenance, and buy gas, you need money to have food to eat, for personal care products, for all kinds of insurance and the list goes on. Everything costs money. So you have to think about getting a job that will earn you enough money to keep you comfortable. Most people work only because they have to and hate their jobs. It isn't often a person has a hobby, talent that ends up being their job and that they therefore love. It is even less likely that a person right out of high school knows what job they are best suited for or have something they really like doing for fun that ends up being a paying job. An example might be a person whose favorite pastime was scuba diving, so that person takes some diving classes, learns about hazards, do's and don'ts and then becomes an instructor and later after some experience in field and with a great work history, they may get a job doing a job where exploration diving for a company is a high paid job. This doesn't automatically happen right after high school but evolves over a decade or two into a high paid job where you like what you do. For most, its doing a job just to earn money and still doing the hobby on the side for fun or as a part time business. Lets say you take a job as a person doing taxes for people or as a grocery cashier. On the side you liked walking peoples dogs, volunteering time in pet shelters, you learn all you need about dogs and then you start raising the kind with pedigrees where you can earn money on the side for something you like, but not enough to make it an income source you could live on.
These are all ways people manage work, income and still doing something they like. I know a person right out of high school who went to college and ten year later was still in college because they had changed their degree 5 times. It might have been more but I lost contact with them. It is better to take your general college courses part time while starting a job and waiting until you are a bit older to decide what you want to do. the only thing that has risen 400 hundred fold in cost is college tuition. What cost ten grand for your grandparents would now easily cost 80 grand or more. And yet no one blinks an eye or protests. So think hard before going into such debt. You really have to love the idea of being a lawyer or a brain surgeon to get into that kind of debt. There is a skills gap according to Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs fame. All the employers he spoke to in all those blue collar jobs said it was hard to find anyone with the skills to hire. the reason is that most kids are pushed toward a college and degree that comes with great debt that they are unable to pay off and worse yet, unable to find a job for the degree they have. Both my oldest and my 2nd husbands oldest child got degrees and neither has been able to get a job in the degree they had. One is medical field, the other CG, computer graphics, and both are fields you are told are booming and expanding and there are plenty of job opportunities, but that is not so.
If you want to think about college, think of going to a trades college, learning a trade. I have a sister who did welding until she finally married. So whether a guy or gal, you can get jobs. Mike Rowe talked to a young man working in cold N Dakota, he worked on machinery, repair I am guessing, but he earned over $100. an hour and worked only when he wanted to, bought his house with cash and has enough to take care of his family. I don't know of any one who hadn't won a big lottery who could outright buy a house fully paid for in total. If you wish, you can hear Mikes perspctive on the job skills gap or look up MikeRoweWorks Foundation where they help those who want to learn about blue collar jobs, or are ready to make a commitment to learning a trade, to sign up for a possible tuition to a trade school. You can do the search yourself on youtube to hear him talk about this subject and high cost of college or check out this link: [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
After that, it is more of deciding what you want as far as remaining single or marrying, and having kids, what small things you can do in your own sphere of influence, even though it may be too small to effect change in a world with many troubles, but looking at it this way, How does the elephant eat a cookie, its' one bite at a time. As big as an elephant is, it does eat an entire object in one gulp. And neither do we, no matter if talking of food or world issues. What ever injustice or thing ignored or lack of available help for a particular issue or type of person, find a way to start there. To get idea's, Mike Rowe also has several years of a short show called Returning the Favor on Facebook. This shows people doing what they can in their communities to make a difference for the better. Any age can help. A teen out of high school came up with and created a better way to offer a food bank, making it look more like a clean neat supermarket rather than half rotten food so people who must use a foodbank don't feel less than human. Many are Moms, veterans or the retired and elderly who start up a service and most are all based on donations, None of these people are independently wealthy. This is what weighs most on peoples minds these day, having a job and being able to pay all their bills and how to make a small change in the world.
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