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what to do in life
ok so i need a little help getting myslef on the right path. im only a freshman in highschool. but its right now where you decide your future. and i really dont have any idea what i want to do with my life.. there are many things i am interested in. but im not sure what would really be the best for me. i really want to spend the rest of my life doing something i reallly love. and not something thats just ok.
ok some of the things i think about are fashion design, be a part of some kind of modeling agency.
be a hair stylist. make up artist, just do that kind of stuff. i am reallly creative and im willing to try new things. i also have another side of me i always wanted to be a psychologist.
and then there is the photographer, and graphic designer.
see i go through like these phases first i wanted to be a fashion designer for the longest time. then like graphic designer then psychologist and now its back in the fashion direction. and im really looking for a path that includes all these things. i want to be able to travel and meet new people and just have a good job. any ideas on what career path i should take?
im also a really good writer, but i dont really like it.
thank you
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Anyone who told you that your freshman year in high school is where you "decide your future" didn't have a clue what they were talking about.
You CAN'T decide your future. No one knows what the future brings. This is not to say that you shouldn't make plans or get educated, but be aware that what you decide now may have NO bearing at all on what you do. Take me, for instance - I have a job where I work with computer networks and software applications that didn't even exist when I was in high school. At the time, I wanted to be an English teacher.
It sounds to me like there's a common thread running through all your potential career choices, and that is that you like to create beautiful, appealing things that will stir positive emotions in people and satisfy their sense of aesthetics. My guess is that part of your interest in psychology has to do with being able to figure out what makes people tick so that you can make things that will be appreciated and admired and that people will understand. I would definitely say that some kind of design field would be appropriate for you.
Most design-type jobs are highly sought after because a lot of people like to do that sort of thing. Therefore, if you want to be successful in that area, you will need to really be good at it. You will need to have a diverse background that will include things like cultural studies, geometry, psychology, and art history. A little practical computer knowledge probably wouldn't hurt either, since so much of the design process (any kind of design) is now done digitally. Apply what you learn to your life in simple ways; even arranging the furniture and decor in your own bedroom can be a way to learn about what works and what doesn't.
Generalize now, and focus later. You may eventually discover that the field you want to enter doesn't even exist yet (maybe you'll be a Virtual-Reality Environment Designer, for instance) and so it's pointless to focus on one thing right now. High school is about laying the groundwork.
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Hm...who gave you the idea that freshman year is the deciding point? Whomever said that is a little off-base. There are people I know who are in college who still don't know what they're going to do with their life.
I'm of the opinion that you don't have to decide anything until at least senior year. There are SO many things to experience in high school and as extracurricular activities that it's not even worth it to try to decide as early as freshman year. You'll most likely get frustrated because new things keep coming up.
My advice would be to keep at all the things you love right now and keep trying new things during your high school years.
And, there's nothing that says that when the time really does come to choose, you can always double major and do something with psychology and fashion or any other combination. Actually, psychology and fashion might be an interesting combo considering a lot of fashion designing and modeling is based in psychology. Or there's the negative, eating disorders and things like that that stem from the fashion world.
Think about everything, but I wouldn't make a choice right now. You've got a long time to think about it.
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woah there! you sound JUST like me!! I LOVE to be creative and do fashion/make-up things... then i love helping people (psychologist) and I love architecture too!
right now i'm only in the 8th grade... and I told my mom i didn't know what i want to be when i grow up.. you know what she said??
she said
"its too soon to tell what your chosen career is... theres going to be PLENTY of time to know. One day it's just gonna 'click' in your head and you'll stick with it."
so my advice to you is just to wait it out... wait it out and one day you'll realize what your heart truly desires.
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