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Confused about the Future
15/f
Ok, I don't know why I'm stressing over this now but
I'm stressfully debating over what type of career I should have when I'm older. And I know its way too early for this and I have time but it just keeps bothering me. I do a lot of activities that involve creativity (music, mock trial, school newspaper) and I'm a good writer and everything so you'd think I should be a journalist or lawyer, right? Well, lately I've had this desire to be a psychiatrist. I'm not the most math and science-oriented person (especially math) but last year I took biology, did well in the class, and actually really enjoyed it. I'm not one of these top notch students who participate in science fairs and stuff but I have a good understanding of bio. This is also stressful for me because right now, and I know it sounds dumb, I'm trying to figure out what kind of person I am. Is this the person I should strive to be or should I just stick with the "englishy" types of things?
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I can understand why you are worrying about your future career. When i was 16 i left school to do a health studies course at college, i was sure i wanted to be a midwife and then half way through my course i changed my mind. Now im doing an I.T course.
Try not to worry too much about it, think about it more when you have to leave school. But you could Write down a few ideas of things you would like to do as a career.
You dont have to be brilliant at the subject you choose to study (for you it will probably be psychology) because you will learn everything on the course. I was really bad at I.T and now im good at it because im learning everything i need to know to persue a career in I.T
I think you should do a job that will make you happy and that you will enjoy. Dont become a journalist if its not what you really want to do.
The most impotant thing is that you are happy
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Wooow we're exactly the same. Except I'm a year older =P
Since you have a lot of different interests and you're not sure which one you want to pursue you should wait a year or two to see if one takes more dominance over the others. I'm still into a lot of different things right now, and I'm pretty good at all of them...though I'm not sure how long some of the interests will last. You may be the same.
Like biology - its great that you loved biology, but if you're going to go to college intending on getting a science degree thats probably not the only class you'll need to take, and science and math go hand in hand.
Music generally isn't a practical business to try to get into unless you meen band or choir.
If you LOVE writing then, obviously, stick with that and see where it takes you. If in a year you don't want to be a writer then you know thats not what you want to do with your life :] Same with being a psychiatrist.
Don't worry about a job NOW, you have plenty of time. Right now just think about what skills you have that you would want to put into a job. If at the end of high school you still don't know what job you want, thats perfectly fine. Colleges will often tell you what kind of job certain degrees will help you into.
You've got time =] right now just spend it on you.
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