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Career help: I feel like my life is so small and meaningless?
I'm in a dilemma now. I'm now in college and don't know what I want to be. I choose two majors based on subjects I like. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life doing either of them.
The thing is- I feel like life has no meaning anymore. We're all slaves of society. We're like puppets. We all do the same thing: go to school, get an education, get a job, make money, get married, have kids and die. You only get vacation once a year and you wake up every day and go through the same routine. I don't want to live my life in such a way.
I'm not saying I want to live my life like the Kardashians. I want to do something that makes a difference and I really don't care about money. I just feel like my existence is so small and meaningless.
Honestly, I don't even say to myself, "If I have to live my life like that, it's best if god takes me right now." I don't want to die but I have nothing to look forward to in the future.
And my family is giving me a lot of pressure because after college I basically have no idea where to go from there.
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First let me say relax your not alone in how you feel. Your grandparents generation felt the same way back in the 60"s. Many good things came out of that generation besides free love.
What your feeling now is the difference between academia and the real world. It would have helped if you would said what your majors are for then I might be able to be more specific.
I have always said money isn't everything. You need money to exist in the real world. You need to find a job that satisfies the inner you while supplying an income to maintain the outer you in a level of comfort for you and your family.
Now that level differs for each of us. Meaning some of us are happy with apartment living while others cannot exist unless the have the ten bedroom mansion and all the accompaniments. What is most important is that you're happy in what you do.
We all, those of us that make an honest living, contribute to society in some manner even the Kardashians. They provide some of us with entertainment.
Nothing says you have to follow the career path you have studied for. You made this decision four years or more ago most likely with or at the insistence of your parents. Things change, you have changed, you have matured along with your desires and feelings. There is nothing wrong with this. You are also an adult now capable of making your own decisions.
I would suggest that you at least try one of the career paths for a few years. You have only seen the academic side of these careers. The academic side and the actual working real side of most careers are as different as day and night. Right now you are as they say book smart but street naïve.
Since I do not know just what it is you have studied for I cannot say with any certainty just what mark you will leave but you will leave a mark on this world that I am almost certain of. I did and never expected to.
As I said to begin with your normal having the doubts you have. You do not have to go for the job with the big salaries. If you have studied the law then you could look for work with agencies that supply legal services to the poor. It doesn't pay well though it can be very rewarding.
Your college education will open many doors for you, not just the doors you prepared for. Give some thought to what you really want to do with your life. Then see what in your background and education may be useful in perusing that objective.
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