Did you ever wake up one day and wonder, am I going towards
the right career path? Is this career really what I want to do for the rest of
my life? Do I love it that much? And the scariest answer you can come up with
is “I don’t want to have that profession anymore”. This exact scenario happened
to me my second semester of sophomore year. All my life, from the young age of
6 or 7 I loved playing “teacher.” I adored teaching my younger brother out of
my old elementary school books, making up play worksheets for him, and teaching
him on my infamous white board. The scariest day of my life was when that all
changed and my mind and heart didn’t want to teach anymore.
I went into college knowing that I wanted to teach at an
elementary school level. I adored children, and ever since I was young, teaching
was what I wanted to do. When I finally got to college, made it through my
freshman year, and approached my sophomore year, I started to realize that
teaching wasn’t what it was when I was younger. It wasn’t something I was
really passionate about anymore. This frightened me, I had already gone through
one whole year of college, and my first semester of sophomore year, and finally
realized that the path I was going on wasn’t what I wanted to do anymore. My older brother,
changed his major several times in college, and I told myself that that
wouldn’t be me when I was in college and it turns out it’s exactly me. All that
time I thought he was being incredibly indecisive, and didn’t really care about
what he went to school for, but it took until myself going through the same
thing to realize that sometimes your heart isn’t in things anymore. Sometimes,
it takes looking to your hobbies to figure out what it is you want to be doing
in the future, and trust me it is extremely scary figuring out what you want to
do for the rest of your life but for me there’s so much I want to do and
accomplish.
I want to get into the Disney College Program, I want to
work in the place where dreams come true and where countless amounts of mine
did. I grew up in Disney, it’s practically a second home away from home and to
be able to work there would be one of the biggest dreams come true. I want to
work for a magazine, I want to put my heart and soul into working at one or
possibly writing for one. I want to work where I put my faith and trust in all
throughout growing up, the infinite amounts of magazines that I looked to as my
holy bibles to get through adolescence. I want to make my blog even more
successful than it already is. I want to start my own makeup line or maybe own
my own boutique. What I’m getting at is that I’m 21 years old, almost done with
college, and can’t figure out that ONE thing that I want to do. Because there
isn’t just one thing, there’s tons of things, and I’m starting to be okay with
that. It’s okay to love and be good at so many different things because it’s
what makes you diverse and well learned. What I have found out though is that
writing for blogs and possibly working for a magazine is something I’ve finally
figured out. And although I changed my mind in college [which I never claimed I
would do] I’m happy I figured it out and am going after something that now
interests me and gets my creative juices flowing.
So I recommend you go out there and find what makes you
happy, not your parents, not your friends, YOU. Find what gets your heart
going, and makes you feel good while doing it whatever it may be. Everyone has
always told me “Oh you’re not going to make good money doing that” well at this
point in life my goal is to be happy. Of course I like expensive things and
have lavish taste, but at the price of having a miserable job and a ton of
money, it’s not worth it. I need something that makes me happy more than
something that gives me a million dollars. Don’t be afraid to go out there and
change your mind and don’t feel pressured to only want to accomplish one thing
in life because I guarantee you there is so much more out there than the one
thing you want as a career.
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