04-02-2014, 09:42 PM
I feel you man. I know someone who wants to be an equine chiropractor and I don't understand how someone can know, at 16, they want to do something so specific. It's crazy. I think I want to go into biology/biochemistry, or maybe ecological science, but I don't really know what for. And in many ways, I'd rather go into something more creative, but then, I'd probably hate that as a career and rather keep creativity as a hobby.
What you have to remember is, in some ways, it doesn't matter if you change your mind. I mean, Dara O'Briain has a degree in Physics. Physics. How does that help his stand-up career? Well, it doesn't, besides some extra background knowledge for appearances on QI and a routine about how useless his degree his for his career choice. My sister spent the last two years of her "high school" education solely concentrating on photography. She now works as a teaching assistant in a school for mentally handicapped children. A Level 3 BTEC in Photography isn't much use there, but she still does it and it's what she wants to do and she enjoys it. Of course, that's a little different, as it's a lower level to what you're talking about and it was government-funded, unlike uni, but the point is, you can change if you're no longer happy.
The thing is, you can only know what you feel like right now, in the present; you can't know what you'll feel like in the future. You can plan for it, but you can't live in it until it happens. And then it's the present. The whole business continues on and on and on. The future is fucking terrifying, in all it's forms. Good and bad. But really it's just the present that hasn't happened yet.
Education and qualifications are important, especially in your field, but they're not everything. Do what'll make you happy now and what is most likely to make you happy in the future. Even if it doesn't, eh, life's a bitch, but you can probably do something about it. Let 30-year-old you worry about 30-year-old you.
It's a right bugger of a fact, but people change, including you. It's annoying as hell.
What you have to remember is, in some ways, it doesn't matter if you change your mind. I mean, Dara O'Briain has a degree in Physics. Physics. How does that help his stand-up career? Well, it doesn't, besides some extra background knowledge for appearances on QI and a routine about how useless his degree his for his career choice. My sister spent the last two years of her "high school" education solely concentrating on photography. She now works as a teaching assistant in a school for mentally handicapped children. A Level 3 BTEC in Photography isn't much use there, but she still does it and it's what she wants to do and she enjoys it. Of course, that's a little different, as it's a lower level to what you're talking about and it was government-funded, unlike uni, but the point is, you can change if you're no longer happy.
The thing is, you can only know what you feel like right now, in the present; you can't know what you'll feel like in the future. You can plan for it, but you can't live in it until it happens. And then it's the present. The whole business continues on and on and on. The future is fucking terrifying, in all it's forms. Good and bad. But really it's just the present that hasn't happened yet.
Education and qualifications are important, especially in your field, but they're not everything. Do what'll make you happy now and what is most likely to make you happy in the future. Even if it doesn't, eh, life's a bitch, but you can probably do something about it. Let 30-year-old you worry about 30-year-old you.
It's a right bugger of a fact, but people change, including you. It's annoying as hell.
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