One common answer to that is to become a dropout … [and] go back to school for an education when you’ve figured which one you need.
Oh, hi. Didn’t see you there describing my life. :)
Dropped out towards the end of high school, spent a lot of time unemployed or doing odd jobs, lived off other people, got sick of living off other people, and eventually woke up one morning and developed an idea about what I could do with my life that would fit my goals and suit what I’d learned about who I was (a picture which had changed a fair bit since high school). Long story short, I started college a few weeks ago. I’m trepidatious, because I haven’t gotten along well with formal academics historically, but I’ve also never been there for me before. It’s kind of a scary experiment, because I’m playing with real money (most of which isn’t mine), but that’s also an added incentive not to fail.
(The education I turned out to need to do what I want—if I’ve planned this out well—turns out to be in communications/language/linguistics. If I’d gone to college right after high school, I would probably have ended up in English or computer science.)
To her credit, the college counselor at my high school (in a mandatory appointment beore I dropped out), recommended that I take some time off, travel, and work before deciding if I wanted to go to college. I guess it was pretty clear from my record that putting me right back into a classroom the following fall wasn’t going to be very productive.
Oh, hi. Didn’t see you there describing my life. :)
Dropped out towards the end of high school, spent a lot of time unemployed or doing odd jobs, lived off other people, got sick of living off other people, and eventually woke up one morning and developed an idea about what I could do with my life that would fit my goals and suit what I’d learned about who I was (a picture which had changed a fair bit since high school). Long story short, I started college a few weeks ago. I’m trepidatious, because I haven’t gotten along well with formal academics historically, but I’ve also never been there for me before. It’s kind of a scary experiment, because I’m playing with real money (most of which isn’t mine), but that’s also an added incentive not to fail.
(The education I turned out to need to do what I want—if I’ve planned this out well—turns out to be in communications/language/linguistics. If I’d gone to college right after high school, I would probably have ended up in English or computer science.)
To her credit, the college counselor at my high school (in a mandatory appointment beore I dropped out), recommended that I take some time off, travel, and work before deciding if I wanted to go to college. I guess it was pretty clear from my record that putting me right back into a classroom the following fall wasn’t going to be very productive.