What do you want to do with your life?
Dec. 27th, 2003 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserWhen I was in junior highschool, I had a Twisted Sister t-shirt. On it was the name of the tour or the album or the song (I forget which): "What do you want to do with your life?" A neighbor read it and asked me; I said I didn't know.
When I graduated high school, everyone asked me what I wanted to do with my life. I said I didn't know.
Soon after entering college, I needed to declare a major. My advisor asked me that same question to help me decide on a major. I said I didn't know.
In my junior year of college, I still had no major. I settled on psych since it needed the fewest credits and I could still graduate in four years.
When I graduated college, people smiled at me and asked me what I wanted to do with my life. I shrugged and said I didn't know.
Years have gone by since then, and when between jobs or pondering leaving a job, I still ask myself that question, and I still don't have an answer.
If some magical being came up to me and said "Thistle, I want to give you your dream job. What is it?" I'd have no answer. I've mildly liked a couple jobs in my past, but they're not anything I could go back to now -- or honestly would still want to. I often look through lists of jobs or just think of all jobs I can imagine, and none catch my interest.
How am I supposed to find a job I like if I can't even figure out what I'd like to do? I wonder if there are other people out there who can't think of one single thing they'd like to do (and I don't mean because I'm lazy and I'd rather sit around and do nothing). Seems like adults should just know these things...
Grrr, more ants on my desk. Maybe I should become an exterminator...
When I graduated high school, everyone asked me what I wanted to do with my life. I said I didn't know.
Soon after entering college, I needed to declare a major. My advisor asked me that same question to help me decide on a major. I said I didn't know.
In my junior year of college, I still had no major. I settled on psych since it needed the fewest credits and I could still graduate in four years.
When I graduated college, people smiled at me and asked me what I wanted to do with my life. I shrugged and said I didn't know.
Years have gone by since then, and when between jobs or pondering leaving a job, I still ask myself that question, and I still don't have an answer.
If some magical being came up to me and said "Thistle, I want to give you your dream job. What is it?" I'd have no answer. I've mildly liked a couple jobs in my past, but they're not anything I could go back to now -- or honestly would still want to. I often look through lists of jobs or just think of all jobs I can imagine, and none catch my interest.
How am I supposed to find a job I like if I can't even figure out what I'd like to do? I wonder if there are other people out there who can't think of one single thing they'd like to do (and I don't mean because I'm lazy and I'd rather sit around and do nothing). Seems like adults should just know these things...
Grrr, more ants on my desk. Maybe I should become an exterminator...
