Decisions, Decisions...

[SomeGuy]

I'm getting really frustrated.. I don't know what to do with my life.. I DJ as a hobby and I'll keep it that way for the rest of my life but what do I want to do as a career? I wanna be a Audio Engineer/Music Producer but I have no where near enough funds to afford this which means.. I have to consider a new career and then work my way up and get all the equipment I need to do my hobby/passion... every time I look into something it doesn't seem to pan out, I'm close to paying off all my bills so I'm happy with that.. but fuck, what am I going to do with my life? I want a stable career so I can pursue my true interests, what's stable? Everything I've ever enjoyed doing is now not marketable.. computers are a saturated market full of youth who thought it was the next big thing but found out quickly that there is only so much room to make something of yourself.. and that room is FULL!
I mean it's fucking depressing, I have so many friends who've taken the courses I wanted to take in post secondary and then never gotten a job out of it, so there going back to school yet again...

/me is stressed out.

[Prissypants]

I hear you...I just dropped out of my program because of two reasons:

1) I realized that the system was fundamentally against many things I believed in.

2) There is NO WORK for me once I graduate...

My recommendation is that if you don't have too many ties in Canada that you do a quick degree at university and go overseas for a few years to teach english.

[Filo]

Connor, I know what you mean. I purely want to produce as a hobby, because pursuing that as a career is quite naive, to think that it will support. Sure, it's possilbe but the chances of that are slim to none. I was gonna go into the computer programming/tech courses but like you said they are sooooo oversaturated it's rediculous. I'm stuck, let's do some chilling and hopefully if we put our minds ot it, we can figure something out. I soon, I dunno, i'm fuckin confused too.

[yoko*]

eh.. all too familiar...

I'm probably leaning towards giving up something that I thought for so long that I would turn into a career.. whether it just meant that I would teach it.

That's kind of not good enough for me anymore. The sad thing is that I have all these expectations, yet the attitude that I carry right now, and the way I deal with things are so irresponsible and disorganized that my expectations are a total clash with what I've become..

I don't want to be in my 30's still wondering about what I want to do with the rest of my life... I'm only 18, but I do think quite ahead... It's tough making decisions on your own..

Well good luck, if I had any advice to provide to you, then I would, but unfortunately I'm stuck in the same rut.
:( *cry*

[Prissypants]

We should all combine and open up our own business...what skills do you all have? :)

[Joanne]

I was stuck in somewhat of the same dilemma a while ago. it was a choice between going into a competitive field where education lower than a phd was almost considered useless, and a field where I could finish a 4-year degree and get a job almost instantaneously.

I ended up opting to get a BscN. nurses are always needed, especially in BC right now and the money they make isn't bad (I could even go to the states and make more money). I'm also hoping to keep going to school part-time (I wanna get like 3 degrees!) just to widen my options and simply because I like learning. who knows.. maybe someday I will pursue my other dream....

--Joanne :P

[cerah]

I have a really stable job right now... one that my parents and my fellow co-workers seem to be pushing me to stay in and "move up in the company".

I work for a small bankruptcy firm (5 people including the boss) and they're essentially training me to become an Estate Manager (person who looks after 250-300 separate bankrupts) and then a Trustee (the big head honcho).

Lately I've been wracking my brain about what I want to do with my life because being a Trustee is sure as hell not it. I'm totally overworked as it is why the hell would I wanna be an Estate Manager and work 70 hours or so a week??? I'm always dealing with Revenue Canada (monkeys I tell you!!) and seeing all the rejects that come into my office has made me so bitter. By rejects I mean the people who totally abuse the system... rack up HUGE credit card bills... sell the shit they buy and sit around on Social Assistance or WCB... fucking pisses me off SO much. I think what pisses me off more than that is the fact that we have to way of reporting it even though in most cases like that it's complete fraud.

I know the longer I stay with my company the more bitter I'll become and I don't want that so I'm gonna travel and figure out what it is I want to do.

Having worked for a year and a half at a job I've come to loathe I don't think anyone should "settle" for a job... you should always strive to do what you love either as a side project or full-time. If you chose to take a career you don't love than at least make it something you like or don't mind doing because being stuck in a job that makes you miserable for 5-10 years is not worth it.

The average person has 3-5 careers in a lifetime... so try not to worry to much about not knowing what you want to do. Just enjoy the present and your youth while you can and don't stress the future any more than you have to.