How is that I'm not old enough to smoke or drink or have intercourse or do adult things but I'm supposed to know what the hell I want to do with my career for the rest of my life? Seriously, what kind of deadline is 18? I'm supposed to know who I want to vote for for president, pay health insurance and be self sufficient, but I'm not self aware or mature or enough to dabble in a couple of vices?
18 is the biggest deadline of all for me. Among school projects and work related things, becoming an adult is big. It's bigger than graduating (which I could do in my sleep, and if you ask my former teachers Mr. Cross and Mr. Sacher, I pretty much am doing). It has to do with the fact that not only am I supposed to be on track with a career and internship and experience, I'm also supposed to have one year of tuition saved and a plan to move out.
I don't mind all that; it has to happen sometime for me so it may as well happen now. But I don't want to give up concerts and parties and friends and wearing fishnet gloves and Madonna-esque accouterments just because hey, you're an adult now. But it's already starting to slip. My Madonna-esque accoutrement isn't exactly professional wear for the office, and I'm already saying no to more and more social crap. And I'll say it again, it's not like I had much of a social life anyway, so losing what I have to this, really sucks.
I'd like to, in the immortal words of John Mellencamp, hold on to sixteen for as long as I can. Ideals are nice, aren't they?
The deadline of 18 is something I have problems with too. How can I choose a career when I have barely experienced the world and the mass of careers America has? The responsibility that is thrust upon us is overwhelming. I mean, after four years of college we will have accumulated quite a bit of debt, shouldn't it be for something we truly love? How does the world expect 18 year olds to know what they want to do with the rest of their life when they haven't even lived two full decades? Heck, in Nebraska, I'm not even legally an adult till 19. I could go on and on about this subject. Do you have a set career you want, or are you still debating careers?
ReplyDeleteThis is subject really boggles the mind. I mean, I've heard teachers say they went to three different colleges before they graduated, and I've heard parents they just picked one of a hat because they felt the education was the same, what they do with it is different. And I haven't even wrapped my mind around all the debt I'm going to have, like I'm still trying to figure out how to make the first deposit but how do I do that when I haven't picked a college? As for your question about careers, I know I want to write for a living. Telling a story is just something I've always wanted to do. Thank you so much for reading!
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