like what did you dream for in the future or wanted as a job for when you became an adult. what did you end up getting stuck with?
i dident really have a dream as a kid, those were the years when i messed around and learned. now im in high school struggling with life and being paranoid for dumb reasons.
I didn’t really know what I wanted to be, but in hindsight it’s mostly because I didn’t really know any options. In a small town in the 90s it was finish school, then go work in a shop (girls) or a factory (boys). That was the assumption and basically the whole career “advice” setup at my school.
So it kinda makes sense that nobody there seemed to have any ambitions.
Thankfully, I eventually found out that you’re allowed to work with computers. Maybe someone would’ve mentioned that to me earlier if I’d been male but again, 90s. I taught myself web development, made a living off that for a while, eventually had enough and pivoted into being a small-time craft YouTuber!
I wanted to be a lawyer to fight for the oppressed
You can change careers in your 40s/50s if you want.
It’s likely easier to get into the field you want once you’re established, have resources and work experience even if it’s not relevant.
So don’t freak out haha
But personally when I was 11 we got a PC. My parents put it in my room. Which tbh irritated me at the time.
But I got super into it and started looking around the program files folder and at all the weird files in there.
I decided my dream was to make an application that needed those weird files. Which I did about a year later haha
But I fell in love with programming. I chose all my secondary school and college classes so I could get into university for it.
I actually did Games Technology but realised I didn’t enjoy that as much as general programming.
So I was lucky that i had the computer in my room and found something I was good at when I was young. And even luckier that it pays well.
Your future isn’t generally decided by a couple big decisions but 100s of small ones.
If you’re worried just start trying different things and you’ll likely find something you enjoy and/or have a talent for.
First I wanted to be a barbarian.
Later I wanted to be an actor solely playing corpses.
And then I wanted to be an undertaker.
That’s as a kid-kid. As a teenager I wanted to be an actor, because I didn’t want my then life and was into psychology for the same reason, but with no real intentions of pursuing it.
A cashier because people throw money at me all day. Also a scientist because science is cool. Now I spent 5+ years studying my favourite sciences only to realise the job I’ve been studying for is a cashier… Yeah I should probably go for a PhD
