What age did you figure out the career you wanted?

[lilsezza101]

Im 27 this year and I honestly have no idea what career i want. My work coach and the careers service advice i've had so far is "most people fall into a random job and create a career"

How is that even helpful? I've got a degree in sociology which is useless and i picked it out of panic. Currently studing business admin and sign language and have 10 years in customer service in retail and working for a bank. I feel so fucking lost and like a failure

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[Guffrus]

Well most people dont have 'careers' because most jobs aren't that interesting.

I guess it depends on how you are defining a career though.

The saying that its not what you know but who you know certainly plays a part, you can't reasonably compare yourself to someone who's parents are in business for themselves or have connections etc or those who know exactly what they want and how to achieve it and go straight through from the beginning to where they want to be.

Most people by definition won't particularly get anywhere in their working lives for the simple reason that there aren't rewarding jobs enough to go around, most jobs are just grunt work.

Many people are still retraining or finding themselves in mid life.

If your minimum requirement for not being 'a failure' is to be in the top 30% of jobs then you just aren't being at all realistic or fair to yourself and are pretty much doomed to 'failure'.

You just have to do the best you can with what you have and where you are. Moving forwards in any direction is better than not doing anything at all.

If you dont have a passion for something then maybe all you are really looking to do is punch a clock and get by and there isn't anything wrong with that.

Its really your life, do whatever you want with it.

What i would suggest mostly is that you try to avoid spending your life telling yourself you are a cunt.

[EaterPeter]

I agree with them. That was the case for me. We have to be keep trying different jobs. Keep working and then comes along oppo. of life? Basically what we study is problem solving and may be trying to sharpen four other areas of brain. That's what all the study teaches. In the colleges. We are kicked of out of parents house. Lot to study. Lot to worry. So I feel like problem solving can learned by exposing our selves to more and more problems. Now this people charges a tin for that that's different story. Why can't someone design institute where the problems are real and people get paid to solve those problems. Rather than robbed in the name of learning and teaching.

[btbc92]

What they are saying is that most often than not, you don't pick your degree. Your career tends to find you on its own unless you know how to pave your own road with it which requires vision to see. It's best to stick to what you had as a child you have more room to know what discipline works. However, what is true is that degrees don't guarantee you get a job and most jobs aren't even related to your degree. Some start early. Other starts late, many don't get such jobs at all. You can definitely work with sociology with the business if you know how to work with it. Your working for a bank. How do sociology and business work together? How about customer service? How has sign language helped you? I think you're going where you need to go, you just need to put the puzzle pieces together.

[PinkSands04]

I’ve known since I was 3 I wanted to be a veterinary surgeon. I have a passion for animals and I’m eager to help them. I’m currently not working in that profession at the moment but I’m working on getting qualifications together to eventually qualify as one.