Hello, just wanted to start off by saying I'm new to these forums. I'm 21, male, and I've been in school for a little over a year now. I've pretty much completed my schools basic and gen ed requirements. I came to school after taking a couple year break from high school in order to work. I was fortunate enough to have a decently well paying job, doing general construction. I never really thought I wanted to do construction for a living, and turned out I was right. I wasn't bad at it really, I just didn't have the passion, nor the drive to be able to put up with a lot of the BS that comes with the people you work for. I'm fairly intelligent (although I don't really feel that way most of the time), I scored a 123 on an IQ test, and I'm rated as an INTJ. I've been at those cross roads forever it seems. Even when I was in high school I was always worried about what I wanted to do with my life. Not a solid day went by when I didn't contemplate the future. The only class I really enjoyed in high school was an AP pscyhology course, so that's sort of what I had in mind going into college. Starting up in school again after several years of a break from high school wasn't too difficult, but I still remain pretty uninterested in most of my classes (not that this isn't too far off taking gen ed classes). Every now and again I get depressed from my inability to decide what I want to do. I feel as if I'm not really great at anything, but I probably would do just fine in many different careers. In our society, where driven to chase after what fascinates us, but I've never really found it. A good majority of the people here are probably going to say that I just need to relax and eventually a career will come to me, but honestly I just don't see it happening. I'm overall pretty friendly and fairly charasmatic. Some people around me have said they can see me in some sort of a counseling field. I just don't want to be that person that graduates school with a bachelors and than has no clue where to take the next step. I don't want a career that is going to leave me unsatisfied. I feel that I need to do something that is going to enrich the lives of those around me, whether it be counseling or something in the medical field, I'm just not sure.
Although I don't really have a question of concern, I just have to ask for advice. A lot of the time I feel really lost and it's been eating my alive for the past several years.
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