Not sure what to do with my life

Too many highschool students get college forced down their throats. All it does is put u in debt especually nowadays, especially if you dont know what u wanna do. If college is ur calling later on, thats great, at least u will have been working and have work experience which is valuable as well. Dont let others expectations force you to do what isnt right.

You have more options than you think.

1. Go to community college part time to "test the waters". Maybe you really do hate school but college is a really different experience from high school. You can learn something new and get credits that transfer.
2. A lot of colleges have "experiential learning" programs that take students out of the classroom setting and have them doing fieldwork, internships, lots of hands-on stuff that isn't just sitting in a lecture hall.
3. Don't go to college, or just put it off for now. Seriously, this is a valid option, if you're willing to put your time to good use. Get out there and start working. My brother is making $22 an hour doing some auto detailing gig, and he barely finished high school. Find a job waiting tables or bartending, it's good money. If you have a skill, start your own business and spread the word through your friends and family and on the internet. Do volunteer work; go on a missions trip with your church, or volunteer at the Y, or become involved with a charity you admire. Get some internships in. At this point you don't have to know what you want to do, just pick a job that you think might be interesting and get in touch with someone who has that job. The idea is to keep learning and moving forward. Maybe in a year you'll find yourself wanting to go to college, but you don't need to have everything figured out right now.

I'm in a really similar position right now. I'm 18 and in community college and I really don't like it; I'm realizing that I never really liked school in general. I fell in love with a college that just made me feel like I could enjoy school, but if I don't get in, idk what I'm really gonna do. I'm probably just gonna take life as it comes, get a job I like better, try to scrape up some money to travel. I've already considered the worst case situations, I'm not gonna make myself miserable just because that's what people are telling me is the "safe option". We're young right now, and have a lot of freedom, it's better to take risks now rather than regret not doing more with your life when you're 40.

I'd say that you should go to Community College. Fuck doing the University thing until you've got at least an Associate's.

Focus on actually learning a tangible skill there rather than pure academics, which I agree, can be tougher to focus on.

I was going to do what I wanted to do but I was to busy working to pay my bills, the world needs 'ditch diggers'.

You can work first then go to college when you're financially capable and what not.

i think you should do what you want, but what you want means you do something, if youre not studying you must find job that you like and are willing to do all your life, i mean collage or not but you must make career.

About the best incentive for going to college is working a year or two in the kinds of jobs available to unskilled, uneducated people. So spend the next couple of years thinking about what you'll want to major in.

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It makes me lose hope to see so many people have kids when there's a huge overpopulation problem going on. It's like, no one cares, you know? No, I am not a misathrope. In fact, I WANT humanity to live and advance because I know we have potential to become great. But we can't do that if people keep letting their primal instincts/societal pressure overthrow their sense of logic and reasoning. The world doesn't need any more babies to be born. Atleast for a few more decades. If we don't stop, we're going to make all the other creatures on Earth go extinct as well as ourselves.

Surely they can adopt, instead? Oh, but wait, the kids wouldn't be their "own" then and they "couldn't love them the same". Look, people. If you're capable of loving your lover and or friends, then you're more than capable of loving a kid that isn't yours (After all, lovers and friends aren't related to you). Nieces and nephews aren't yours either but you still manage to love them alot. Not to mention that when you adopt, the child in question IS yours. Why do you need to propagate your DNA? Surely it isn't that special.

I mean, at most, 80% of human genetics is average (at best) and very rarely, does it lead to people like Albert Einstein or some other genius like him/someone who contributed GREAT things to society. I think instead of contributing to overpopulation, we need to better the lives of those already here before we cave in to our selfishness any further. There aren't any kids in a distant galaxy waiting impatiently in line and wailing for you to have them. If anything, it's the kids already here that are silently wailing. They need you as they need me. You all want good futures for your grandkids and great grandkids, right? Well, you gotta be the positive change that you want to see in life. I for one plan on adopting in the future: a girl and a boy from Foster Care aged 7-12. Why can't you do it too? Atleast until the population is 2 billion or less. But even then, you need to be a good role model to those alive as well as those who'll be born. We need to abolish Religion, the Quiverful Movement, and the notion that you "need" large families.

Once that's been done, a 2-Child limit can be issued all over the globe. f all of this happens, the Earth will become a better place to live for you, me, and the people of tomorrow.

As a finishing note, don't have biological children. Use condoms, people, use condoms (and more abortions). Sterilization if you must. Spread the word: we can only change the world for the better if we work together.

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