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[SERIOUS] How do you do figure out what job you want after high school? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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This might not be the best community for this, but I don’t know what job I want after high school. I’m afraid of pursuing a job that I’ll end up hating. How do I figure out what job I want when I grow up?

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[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

For me the best way for finding out what job I wanted out of highschool was turning 27. Out of highschool, I thought I wanted to become a teacher. That didn't work out, so I did some years (12) of various blue collar jobs, got married, had children. In the meantime I kept searching for my passion. Eventually I found it in programming. I spend a good 4 years tinkering with it until I eventually decided to go back to school. Now I'm finally loving my job and I'm again back in school trying to get my master.