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- sillybilly
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- 4y ago
Your young it’s normal to not know what you want to do right away. Explore different areas expect your mind to change but find a path and Jump in. If you like to travel there are many careers out there where you can do that
I had the same desire! To travel and find jobs that allowed me to do so. While i still am unsure what i want to do (as a senior in college) one piece of advice I’ve been told is to find something you like and the money will follow. Not to do things for money as your only or main goal. Maybe finding places to intership so you get experience as well would be good? That’s something i wish i did more of when younger.
Internships/volunteer service is great advice, I've really found out what I DON'T want to do through those programs. 😂
Hey! There is a certificate called TESOL you can get in college that allows you to teach English overseas if you're into that sort of thing. You can also travel with most majors so notice the things you enjoy doing in your free time or things that come naturally to you and research fields related to those activities! Don't worry about choosing a major you will stick with your entire life; most people I know have majors that have little to do with their actual job, funnily enough. And most adults have a handful of careers in their lifetime. You can go in undeclared and just figure out which subject you like best by taking an assortment of classes; you just need to have it sorted by the end of sophomore year (when all of your core classes are complete, assuming you're on the traditional track). Also Chegg is a lifesaver for your wallet (it's a very cheap textbook rental company). Wait 2 weeks into the class before you buy books, do not buy them right away from the syllabus! I cannot stress this enough. A lot of professors put in books they don't even use which results in lost money in your wallet (hundreds 🙄). I hope this was helpful for you!
Thank you, and Coul.C, so much for commenting:) Both of you guys really helped lots! I think I will start researching jobs that I can travel places🤔 and I will definitely start volunteering when Ms.Rona leaves!
@sillybilly First of all, proud of you - whatever you do (is that providing reassurance? I’m not sure). When I was in high school and college, I spent hours researching over what my major should be and not being able to decide. I think I considered most of the majors in my university’s coursebook, ha.I think looking back it definitely had some signs of ocd! It snuck in because it feels “normal” to be thinking about such things at that age, and it is. I wish you the best and want you to know that there is no “perfect” career/major.
So I’m about to enter the eleventh grade this year, in September, and I’ve started thinking about university and what I want to study; however, my OCD has been hard regarding the uncertainty revolving around the question of whether or not I’ll actually get into the university I want to get into. I don’t know how to deal with the stress! Does anyone have some tips? Thank you so much.
Hey so I’m an 18 year old college student I’ve had ocd for a long time but I never wanted to admit this aspect of it as part of it and I still don’t. That’s why I won’t say it cause I’ll just end up crying again. I don’t even want to post about it cause this would just make the problem real. I know I’m not sexually attracted to them but my mind wants to trick me and I end up getting confused on which is rlly me, like the other aspects of my ocd. It spiked ig when someone sent me a meme and it was fine but at the end of it it showed a child being shown in a sexual way which was suppose to I guess be funny but it wasn’t rlly funny to me at all and got uncomfortable and the pocd thoughts came in hard and I had such a bad panic attack and then I felt the need to go back and check to see what I was feeling and went to the video the next day after avoiding it to see which after reading the threads here is I guess a big no no? I know I’m not sexually attracted but my mind is playing these games and confuses me and I’m so scared to even talk to my therapist about it or ask people for help cause what if they think I’m a pedophile? Children genuinely make me happy and I have a motherly instinct to care for them but my mind turns it into something darker and I know I don’t think of these kids sexually but it’s like I have the power to?And that freaks me out so much and it won’t leave me alone I don’t know what to do I know I’m not one but my mind is tricking me and it’s freaking me out and if my mind says it could be what if other people think I am no one I trust will even understand idk what to do I just needed to put this somewhere to vent
i would want to be a teacher or an aftercare counselor, not for the rest of my life, just for right now and i do get along with kids sometimes im not really around them alot. i wouldn’t want to work with high schoolers or middle schoolers, a part of me does to be able to set them up for the real world and ive been through a lot so I could give advice, but nowadays they are so disrespectful so I would rather work with little kids. BUT, i see so many TikTok’s of women getting arrested (women teachers) for doing stuff to their students. i already have pocd, and this scares me. it makes me feel like i should just stay away because im gonna end up “giving in and turning into a p”. it freaks me out. i then think I should work there anyways as exposure, but then my ocd tells me it’s because i want to be around kids and im using ocd and exposure as an excuse :(
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