Take note: You can’t wait. It’s very unlikely that something remarkable will happen to you and change your life if you don’t do anything. It doesn’t have to be anything big or showy. Just work towards something even if it’s just a higher position in your current job. It’s still retail but management is still better than lowly peon. Or you could even just find a better place to work in the same position. Do even a little bit a day even if it seems useless. Eventually you may or may not find something you’re interested in enough to make a career out of. if not retail will always be here for you to fall back on even if it isn’t ideal. Then look back at yourself five years from now and see how much progress you’ve made. That’s when the real payoff comes in.
Heather sounds like me at 22! Only I lived with only my divorced mother and sister, not with my dad. I didn’t get to go to college, couldn’t afford it but I did try the Army. That didn’t work out since I was not Army material.
OK, kids, sit down and listen to what your Auntie Flodnak has to say.
You can’t steer a parked car.
A lot of this “I don’t know what I want to do with my life” comes from fear of making the wrong decision. But everybody makes some wrong decisions, and most of them can be undone later on. I went to college planning to be an astronomer until I had to admit that the most boring thing in the universe is calculus. So I’m a high school English teacher (who no longer remembers how to do calculus). OK, I wasted some time in my first semester or two of university, but it didn’t kill me, nor did it stop me from making a different decision later. It got me to a good place, just by a different route.
What doesn’t get you to a good place is staying in a situation you’re unhappy with because you fear failure. It was scary to leave my hometown, even though I was unhappy there. But it was scarier to think of spending the rest of my life there.
Oh, and I’m still glad I learned calculus. It taught me to learn hard, boring things. That doesn’t mean you have to learn it, though.
Take note: You can’t wait. It’s very unlikely that something remarkable will happen to you and change your life if you don’t do anything. It doesn’t have to be anything big or showy. Just work towards something even if it’s just a higher position in your current job. It’s still retail but management is still better than lowly peon. Or you could even just find a better place to work in the same position. Do even a little bit a day even if it seems useless. Eventually you may or may not find something you’re interested in enough to make a career out of. if not retail will always be here for you to fall back on even if it isn’t ideal. Then look back at yourself five years from now and see how much progress you’ve made. That’s when the real payoff comes in.
^ this right here. Carp those diems, or you’ll look down at your nametag and see “5 years of service” written under your name.
Keep in mind Heather only wanted to stay until Summer.
Never before have I connected with a character from a newspaper comic on such a level.
Heather sounds like me at 22! Only I lived with only my divorced mother and sister, not with my dad. I didn’t get to go to college, couldn’t afford it but I did try the Army. That didn’t work out since I was not Army material.
OK, kids, sit down and listen to what your Auntie Flodnak has to say.
You can’t steer a parked car.
A lot of this “I don’t know what I want to do with my life” comes from fear of making the wrong decision. But everybody makes some wrong decisions, and most of them can be undone later on. I went to college planning to be an astronomer until I had to admit that the most boring thing in the universe is calculus. So I’m a high school English teacher (who no longer remembers how to do calculus). OK, I wasted some time in my first semester or two of university, but it didn’t kill me, nor did it stop me from making a different decision later. It got me to a good place, just by a different route.
What doesn’t get you to a good place is staying in a situation you’re unhappy with because you fear failure. It was scary to leave my hometown, even though I was unhappy there. But it was scarier to think of spending the rest of my life there.
Oh, and I’m still glad I learned calculus. It taught me to learn hard, boring things. That doesn’t mean you have to learn it, though.