How did you decide what to do after highschool?

So I'm at the half way point in grade 11 and I still have very little idea about what I want to do after highschool, like what career I want to work towards etc. So I got advice to just study what I like, which wasn't very helpful because I like a lot of things.

So OT how did you decide what to study/do after highschool?

I just decided i was going to go study business. It what i liked so why not.

I'm 24 and have been through 5 years of university and still have absolutely no idea what I want to do. So don't feel like you need to "get a career" out of high school.

A friend of mine encouraged me to talk to a USMC recruiter, a year later after my 17th Birthday I signed my enlistment papers.

Go to college and just start getting you basic credits and decide while you're doing that.CongressManStan

go to junior college and get your basic credits.

no reason to waste money going to a four-year school if you dont know what you want to do.

it is also easier to work a job while going to a JC

I just picked a major and took the basic credits. Then I kept switching majors, which is really bad. I just settled for business since I thought it was the best thing to study for a quick job.blo_op

...and this is why people should not go to college right out of high school.

I couldn't decide so I did an undeclared major for my first year and took some courses I thought I'd be interested. After that I knew I what to major in.

I started in general studies in college because I had no idea what I wanted to do. Near the end of my freshman year, my advisor chose accounting as my major for me, and I have stuck with it since then.

I left school at 16, worked for about 4 years until I discovered my true interests and then persued these interests into education.

After, I graduated high school I decied to either go for business or something that dealt with computers and after finding out all of the math and foreign language classes I would have to take for the computer field I chose business.

You don't have to even know what you're going to study when you begin college. A lot of people begin by just getting their core curriculum out of the way.

I liked math and physics. (particularly of the Newtonian variety) Mechanical engineering seemed to be a shoe in.

I'm out of college and I still don't know what I want to do.

Find out what you enoy doing and go into that field...

Money isn't everything, unless money is what you enjoy and you don't care about the means of getting the money...

Better to spend you life making less, but enjoying it than to spend your life making more, but hating it.

You only get one life bro - Make it count.

I'm a high school freshman and I am thinking about doing some sort of job requiring the knowledge of several languages. I would advise you to just narrow your options and flip a coin.

I became a garbage man right out of high school. Making lots of money, with a job that's never going to go away, without wasting money at college or university for a major that I wasn't sure about, and I get to stay in great shape because of the hard work involved. I think I made a good choice.

I'm out of college and I still don't know what I want to do.

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Well I knew since I had first entered high school that I wanted to join the military. The benefits and the recognition you get from the public were things that really appealed to me. Plus I think I kind of owed it to my parents to get out of the house right after high school and quit making them pay for my **** But I didn't really know what branch I wanted to join. I just know I wanted to be "in the fight" so to speak, so I was leaning towards the Marines or the Army. I just noticed that everyone else I graduated with was going to college and for some reason that just seemed selfish to me. I think too many people are just out for themselves nowadays, I really wanted to do something that would make a difference and require me to sacrifice some things. So I enlisted in the Army, got an Infantry MOS. Got through basic training and AIT from August thru December of last year and just finished Airborne school last week. Now I'm heading into Ranger Assessment selection so I think things are turning out well.

Plus, who doesn't want to shoot weapons and see things explode?

I am a high school 12 grader and I still do not know.

Heck, i haven't even applied yet.

About a year after high school I decided to join the military and then went into the USAF 2 years after high school.