I Need Your Experience!

[DuplicateValue]

So, Escapists, here is where I find myself: The coming school year is my sixth (and final) year of secondary school (high school for you Americans), which is great except that after that I have to pick a college course and, well.........I have no idea what I want to do.

It's not that there's nothing I want to do, it's just that I'm not leaning in any particular direction. I'm equally indifferent to almost all the career paths that I could take.
And I can't even rely on my strengths to choose for me because, well......I don't mean to sound cocky, but I could pretty much do anything I wanted (with the exception of medicine and a few others).

So I'd like to hear about your experiences with college courses if you don't mind - what you did, if you liked it, the sort of work it involved - that sort of stuff.
Anything you say could be helpful, especially if you went to college in Ireland or somewhere similar.

Bear in mind manual labour (building, etc) and sports aren't really my thing, and I haven't studied the appropriate subjects to go down the path of medicine or chemical engineering.

Thanks in advance. =]

Edit: I'm doing the following subjects, all at higher level:

- English
- Irish
- Maths
- French
- Physics
- Design, graphics & Communications
- Music

 

[xavi]

If you can do CHE then go for it. I started but switched to electrical just because it's more interesting to me. Engineers will always be in demand. Machines take peoples jobs. Engineers usually build these machines =p

 

[AnnaIME]

There are about a gazillion different jobs in the world. You do not know about more than a fraction of a fraction of them. Going in blind is wasting your college years. If you do not have a goal in mind, do something different. You are young. Try some manual labour, especially since you never considered it before. Or do some volunteer work abroad, there are many organisations that even pay you a little bit. Anything to help you find your goal BEFORE you commit.

What ever you choose, you do not want to wake up one day and realise that you are forty, and all those years of education and hard work led you to a career you can't stand.

(No, I'm not bitter. Not even a little bit.)

 

[BonsaiK]

So, Escapists, here is where I find myself: The coming school year is my sixth (and final) year of secondary school (high school for you Americans), which is great except that after that I have to pick a college course and, well.........I have no idea what I want to do.

It's not that there's nothing I want to do, it's just that I'm not leaning in any particular direction. I'm equally indifferent to almost all the career paths that I could take.
And I can't even rely on my strengths to choose for me because, well......I don't mean to sound cocky, but I could pretty much do anything I wanted (with the exception of medicine and a few others).

So I'd like to hear about your experiences with college courses if you don't mind - what you did, if you liked it, the sort of work it involved - that sort of stuff.
Anything you say could be helpful, especially if you went to college in Ireland or somewhere similar.

Bear in mind manual labour (building, etc) and sports aren't really my thing, and I haven't studied the appropriate subjects to go down the path of medicine or chemical engineering.

Thanks in advance. =]

If you have no idea what the hell you want to do with your life, do a Bachelor Of Arts. That's the generic degree everyone takes when they have an across-the-board interest in all types of things but no idea what they really want to do with their lives.

 

[deus-ex-machina]

It would help to know what subjects you're taking and what grades you're expecting. Honestly, it will whittle down your options to a few decent courses you could choose, along with the millions of mediocre and pointless degrees out there... such as Engineering.

 

[DuplicateValue]

There are about a gazillion different jobs in the world. You do not know about more than a fraction of a fraction of them. Going in blind is wasting your college years. If you do not have a goal in mind, do something different. You are young. Try some manual labour, especially since you never considered it before. Or do some volunteer work abroad, there are many organisations that even pay you a little bit. Anything to help you find your goal BEFORE you commit.

What ever you choose, you do not want to wake up one day and realise that you are forty, and all those years of education and hard work led you to a career you can't stand.

(No, I'm not bitter. Not even a little bit.)

I really think it's safer for me to just get straight into it. I tend to get lazy very easily, so a year without having to worry about education will completely kill any motivation I have to go to college.

If you have no idea what the hell you want to do with your life, do a Bachelor Of Arts. That's the generic degree everyone takes when they have an across-the-board interest in all types of things but no idea what they really want to do with their lives.

I don't know, I don't think I would be happy settling for something like that when I know I can do something better.

It would help to know what subjects you're taking and what grades you're expecting. Honestly, it will whittle down your options to a few decent courses you could choose, along with the millions of mediocre and pointless degrees out there... such as Engineering.

Good point. =]

I'm doing English, Irish, Maths, French, Physics, Design Graphics & Communications (Tech Graph), and Music.
All at higher level (honours), and I tend to do well.
To put it in perspective, in my junior certificate I got 6 A's and 4 B's.

I'll edit the OP.

 

[AnnaIME]

I really think it's safer for me to just get straight into it. I tend to get lazy very easily, so a year without having to worry about education will completely kill any motivation I have to go to college.

Maybe that's a good thing. Going to college is not a goal in itself, and spending your years there without a plan is simply wasteful. I firmly believe everyone should go to college at some point in their lives, but not until they know what they are doing there.

On the other hand... go now. Have fun. Enjoy a smorgasbord of courses. Maybe you will find your way when you are there. When you wake up at forty, you can always go back again. If you don't have a family to support.

 

[Kpt._Rob]

I'm going into my third year of college and I still have no idea what the fuck I want to do.

 

[Jewrean]

So, Escapists, here is where I find myself: The coming school year is my sixth (and final) year of secondary school (high school for you Americans), which is great except that after that I have to pick a college course and, well.........I have no idea what I want to do.

It's not that there's nothing I want to do, it's just that I'm not leaning in any particular direction. I'm equally indifferent to almost all the career paths that I could take.
And I can't even rely on my strengths to choose for me because, well......I don't mean to sound cocky, but I could pretty much do anything I wanted (with the exception of medicine and a few others).

Get a basic Computer Science degree or something in Physics and then become an Air Traffic Controller.

 

[grimsprice]

- French

I'm terrible with other languages. I'm so imprinted with English i just couldn't push anything else in there.

But i would agree with Marq. You've got maths, physics and design in there. Go get'em tiger.