Career Choice

Originally Posted by Lady Miyomi

What do you like doing?

I've always found this to be hit-or-miss.

Ideally one would turn their hobby into their career and have a good job and life while doing what they love. Unfortunately it doesn't work out like that.

I wanted to (still want to) be a screenwriter. Unfortunately there's so many kids who want to be screenwriters and the industry is tough to penetrate and has a lot of catch 22s. Besides, it turned out I don't actually want to write movies, I want to control movies in every aspect. Can this even be done in the industry anymore? Certainly specific directors pull this off, but where are all the newcomers making their dreams come true? I look at all the people who want the kind of job I want and then see the number of people who actually have it. It's like playing the damn lottery, except I'm wasting years of my life with each ticket.

Right now I'm looking at programming. For me, programming is "meh"; I find it sort of interesting to do and perhaps it will get me a decent enough desk job, but it's certainly not my first choice.

Another thing that bothers me is how no matter what job I choose, there's always someone telling me how I'll never get a job in that field. For example I've been told that no one's looking for programmers at the moment and that there are already too many.

What the fuck do I do? I could be a nurse or some shit, but that doesn't appeal to me at all.

What really gets me is how all the people who tell me to follow my dreams are the ones who attempted to do so and ultimately failed. It basically shows me that I can achieve things if I try; but then again there's a good chance that I just don't, and for several circumstances.

I guess my super-pessimistic advice is to watch out; don't spend thousands of dollars on a useless degree. Know not only what you want but what the world needs.

If your "passion" happens to be what's most in demand, then you're in luck, I guess. But it doesn't really seem to be the road to success for most people.

Jam it back in, in the dark.