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Originally Posted by JCharles25
i need a new job
and i need to start school asap
im just like completely unsure what i want to do for a living
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Like what eDave said, first things first meditate on what interests you or fuels a passion. Even if it's preliminary, basic, or literally anything. Something that you love doing.
I'll use my situation as an example. I graduated high school with a terrible GPA, no direction in my life, and no idea what the hell interested me at the time. If it wasn't for my dad forcing me to go to school, I am not sure what would've happened to me. I believed that I didn't have any meaningful passions that I could use in college. Well, one thing that I didn't realize at the time was my love for analytics and data in general.
The one thing I didn't completely **** up in high school was that I was a pretty damn good hockey player, and was focused primarily on it after my grades went to shit. In addition to that, I was into stats, analytics, numbers, anything. I'd literally stay up all night looking at statistics for upcoming opponents and gameplan days, weeks ahead of time. It was something I was called crazy for at the time. I got laughed at for how seriously I took studying opponents statistics. Well, I eventually (2-3 years later now) realized that was my passion, and not
just for sports. I want to go in business as well. Right now I am feeding my passion for sports by working in marketing with the KU athletic department, while also feeding my passion for analytics by having that as my major. I am in a good spot right now, but it wouldn't have been without realizing that I had a love for staying up all night scouting other high school hockey teams when I was 15-16 years old.