I'm going to give you some advice that I read online somewhere and it essentially changed my life:
People who succeed don't have some rigid plan on what to do, but rather succeed because they adapt to their environment and what they have to work with. Rather than trying to pick a path, and then trying to go with, try to keep your options as open as possible. And then, as you reach points in which you MUST make a decision one way or another, make the decision that will preserve as much of your freedom as possible. This makes it so that you don't have some frail life plan you have to stick for.
For example, this summer I am busting my ass for an internship despite that it may ultimately be USELESS. I don't know if I want to go to grad school, but by working this internship I am keeping my options open. Where as, if I tried to plan the rest of my life right now, odds are, situations would change and what is best for me is simply NOT foreseeable from where I am right now. That is, the only way to have some long term plan is usually to stick to something regardless of whether it will end up being what is best.
So, I have decided right now that I want to have a future. For me, I believe that that is going to be a matter of taking my college education as seriously as possible and busting my ass doing as good of a job as possible. And that is probably what is true for you. Don't work towards maintaining some rigid foolish experience-blind plan - while you can estimate what will be best for you 20 years from now, you simply can't know. Adapt! Keep your options open! Don't be afraid to do 4x more work than you need to. Because to succeed, you WILL need to do way more work than you need to... wait... is that a paradox?
But you get what I mean... hopefully this helps you. Because it helped me a lot. I realized that choosing to keep my options open or not, was choosing right now whether I want to have a future, regardless of what that future will specifically be.
PS. You should have told him that you killed someone, but you are crazy, so they just made you do community service. And then you should have said that you killed someone, but you are crazy, so they just made you do community service. And then you should have just kept repeating yourself until he was out of earshot, and being completely non-responsive to what he said. Mwa hahaha. Though, actually, he sounded nice so maybe that wouldn't have been best...
People who succeed don't have some rigid plan on what to do, but rather succeed because they adapt to their environment and what they have to work with. Rather than trying to pick a path, and then trying to go with, try to keep your options as open as possible. And then, as you reach points in which you MUST make a decision one way or another, make the decision that will preserve as much of your freedom as possible. This makes it so that you don't have some frail life plan you have to stick for.
For example, this summer I am busting my ass for an internship despite that it may ultimately be USELESS. I don't know if I want to go to grad school, but by working this internship I am keeping my options open. Where as, if I tried to plan the rest of my life right now, odds are, situations would change and what is best for me is simply NOT foreseeable from where I am right now. That is, the only way to have some long term plan is usually to stick to something regardless of whether it will end up being what is best.
So, I have decided right now that I want to have a future. For me, I believe that that is going to be a matter of taking my college education as seriously as possible and busting my ass doing as good of a job as possible. And that is probably what is true for you. Don't work towards maintaining some rigid foolish experience-blind plan - while you can estimate what will be best for you 20 years from now, you simply can't know. Adapt! Keep your options open! Don't be afraid to do 4x more work than you need to. Because to succeed, you WILL need to do way more work than you need to... wait... is that a paradox?
But you get what I mean... hopefully this helps you. Because it helped me a lot. I realized that choosing to keep my options open or not, was choosing right now whether I want to have a future, regardless of what that future will specifically be.
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