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[SERIOUS] How do you do figure out what job you want after high school? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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This might not be the best community for this, but I don’t know what job I want after high school. I’m afraid of pursuing a job that I’ll end up hating. How do I figure out what job I want when I grow up?

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[–] JeffCraig@citizensgaming.com 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly this is one of the major failures of how schooling works currently. Because everything is so generalized, people fresh out of HS have very little value to any real job. They also have very little understanding of how real jobs work.

Most people just end up taking a job because they know someone that helps them. They end up in whatever industry that is and go from there. It don't have a lot to do about what you "want" to do with your life and more about the necessity of having money to survive.