Growing up sucks and career problems.

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Before I write anything you need to know few things. I’m Matt, 17 y.o male from Poland. I’m already thinking about my future. It’s not like I didn’t do this earlier, I just know that I have less and less time with each day. I recently got out of depression. I want some simple, cruel, true solutions and answers, not some encouragement or nice words. There we go: I’m in the school where we mix up job and basic education, I would translate it to technical school. I chose the IT path which sucks. Why? Because teachers are idiots and/or they teach us useless stuff like drawing xmas trees using paint. My English teacher told me to do w/e I want since she can’t teach me nothing (not everyone in my class is as good as me so it brings me down – I’m okay with that). I just have no idea what do I do. 2,5 years to waste and then what? All I do is entertain myself – games, books, movies. Sometimes I feel like politics or psychology. That’s nothing useful. I just realized that I have no skills. I want a normal job but just the thought of learning something I don’t like makes me want to puke. I could eventually become a webmaster, just make myself do this hoping that one day I would enjoy it – but there are thousands of other problems like, do I need to go to college? To me education in general is just waste of time. But then I feel like they won’t take me in without it. Step in my shoes, I’m sure some of you been there. What do I do? I’m completely lost and afraid. I also feel the pressure from parents and don’t tell me to ignore it. I’m not that kind of dude.

Category: asked April 14, 2015

5 Answers

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Honestly, we're in the same boat. I'm 17 as well, and my future is coming up faster than I'd like. It's overwhelming, scary, and I feel like I'm suffocating. If not every night I cry because I'm stressed. I have no idea what I want to do with my life, and my parents don't help either. All I can say is just keep going. Do what you want. Because in the end, it's your life. That's what keeps my head up.
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Great. Anybody got actual advice?
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Hi Matt! First off, let me say I'm 25 and I'm still terrified about my future. I've been to art school and cosmetology school, and here I am working at a restaurant, not using my degree or my license. What I'm learning is that this is something everyone goes through; you're 17 so you have a ton of time to figure it out. Honestly, I would suggest going to college because yes, you'll probably need a degree to get where you want, but also because it's a good experience whether you're living at home or moving 1000 miles away like I did. I don't use my degree but having decided to go to college 3 months before I graduated high school, I'm so happy with what I learned about myself in those years. Go with what feels right.
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Huggable Cactus: That made me puke. Keep trying.(someone else)
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From what you've written I got the impression that your current program is too easy for you. Can you enrol in a more difficult one? If your teachers can't teach you anything any more, it makes sense you try something more challenging.
About learning things you don't like: every program has them. When you encounter something like that, you need to look at it from a different perspective. Those are obstacles you need to overcome to get to the end of the program. If finishing matters to you, you'll stop thinking about how much you hate a certain subjects and instead focus your attention on the material you need to learn. Feeling frustrated or angry or sorry for yourself won't help. You'll just waste time you could spend on learning the thing, be done with it and getting it out of your life.