The last year
of high school is known to be a stressful one. Students face the idea that they
are about to go into “the real world”. With new challenges and drastic changes
is not surprising that students might get a little worried about their future
goals. Personally, one of the things that worry me the most is that I’m not
sure if my dream job can provide me economic stability. My goal is to study
journalism, but the thing is that I’m afraid I wouldn’t get a job doing what I
love after graduating from college. I don’t care about the money, I could
actually do my job for free. But in the world we are living nowadays money is
indispensable to survive and this is the reality of many.
Senior
students, see the hard economic situation that our country is going through and
get more worried than what they already are. Is it really worth it to study
what you love although there are millions of college graduated students without
a job? This is a persistent question in my mind, but I think I haven’t found an
answer to it yet. The idea of spending four or eight years of my life studying
something and afterwards being unemployed terrifies me. But I think it is
better than spending your whole life doing a job you hate just for surviving.
So, I will just dare the circumstances and study what I really love. Perhaps I
wouldn’t easily find a job, or have enough money but at least I will be happy
and glad that I fulfil my goal.
Aside from
the economic situation, most students haven’t even set up their goals yet. They
don’t have any idea of what they are going to do after high school. Many of
them haven’t find an appealing career or simply don’t want to attend college.
Most of those who don’t want to go to college are merely afraid of the changes
it brings. Young people sometimes just don’t want to get out of their comfort
zone and take new challenges. Those, in my opinion, are the ones that conform
doing a job they hate -to survive- just because they weren’t up to give a
chance to their dreams.
Humans, in
their nature, are conformist. If they don’t like something they just get used
to it, because it is easier that way. I must admit that I enjoy my comfort
zone, as everyone else. But I’m glad I have been encouraged since I was a kid
to achieve my goals no matter how hard they could seem. Because otherwise I had
be unhappy. And I have realized that afterwards, when you get out of that dangerous
comfort zone and begin walking the path towards your goal, it is not as hard as
it seemed in the beginning.
I’m a young
soul but that must not stop me from giving a piece of advice to anyone who
needs it. People say life is short, but in fact went it gets hard it may seem
long. You should decide whether you are going to live it doing what you love or
just survive through live doing something you hate regretting your choice. I
haven’t find the answer to the question I made before. But I have made a
choice, and I’m up to live my life. I hope yours doesn’t seem long.
