you have to choose it at 16 where im from

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You can choose whenever you want but chances are that what you expect to be in life when you're 18 will change.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If you know what you want to do then you know what you want to do. There's nothing more or less than that. Age doesn't matter at all.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, but then you learn what you actually do and you're like, "This isn't at all how I imagined it. Fuck it" I know a lot of people like that... and I'm 20.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

that's why you shadow or take internships to make sure.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You usually can't do that til you're in college sophomore year, which is usually 18 +.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Considering pretty much everyone does it, and many people in this world are successful after doing so, it's not impossible and you must make that leap or else you never will.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Pretty much everyone does it, and pretty much everyone hates their job.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

that's not solely based on the fact that they chose their life at 18.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This is all relatively speaking. Aesthetically speaking someone might be labeled "successful", but happiness and satisfaction of the person wise, they may be miserable. That is why there are a lot of people who have "mid life crises", they realize they wasted half their lives and they end up quitting their job, divorcing their wife, and/or committing suicide. Wives may not be chosen at age 18, but where you want to go as far as careers start basically at 18, when you go to college.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

A lot of companies don't care exactly what degree you have. And just because you choose something at 18 and go to college for it doesn't mean that is what you have to do when you're twenty five. You can change it how ever many times you want.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes, I know... but Montana said that most people choose their life at 18 and that they end up doing well. You just backed up my argument. You're also saying that it is too young, because you're saying you won't necessarily end up doing (at 25) what you went initially thought you would (at 18). You're saying the same thing as op, just differently so I don't know why you're disagreeing with op

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I didn't say they are too young. Perhaps you wait until you are 37 before you decide what you want to do with your life. Then you might change your mind when you are 43. My point is that what you want to do at one age may not be what you want to do at another age, and that's ok. But you're never too young to know what you want to do right then. There is no law that says once you decide what you want to do that you can never change it; you're never too young.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No, but this post isn't talking about what you're currently doing? And who talks about that? Have you heard of long term planning? This post is talking about choosing your life course... not your day to day. Psychologically speaking, after a certain age, if you've grown up properly and faced all the crises that Erik Erikson talks about, you should be able to solidly say this is what I want to do with my life at one point and twenty years later, you should be satisfied with that decision.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think you are missing my point. Yes, of course you can decide what you want to do at 18 and still be satisfied with it twenty years later. I know what the psychological view on it, I am a psychology major. You are missing my point though. I am saying that just because you change it doesn't mean you were too young when you made the decision.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Isn't that EXACTLY what that means? You were too young to know what you wanted, you don't know any better, so you chose something that you THOUGHT was good, but went wrong

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No, that isn't what it means. What you want can change. It doesn't mean you are too young. It simply means that as we grow, we like different things. If it makes you happy right now, then it is good for you. But that doesn't mean you have to keep doing that for the rest of your life. Life is about experiences. Experience different things that make you happy. Changing your mind isn't always about being too young; a lot of the times, it's about growing.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I really can't keep arguing with you... everything you say contradicts everything else you say. You say that it doesn't mean you're too young and then you say, "as you grow." If you want, I will say that I lost this argument, because I can't keep arguing with you.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Sir, we grow continuously. I am sorry if you cannot comprehend what I am saying because it seems quite clear to me. I don't really care if you say you lost the argument because I don't really see this as an argument.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Okay yes, we grow continuously, so we are older at one point (say 59) than we were at a previous point (say 18). So since your wants usually change, you would say you are too young to know what you will want to do when you are 59, at age 18. Jobs aren't something that you change like clothe... it's better if they're a stable job, that way you can move up in the company and make more money and all that good stuff. The ideal life doesn't consist of realizing you hate your job and you can't stand spending another minute working there and struggling to find a new one.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm not saying the person has to hate their job. You never know what you will want years down the road. The important thing is to find something that makes you happy now that you intend to stick with until later down the road. Am I making any sense at all? Just because your wants change doesn't mean you were too young when you made the initial decision.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Im 13 and already know that I want to go into pediatric healthcare, and my dream job would be at Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia.........

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You should tell us how that turns out when you're 50....

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You know what. I fucking will. I will get a scholarship (or at least a part), go to Penn, become a pediatric anesthesiologist, be rollin in the Benjamins, and you'll be a funny little foot note on my epic ass.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Alright, til that day, then!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think it depends... some people are mature and ready at 18, some aren't until they're 98.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Criminal Psychology :]

by Anonymous 12 years ago