Messed up the first time around

M_s_Mom
Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:50:57 +0000

"I had fun and pursued what I was interested in instead of thought about my future. I believed the idiots who say “do what you do best and the road will reveal itself to you.”

The only idiot here is the one who thought that advice meant that he didn’t need to do anything else in order to figure out his next steps after college. No internships. No visit to the career center. No informational interviews with alums in his senior year to check out fields he might want to work in. No pre-professional societies because they were ‘boring.’ In short, the idiot didn’t look ahead to see what else he was supposed to be doing WHILE he was having fun and waiting for the revelation.

Seriously, for any student who is entering their senior year of college, there are lots of resources on any college campus for which your tuition is paying. If you don’t use them, you have only yourself to blame. This is what being an adult is about - not blaming others for your lack for foresight.

Apparently, your time out of school has been helpful since you seem to have found that new direction - engineering. Going back to school to take a few more classes so you can change directions is what lifelong learning is about. Most of us will have to do it at least once in our lives. And this time, use the resources around you to anticipate the job market and where you fit in it.