The thing is, I have no clue what I want to do once I get out of college.
I don't think I ever really did, to be honest. I remember when I was asked that question as a kid, I looked through a book about various jobs and decided botanist sounded okay and then stuck with that answer for years to avoid actually thinking about it. But that's not really an option when you get to high school. That's when you have to start thinking about college apps and ap courses and all that fun stuff, and try to figure out a possible future career that both provides a reasonable income and is at least somewhat enjoyable. So I might as well use this blog as a place to brainstorm and ramble about some of the possible jobs I might choose someday.
For my first entry, I think I'll start with my original childhood default answer. I really do love science: I love understanding how things work, I love seeing how all the different parts of nature fit together, I love finding out what kind of cool stuff is possible. So even if I didn't go into botany (which seems to have become the area I'm least interested in), researching something like chemistry or physics could easily be my dream job...in the sense that it's an unattainable ideal. I really doubt I'd be happy in such a competitive environment - obviously every job will have competition, but not to this degree. I feel like I'd be under constant stress trying to think of a possible explanation for this or that phenomena while it seems that everyone around me is excelling and/or double-crossing everyone else. Plus I'd probably make ten million silly arithmetic mistakes on any mathematical proofs of my concepts and get fired on the first day, and then what? It's not like it's a job that's in very high demand. You have to be the very best just to get hired once.
I do think I'd be interested in a career that at least involves some sort of science in some sort of way. I'll just need to think of one first.
And to conclude, here's a quote I've seen floating about that seems relevant here:
"My goal is not to wake up at age 40 with the bitter realization that I have wasted my life on a job I hate because I was forced to decide on a career in my teens."
