Career problems?

Is there some hurry?

I'm old. Looking back it now seems silly to me to have high school kids decide what career they should have. Especially today when college is so expensive. How can a person so young and inexperienced pick?

I think in England there is some tradition of backpacking for maybe a year before deciding. I went into the US Army to get money for college and it's the best thing I ever did. I was more mature when I went to college, had a better idea of what I wanted. There are so many careers most people don't even know about.

If not backpacking then just get a job, live by yourself. At the very least it'll make you work harder to get a career because you'll have experienced what it means to support yourself. In the Army there were a few kids there who'd fucked up college and their parents weren't going to keep paying. They got it ass backwards imo.

The normal male brain doesn't fully develop until 25 years old. Aspies may even need a little longer. I don't see the big rush.

BTW, when I was writing video games in my career there was an ex-patent attorney and ex-emergency room doctor who'd both quit their jobs to create video games. Picking a career in high school, not a great idea imo.

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