So earlier this year I had to pick my Year 11/12 subjects for school next year. Talk about nerve-racking! These choices may define the next ten years or so of my future! If I don't choose the right prerequisites for the university course I am hoping to take, I won't be able to get into that course, which means I'll have to do a uni degree I don't particularly want to do or I will have to do a TAFE course or go travelling overseas or work until I am old enough to qualify as a "mature-age student" and then go and do the course, which means I will be like 30/35 years old before I even start my career! So basically today just brought home to me how close my future is and how the decisions I make from this point on will really resonate with the rest of my life.
The thing is, since I was about four years old I have always wanted to be a vet. I even went and did work experience at a vet clinic earlier this year- helping to wash dogs, prepare animals for surgery and observe operations. I absolutely loved it but i can't help but wonder if in twenty or thirty years I will be so incredibly bored with that job- you know, desexing
another dog or de-fleaing another cat, just like every other day. Ho-hum. I mean, just in my week of being a workie I watched nine cat or dog desexings- yes
nine! In five days! The vet could practically do it with his eyes closed! So I am looking at other career options, and the one which stands out most to me is that of a primary school teacher. I love, nay adore, children- always have. Plus, lots of people tell me that I would be good as a teacher.
Only time will tell what happens and what I will become... I just wish I had a time machine to zoom ten years into the future and just know that I'm happy and OK.
But that is obviously NOT going to happen, so I'm just going to have to settle for making informed decisions that relate to every situation individually and hope it all works out.
Soory for this extremely self-indulgent post, I just wanted to send this out into cyberspace and see what comes back to me...
1 comments:
vet sounds good, i could never ever cut it as one though. Just the thought of all that blood *shudders*. Teacher sounds good as well, i personally don't have the patience with naughty kids to be one but i'm sure you would rock at whatever you put your mind to. Lucky for me, i still have 3 years until year 11/12 subject selection looms but i already have a fair idea of what i want. Creepy i know! As you probably know from reading my blog, i'm planning on becoming a journo. have a good week,
gege xx
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