WHen someone asks you "what do you want to do"...

[PVD99]

Do you get skiddish or say "i am still figuring that out..."... I do all the time. At 24, am I too old to be thinking this way? Are these older people who are asking and have that puzzled look when you say "im not sure yet"... did THEY know what they wanted at 24? :0 I guess what I'm trying to say is...anyone else in this boat?

[Cole]

I say "I want to sing and dance and teach yoga and write a book and be a massage therapist and work abroad and travel and give tours of foreign countries and make pottery and take photography and act and cook and a few other things I can't think of right now..."

Then they say "no, I meant for a job"

and I say "I know. And that's what I want to do."

[shimmer728]

I hate that question. I like being a journalist very much, but who knows, there are other journalism-related fields that I'd probably like and do well in. I refuse to make a concrete decision at age 25 that I'm going to be writing for a newspaper the rest of my life.

[Jedi of Zen]

I have this weird trait where not only do I look young for my age (27), but I seem to be looking younger as I get older. So usually when I tell people that I'm in school, they tend to nod and assume that I'm at the "normal" part of my life (ie, right out of high school).

Then if they find out how old I am, I don't even bother giving them my life's story. Unless they ask.

[SunDevil]

Take over the world.

I really want to start a large international alternative energy company and make trillions of dollars. And when I do it, I look back on this post and say I called it. :)

[alanisjunkie]

that's what i answer, i'm a smart ass ;)

is 24 'too old' to not know??? i doubt many 24 yr olds (myself included) really know yet, my sis is 32 and still doesn't know, if that puts anything in perspective. I like the office space quote that if we all did what we 'want' no one would be a janitor! basically i'm just trying to find something tolerable, that has a decent future (no matter what the economy does, etc) and that pays decent, etc. life is about happy mediums and i've learned nothing's 'perfect' so my goal is to be happy more often than i'm not!

[lonestar]

I pissed off my family for like, six years because whenever they asked what I wanted to do, I would say something like "I want to be a street mime", "I want to sell pencils", or "I want to be a bus driver"...I wasn't serious (actually I would have LOVED to be a bus driver as wierd as that may sound), but it kept them on their toes. They wanted me to become a judge (wackos). I would have to say that my current career track is somewhere between "judge" and "street mime", so I split the difference.

[glitterchick81]

I frickin' hate that question. I thought I knew what I wanted to do but now I don't.

[shadeofgreen]

I want to be able to pay my bills and get out of debt. And not go back in.

I want to wake up in the morning and not dread going to work, and be able to sleep contendly at night and not lie awake hating myself for selling out to The Man.

All the other details are fuzzy.

[wordsmith]

Hell, I think it's way too young at nearly 30 to have to tie myself down to a particular field for the rest of my life. I don't buy it at all. I'm surrounded by people who have changed it up many, many times, at various stages of life. If I were to commit to a particular job right now, and look at it as permanent, I can't imagine how miserable that would make me. I like what I do, but I won't pretend that an entire life time of it (or any other one thing) stretching out in front of me is very appealing.

[Rocksiren]

LOL everybody! Im afraid to bring up anything new to my mom because she agknowledges it as "another wild hair up my ass". Which is at least partly true. But I know EXACTLY what you mean cole!

"Yeah well I would like to live in Bermuda by the ocean, doing my photography and art all day. Have a nice husband, maybe a few kids, room for dogs and a fun house where I can have my studio, including a room sized loom and a boat and know how to sail."

"No I meant for a job..."

"Oh you mean what do I HAVE to do in modern society- ah well, I want to have my week already planned out, one of those 8-5 deals where even if I lived near the ocean I could never get there because I have to be at work early and by the time I get out the sun is going down. And I have to wear an uncomfortable "uniform" of biz-casual, doing a monotonous job where I push papers and get irritated by my co-workers. Then after getting a pathetic paycheck at the end of the week, I spend it on a gallon of Niagara Pink wine, go home to my sad little apartment and drink it alone." Wow sorry, very very bleak and pretty much my life now BUT: I still live with my parents. Theres just no point in moving out right now.

[Lipgloss Boost]

Yeah see, for me that question isn't the issue. It's the follow-up statement, "Oh, wow - then you're pretty far off aren't you?" I want to work in parole, & typically I get asked this on-shift at the homeless shelter. I just want to say, "Well, um, f*ck off?" :rolleyes: