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At what age did you start thinking about the job you want to pursue?

^ lmfao im..

Ive always wanted to be a vet when i was younger (4-8) and to own a tiny farm and stuff like that. As time passed this dream kind of got swept away and I thought about following biochemistry for the looongest time. Now im starting to slowly see vet school as a choice again!! Idk what will happen till uni but im praying lmao.
 
I was 17 when I decided what I wanted to do.

I wanted to be a vet from the ages 5-12 I think, then didn't know what I wanted to do for a long time. About 16 ish I considered medicine and being a doctor, but my gosh am I thankful that I didn't do that. Then 17 I decided to go into engineering and I'm fairly happy with what I'm doing.
 
Do you think you were too young to be worrying about it at that time, or should you have had planned it out earlier?

Probably at least 9. I remember changing around what I wanted to do a lot but one day, one day when I was pretty young, I finally said "I wanna be a vet!"

Since then I've been trying my best to work with animals, both household animals and farm animals, so I'm pretty sure what I want is set.
 
I started thinking about what I wanted to be as soon as I knew what a ‘job’ was.
At 23, in my chosen career path, I still don’t know what I want to be LOL.

Slightly off-topic, but I think far too much pressure is put on kids to know exactly what they want to be when they grow up before they’ve actually had a chance to experience the world. I spent so much time stressing and trying to figure out the perfect job for me and where I’d work my entire life... I didn’t even know my current job existed when I was in high school.
 
I thought about it when I was really young till I went to university. By the time I got to uni I wasn't as motivated because college was boring (besides talking with friends ofc ^-^ ) so I missed the opportunity to persue my dream career. I hope to study again during my current job so I can live my dream again tho.
 
I actually think I started thinking about careers at a young age and started thinking about it less as I got older, mostly due to realizing I was too disabled and mentally ill to realistically be able to start my career anytime soon.

I still think whatever it'll be, it'll be something creative, whenever my career can start.
 
I'm 25 with a degree under my belt and a second in progress and I still don't know *exactly* what I want to do yet. :)

I'm on track to being qualified to work as a biomedical scientist by 2020 but I would like to specialise further. My interests are quite broad though and I'm not sure what area I would want to go into. Haematology and microbiology stand out to me most. Aside from that, I intend to have a writing career 'on the side' under a pseudonym.
 
I knew I wanted to do something art related when I realized I sucked at everything else lmao. No but really.. maybe my sophomore year in college I was really set on what I wanted to do. I'm working in that field now so it all worked out. But that's not to say I might change and try something new in the future.
 
I'm 18 and still no clue on what I wanna do.. I was thinking culinary, so I recently got a job as a line cook. However I'm starting to think it's not for me lol. I'm way too clumsy and the intense pressure/stress triggers my anxiety. ;/
 
I'm 18 and I still don't have anything planned out. I'm just trying to live at this point tbh.
 
i'm 25 and i believe at 25 i've figured it out, i don't really talk about it often though because it still feels too unrealistic for me. i used to stress about the way my life is way too much but i'm content with where i'm going rn, my dad didn't realise what he wanted to do until he was 28 and i've never seen anyone with so much job satisfaction so i'm trying not to put too much pressure on myself.
 
When I was young, I wanted to work in the army or law enforcement, but I became chronically mentally ill, so that's out the window. But I also wanted to be an author (I still do). Right now, my ambition is working as a clinical psychologist.
 
I always wanted to be a cowboy, my father is a rancher, so I will be too. One day I will get my own ranch but right now I work in the family ranch. Livestock is fun and important. well bye. * ride on horseback *
 
When I was 4, near to 5. My grandpa wanted me to join the military one day and considering he tells war stories for bedtime, I was inspired and wanted to follow his suggestion (I'm sure he was just joking because I have a frail body.) Nonetheless, I still wanted to be a part of some sort. So I kept reading war-related stuff and listening to veterans. Though, my path has changed (I'm an aspiring ENG-JP translator.) I still give time reading about history and war. Ha!
 
I was seven owo. I had a serious allergy to wheat and my mother took me to a naturopath to get advice and "healthy" medicines... I was immediately taken with the idea of being a "healthy doctor". I am just beginning to pursue this!
 
It's weird.
I had first wanted to become a lawyer when I was 10. I remember having the dream right when I was starting my 5th grade year with the start of the 2010-2011 school year. I had that dream for a little over two years from around August of 2010 until September of 2012, a month into my 7th grade year. By late 2012, I had decided to give up on the lawyer dream and I wanted to go into video game design or testing because we were doing a careers project in my gifted class (I was in gifted from 3rd through 8th grade, from 2008 to 2014) and as I was reading many of the cases lawyers were faced in dealing with, I was turned off by them and I had cared greatly about video games (I had been playing them since late 2008). I had this dream of working in the video game industry then during late 2012 and the first half of 2013.
But by mid-2013, I had pretty much gone 100% undecided during the summer between my 7th and 8th grade years. Really, until the end of my sophomore year of high school in 2016, I was still undecided-I remember early in that school year being asked for information by colleges in the fall of 2015 what I was planning on pursuing as my career and seeing what would change in our junior and senior years, and I put undecided in that form. But around that following summer or by the time I had started my junior year, I had gone back to the lawyer dream by mid-2016. I think what brought the dream back was that around late 2015-early 2016, I had become very concerned about politics because of the rise of Donald Trump (my family has always been Republican-leaning, and until around November of 2015, I considered my political views to be leaning with the party as well, but I soon began realizing Trump's rise and then the following month, he called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States, which I vehemently disagreed with). My increasing interest in and concern with politics that lasted from around November 2015 to March 2016 is a large reason as to why my dream of becoming a lawyer had come back by August of 2016. While the two may not seem that related, many lawyers do enter politics and both require much analysis of documents and so forth.
 
since the age of 14 i've always wanted to study diseases. i don't know what exact job though, but i'm really interested in parasites and stuff. should look into it more
 
i'm 28 and i'm basically just starting to think about it. don't get neck-deep in alcohol and crippling anxiety, boyz!
 
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