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Growing Up Is Scary

Any idea of what you want to do with your life?

Abigail Ridpath
Aug 02, 2016
Simpson University
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Marci Ridpath

"So what do you want to do with your life?"

The dreaded question that all college students fear. For a long time I thought I had all the right answers. Graduate high school, then C=college, meet someone, get married, settle down and have kids. This still sounds like a pretty good plan except for the part where I'm single and not ready to have a husband or kids for at least a couple of years... (It might not have helped that I came up with this plan when Barbies were still really cool.) So what am I supposed to do in the mean time? Jeez, what am I supposed to do with my life?

I still like my original plan but it just needs to be adjusted. So I've been thinking and exploring ideas. I've discovered that I really want to live abroad for at least a year, I'd love to work at Disney but I still really want to get married and have kids. How do all of these things and ideas work together... That my friends is the 30,000 dollar, average college debt, question. The reality of the situation is that I have one year left in college aka the weirdest and awesomest time in anyone's life, and after this stepping stone I've got to make some decisions about what I want my life to look like. Am I someone who wants to make a bunch of money and support my over the top coffee habits? Or do I not care about that and I want to just kinda chill and go where life takes me?

There isn't anything wrong with either of these ideas but they can lead to very different lives. And if I do want a career what do I want that career to look like. I'm a music major in college so creative careers are definitely pretty appealing to me, but that isn't the type of career that you get shuffled into right after graduation. That is the type of job that you fight tooth and nail for in auditions and interviews. I'm pretty scrappy but if I really want to do this I am going to have to fight for it. Fight other people, well-meaning family and my own fears.

So, to answer your question, I'm not sure what I want to do with my life. But, I know that I want to be happy, I want to make the people I love happy and I want to do things that no one else has thought of because they are too crazy. After all Y.O.L.O and it might as well be an awesome life while I'm at it.

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