u/Aggravating_Shoe_

Hello fellow Redditors

I have seen a lot of posts here lately of people who have no idea what to study or career to pursue. That are either very passionate about fields with low rate of returns or don't have much passion to base their decision on. So I thought I would write something up that might be helpful, if it's not then oh well cause it's free ☝️🤓

Lifestyle and retirement

There are many types of lifestyles someone can live and none are necessarily wrong. But it's important to have control in choosing what type of lifestyle you want and what is most important, rather than being forced into one.

Some people only want to be home playing video games and don't mind having roommates.

Some people want a luxurious lifestyle with a mansion and full of traveling.

Some people want to basically retire early, get enough capital to buy rental properties for passive income.

Some people just want to live comfortably and not worry about spending.

Some want to grind away and retire in their 40s.

Some want a large family and to provide them stability, maybe be in a position to pay for their kids' school.

Maybe you just want a basic government job for that pension 🤤?

There are many ways to live life. You only get one so it's important to make the most out of it, but what's important is different for everyone. Figure out the type of life you want first, then the career that will get you there.

Edit- Adding a good point from a response

"The only thing l'd probably add is that I dont think people should become too focused on finding their "passion" before making a decision. In my experience, passion usually follows competence. Most people don't wake up passionate about a career they've never done. They become passionate because they get good at it, start making an impact, and enjoy the opportunities it creates. Waiting to feel completely certain can sometimes stop people from ever getting started."

Passion with low rate of return

If you are super passionate about something that work wise won't be enough to live, you don't have to give up on your passions. Instead, find a career that has a good work life balance that will give you plenty of time to pursue your passions outside of work while not having to worry about how you will pay your bills.

There are other jobs out there like this but my background is healthcare so that's the example I'll use. Healthcare isn't for everyone, but jobs like nursing or radiography techs that pay decent, only take an associates degree, and have work schedules of 3x 12/hrs gives you 4 days a week to do what you love. If you have a passion that some people are able to make money off of but it's rare, work towards that with the flexibility in time these jobs provide. If your passion takes off then great! Leave the career and focus more on that passion.

Another career that's flexible on time and pays well that comes to mind is field insurance adjusters (contracted you'll earn more than staffed), but I'm lazy and wouldn't wanna climb on a roof. Just search for careers with good work hours.

College

Not everyone needs to go to college. If what you want to do doesn't need college then skip.

Unless you are a nepo baby or otherwise have your school paid for GO👏 TO👏 A👏 COMMUNITY👏 COLLEGE👏

If you are dead set that you want to get a degree but have no idea what you want to get it in? Go to community college and focus on the general education requirements you'll need to graduate while you figure out that other part. But honestly in general, community college is so much cheaper, don't go into extra unnecessary debt.

There are very few careers where school prestige matters. If your goal is to become a professor at a prestigious university, then go to a prestigious school. But most of the time, in my opinion, it doesn't matter.

If you go to college, don't just go to class. Experience often trumps education. While you are in college, find internships or volunteer, network, do research, whatever you do just do more. It can be hard, I had to work full time while in school full time with another part time gig but it's not forever and it's important to set that strong foundation. I got my current job because of the volunteer work I did. Don't volunteer just for hours somewhere you'll just be sitting twiddling your thumbs, find somewhere to volunteer that will give you skills to put on a resume. Free/Charitable clinics are great for this for more than just pre-clinical folks. I volunteer at one as their volunteer coordinator, they have a lot of administration opportunities that if it were as a job you'd need experience to get experience. Volunteering also looks good character wise.

Job outlook and AI

Refer to the bureau of labor statistics

It is important to look into whatever career or the goal you have, research the job outlook and pay expectations. Is this field growing or shrinking? How hard or easy will it be to find a job in this field in say 5 years when I'm done with the education or training? How much can I expect to earn?

I think it is also important to think through whether your career is safe from AI, and for how long. Is it a field that will be completely replaced by AI? Is it a field that AI can't touch (fields that rely on physically doing something seem pretty safe to me for now)? Is it a field with regulations that would prevent AI from taking over for the time being (like law and medicine which have strict laws on practicing without a license)? Does this field have a required human element (like an actuary)? Is it a field that will be adapted by AI but not completely replaced?

I will add a comment with some questions to ask yourself. Apologies for the long post!

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How would you like to be recognized?

Hello!

I work as a volunteer coordinator in hospice, I run a veterans recognition program that includes a final salute and pinning ceremony for our veterans. We also interview the patient/family and create a written story and some other things. It is meaningful for our patients, but even more so for the families.

I would like to explore starting formal recognition ceremonies for certain populations. I want to start with those I'd consider essential to the communities, one of those being our retired law enforcement. I do not work in any of these fields, so I ask you Redditor's how would you want to be recognized?

What type of details would you want recorded and recognized about your life? What would you want your family or community to remember you and your life's work by?

For our veterans, we try to bring veterans or active duty personnel to the ceremony. Is there some position that you would appreciate attending other than family?

Are there any poems that resonate with you or your experiences? We use I am a veteran by Andrea Brett

What would feel meaningful and what would feel uncomfortable to be asked?

I am looking for an open discussion and I am open to any and all suggestions. The above questions are just examples. I plan to pull from my veterans template but would like to make the program specific to each profession. 

Thanks!

Hello fellow Redditors,

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I'm 21, aged out of foster care and have not seen my 'father' in over 8 years. It involved physical and sexual abuse as well as medical neglect. I mean I was locked in a dog cage and constantly directed to end things. Even before being removed, he walked in and out of my life so I'm not sure how much of a father I'd consider him. I also have not seen my mother in about 12 years. It's been about half my life without parents and just bouncing around the state in different crappy group homes or facilities. There was no trusting or stable adult, when I was raped in care I had no one to go to and had to sneak out of the 'home' to a clinic for testing. I just wish I had parents.

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Not too long ago, I requested my records from care. I was trying to request from the actual time I was in care but instead was sent the abuse hotline reports that led to being removed and the years and years before that.

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It contained information I had not known, and other information in prior reports that did not lead to removal that was incorrect. The information I hadn't known before was pretty blatantly them wanting me to die. It resurfaced this confusing state of knowing I should hate them but I just feel nothing towards anything, which has been for the past couple of years. I can't even say I love you to others. Even when I graduated college with an abundance of awards I felt no joy, only that I didn't deserve to be in this position because of the statistics of my peers' outcomes.

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I've gotten pretty far in life without them, teaching and supporting myself. Financially I think I'm going very well for my age, I just started a new job at 50k, I've saved over 50k between my Roth IRA and other savings/investments, I went from having to drop out after 8th grade to getting a GED and finishing college. I work in hospice and volunteer my time as a court appointed advocate for other foster youth. But I guess it's just lonely, I can do so much for others but for myself I freeze and don't know what to do. I spend any free time not working/volunteering just laying in bed staring at the ceiling. So much of foster care is just sitting and waiting since you're not even allowed outside that it is just my normal.

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That's all, I just wonder what he thinks on these types of days. If he even thinks of me, is he celebrating? Is he going to get a free donut for 'being a father'?

Hello fellow depressos

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I'm 21, aged out of foster care and have not seen my 'father' in over 8 years. It involved physical and sexual abuse as well as medical neglect. I mean I was locked in a dog cage and constantly directed to end things. Even before being removed, he walked in and out of my life so I'm not sure how much of a father I'd consider him. I also have not seen my mother in about 12 years. It's been about half my life without parents and just bouncing around the state in different crappy group homes or facilities. There was no trusting or stable adult, when I was raped in care I had no one to go to and had to sneak out of the 'home' to a clinic for testing. I just wish I had parents

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Not too long ago, I requested my records from care. I was trying to request from the actual time I was in care but instead was sent the abuse hotline reports that led to being removed and the years and years before that.

​

It contained information I had not known, and other information in prior reports that did not lead to removal that was incorrect. The information I hadn't known before was pretty blatantly them wanting me to die. It resurfaced this confusing state of knowing I should hate them but I just feel nothing towards anything, which has been for the past couple of years. I can't even say I love you to others. Even when I graduated college with an abundance of awards I felt no joy, only that I didn't deserve to be in this position because of the statistics of my peers' outcomes.

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I've gotten pretty far in life without them, teaching and supporting myself. Financially I think I'm going very well for my age, I just started a new job at 50k, I've saved over 50k between my Roth IRA and other savings/investments, I went from having to drop out after 8th grade to getting a GED and finishing college. I work in hospice and volunteer my time as a court appointed advocate for other foster youth. But I guess it's just lonely, I can do so much for others but for myself I freeze and don't know what to do. I spend any free time not working/volunteering just laying in bed staring at the ceiling. So much of foster care is just sitting and waiting since you're not even allowed outside that it is just my normal.

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That's all, I just wonder what he thinks on these types of days. If he even thinks of me, is he celebrating? Is he going to get a free donut for 'being a father'?

Hello and happy Father's Day to anyone celebrating.

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I'm 21, aged out of foster care and have not seen my 'father' in over 8 years. It involved physical and sexual abuse as well as medical neglect. I mean I was locked in a dog cage and constantly directed to end things. Even before being removed, he walked in and out of my life so I'm not sure how much of a father I'd consider him. I also have not seen my mother in about 12 years. It's been about half my life without parents and just bouncing around the state in different crappy group homes or facilities. There was no trusting or stable adult, when I was raped in care I had no one to go to and had to sneak out of the 'home' to a clinic for testing. I just wish I had parents

​

Not too long ago, I requested my records from care. I was trying to request from the actual time I was in care but instead was sent the abuse hotline reports that led to being removed and the years and years before that.

​

It contained information I had not known, and other information in prior reports that did not lead to removal that was incorrect. The information I hadn't known before was pretty blatantly them wanting me to die. It resurfaced this confusing state of knowing I should hate them but I just feel nothing towards anything, which has been for the past couple of years. I can't even say I love you to others. Even when I graduated college with an abundance of awards I felt no joy, only that I didn't deserve to be in this position because of the statistics of my peers' outcomes.

​

I've gotten pretty far in life without them, teaching and supporting myself. Financially I think I'm going very well for my age, I just started a new job at 50k, I've saved over 50k between my Roth IRA and other savings/investments, I went from having to drop out after 8th grade to getting a GED and finishing college. I work in hospice and volunteer my time as a court appointed advocate for other foster youth. But I guess it's just lonely, I can do so much for others but for myself I freeze and don't know what to do. I spend any free time not working/volunteering just laying in bed staring at the ceiling. So much of foster care is just sitting and waiting since you're not even allowed outside that it is just my normal.

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That's all, I just wonder what he thinks on these types of days. If he even thinks of me, is he celebrating? Is he going to get a free donut for 'being a father'?

Hey Orlando,

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I saw a post asking about where to get fresh produce with snap and thought this was a good resource to share. It helps stretch snap on fresh produce/seeds by matching 1:1

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Hopefully someone finds this helpful!

I'm sitting at 6 but feel like I need to get that number up