Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life?
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
I didn’t.
I have no fucking idea. I just finished HS, still don’t know. So I’ll go to college. Something in IT, I didn’t even check the specifics or subjects until I was already accepted and signed up. All I know is the program is regarded as one of the hardest, described by past students as “Vietnam war”, with one of the first recommendations to pass being “Get a therapist.”
I’ll probably get kicked out after 1st semester due to math. I am not good at it, and it’s apparently quite hard there, though not the worst either.
Hopefully not. I don’t know what else to do.
Now, if my future paycheck wasn’t a problem (i.e. not living in capitalist society), I’d know precisely what I’d want to do, and I known so since 1st year of HS. I wouldn’t even need college.
Step 1 is getting a driver’s license (just for regular cars), probably just due to bureaucracy. Step 2, sign up for train driver’s course at ZSSK. The course itself is 6 months, then 720 hours of practice and after finishing the state exam, you finally become an actual train driver. So around a year.
But it isn’t paid so well.
In IT, preferably something around wireless telecommunications and networking. The faculty I’ll be going to apparently has their 2G, 3G and 4G networks students can play around with (from their website). But when I asked about it on open doors day I was met with “We have that? Maybe.”
Asking about telecommunications, I got ping ponged between 2 faculties of the same university. Students from faculty of electrical engineering told me that if somewhere it’s something offered on faculty of informatics. Staff of faculty of informatics told me it’s most likely to be found on faculty of electrical engineering.
So I don’t fucking know what I am getting myself into.
naught101@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Pretty good approach. Most of the most interesting people I know started adult life doing one thing, and eventually switched to another thing. Maybe after one or two years of an undergrad, maybe after 15 years of a career.
I’ve got one friend in his late 30s who has been a highschool teacher for over a decade, and is still thinking of switching careers to be a train driver. He does public transport activism a bit too. I reckon you could head into the train network with IT skills anyway - maybe as some kind of network operator. Not quite the same thing, but aligned…
I would say that you should absolutely take maximum advantage of any electives offered to get as broad a taste of what’s available as possible. That’s what will give you ideas about where to head next.