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Some things I wish I knew when I was in high school.
6 years ago
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I've seen a lot of fur kiddos graduating high school, and I feel I need to break my silence on this... to me, graduating means about as much to me as a participation award now. There're only 3 things that matter. Do you plan on going to college? Do you have one of the 4 necessary life skills to succeed? Did you waste time doing a subject or activity you don't actually care about just to make someone else happy?
The first one. Do you plan on going to college? If the answer is yes, then everything you learned in high school suddenly becomes far more relevant, and your grades matter. For me, I had no plans to go to college except for the "aspirations" my parents had planned for me. They kept telling me I needed good grades for college, but I had no idea why i was going to college, and was only told, "You should have been doing research on careers!". Except that's not what i was pushed to do at all. Our careers course in high school was useless, and my parents were too busy working to ever help me decide. So I'm going to tell YOU now. Do not dick around, do not waste time. Employers want their employees as young as possible and with as much information as possible. The longer you wait to decide, the less valuable you become. If you decide you want a career from college, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A PLAN AND STICK WITH IT! And absolutely make sure that the college will teach you what you need and isn't some SJW indoctrination center like a good chunk of them are becoming now.
The second one. Do you have one of the 4 necessary life skills to succeed? You only need one of these four, but you absolutely need one of them. Speed, precision, strength, or social skills. Trust me, if you don't have one of those 4 skills, as Sans once said, "You're in for a bad time." You need to focus on at LEAST one of these skills and make sure you are superb at it, and focus your career on that. if you have to drop out of school to avoid learning useless information to be good at your career, there's no shame in it (unlike what some jerks peer pressure you to believe). And yes, a lot of jobs require at least a high school diploma, but it's mostly because of govt interference. Make sure you look at job listings for the job field you end up taking an interest in so you get a good idea of what's expected from you. Indeed is a very good site to give you trends into what jobs are looking for.
The third question. Are you wasting time just to make someone else happy? If the answer is yes, stop. Your life should NOT be for someone else's benefit. It should be for yours. If they're making you do something you hate, the money is not worth it. It needs to be a job you are both good at and love. If they threaten you for it, you need to grow a pair and stand up for yourself. However, defying them means nothing if you waste your time and don't choose a career path, as I've made very clear in the last two paragraphs. So yeah... high school should be all about career prep. And if you're not going to career prep... yeah, you're going to be massively handicapped for a long time :/
Anyway, that's all I wanted to say on the subject. Hope this helps some fur kids out.
The first one. Do you plan on going to college? If the answer is yes, then everything you learned in high school suddenly becomes far more relevant, and your grades matter. For me, I had no plans to go to college except for the "aspirations" my parents had planned for me. They kept telling me I needed good grades for college, but I had no idea why i was going to college, and was only told, "You should have been doing research on careers!". Except that's not what i was pushed to do at all. Our careers course in high school was useless, and my parents were too busy working to ever help me decide. So I'm going to tell YOU now. Do not dick around, do not waste time. Employers want their employees as young as possible and with as much information as possible. The longer you wait to decide, the less valuable you become. If you decide you want a career from college, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A PLAN AND STICK WITH IT! And absolutely make sure that the college will teach you what you need and isn't some SJW indoctrination center like a good chunk of them are becoming now.
The second one. Do you have one of the 4 necessary life skills to succeed? You only need one of these four, but you absolutely need one of them. Speed, precision, strength, or social skills. Trust me, if you don't have one of those 4 skills, as Sans once said, "You're in for a bad time." You need to focus on at LEAST one of these skills and make sure you are superb at it, and focus your career on that. if you have to drop out of school to avoid learning useless information to be good at your career, there's no shame in it (unlike what some jerks peer pressure you to believe). And yes, a lot of jobs require at least a high school diploma, but it's mostly because of govt interference. Make sure you look at job listings for the job field you end up taking an interest in so you get a good idea of what's expected from you. Indeed is a very good site to give you trends into what jobs are looking for.
The third question. Are you wasting time just to make someone else happy? If the answer is yes, stop. Your life should NOT be for someone else's benefit. It should be for yours. If they're making you do something you hate, the money is not worth it. It needs to be a job you are both good at and love. If they threaten you for it, you need to grow a pair and stand up for yourself. However, defying them means nothing if you waste your time and don't choose a career path, as I've made very clear in the last two paragraphs. So yeah... high school should be all about career prep. And if you're not going to career prep... yeah, you're going to be massively handicapped for a long time :/
Anyway, that's all I wanted to say on the subject. Hope this helps some fur kids out.
I greatly appreciate your wisdom
(The quote is 'You're gonna have a bad time.', by the way.)
What jobs would be great with the other skills, though?