hipsterkittypostingteenybopper:
its kinda scary how your whole life depends on how well you do as a teenager
oh my god No it doesn’t don’t put this kind of pressure on people?? you can absolutely fuck up in your teen years and continue on to a good life just fine. you can drop out of school, get a GED, still go to college and finish your degree as late as you want. i know people in my school who still haven’t graduated and they’re 26. some older. you can always transfer someplace else, always build yourself up from the ground. after a certain amount of college credits, a lot of schools really don’t care about your high school GED or your SAT scores anymore. if you fuck up in your teenage years you are not a failure!! you can ALWAYS re-invent yourself, always start over. there is always a second chance.
Reblogging this for my followers freaking out over art school/college. I dropped out of high school and never thought I’d get into college as easily as I did. You will be fine!
Fun story my biology professor just told us: When he was 23 he was married to his wife and worked two jobs to support them since she was in college: gas station attendant and construction worker. He worked these two jobs because that was the only work he could get since he was at the reading level of a third grader.
One night he was writing something and his wife noticed he was writing from right to left. Since she was studying occupational therapy she realized he had a learning disability and started working with him. He slowly began to learn to read, and at 26 got his GED and went to college.
His first year of college he took the lowest level math course he could take, 001. Over the years he worked on learning what he needed to, ended up graduating with a biology degree. He then went on to get his masters and PhD, graduating at the top of his class. He is now an extremely accomplished biologist and professor.
So don’t let anyone tell you that you’re future is based on your choices as a teenager.
Seriously. Do not believe this. You aren’t even stuck with your choices you make in your 20s. I didn’t start working in my current field until just after my 30th birthday. It has nothing to do with what I went to school for in my 20s. My husband has a political science degree, and he’s a sports journalist.
You are not tied to anything. Go. Be.
My day job did not exist when I was a teenager. And the idea of trying to be an author was a distant thing on my radar. I thought I was going to be an English teacher. And then I thought I was going to be a music teacher. And then I thought I was going to be a drama teacher.
Also in there: therapist, early childhood educator, then finally: web developer–because by then it was an actual thing that existed. I didn’t actually figure out what I “wanted to do when I grew up” until about eight years ago, when I was 36. I tried pursuing writing when I was 30, stopped, then started pursuing it seriously again when I was 40.
There is always time to change. And don’t let anyone tell you that high school is “the best time of your life” either, because that’s bullshit too.
Reblogging for my followers. My high school teachers didn’t know what to do with me, and I failed everything but a low photography grade. I thought university wasn’t for me, and settled for marrying a mediocre man who spent all day on Warcraft. Then I went to community college. Now I’m in uni doing a double English and philosophy degree, just back from America. I am also single.
Also, for the struggling college students out there, my father barely passed high school, flunked out of college during his first semester, and worked in a truck shop for the next 6 or 7 years. Then, he made a trip down to Auburn with a friend and decided he wanted to try going back to school. After the time off from school to figure himself out, he was able to go through Auburn’s engineering program and graduate with a 4.0. He then went on to get his MS and PhD in engineering, work for multiple different companies across the nation, teach at Auburn, and start an engineering program at the university he teaches at now, and now he is one of the highest ranked professors at the school. Don’t feel rushed to go straight through school.
I’m 26 and I will finally finish my bachelors degree by the time I’m 28 after spending almost 7 years at community colleges.
Also, there are successful people who didn’t go to college, my dad being one of them. He flunked out of college, said fuck it and went to work for the LA DWP. Loved his job even though it was tough, worked for 37 years and retired with enough money to help support my education on top of the rest of my family so we can life comfortably.
It’s not about how you get there, it’s about getting there.
My mum left school when she was sixteen. At seventeen, she ran away and joined the navy. She had no qualifications whatsoever.
Now, in her sixties, she has two master’s degrees and also helped develop the MBTI (she’s a psychologist).
I’m 27. I’ll probably have my bachelor’s at 29. I wasn’t even thinking about computer science when I was a teenager – I was pretty sure at that point that I was going to be a virtuoso violinist. I spent years and years in community college studying acting and music and art in general – and then I did an about-face and started studying STEM instead. I’m thinking of going into tech writing if I can’t find anything as a programmer (though I think I probably will.)
And if I do an about-face again, that would be okay too. Grandma Moses didn’t do the painting she was famous for until she was an old woman.
Just keep going. If school doesn’t work for you, there is lots of other stuff going on. We have a huge demand for trade skills right now, just as one idea. I took a welding class and was seriously considering welding for a while.
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