Hhahah I accidently posted this by mistake the other day, clicked publish instead of save. So sorry if it seems a bit odd. I just wanted to make a little talky update.
Since I am currently on a gap year it can get a bit stressfull around now that I should start to send in applications for universities. Why? Because I have absolutely no clue of what I really want to do with my life. I know that I don't want anything too focused on maths, science or marketing but I also know that picking educations that are only focused on the creative side quickly can run me dry of inspiration and I'm really not all that great with languages and writing. It all seems like a big no, no but then again - what is there?
I was thinking.... can any of you give any good advice on how to figure out what's good for you? Sometimes there's a huge difference between liking to do something and to actually study it ever so often.
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ReplyDeleteI went through the same, all of my friends decided to study business admin because it covers lots of things, others went for the money and I was like, crick crick. one day looking at all the careers I saw Arts! and something inside me clicked, got it! this is for me, art history. studied that a couple of years but the university was insane so had to drop, now I'm studying advertising but I really feel inside of me that I should have stick with Arts. sorry for my long story, just sit down and read about every career, even the ones you would normally never read and forget about the money, prestige and stuff, needs to be something you enjoy and you would like to have that knowledge even if you don't get to share it, just because it makes you feel good to know it, could be photography, tourism, communication, interior design, etc. good luck pangcakes!:D
ReplyDeleteOh - well why don't you go back to Arts then? I was getting all excited for you but it seems like you regret switching from Arts? Nevertheless thank you for your story. I am considered everything! You never know!
DeleteI was in the same situation as well. So I really understand this feeling of not knowing what to do. And then I had a talk with a study counselor, it's like an institue where counselors help students to find out what they're good at and so on (I don't know if you have this kind of things in Denmark, I live in Switzerland) I did some tests about my interests and stuff, and through that I heard the first time about architecture (obviously I knew what architecture was, but never thought of it as a career or job). So now I've studied it for 2 years and I couldn't be happier:) Maybe it's something for you as well, it's creative work but you also do other stuff like history or economics. good luck!:)
ReplyDeleteOh yeah... didn't actually consider study counselor because I don't have that great experience with them but I should probably pay them a visit. I guess they could tell me something my friends wont. Thanks!
DeleteTry talking to your friends who are college students/graduates.They might give you an advice on what they think you can take as a career. They can give you good advice since they already experience going to college. I'm a fine arts graduate and I think that you have a potential doing: film making(since you like making/editing videos), fashion/styling related courses, photography, or multimedia. :)
ReplyDeleteThat's the thing. There is actually a MINIMUM of my friends who are students. We're all on gap year and a lot are on their second gap year! But I have always had some sort of art/multimedia in mind but I'm scared it's just a hobby really. I'm really not sure if I would make it in the competition. But thanks!
DeleteI know exactly how you're feeling right now. I am in my first year at university so around this time last year I was sending out applications and I had no idea what I wanted to do. I was scared because everyone over-emphases that what you choose now is going to define you. That is huge pressure! no one wants to get stuck in something and realize it 1 year or 2 down the road and have to start all over again. However, I got some advice that possibly helped me from making that mistake.
ReplyDeleteMy old teacher (grade 8 teacher actually helped me). He told me that whatever I choose, make sure it is something you love (seem obvious right?) But sometimes we get caught up in things like 'will this provide for me financially?' 'is it a dead end?' 'will my parents accept me if i do this?' but down the road it is you and you alone who is going to go to those classes on whatever topic, read the books on whatever topic and be fully immersed in it. Would you really want to choose something that you didn't completely enjoy?
I am 3/4s of the way done my first year of study in crime and I couldn't be happier. I see friends and peers of mine who dropped out, switched schools, and had to start over again because they picked topics that they thought had a lot of money or is more logical (as appose to creative). My advice to you is to study what you enjoy. Don't fear that you will lose inspiration. If anything - studying what you want to do will inspire you! you will learn things that you might not have learned otherwise! You will love the program you are studying because it is a true interest of yours!
Sorry for the long post, and I know it sounds cliche, but follow your interests and you won't go wrong! It's as simple as that... Good luck choosing! :)
I absolutely love your comments! It's much appreciated and even though I have to admit that it is a big cliché and obvious it still made me think and I feel like it really helped. I would say that the 'dead end' is definitely a problem I've had. I just hate the idea of wating my time on things that will lead me nowhere or that I just don't love. I guess you're right though, it's all about what you really enjoy doing. Thank you very much for your post!
DeleteI know how you feel, it's been two years now since I graduated highschool and it was not until a few months ago that I knew that what I wanted to do with my life was cooking. And even though I've been cooking all my life I never thought of it as a career ! My advice to you is that you talk to your friends and parents of what they think you could be good at. A month ago, I heard a psycologist talking about this. She said "If you don't know what to do with your life, then think about the things you did as a child. For example, if in your free time you enjoyed writing, then be a journalist. If you loved playing music, then be a musician." She then said that when we're younger we tend to be more conected to that part of ourselves, that it's easier to realize what we want to do with our lives.
ReplyDeleteSo try that! I hope that works, trust your instincs.
Sorry for the long post and my english hahah
Good luck choosing :D
P.s. I love your style guurl , you're beutiful!Kisses from Argentina!
That is a great quote, I like it. I definitely have gone down a sad road where I keep looking back at myself and I can't help but think 'GOD I was so much more motivated to do things in life. I feel like I could endless of things and I have infinitive creativity. Now I feel all old and drained.' That psychologist has a point, thank you for sharing!
Deleteyou don't really have to be good at something to go study it, you have to like the idea of studying it. I mean it has to be interesting for you, cause you will learn 1 million things around it, so you don't have to be already a genius on that field, otherwise what's the point of studying it? For ex. I studied journalism and mass communication and i don't like reportage. i think you should consider graphic designing. :)
ReplyDeleteGood luck anyway :)
You're right. We'll see, wont we. It's all so difficult right now but thanks!
DeleteDidn't you once say you wanted to do something like film editing? Why don't you do that? You could study media design. In m college there's also a media design sector where you can learn how to make and edit videos, do 3D-modelling or animation movies. I think it would be a pretty cool thing for you because you already do a videos and you seem to enjoy it, so why not learning it and make a profession out of it? :)
ReplyDeleteI guess it's because I had media/filmmaking in secondary high school, the one I graduted from, and I didn't really like it in the end but it was different and more controlled --- just not as I imagined. I have the feeling that if I go into multimedia it's gonna be different because it's more focused and there's space for me. I'm just really nervous I got myself figured out all wrong, you know? That media is really not my passion, it's just something I do right now and I'll get past it. But then again, I wont know till I give a shot, right? Thank you for your comment :)
DeleteOne thing that helped me choose my current study, is to talk to my friends about it. They would tell me that I was good in drawing, designing and creative stuff. But I never thought myself of being really good at it and thought that I wouldn't be able to stick with it, it was just something I enjoyed to do.. So I just ignored the comments and applied for a study which I thought that was safe and avoid real hard challenges, I took the easy way out. In my case (I live in the Netherlands) you must apply for a university even before you're actually graduated, so you can guess already, I flunked. I must say it was the best thing that happened to me.
ReplyDeleteI realised that some things don't fall so easily, you have to actually work for it. I never took challenges at that point in life, so when I graduated that year, I took one. I chose to study 'Industrial design'. I knew that I really liked designing things, graphic and even the calculations parts, but I also knew that I was BAD at presenting.
I challenge myself to become better at presenting and do the things I love to do even when I knew that it will be a though road. At times I still think 'What the heck am I doing here?' but afterwards I still am glad I over won myself.
Soo in the end.. Don't be afraid of doing the things you love the most. You may think you will run dry on inspiration, but you'd be surprised at how many techniques you will learn on how to gain it!
Good luck! (sorry for the long story btw :P )
I like hearing stories of people flunking out to be honest, haha. It makes me less nervous and tense about the possibility of choosing the wrong thing and then going in other directions. It's been a huge fear, I'm glad you found out what you wanted or what you wanted MORE than what you originally decided on. I guess I wont go too safe when I send in applications. Thank you!
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ReplyDeleteJeg synes klart du skal lave noget med video!
ReplyDeleteTRO mig jeg ved alt om det der! Jeg fylder 25 om lidt og har stadig ikke valgt uddannelse. Gik et år på arkitekskolen, som var gav mig reelt stress og depression og så måtte jeg gå ud, selvom jeg egentligt var glad for alt det jeg lærte. Men nu tager jeg et kreativt grundforløb på teknisk skole, som er NOGET mindre udfordrende. Men jeg kan mærke at jeg elsker det kreative og at jeg har brug for mere udfordring end teknisk skole, men dog ikke så meget at det bliver mit liv. Jeg tænker du måske skal overveje det samme. At ligesom finde en middelvej- For mig bliver den film- og medievidenskab til sommer, fordi jeg så tænker det er lidt mere bredt, for jeg ved stadig ikke hvad jeg vil. Så prøv at find en midt-imellem "KARRIERE-KANON" og slacker - og hvis du ikke kan overskue det kreative, hvilket jeg godt kan forstå - da det kan give mig SÅ meget pres oven i hovedet - så find et studie hvor der er elementer af det. Fx "visuel kommunikation" på Mediehøjskolen eller nogle af alle de der Business/design-agtige uddannelser. Prøv at undersøg KEA fx. MEN allervigtigst her til sidst bør du undersøge et studie jeg har en veninde der går på: det hedder humanistisk informatik på en København-afdeling af Aalborg Universitet.
Good luck, you'll get there somehow
Vi er mange, som har været igennem det helt samme show. Sidste år havde jeg det på præcis samme måde. Jeg har sådan set altid været sikker på hvad jeg skulle læse og hvor. Jeg skulle uden tvivl noget kreativt! Men efter mit sabbat år, fandt jeg hurtig ud af, at hvis jeg skulle læse noget kreativt, ville det fuldstændig ødelægge min passion for det. Min hobby ville gå hen og blive en pligt og alt det spontane og flyvske ved det, ville blive ødelagt.
ReplyDeleteSom gammel samfundsfaglig gym-elev, har jeg været vant til humanistiske fag og strukturede timer. Men valgt i stedet at søge noget, som jeg er god til, noget som vækker min interesse og hermed ikke noget, jeg umiddelbart vidste alt fagligt om.
Jeg bliver økonomi, sprog og kultur nu og det er det bedste jeg nogensinde kunne have valgt. Det er spændende og nyt nok, til at magter at sidde og læse 3-4 timer om dagen OG det er noget, jeg kan relatere til og finde ro i. Med det sagt, elsker jeg stadigvæk at tage billeder, lave videoer og tegne. Men jeg havde ikke lyst til at "forstyrre" mit frirum, hvis det giver mening?
Jeg var/er den første, der startede med at læse af mine venner og jeg må ærligt inddrømme, deres holdninger og meninger om hvad jeg skulle hjælpe, var slet ikke det, der hjalp mig. Det var meget mere mig selv. Jeg synes, du skal sætte dig ned og skrive alle de stillinger, som du godt kunne ønske dig at have efter du er færdiguddannet. Jeg gik bevidst efter en uddannelse, som ikke gav mig én bestemt jobtitel. Tanken om at låse mig fast allerede nu, skræmmer mig, som fanden. Men tanken og at jeg studerer noget, som jeg synes er spændende og som altid vil give mig en eller anden form for stilling, giver ro og glæde.
Det her blev en lang-lang kommentar, men jeg ville ønske, jeg havde nogle venner, som kunne dele deres historier, da jeg skulle søge. Jeg følte mig helt på bar bund og hjælpeløs. Hvor kliché det end lyder.. så skal du læse det, du aller mest har lyst til. og jeg forstår udmærket godt, hvorfor du ikke vil læse noget med videoer eller matematik eller kemi eller det helt tredje. Men lige med uddannelser er der så mange muligheder, at selv med udelukkelses metoden, kommer man ikke helt langt.
Jeg håber, det kunne hjælpe!
I finished university almost three years ago at this point, and these questions are still relevant to me as I start a new job, but they are starting to become clearer! I've always been creative and into creative things but I don't consider myself an "artist" so I ended up studying Art History. Aside from looking at visual inspiration all the time I got to learn history, culture, sociology...all sorts of things! I chose it not because I wanted it to be my career, but because it made me truly happy to study art, be surrounded by art, and be around other people who loved art. Now I work at the office of a translation company managing projects...while my career now isn't related to what I studied, I have still maintained my visual hobbies through blogging and other activities. I never wanted my creativity to be controlled the way it would have been in classes or at a job, so I prefer to keep that part of my life separate from how i earn a living. It's just nice to have a stable job with kind, interesting people and enough money to fuel my hobbies! It was a hard road to figure out what to do for work, but it's been a good journey! Everything works out in the end and plenty of people either end up hating the thing they studied when they do it for a job or switching, so I say choose something that you enjoy and, most importantly, believe in yourself!
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ReplyDeleteJeg er nyuddannet cand.mag. fra uni (humaniora). Mit råd - og gode er dyre for det med uddannelse er altså lidt af en jungle - lyder på, at du skal mærke efter hvad der betyder mest for dig.
Et eksempel: Veninde læste nordisk på uni og begyndte så på sidefag i biologi. Hun var god til biologi, men det kedede hende også lidt. Hun skiftede så sidefag til filosofi. Det var spændende, men også svært. Da hun havde læst filosofi et års tid, gjorde hun op med sig selv, at hun altså rigtig gerne ville være gymnasielærer, og så blev konklusionen, at hun gik tilbage til biologi for at have bedre chancer på jobmarkedet mht. fagkombinationer.
Efter specialet fik hun et gym-lærerjob i første hug og var glad for sit valg af det 'kedelige' fordi det bedre kunne opfylde hendes største behov, et godt job, selv om filosofien var mere 'cool'.
Så hvis du fx vælger multimedier/film/krea-studier fra, skal det måske ikke være, fordi du frygter at inspirationen løber tør, men mere at en anden uddannelse bedre er i stand til at give dig det du søger i form af jobsikkerhed, færre albuer, mere akademisk orienteret tilgang etc.
Og så vil jeg sige, at jeg selv mere ville gå efter at svare på, hvad jeg havde brug for at beskæftige mig med/studere, end hvad jeg har lyst til. Den sondring synes jeg i hvert fald kan tage noget af presset af mine skuldre, fordi det så også er okay, at man ikke altid er oppe at køre over sin uddannelse, men bare er almindeligt tilfreds med den(eller endda lidt småtræt af den indimellem), fordi man kan se, at der ligger gode muligheder i uddannelsen i forhold til det liv, man ønsker at leve (bo på landet/ i byen, karriere/fritid, børn, rejseaktivitet, osv.) og hvordan man gerne vil arbejde (alene/teams, proces/resultat, karriere/job, nat/dag etc). Jeg synes ikke, at det gør noget, at man også er lidt nøgtern og strategisk i sit uddannelsesvalg, men det dejlige er selvfølgelig, når 'passion' og 'snusfornuft' matcher hinanden. For mig blev det altafgørende, at jeg har brug for at gå på arbejde ud fra en motivation om, at mit arbejde har en reel betydning for nogle mennesker med et behov af en art. Jeg kan ikke rigtig få min verden til at funke, hvis ikke mit arbejde har den mening indbygget i sig, hvor andre fx mere er drevet af resultater på firmaets bundlinje eller noget helt tredie.
Jeg vil foreslå dig at prøve JobIndex' typeindikatortest, som i hvert fald gav mig nogle gode ord til at beskrive mig selv med. Held og lykke, Yin :)
Ej det er SÅ forvirrende alt det der Uni-ræs! Jeg har selv været i et kæmpe dilemma, men blev enig med mig selv om at jeg ville have et studie som kunne udvikle min hobby, men samtidig gav mig den akademiske ballast. Nu læser jeg på 2. semester på Digital Design på Århus Universitet, og det er simpelthen SÅ lækkert. Det er skide svært, men det giver mig en god baggrund for det jeg godt kunne tænke mig at lave "når jeg bliver voksen" og så er studiemiljøet virkelig også lækkert, hvilket også er vigtigt da man bruger enormt meget tid på studiet. Tjek gerne Digital Design, og tjek evt denne video på youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oonXSVq1L9I. Den er lavet af DD studerende og har kørt som en udstilling på kronborg. Den er lavet af MANGE lys der projecterer på selve holger den danske statuen. SÅ COOL! Tjek evt også informationsvidensskab, som både udbydes i københavn (ved aalborg uni), i aalborg og i århus :-) - held og lykke med det hele! Det er virkelig en jungle, men der er ikke andet for end at prøve et studie du syntes lyder spændende og så droppe ud hvis ikke det er det :-)
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