Our culture shuns indecisiveness like it’s a disease that not everyone has. That maybe it can be expunged, and we can all just fit perfectly into our roles if we start instilling career choices and majors early enough. We keep pushing back the choice earlier and earlier.
It doesn’t matter what rules we make or how much students are encouraged to decide earlier, people will continue to be indecisive. The average person changes their career three times over the course of their lifetime, so I am told. There is nothing that can be done or said that will change the basic human instinct to evolve and change.
We don’t have it all figured out and likely never will. The hardest thing that we can come to terms with isn’t the fact that we don’t know what we’re doing right now, it’s that we likely never will have it completely figured out.
That’s not to say we can’t be happy or content with our lives. This isn’t meant to discourage you from starting down a career path that you genuinely enjoy just because you think you’ll eventually change. Nor is this to discourage you from going into a career that pays well.
My challenge to my students this year is it is completely okay to not know. It is scary to be unsure and to not know what the future holds, but it will all work out. Call that cliché or unrealistic, but it’s true. At some point or another in everyone’s lives, they will be happy.
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