What do you want to do with your life?

If you base your job on the market then you will never pick any job. The best thing you can do is find out what you enjoy and go from there.

I was sitting around watching Greys Anatomy and realized that being a surgeon is one of the hardest jobs to get into, neurosurgery even more so. I then realized it was possibly the only interesting job I probably could never do. It was then that I decided it was the only interesting job left on the planet, and I'm sticking with it, no matter how interesting quantum physics and advance calculus are ~_~ (seriously, they are).

wow mac, good plans. when i was 12 i wanted to be a vet then my uncle told me how much schooling was needed & i didnt feel i could do that.
then in high school i decided to go to a college in northern california & wanted to become a wildlife technician. i didnt know what they did but it had to have something to do with animals. my dad got excited & planned a trip up there to see the school & it's town.
then me & my friends came up with the idea to start a band & i abandoned my goal of becoming a wildlife technician...really crushed my dad there.
now im 29 with a fiancee & 2 kids, never had a job either & now i cant cuz im on disability benefits for my manic depression. not the way i pictured my life going but eh.
do i wish i'd stuck with the wildlife technician dream, you bet!
but then on that note i wouldn't have the beautiful kids that i do.
so my point here is...things change as you grow up. be ready for that. if there is something you really want to do stick with it. dont ever give up on a dream no matter who tells you what.
good luck mac.

From the age of six I've been saying I wanted to be a veterinarian. I want to specialize in exotics and animal nutrition. Of course, I don't really have any college under my belt. I need to get back into school but too much is happening in life.

I also want to run some sort of reptile rescue and I want to breed reptiles. I also want to be a mother.

Thank you everyone!

You all seem to have amazing life gaols, and I hope all of you reach them :) And all of you that already have, great job!

Though, I might be going to North Carolina instead of New York. More homeless animals, not even ball python breeders, and it seems like it needs me there :)

Though, many people want to have children and get married. I'm not too sure about that yet. I think animals will be a large part of my life for a while, but maybe I'll have a family someday. But right now, I am completely focused on animals :)

Thanks everyone,
~ Mac

Great way of thinking Mac, I love to see that the generations to come have a positive outlook for our future. Like momman said things in life do change but life as whole is what you make it. Take every experience, good or bad, as a lesson and learn from it, then share the knowledge. Sounds like you could be a leader among your peers. I am planning to finish my bachelors degree in Psychology, and then move a third world country so I can conduct a personal study on criminal trends among young adolescents, on which I plan to write my thesis for my Masters degree. Just dont give up on your dreams or yourself, Ill be 26 in Sept., graduated high school in 02 and didnt go back till 08, now Im in class with students that were in 5th grade when I was graduating. The way I see it is I lost a lot of time but gained alot of experience.

I am in school working on becoming a Psychologist.

This fall Im starting my first year in college majoring in Zoology. Im not sure whats POSSIBLE for me to do, but the goal is to become a vet. I realize thats a very hard goal to reach especially for me, just being "average". Not only that but its 8+ years of school (and thats not cheap). So possibly that, or really any other job in the zoology field I would enjoy, but I think vets are the best paid out of most zoology careers, and its something I'd like to do so its a win win... But anything that has to do with animals I would do.

And, I never thought of being a vet as a realistic career when I was younger, because when I was younger I never had any "real" jobs that I wanted to do... I had no idea until my senior year in high school where my guidance counselor told me to basically get going because you really should think of what you want to do BEFORE then...

And my possibilities before deciding to go for a vet, was either architecture (cause i like art i guess that makes me qualified?), or auto tech... So yeah its totally different... But those are my interests I guess... Cars art and animals :D

Eh dont worry too much about getting going. I'm 23 and it wasnt until I was 22 that I decided what I wanted to do with my life. The biggest thing, though, is do well in college, it's the basis of whether or not you can get into Vet School, so it really is important.

And that'd advice I have for everyone. No matter if you know what you want to do, or if you dont, DO WELL IN COLLEGE! You never know, in 3 years you may want to go get your Masters, MD, PhD, etc and if you're riding on a 2.0 you've thrown your chances out the window and it will take doing really well on your GREs or whatever other tests you may have as well as doing some volunteer work and getting some stellar recommendations.

Oh, and before you take ANY course... Grab the "For Dummies" book for it. 2 things you cannot count on: Your book and your teacher. Teachers often assume if you are reading the book you'll know the material, and books often assume your teacher is teaching you. Put that little extra effort in and turn to a source designed to give plain english explanations. It's great stuff and it really gives you a leg up.

Wow... It seems like we have a lot of amazing people in our little forum! I hope you all do what you want to do, it all seems so interesting! You might have to spend thirteen years explaining to me all the training that it includes, though :P

I plan to take someveterinary courses and some business classes, though.

Good luck, and congratulations everyone!

~ Mac

when i was 12 i wanted to have lots of girls and sleep in my bed all day :O
kudos to u! when i decided i should probably think of a career, i thought "VIDEO GAMES!" now i work in QA for neversoft =D i got to test multiple guitar hero titles - my latest one guitar hero warriors of rock - coming out in september :D:D:D