In high school we are told that we need to keep our GPA up in order to get into a good university or to increase our odds of getting in. I for one was not prepared to go off to college after high school and didn’t really know what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.
I went with a degree that I knew I was passionate about but had no idea what I would do after college with my degrees. Just thinking out loud here but what does one do with an A.A.S. in Baking and Pastry Arts? Like seriously, I always think about this even though I graduated three years ago. Most people I know that got this degree from my university is off doing something else that doesn’t even pertain to the degree. The others are using the degree but have jobs that don’t require you to spend $100,000 on the degree to just work the rest of your life making $16 an hour trying to pay back the student loans.
Then there’s me who finally decided after two degrees, being a nanny, working for a bakery/ grocery chain, and owning my own bakery business that what I wanted to do was to be a nurse. It may have taken me four years, but I’ve finally figured out what I wanted to do the rest of my life. There’s no set path for what you should or shouldn’t do with your life. I had to figure out for myself what I really wanted and only I could do that. My mom always tells me that I should have perused nursing first but at the end of the day looking back I was not mature or experienced enough in life to have perused this degree six years ago.
I’m finally working at an “adult” job that is probably my favorite job I’ve worked at that looks good on my resume when I apply to jobs as an RN in less than a year. I’m a Mental Health Tech at a Mental Hospital, it’s been so eye opening to me what people deal with. I work mostly with adolescents as I can relate more to their age and what they are going through since I was there age not that long ago. There is no way I could have worked in this position or at a medical facility coming right out of high school. I would have been eaten alive. After going though all, I’ve been through over the past few years I’ve defiantly had time to build that thick skin and put my feelings aside and focus on helping other get better.
Don’t let others define your pace, define your own pace.
-Summer Joy
