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I'm in my late 20s and I still don't have a "career plan." I think that I just don't want a career, and that people in the United States put too much emphasis on their career in their lives.
I want to have a job I like, but I don't really care to have a career. I want to LIVE my life and not have it revolve around work.
I'm in my late 20s and I still don't have a "career plan." I think that I just don't want a career, and that people in the United States put too much emphasis on their career in their lives.
I want to have a job I like, but I don't really care to have a career. I want to LIVE my life and not have it revolve around work.
Thoughts?
Nothing wrong with that. As long as you are fine with whatever outcome it brings for you.
Oh come on. I know a lot of people who make GOOD money and don't necessarily live to work. Me included. You can do well for yourself in what I could call a "job" where you simply do what's required, don't work yourself to death with crazy hours and don't try and move up the corporate chain for more money and more stress.
OP, life is full of opportunity. You don't need a college degree to make good money ~ in fact I suspect future trends will show better money in "trades" than in most college career paths. You don't need to stick with one line of work to make good money either, I have an in-law who's been a teacher, a portrait /wedding photographer (making $20k per event) and is now about half way through a medical program to be a doctor. Do what you want. Me, I haven't had a paying job in over a decade (wife works 3 days a week) and yet we own a 2,200sq/ft historic house, spent a few weeks in Europe through September, and are lacking absolutely nothing. While my wife has a medical degree, she sees it as a job and has pushed all attempts at "furthering her career" to the side. It's more important that we have time to enjoy life, and having a 4-day weekend every week allows us to do a lot of travel which is how we enjoy life.
So, do what you like. Don't worry about what others think/say as they don't know it all anyway. Half the nay-sayers will simply be jealous that you're taking a path they wish they had, the others are content with theirs but only because that's all they know.
I'm in my late 20s and I still don't have a "career plan." I think that I just don't want a career, and that people in the United States put too much emphasis on their career in their lives.
I want to have a job I like, but I don't really care to have a career. I want to LIVE my life and not have it revolve around work.
Thoughts?
That's the way I've always worded my work life. I'm 52 and doing just fine. Not a corporate climber, but stable and making good money. I'm at a company now working no nights, and no weekends (although in past jobs of done a little of that at times). It's out there.
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Differentiate between career, work, passion, and laziness. I have quite a few friends who have never held a traditional job. They work long enough to make some money then head out. Several live in their vans or their pickups. They climb, ski, backpack, travel, write, etc. They have passion and live it every day. While none of them have a traditional career, they pay their own bills and are in no way lazy.
That being said, at some time they will need to build a retirement nest egg to, at a minimum, take care of heath care. They all know this.
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