I'm in college and idk what to do with my life. Help me find some direction!!!

Stay away from law school if you don't plan on commiting suicide

The struggle for me has been understanding why everyone must become left-brain robots in order to make a decent salary. Are strong writing skills just no longer useful in the work force?...and what about social skills?

1) Become a DJ

2) Develop a severe cocaine addiction

3) Recover

4) Write a book about it

5) Get Money

STEM really is the place to be. Any STEM major is a good bet for developing skills.

But if you don't like STEM, work on your social skills. Become a master extrovert, master of gaming women, just an all around fun chap. Cause you can make money with personality.

Just keep your grades decent and work on your connections.

just out here... wrote:

The struggle for me has been understanding why everyone must become left-brain robots in order to make a decent salary.

You'd be dumb to look down on left-brain "robots"! You think the people that invented computers/iPhones, the algorithms that get your Amazon Prime package to your doorstep in

.... less than 72 hours, the people that create nuclear power and the three gorges dam are "robots"? Drop that attitude.

just out here... wrote:

Positive attributes:

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- I work very hard at the things I care about

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Negative attributes:

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- Low patience for completing tasks I don't enjoy

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Despite popular wisdom, the secret to financial success is NOT doing what you love. If that were the case, yoga instructors and elementary school teachers would be the most financially successful people on earth.

The secret is doing something that you don't hate but other people do. STEM careers are paid reasonably well because a ton of people can't stand math. Someone else brought up plumbing-- and your first instinct was "I don't want to work with sewage." Many people think that way and hence plumbers make pretty good money.

This rule is even true within a profession. The best paid lawyers are the guys who work with tax and patents-- the places where other people wouldn't be caught dead. The best paid engineers that I know have been working in boring areas for a long time-- things like putting felt on tennis balls or quality control while making catheters. Most engineers would rather pluck their eyes out with a hot poker than spend their lives reducing the defect rate for catheters from 3 in a million to 2.3 in a million.

Talk to your circle of friends. Find something that none of them want to do but that you could at least be reasonably content doing, and then pursue that as a career...

"- Math, science or anything technical

- Low patience for completing tasks I don't enjoy"

The only reason you dislike STEM is because you have no patience for completing tasks you don't enjoy.

The problem is that basically ALL WORK is about getting paid to do tasks someone else, who has money, doesn't enjoy doing.

The good new is there is lots of good psychology out there about how to get started overcoming this problem. My suggestion to you is to read every single thing that has ever been written on the problem.

Take notes on it all. Organize the notes and boil them down to the most important parts. Find one of your psychology profs who kind of works in the area. Tell them about your new obsession. Your major likely has an honors or senior thesis, use these notes to write one. Continue boiling the information down and if the prof is game try to write a review article for a journal or at least a popular psych magazine.

At the same time find grad schools that has several profs that are interested in this topic. Go to grad school and continue your research until you have written a journal article about hands on research you have done. Collect your MS or continue for your Phd. At that point you will have lots of people/companies that will pay you to learn how to get more done.

French Foreign Legion

They will make a man out of you, if you survive.

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