“What do you want to be when you grow up?”
When I was kid, I was asked this all the time. Whether in school or at family events, it was the primary question to ask a kid. As a kid, my high achieving family spoon-fed me responses that included “doctor” and “lawyer.”
At one point, I branched out to “pharmacist,” but that was the extent of allowed life goals at that age. When I reached high school, the question altered a bit, though overall remained the same: “What do you want to study in college?” There were some questions about where I wanted to go to college, but every decision had to be based around what I wanted to do.
By the end of high school, I was convinced that I wanted to do something technologically focused. My answers were in the sphere of “technology,” or “information science,” or some sort of “business technology.” Depending on these answers, seemingly knowing adults would comment on which schools I should be looking at based on the school’s specialties.
In reality, I had no clue what I wanted to do. Most of us don’t at that age. I ended up in the Division of General Studies at my university. My major: Undeclared. This gave me the opportunity to take whatever classes I wanted.
I learned that I was interested in the social science fields and did not want to go to law school, but instead wanted to travel the world and learn as much as I could.
By the end of college, I declared a Global Studies and Communications double major. Which led to the next seismic question that seemingly knowing adults would ask: “What are you going to do with that?”
When I was extra sassy, my response would be something along the lines of: “Something awesome, you just have to wait for it.”
In truth, I just didn’t know…
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