It’s OK to not have your whole life figured out yet.

All throughout high school we are put through test after test telling us what career paths would be best suited for us to take. All of us had to go to those career fairs where people would shove useless pamphlets in your face telling you why the love their job and encouraging us to follow their footsteps. All of us were asked the same three questions when we graduated high school at least once a day. “Where are you going to school next year? What do you want to major in? And what do you want to do with that?”

When I think about what I want to do, all those tests and pamphlets are the last things that come to my mind. What I think about is choosing a career that I love going to most days, because in reality not everyone loves their career every second of every day. Although I do know that if you hate going to your job, you have chosen the wrong career path.

In our society there is so much pressure to choose a career path and get right on track right away, but what about taking a year off? Why doesn’t anyone in tell high school students it’s okay to take a year off? Or it’s OK to go into college as an undecided major?

I am a sophomore in college and I have found that even now people ask me on a regular basis, “Do you know what you want to do when you’re done with school?” Nope, I don’t, and that’s perfectly OK.

When I graduated high school I had a few ideas in mind about what I might want to spend the rest of my life doing, but as many people who know me would say, I am extremely indecisive. I had a few ideas and came in my freshman year thinking I wanted to go into sports medicine, and I ended up changing now to a psychology major and digital media minor, as you can tell these are quite opposite. Although, I am still not sure what I want to do with this after college.

Everyone discourages taking an extra year of schooling to finish up your degree, they push you to get through your general education and major courses so you can graduate in the shortest length of time possible. I can’t figure out why people don’t want to go to college for the full four years.

I love being at college, although sometimes it’s stressful, I can’t imagine being anywhere else at this point in my life. I am within a few minutes of a few of my very best friends, I have unlimited access to food at any point during the day (and I don’t have to do my dishes), I meet new people pretty much every day, I don’t have to worry about paying bills and I get the opportunity to move closer and closer to my future career path every day.