It's almost that time of year again where you have to say goodbye to those hot summer days spent laying out or with friends and say hello to the unfortunate events of returning back to school.
For some of you students out there, you're beyond excited because it will be the start of your senior year! Last year of high school and one step closer to graduation and college. However, some students are stressed at the fact that they have changed their major twice already and still don't know what they want to do with their lives.
It's okay, I've been there. You're not alone.
While others are satisfied with their major and haven't changed it since day one, there are indeed others who struggles with figuring out what they want to do for the rest of their lives. I mean let's be real, this will be the career that you'll spend the rest of your life making a living out of.
Like I said, I've been there and let me tell you it wasn't easy. I mean trying to figure out what you want to spend the rest of your living doing, it can be stressful. Thankfully, I found my calling.
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I never had my life entirely figured out. All I knew was that I wanted to travel to certain parts of the world, get married, and one day have a family. Pretty typical life plan, but I was missing one thing; my career.
Before my first semester of freshman year of high school, all of us got called one by one to the guidance office and figure out our schedules for freshman year and what our career interest were. Since the 7th grade, I wanted to be a veterinarian so of course that's what I had chose. However, the beginning of second semester of freshman year, when scheduling classes for sophomore year, I changed my career choice from vet to lawyer. I honestly thought that was my area of interest until I went up to schedule for junior classes where I had settled for nurse. At this point, I could tell my guidance counselor wasn't surprised at me for changing my career choice.
After a year of taking elective classes that focused on nursing, when senior year came around I finally admitted to myself that I had no idea what I wanted to do for living. To be completely honest, I wasn't by any means ready for the real world.
Finally, I graduated school a semester early. I thought I had my career all figured out, but what I thought would be my career, ended up opening my eyes to another career that I thought I would never enjoy in a million years;
Cosmetology.
At first, I had my mind set on being an esthetician. I found a local beauty school and enrolled into their next available class. Within a little over 6 months, I would be an esthetician. At least that's what I thought.
The more I learned and studied about it, the more I realized that this wasn't for me. I was beyond stressed at this point in my life. I felt like an absolute failure because I was such a trainwreck that I didn't even know that I wanted to do with my life anymore. I just wanted to fast forward my life to 10 years. I didn't think I was ever going to find my calling.
After withdrawing from beauty school I was attending and initially paying the price for it, I took time to myself to really figure out what I actually wanted to do. When I was in beauty school, I knew I wanted to have a career in beauty, but it wasn't esthetics.
That's when the light bulb turned on in my head. It was cosmetology.
While I was attending school, I would see students working on their mannequin heads or on clients and it really caught my interest. When I saw them doing either a clients hair, makeup, or even nails, I wanted to get the same feeling the students got when they would see the expressions on their client and how in love they were with the work they put into it. I wanted my work to be the reason someone was obsessed with how their hair turned out or makeup on fleek.
That's when I eventually felt relieved. I started to do my hair (something I've never done) and to my surprise, I absolutely loved it. At one point I did someone's hair and makeup for fun just to see if this was really my calling and I'm glad I did. The entire time I was doing their hair, I felt so comfortable like I had been doing it for years and for once I loved doing what I was doing.
Eventually after some long hours of thinking and certainty, I enrolled to one of the best cosmetology schools in Indiana and I will be a full time cosmetology student in the fall. As soon as I signed those papers, I knew I had found what I would call my career for the rest of my life. Even when I was given a tour of the school, I felt like I was home.
Moral of the story, I never gave up searching for what career I wanted to have even when it didn't seem a possibility. So for those of you who are struggling and don't think you'll ever find your calling and keep switching from major to major, I promise you will find it. Even if you think it's one thing but when you go to study it you find yourself wanting to do something similar in that career area, GO AFTER IT! I'm being serious! Had I not gone to beauty school for esthetics (despite the consequences) I probably wouldn't have found my calling. Sometimes you have to take risks to really find out who you really are and what you really want to do. It may open your eyes to something you would have never imagined doing.
Don't let nothing stop you from pursuing not only your dreams, but yourself.
In the wise words of William E. Hickson, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again."
In the end, everything will turn out for the better and one day you will find out what your career interest really is. So relax, breathe, it will all work out. Go ahead and change that major.
