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**corsar-caribean** · 02-26-2008, 06:53 AM

one thing i have been rather stressed about recently is thinking about my future career. i am at the age (20) where i need to be thinking about what i will do when i leave university.

funny. i feel like i just got to that age. and i'm ten years older than you are!
i think that if you don't know what you want to do already, and haven't spent the last two years getting ready for it, you might want to look into taking a year off from university (as long as you are confident you can return, of course) to dip your toes into the real world. get an apartment, go job-hunting, work in two or three companies if you want. none of it has to go on your resume when you get out of school. but your purpose, besides getting an advance screening of what life will be like in two years, will be to try out whatever you want to do and see if it's something you want to devote the next two years and possibly the rest of your life to.

sure you will graduate a year late, but you will also graduate 3 years wiser than everybody else. think about it. i wish i had been able to do it when i was in school. just be sure you don't get sucked into not finishing your degree. ;-)

02-26-2008, 06:53 AM	#12
corsar-caribean Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 434 Senior Member	one thing i have been rather stressed about recently is thinking about my future career. i am at the age (20) where i need to be thinking about what i will do when i leave university. funny. i feel like i just got to that age. and i'm ten years older than you are! i think that if you don't know what you want to do already, and haven't spent the last two years getting ready for it, you might want to look into taking a year off from university (as long as you are confident you can return, of course) to dip your toes into the real world. get an apartment, go job-hunting, work in two or three companies if you want. none of it has to go on your resume when you get out of school. but your purpose, besides getting an advance screening of what life will be like in two years, will be to try out whatever you want to do and see if it's something you want to devote the next two years and possibly the rest of your life to. sure you will graduate a year late, but you will also graduate 3 years wiser than everybody else. think about it. i wish i had been able to do it when i was in school. just be sure you don't get sucked into not finishing your degree. ;-)
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