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Tim K:

you do work, they pay you, question answered, NEXT!

Ronald:

You need to ask yourself one question. What am I good at that I could help support society? or What do I want to be good at so I can help support society? No one actually knows what they want to be when they’re your age. If they do they’re just delusional. There’s no way you can actually know when you’re only 15. You just don’t have the life experience.

It’s really a matter of picking something and seeing if you like it. Then working with it. You have to have skills and an education employers will want. Math skills are always in demand.

Kimberly:

Do well in high school, apply for colleges the summer before your senior year (applications are usually due before the holidays of your senior year). When you apply, you have to select a major. If you are accepted to college for that major, you go to the college, study hard, form good relationships with your college professors (because many of them have worked in industries beforehand and can help you network/find a job).

You can do an internship in your field of study during a summer or something. If you can’t find a paid one, do a volunteer one. This will help you get used to working in a company and it gives you something to put on your resume. A few months before you graduate college, you apply to jobs, apply to more jobs, apply to even more jobs, and…you guessed it…apply to more jobs..and hopefully you will get some interviews and job offers. Once you have a few job offers, compare them for a few days, pick the best one, accept it, and start working! It’s all a big pain in the rear, but you’ll get used to it

John:

You should have a career counsellor of some sort in your school who will begin to give you advice in the next few years.

Basically, the traditional route can go two ways. Either you already have a career in mind. You research that career to find out the qualifications that you may need from high school to get into a college and do a degree. For example, when I left high school I knew that I wanted to be a teacher. After some research, I had a list of universities that did a elementry school teacher course that took me four years. The course itself was designed to specifically be for a teacher. You will often find that a lot of courses out there in college or university are aimed towards you getting a specific course such as medicine to be a doctor, law to be a lawyer etc.

The other option is for someone like yourself who doesn’t know what they want to be. There is nothing wrong with having no idea at 15 so don’t worry about it! Often when people leave high school still not knowing what they want to do, they may choose a subject to study at college instead, e.g. English. This will give them a degree in english at the end of it. If they have enjoyed the degree then they may look for a job using their degree. Alternatively, there are a lot of good jobs out there who don’t care what your degree is, as long as you have one.

After you have a degree, you then apply for any jobs that you may be interested in. If you apply for a job, they will look closely at the degree that you have to make sure that it is sensible, but they will also consider other opportunities that you’ve had in the job field. So if and when you do decide what you want to do as a job, try to get some experience doing that job.

For example, as soon as I decided that I wanted to be a teacher, I went into schools and worked next to teachers. This helped me get an idea for a job and although this work will often be unpaid, it is valuable experience for you.

pink butterfly:

1) graduate from high school, preferably with good grades
2) Apply to a college that you like, if you get accepted then
3) register for about 4 or 5 classes, buy books, go to class and learn the material (good grades very important in college)
4) during the day, depending on how much free time, you can get a part time job, on weekends if you have more time (studying does take a lot of time in college)
5) get an internship preferably so you have experience for your real life job after college and so you stand out from the other applicants
6) graduate from college
7) apply for job to work at, and your college can help you find jobs
(When you apply to college, get accepted and you enroll, then the college will assign you and advisor who can help you decide what to major in, how to go about doing that, what classes to take, things to improve your resume, etc.) Then you just take the classes that you are required to graduate and to get a degree in x area of study you end up choosing, then do well in the classes so you major in the area you chose and graduate the a degree in that field.
I know, it all sound kinds of scary and hard at first, but it realy isn’t at all; it’s quite simple actually. (And most people your age have no idea what that want to be when they grow up. I myself never figured it out until after my first semester of college.) But, once again, your college can help you find something you are interested in too.