The Best Feeling Ever!

I am possibly one of the most indecisive people ever so when it came to choose my future I was stuck. 

I will never understand how schools expect you to know what you want to do with your life at 16, it's crazy. I understand there are those few who know exactly what is going to happen but usually the majority don't have a clue. When I was 14 I chose the subject I was going to study for two years on the Int 2 and Nat 5 courses (if you're English those are GCSEs, apologies I don't know what they are elsewhere) which were Maths, English, French, Art & Design, Graphic Communications, Geography, Chemistry and Physics. Out of those eight, at 16 I narrowed it down to five. And a very broad five that pointed in no specific direction what-so-ever; all Highers in Maths. English, Geography, Chemistry and Art & Design. It has now come to the point where I have had to choose the subjects that I want to sit in my last year of school (as I have listed them all previously why not continue the trend; Adv Higher Art & Design, Adv Higher Pure Maths and crash [the term used when someone hasn't studied the course at a lower level] Higher Business Management).

 Still with no idea what I wanted to do with my life; people started asking questions. These were constant and came from a range of people such as my family, friends, teachers, career advisers. You name it and they have probably asked me what I want to do when I leave school. Yeah, that daunting experience of walking away from everything you're familiar with to a new place with new people and new opportunities. 

I know it's not till after summer but I still can't get it into my head that in less than 6 months I will be the 2nd oldest pupil in the entire school. That's crazy. I still remember being a little first year at my old school and being scared of all the older kids who used to tower over us (hahaha that won't be happening much from me, small people problems!) and laugh at the things we did and said. 

Anyway I'm being side-tracked.

I have sat through multiple careers talks and been bored to death by those peoples day to day jobs. Until Tuesday. A charted accountancy company; Anderson Anderson & Brown, just down the road from school held a careers event for fifth and sixth year students that may have an interest in the world of business. 

For a while now I have been playing about with the idea of becoming an accountant or going into audit. I'm good at maths so I guess that's a start! After listening to the 20-26 year olds talking about what they've done so far in their short careers in various areas of business and what they have achieved, it has inspired me and I'm actually taking an interested into those fields of work.

So yeah that's me kinda decided what I was to do with my life; next thing is to actually work out a specific course and where I actually want to go to university! 

Have you decided what you want to do when you leave school? Or if you've already left do you know what your future looks like? 

Esmee x