I don’t know what will happen tomorrow. I don’t know what I want for lunch today. So how am I supposed to know what I want to study?

I will take as many classes in high school as I can. I want to go to The University of Texas and live on campus. I will major in science, and become a doctor. Yeah right, I have no clue about who I want to be for the rest of my life, but teachers and parents expect me to have a plan.

It was in Pro Com last year that I did my first career research. We were asked to choose a career we were interested in. I thought everyone would have trouble choosing, but most people knew what they wanted.

Maybe I want to be an author, pharmacist, photographer or teacher. I realized I had never really thought about what I want to become. It wasn’t really a big deal then, just a project. But it made me start thinking about what I wanted.

Of course I didn’t get anywhere and later in the school year we were supposed to choose our classes for next year and all the years life in high school, based on the what career we wanted. Seeing as I was undecided I chose classes for everything I liked or something that seemed interesting. So I chose Art classes, French and Spanish and Health Science.

But even school isn’t the only place where people ask about your future. At the doctor’s office, a nurse asked me what I wanted to be. I know they ask random questions to be nice and pass the time until the doctor comes, but I didn’t know what to say, so I spat out, “I want to be a teacher.” But she looked at me and said, “You’re never going to make a lot of money, you should be in the medical field.”

Why is it so important to know now what you want to be? Can’t time tell? Maybe my ideal job hasn’t even been invented yet, like a DNA perfecter or a Mars farmer.

Of course, if you have everything planned out, then good for you. But for the rest of us, we might have to do some heavy research and take some serious personality and career quizzes. We’ve always been asked what we want to be when we grow up. When we are young, the possibilities are fictional, but endless. But as we grow up we learn more about the real world.

Maybe I want to be an author, pharmacist, photographer or teacher. I will become the best President ever. No seriously guys, I just don’t know.