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I don't know what to do with my life.
I don't know whether I play it safe and live a simple copy paste life everyone tells me to do or to just follow my dreams...
I'm 19 years old and should start college this fall, the only problem is that I don't want to, I don't want to have all that debt and bs. And the stuff I want to do doesn't require a degree, yet my mother and pretty much every other adult says college or die. I can't tell her, but I really don't want to do it. When people ask what I want to do I simply say idk yet, but I'm lying I do know... I've for the longest time have really wanted to be a writer. It's the one thing I'm good at naturally, I've always loved English in school and would choose to write 10 page assignments simply because I've enjoyed it. I wrote a novel long nook in the 7th grade. I wite short horror stories in my free time and have an original idea for a book series. Yet people will tell me that I shouldn't because it doesn't guarantee money. What should I do, I really want to do this but the while world seems to tell me I'm stupid for wanting to do it. Help
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If you don't want to go to college then don't go to college its that simple, but you will need to get a job at the very least to support yourself, preferably full-time. And there you have it, you're officially a writer. Write til your hearts content.
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>>18499496
find work that's close to your passion, or get a job to sustain both you and your love for writing
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>>18499513
I know I could just not go, but how do I deal with the judgment from my family. They will all think I'm an idiot, and it's fucking hypocritical since neither my mom, dad, or step dad went to college.
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>>18499530
When I was your age I dropped out of college after one semester, joined the military and got kicked out for a failed drug test after 4 weeks in boot camp, went back home to work in an awful steel mill for a few months, got arrested for possession and went through a mandatory and costly rehab, and after wasting an entire year fucking up I eventually went back to college and I now have a bachelors in accounting. Did my family judge me a lot for an entire year? You bet. Did i dream of being something other than an accountant? You bet. But I don't regret anything i did because it made me who I am today. It's up to you, do what you want to do, but don't think it's a final decision that you have to live with forever
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>>18499496
Why not get a job and write on the side? A huge flaw in our education these days is that people think they MUST make their passion their career or else they're a failure, but that is just not always feasible. We can't all be professional artists, musicians and athletes, but we can all pursue art or sports or music passionately as a hobby.
Fuck school
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>>18499550
Thanks, I guess u should at least try. If I fail then caring about what others think should be the least of my concerns.
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>>18499561
You're right, I fucking hate their propaganda about college and career shit. I've been interstellar in becoming a cop so might as well do it and write in the side. If I get published then hey that's more money, but more importantly I completed my dream.
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>>18499496
air traffic controllers make six figure salaries and don't need college degrees
high school diploma and graduation from a certification course which i think is under a year
I'm sure you could work an 8 hour shift as an ATC white writing in your spare time if you wanted to do that and skip college (which I agree is overrated)
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ask /lit/, they know this shit better than most.
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