I don't understand why they can't just let kids choose

>>1261127
At 16 I decided I wanted to have 4 careers in life, dealing with the entertainment industry and the tech industry

I am currently on career #3 - screenwriting while still working on career #2 - Web design

I have been fairly successful with music having 2 of my albums chart back to back. With that being said I feel like I am one of the only ones that knew what they wanted to do before I was 20.

>>1261136
This. I had several career paths I wanted to choose but of course I wasn't allowed to do so until I was well into adulthood. Parents and schools shunned me into doing anything other than homework grades and test scores. The little free time I had after school was my only outlet.

We were told to choose 1 thing and that was our lifetime career. THAT'S the problem. There is nothing wrong with choosing multiple career paths, either at the same time or in different stages of your life. Public education is absolute garbage and it's no surprise to see charter and public schools steering away from the 1-lifelong-career-path philosophy for its students.

Public schools can teach you all you need to know to be a productive adult, the problem is that you only get out of school what you put into it and we, as a society, have decided that everyone should be forced to go to school until 18 (although effectively 24 now), so people who don't put in shit get to slouch around until they are 18 (or 26) and then society suddenly starts expecting them to make their own way and it takes a lot of them by surprise.

The ones who just studied what they needed and moved on aren't typically caught as off guard.

>>1261136
Joel stop posting and go to bed.

>>1261177
Being this jealous

Here's what I want[ed] to be:
>Cartoonist
>Animator
>Teacher
>Actor
>Writer
>Fashion Designer
>HEMA Instructor
>Politician
>Something to do with helping other people with their financial goals
I have a ""real"" job now. Every two week I go camping in the local reserve an seriously consider jumping off the edge of the cliff face :')

>>1261127
>A lot of charter schools actually employ this sort of thing. Public shitschools never do.
I went to a liberal arts public high school and even we had a work experience program that gave you credit for up to three hours a day

>>1261127
dude you're autistic if you already had a serious choice at 14. I consider myself early because I choose finance at 16 but if you ask 14 yr old kids what they want to do, they'll say football players and stuff like that, maybe just for the heck of naming something serious they'll say medicine, law etc.

Heck I know highschool seniors who picked law just because they like the tv show suits. And I'm pretty sure 50% of college freshmen don't know shit about the career they chose

>>1261127
lol, retard

anybody with the ambition can have whatever they want

When I was 14 I went out of my way to learn to program and higher level maths. There have existed highly ambitious kids who sought out internships at age 14. Frankly you were a lazy ass and now you're paying for it.

High schools and even elementary schools should do more for career counseling and helping students figure out what they want to do

Millenials my age are still switching programs trying to figure out where they belong while racking up tons of debt

There needs to be guidance at an earlier age that's easily accessible.

>>1262834
>Programming
>In 2003
>For High School students

You're funny kid.

There was a computer science class which taught programming but it was for Juniors and Seniors. Only within the last 5 years has programming for kids been a thing. Even then, it's hardly a full time thing, let alone a part time thing. Extra curricular activities aren't enough

>>1262888
No. "What you want to do is a meme."

>>1262894
what, I learned it myself not in school, that was the whole point of my post