Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Wavering Certainty

Ever since I realized what a job was, I've always wanted to be an engineer. With my natural want to build things out of my toys as a kid coupled with my fascination for the structures and vehicles in the modern world, specifically airplanes, it seemed like a very effective fit for me (also my massive amount of sarcasm, but that's a different story). However, recently I've been experiencing a certain expansion of my interests. Several of my friends have started telling me I wouldn't just be a good engineer but also a good psychologist, data analyst, public relations worker, public speaker, and even short story writer. While I think I still want to be an aerospace engineer, I can't help but agree with my friends when they tell me these things. I know I'm good with talking to a group of people on a podium without becoming a river, talk constantly about the abstracts of the human mind, love helping my friends with the problems they feel emotionally and mentally, and can explain a random jumble of numbers that no-one bats an eye to and give it meaning so that everyone looks at them. I also know that in each of these jobs I could benefit the human race just as much as I would be able to as an aerospace engineer, if not greater. This then has begun to pose a question that I've only just recently begun to ponder in my spare time: should I change my career plans and study something else in college? Currently, I think I'd be a better aerospace engineer than anything else. However, this doesn't mean my interest in the other fields is completely destroyed. I'm still going to keep getting up in front of crowds and talking my head off, discussing emotional and mental problems while theorizing about the brain's complex functions with my friends, and looking over and giving a meaning to statistics that I find in news articles. I would love it if I could find a way to explore all of these career options at once but, unfortunately, I would probably be overworked in the end, and then nothing would get done.

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