Life has always posed many questions that we are supposed to know the answers to. My personal favorite is "what do you want to be when you grow up?" If I had a nickel for every time some one asked me that as a youth, ha I'd be rich. Point being, you always had an answer fireman, policeman, president, astronaut... so on and so forth. Then, the question became a little bit more serious when it was our high school counselors that asked the same thing, instead it involved the word college.
Now, what I'm asking myself, is "what am I going to do in five years"? Instead of using the word college, I'm using the word RECESSION. I've known what I wanted to do for a living quite some time now, to be a nurse, and the recession hopefully won't hurt the medical field too much. Although it still raises the question. What if the hospitals aren't looking for any new employees?
Over the last few days, I've been walking from class to class and when I get the chance I talk to the people walking around me. The general consensus is that no one really knows how this whole recession thing is going to effect them. Everyone is going to school and getting credits done. But whats next?
i feel you on this. doing what you want to is hard enough as it is recession aside. you could say that as a nurse you would have chosen a stable profession with there constantly being a need for nursing, but then again you could say the same for education and any job dealing with academics, but just by looking at the paychecks of our countries professors, the need for education hasn't been valued enough to motivate them to do a decent job, even without the recession, so, i think everyones with you when you say it's hard to tell what will be needed and valued in the future, especially with economy the way it is.
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