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In reply to the discussion: If you could live your life over again [View all]RobinA
(9,893 posts)that d*ck high school guidance counselor pay attention to me at that "planning for the future" meeting in 10th grade instead of blowing me off because I was a girl with mediocre grades. I would ask him why they kept sticking me in the top academic classes when my grades were just OK, instead of putting me with the average kids where I felt I belonged. I don't know if things would have turned out any differently, but at least the decisions I made would have been with knowledge of what I was theoretically capable of.
I'm not into blaming other people for things that I do or do not do, but I was 15 years old and could have used a little assistance from someone whose job it was to assist.
And people who would follow their heart? I picked things I was interested in as careers every time. I suppose it can turn out well, but for me, working in a field completely killed any interest I had in those fields. I, it turns, was happiest in the field that was my first job out of college that I took because I needed benefits. Of course, that field went to hell in a handbasket in the '80's.