What do I want to be when I grow up?

[ubiquitouslyme]

chargirlgenius posted a week or so ago about trying to figure out if she would like to be a lawyer or not. It was a very through provoking post, and made me want to write one of my own.

After a few months of waffling on things I have come to the conclusion that I do not know what I want to be when I grow up. Everytime I take a new class, I want to do that forever. When I got my associate's degree and was working at the accounting firm, I was sure accounting was for me. I still really like accounting. But I am not sure that a public accounting job is what I want. It was very stressful at the end.

Currently I am tutoring accounting, business, economics, and computers at the local community college. I could be happy teaching, but I am not sure it is what I want to do.

After I took my networking class, I really want to do something with computers and networking. I really enjoyed the logic behind it.

And I enjoyed my English class this summer, and got excited when I looked through the other syllibi on classes the English department was teaching.

We've always planned on me getting my Master's degree, because I need it to be able to sit for the CPA. I am just not sure now what I want to get my Master's degree in. The problem with that is the school I will most liely be going to, UNC-Charlotte, requires different tests for different majors - Accounting need GMAT, English needs GRE, Information Technology needs GRE or MAT, and Economics needs GRE or GMAT. I need to start studying for one of these tests soon, but I just cannot figure out what I want to do.

I don't know if I am letting a bad experience pull me away from accounting or if it is not as good a fit for me as I thought.

I just don't know what I want to do.

Any thoughts?

Comments

[florentinescot.livejournal.com]

Hi! waves. I've seen you on other LJs -- and I like that icon.

I don't know what I wanna be when I grow up either; but I do love teaching. I've tutored since I was 6. When I was an undergrad, I was always the person that everybody else came to for help. Right now, I can't imagine doing anything else!

I got my BA in 1977 in Computer Science. I hit Grad School in 1993 ... I wanted to identify my Trillium pictures. Honest! I got my MS in 2000 ... and since I was having too much fun to quit (despite the Terror of The Prelims), I pushed on. I have a (still) Brand New PhD (August 2007), but if I could get a job at the Right School, I could so get another degree in Textiles or maybe English ... but then Art History looks pretty good as does Medieval Studies ......

And my critter ADD is even worse! I love plants; but I could so study Tardigrades in a heart beat! And then you have Fungi and ....

Yeah well.

Do I hafta grow up?