Okay, so here's the deal: I'm 19 years old and live in Sweden, where higher education generally is tax-funded.
I graduated the equivalent of high school with good grades (over half my grades were A's), and my favorite subject is probably somewhere between chemistry, mathematics, linguistics/rhetoric, and philosophy.
As a hobby, I write/record/produce music, but last year, I dropped out of an audio engineering university program because I didn't want to take that career route. Some other hobbies of mine are weightlifting, basketball, reading, and computer games.
All my life I've been hovering over the poverty line (uneducated, unemployed mom with personality disorders and uneducated pop), and I don't want to live like that anymore.
Being dirt-broke my whole childhood has scarred me, though, so now I'm so anxious over making the wrong choice and being stuck on the bottom forever. Attaining financial freedom is my motivation for going into the fastlane.
My problem is I have no idea what career path I want to take. I reckon it makes sense to study something, since it's practically free here. I just don't know what.
Some of the jobs I'm considering are: some kind of teacher (preferably teaching young adults), mathematician, actuary, statistician, cryptologist, something related to biomedicine, some kind of chemist, civil engineer specialized in either biotech or technical chemistry, and pharmacist. I also think cybersecurity seems interesting. So basically, my interests are all over the place.
I understand that a civ. engineer, statistician, mathematician, actuary, or cybsec consultant would be useful in almost any and every industry.
I just want to know what would objectively be the best, so I can weigh that against what is the best for me (subjectively).
Another alternative is to not get a higher education at all, but to work some slave wage job, so I can save up to start a fastlane business. I don't know if that's a smart move, though, since it seems very risky.
Sorry if I posted this to the wrong subforum. It's my first post here since I started lurking. I appreciate any advice!
I graduated the equivalent of high school with good grades (over half my grades were A's), and my favorite subject is probably somewhere between chemistry, mathematics, linguistics/rhetoric, and philosophy.
As a hobby, I write/record/produce music, but last year, I dropped out of an audio engineering university program because I didn't want to take that career route. Some other hobbies of mine are weightlifting, basketball, reading, and computer games.
All my life I've been hovering over the poverty line (uneducated, unemployed mom with personality disorders and uneducated pop), and I don't want to live like that anymore.
Being dirt-broke my whole childhood has scarred me, though, so now I'm so anxious over making the wrong choice and being stuck on the bottom forever. Attaining financial freedom is my motivation for going into the fastlane.
My problem is I have no idea what career path I want to take. I reckon it makes sense to study something, since it's practically free here. I just don't know what.
Some of the jobs I'm considering are: some kind of teacher (preferably teaching young adults), mathematician, actuary, statistician, cryptologist, something related to biomedicine, some kind of chemist, civil engineer specialized in either biotech or technical chemistry, and pharmacist. I also think cybersecurity seems interesting. So basically, my interests are all over the place.
I understand that a civ. engineer, statistician, mathematician, actuary, or cybsec consultant would be useful in almost any and every industry.
I just want to know what would objectively be the best, so I can weigh that against what is the best for me (subjectively).
Another alternative is to not get a higher education at all, but to work some slave wage job, so I can save up to start a fastlane business. I don't know if that's a smart move, though, since it seems very risky.
Sorry if I posted this to the wrong subforum. It's my first post here since I started lurking. I appreciate any advice!
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