Sorry it's a long one.
I'm 28, with two young children. I've always wanted to be 'more' and I thought I wanted to be a councillor, but after doing some research found the training to be almost impossible financially, but did a 6 week level 1 course to get a feel of it and if i liked it, would find a way. Ive suffered with depression my whole life and found myself exhausted after every season so figured I should probably protect my mental health, as much as I want to help people.
So I turned to my current profession (healthcare) and thought about training as a nurse or a midwife, but it really didn't and doesn't excite me.
So now I'm doing a psychology degree (part time) and I am just hating the material. Looking through the career pathways, nothing is jumping out at me at all.
I have no hobbies and completely talentless. I'm feeling so lost and unhappy. I wanted to be in a solid career by 30 and that isn't happening now. My partner graduates next year but he's always known what he wants to do so he's quite hard to talk to about it, as he doesn't understand. I can't just quit my salaried, stable job to 'find myself' when I have two young children to help support.
Any advice? How did you know what you wanted to do (if you love your job) or did you just stumble upon it?
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To postpone my degree until I figure out what I want? Feeling very lost
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Braneycat · 13/03/2019 11:11
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