know what I want to do for the rest of my life

I am so over this. I thought I would be grow up to be some interesting young woman with a pretty figured out life by this age. Well, I am not. I used to dream of being a writer/novelist. Now, I have no idea what to do with myself or even what I want to do as a career. I am just spinning my wheels in a boring day job. How do I answer this fundamental question about myself? Only I can answer this question for myself, yet I keep asking myself and never coming up with an answer.

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I’ve been looking for the Meaning of my life for as long as I can remember. I’ve gone to Art school, joined an Ashram, travelled to India, worked as a Healthcare Chaplain, had my horoscope read, played the harp, belly-danced, learned to read Tarot, gone to career counselling and psychotherapy….and i still don’t know what I want to be ….or am “meant” to be, if there is such a thing – then I grow up!!

i want to know my all aims and fight for them

I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life. How in the world do you choose?

“If i knew exactly what i wanted to do for the rest of my life i don’t see much excitement in it. Like, the challenge of trying to figure out what i want to do i guess is what keeps me motivated. If i was told “your going to do this and your gonna love it” I would probably get bored because i knew what i was going to do, and end up getting bored with life.”
-Riven51 (another 43words member)

well, he’s said it all :D.

i’ve recently left a job of 17 years, a city of 20 years and friends for life to slow down my life a bit. my last job was all encompassing, a lifestyle so to speak. i am finding it difficult now to determine what is best for me, what i want, what i need. i used to make all my decisions on what was best for my job. now i don’t know how to make any decisions. i see two sides to everything. i need to find a way to get underneath my open mindedness and start figuring out ME. but how to start????

I think perhaps we all instinctively feel this need cuz without modern medicine we probably wouldn’t live much past age 30 or 40. So why be so finite with your life? I personally couldn’t see myself being happy doing any one thing for the rest of my life. The idea of a career makes me sick to my stomach. 401ks and planning out my life just feel like driving a square peg into a round slot. Though it’s hard, we’re pushed into this mindset by society and monetary constraints. Ya know, going to college and paying off your debts. I hate it. And just think, you could finally pick one thing to do the rest of your life and then BAM! Cancer. Now you’ve gotta fight cancer. But maybe my outlook is too chaotic..

there’s more to it than just finding what you love. if it was that simple than no one would have this on their list. plus when you find what you love that could be a multiple amount of things. so how do you decide…? =(

I came to this page when I searched for the string “i want to know what i want to do”. Really interesting page. As said by another writer here you need to find something which you love deeply. I had found that thing but I see so many diversifications in it that I want to digest all of it but as I am a human I can’t have it all. I am no-where but still trying to decide which thing to choose. It’s killing me day by day.
The path I choosed seems to be going no-where. I try but but I never finish things.
I think if we are stucked up with this kind of situation we need to start something and do our best to finish it till end (very important). But I am not able to do so. That’s why I search.