I’m 21 and when I was 18 I used to think I’d be fulfilled if I studied hard and got a good job. I’m now about to graduate with a degree at a 2.1 or 2.2 depending on my exam results. I’m going for a 1-year masters degree and then 2 years of studying/working to qualify as a solicitor before I actually start working. Despite my academic mediocrity (due to mental health issues, laziness and poor planning), I’m thinking of doing a 3-year Phd afterwards and then settling down to work for the MoD or the UN or whatever comes up depending on my employability. Does any of this sound viable or am I being delusional?
And then once I’m done with school, I just want to settle down, get married (arranged), have kids and be a homemaker while working part time. I’m not actually all that passionate about law but theres nothing else so I might as well go all the way.
Being in my twenties is just dreadful cause everyone around me either has a hustler mindset and is thriving in their corporate jobs, or chasing their creative passions, or nurturing their family lives at home. Meanwhile, I’m barely even studying for a career I’m not even sure I want, I have no passion apart from bed-rotting and everyone seems to have a dream or goal they’re chasing. TBH I didn’t even think I’d make it this far, it was supossed to end at 17 but somehow I’m still here and now I have to deal with it.
All I want is to make use of my education to get a respectable job with good benefits (i.e. pension), a fairly reasonable salary and to find some semblance of peace.
This was a rant but any advice or relation to anything I’ve rambled about would be nice.