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writes:Okay, this is not a relationship question, but I need your help anyway. To cut to the chase: I'm a 24 year old woman and I'm not sure about what to do with my life. I'm going to give some backstory. Sorry if it's boring, but I need someone to give some insight. Everything is appreciated. After highschool I took a couple of years off to work and make a living, as my parents were struggling financially. My mom has MS and her condition deteriorated fast, so we needed a caregiver to ensure she got the care she needed without having to move out. When I was 20 I decided I didn't want to spend the rest of my life doing lousy jobs and working double shifts to get decent pay, so I used my saved money to go to college. I'm currently getting a degree in communication, and I was planning on becoming a journalist, but as things are now the pickings are slim. A friend of mine who has the same degree has been unemployed for a year now, despite his best efforts in different fields. I'm not a pessimist but it worries me. When I first started going to college, I figured I'd use the military as my plan B. I've always been active and have been doing martial arts rigorously for 10 years and consider myself suitable enough. Another thing was that a secret dream of mine has always been to pilot a helicopter or a jet. I applied, got through the first rounds of tests, until a full application stop was issued because our government decided cutting back on military would be a good idea (1/6th of all military personell have lost their jobs and much of the equipment has been sold.) So here I am, on a bad economical market with no plan B. I really want to do something with my life. Right now I live at home and help out my parents while I finish my studies, but I'm just not sure what to do. Does anyone have an idea how to get my life on track?
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reader, anonymous, writes (1 June 2011): This is verified as being by the original poster of the questionThank you for your response. I just needed someone to make sense and you did :)
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reader, chigirl  +, writes (29 May 2011):
 I'm not a career adviser, but here's what I personally do. Make a plan C. And D, as in worst case scenario that isn't half bad anyway. Preferably something a little exotic and untraditional to make it fun. My plan D is being a bus-driver, hardly exotic, but it's one of those jobs I wanted when I was a little kid and didn't know better. As long as you find a job that you can earn a decent living on, it works. Figure out what capabilities you have, and what you actually enjoy doing, what's on the market of jobs, potentially moving to a country where they need the work-force, even if for just a few years, build up the work experience to write on work-applications, and move upwards. Your plan A and B are still in effect. But make a C and D just in case. And make the D plan something that sounds like fun for you (like trying out a bartender job in Ibiza or something).
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