I am taking a module currently in my Sociology class which is work and professional development and within that I am doing e-journalism. I'm going to be doing interviews and I have done a few interviews already in preparation for the big interviews. My first interview is centred around career management and employability and it has got me thinking.
Basically one of my questions to my friends was 'Do you know what job you want at the end of University?'  Literally neither me nor  many of my friends have a clue. I do think it is pretty ridiculous, the amount of pressure put on a 16/17 year old to decide on what they want to do for the rest of their life. I mean everyone says: 'If you don't go to Uni, your basically fucked. You pretty much can't do anything' Is that really the case, surely it can't be. I mean personally I am a completely different person to the person I was when I was that age, even though it wasn't that long ago. A teenagers prerogative is to change their mind, is it not?
So I decided I would do Sociology as a degree, I quite enjoyed it and I was pretty good at it,  so why not? But instead should I have done something I really enjoy, well if they did a degree in Harry Potter or Merlin at that age I definitely would have gone for that. My interests now, I'd like to think have become a little bit more sophisticated, instead of watching family guy, I like to watch the news or read the paper. Instead of romantic comedies, I like Foreign films and Independent ones. Instead of reading Harry Potter, I am more inclined to read Kerouac or Kafka. We all change right? So why are we put under so much pressure to know exactly what we want out of life at such a young age? I'm currently on the phone to my best friend and we are pretty much two kindred spirits, we like the same things, have the same interests and we both feel the same.
I'd love to go back to the 16/17 year old Aimee at Stafford College, having a conversation with my tutor Sharon Coleclough, doing my UCAS application. Me being a complete mess, worrying about not having a clue with what to do with my life. I think I'd say 'Chill the fuck out pal! Who cares if you don't have a clue what you want to be, not many people do, and even if they think they do it will probably change. Not only that those people who say they know what they want to do are probably lying, because they are as clueless as you.'
Unfortunately I'm not friends with Doc Brown or Marty McFly so I can't give myself that advice, but I think I'm going to take it now.

Hey I'm Aimee Wootton, I'm 19 and I don't have a clue!