I am 30 and I am just starting to figure out what I want to do with my life.

When you are a kid there is one question that adults ask you quite often. 

What do you want to do when you grow up? 

Depending on your age and your interests or what your parents try to influence you toward you probably always had an answer until about sophomore year of high school. See, before you were encouraged to dream big, you could be a scientist, an astronaut, or even The President of the United States of America! But in high school you stop seeing the world through rose colored glasses, also this is when people expect you to start making decisions for the future. 

Are you going to go to college? What schools are you going to apply for? What do you want to major in? What do you want to do with your life? 

After so many years of your life where every decision is made for you, you have a say in what you want. It is the most terrifying thing to happen to you. What happens if you choose incorrectly, or if you just have no idea? Everyone expects you to figure it out because in a couple more years you are supposed to be moving on to adulthood.

The problem is, you are still a kid, and you really can't even imagine what life will be like in 5, 10 or 20 years from when you are in high school. 

So many people I know have gone to college right out of high school and the vast majority of them have degrees that have nothing to do with what they are currently doing for work. In other words they were expected to choose a career path and they did, and it wasn't the right one for them. Through trial and error they found something better, or maybe they chose a career that has very low job availability.

What do you want to be when you grow up is a bullshit question, because we need time and experiences to shape our paths and choices. Its time to stop putting so much pressure on teen boys and girls to make a decision and stick with it because that's not how life works. 

It took me many years of school and work and general life experience to figure out a path that I am happy with, and I have real long term goals for myself. I am 30 years old, and haven't been considered a kid for a long time. It took me a while, and I'm ok with it. So don't feel bad if you haven't figured out what you wanna do for the rest of your life, you will eventually.