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Stumbled on this today, and it kind of made me laugh...


(from http://giftedservices.com.au/adults.html)

All this time, I thought I was pathologically indecisive. Turns out I'm just gifted.

Kidding aside, like many of you, doing all this research and thinking about things for dd has got me thinking about my own upbringing, and that's got me feeling a little upended.

I sooooo have this problem. I ended up picking my career by choosing the class that was hardest for me in HS.

I like it but now, 10 years later, I've found that my passion lies elsewhere. However, for the time being I'm sticking with my current career and doing what I really like on the side.

My husband chose his college major by reading the list of majors and selecting the one that sounded the hardest.

He loves his mathy-computery career and has been extremely successful at it. He needs to learn new things all the time, though, or he gets bored. Luckily, his field offers a lot of newness all the time.

I have always been a humanities generalist at heart, a serial monogamist of sorts in terms of my interests. I get passionate about something for a few years and learn everything there is to know about it, but then I burn out and move on to another passion. Writing novels has been a good fit for me because I can immerse myself in one world, write the book, and then move on to another world. It took me a good long while to figure that out, though!

I think it's good to play to your strengths, but more in terms of approach to learning than in terms of subject matter.

I'd love to read your novel. Are u published? I like stories.

I hope to be, but I'm not yet. I'm editing my second book now, and it will be the first one I send out to agents to try to sell, hopefully by the end of the summer.

Thanks for the interest.

Oh yeah I'm interested. If you were my neighbor I'd enjoy reading the computer print-out copy. Good luck with that.

Serial monogonist. I like that. I think that's the way to go, at least personally. I envy people like newmom, who have a long-lived passion. I know what you mean about being a novelist (or writer in general). Good luck, indeed. I don't usually wish luck to capable people, but there is such an element that is out of your control.

I think under different circumstances going with the hardest pick might have worked well for me. Alas, by the time I started college, I had a horrible attitude towards school. I guess that's what's killing me now -- things that I've seen as personality flaws, I'm now realizing actually have at least some degree of cheetah-in-the-cage syndrome. Ah, well. We can only move forward.

I'll take the luck, with gratitude.

If you'll allow me a little fortune-cookie-esque wisdom: It's only too late to change course if you're dead. Forgive yourself your mistakes and do better next time.

Upended would be an understatement! Love the fortune cookie wisdom.

I think many of us learned a whole lot about ourselves, our spouses, our parents and siblings, etc., etc. from our research to try to help our kids. I know I did, and it's a common comment here.

Nothing wrong with that!