Dear Nick,
My advice for you would be to follow your heart, whatever you want to do. Don't listen to things that they might teach you at school (that you need to make lots of money, go into a "high flying" job. IMO, this is rubbish.
Now, if your heart says to get a job cleaning, then you can do it. For me, there was so much pressure to do the right thing and "to be successful" at school. Their idea of success is brainwashed.
I see success as spiritual happiness, and I think one of the first things that you need for that is to not be in a job that burns you out (ie when they demand more than you can give). I would anything manageable, where YOU CAN LOOK AFTER YOURSELF.
Somewhere where you can get your sleep at night (enough time), have time to make Ital meals for yourself. Exercise, ideally would be part of the job.
When you have time to look after yourself, you slow down enough to see your surroundings. This is where true inspiration is born on what you want to do. It may well be that you need a simple job for a while, for ever, or not at all. Whatever you feel.
I like the analogy of a car. In school, generally they speed you up to 100mph. You are going so fast that the only thing you can do is concentrate on the road ahead, because otherwise you will crash. By going somewhere where you have time to look after yourself, the vehicle slows down. Evntually, it slows down sufficiently to be able to see all the plants on the roadside, and you can start to look at the roadsigns and have TIME to decide which junction to take ahead.
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For me, studying horticulture seemed logical because I do not want to stay in Babylon forever, and I know that the first thing that you must be able to do is to feed yourself. So horticulture seemed most fitting, and it is healthy too.
Some ideas;
Horticulture of any kind
Working with children
Working with books
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But honestly, follow your heart, not someone else's heart. Whether that be something simple, something not simple etc. To my school, horticulture seemed a "low down" job, as they would actually tell us. But, you know what that I don't care what they think. You leave there and you may never see those people again!
Be whatever you want to be, and look after yourself along the way!
All the best,
Joe
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