I'm 17 and I genuinely have no idea what I want to do with my life, how did you figure it out ?
I'm in my last year of high school in France and everyone around me seems to have at least some direction. Like they picked something, even if it's not perfect. Me ? I genuinely don't know.
It's not that I have too many options. It's more like none of them feel real. I'll read about a career and think yeah okay but I have no idea if I'd actually enjoy that day to day. And our school counselor basically handed me a list based on my grades which wasn't helpful at all.
What bothers me most is that I feel like I'm supposed to make this decision without ever having actually experienced anything. How are you supposed to know what you want to do if you've never really tried anything ?
For those of you who found your path, what actually helped ? Was it an internship, a conversation, something you read ? I'm genuinely trying to understand how people figure this out