True Confessions Of A Marketing Intern

When I was 20 years old I did the unthinkable.  I quit school.

I had been attending university for 2 years and I did not know what I was doing.  I had ideas.  I had a lot of ideas in the 2 years I was in academia.  I was going to be a teacher, a child psychiatrist, an anthropologist, a nutritionist, and the list goes on and on.  Ultimately, I did not know what I wanted and until I figured that out school was getting me nowhere.  At the end of my 2 year sample of everything university had to offer I quit.

I faced the usual throwback from family and friends.  I was told that quitting school would ruin my life, that I would never make above minimum wage, that I would never return to school again, that I would have goblin children, etc.  None of this turned out to be true.

After quitting school I began working at a call center and quickly became a supervisor.  This helped me realize that I was really interested in business, particularly human resources.  It was also while I was working there that many of my friends started graduating.  They were graduating with huge debts and no jobs.  I decided then that I would return to university, but not until I could afford it on my own.

I am now 3 years into a double major in Business Commerce and Religious Studies.  I eventually decided on Marketing as opposed to Human Resources but it was in working that I found direction.  While quitting school isn’t the path for everyone it is definitely what I needed to find the right career for me.  I am now on my work term and I am more certain than ever that I made the right decision.  My life wasn’t ruined, I always made above minimum wage, I did return to school, and I never had goblin children (but that remains to be seen).