What Is "your Talent", I'm becoming worried.. Options

[Wurlon]

Throughout life I have heard the many speeches of "follow your dreams, do what you love, use a talent you have" and others ect. that I assume are used to guide you to a successful, happy life or career. Well that is hopefully, but my main question is how? I cannot find something that I love to do that could become a job, or a talent I have that is useful.. I mean I have (or I am supposed to have) a high intellect, so I could probably work my way into a moderate college. But I do not know what, I know I am quite young but just curious.

If not, feel free to post how you found your talent/talents or how you found a job you would love. Being a parent will be considered a job in here

This post has been edited by Wurlon: Oct 29 2005, 02:27 AM

[Pisces]

Well when I was young I wanted to be an airline pilot but that died out when I was 15 for various reasons, and since I was always good at science and I loved water and animals I decided I should become a marine biologist but I didn't really know, later my studies in biology revealed that I suck at cells, DNA and microbiology but I was good at evolution, ecology, animal behaviour (I've always been good with animals too) and I had a passion for conservation and making a differance, although I give money to worldvision the thought of giving time didn't appeal so I decided I should instead do something to do with conservation. Later this year I took an active part in the elections and loved/hated it and I've become addicted to it, while politics is a real interest I don't want to be a politition because then I'd have to deal with the darker sides of humanity more than I'd like but I would love to be the UN rep for my country; thats my current dream job which rates far above chocolate taster, airline pilot or PM.

As for talents, I just seem to keep and discovering more, I don't have natural talent in everything but I learn quick and can master things quickly, I can't master everything, like sports which involve lots of pressure I still suck at (though I'm good at accuracy things like shooting and I'm an amazing putter unfortunatly I can't drive). I used to be good at english but I don't like restricting my crazy minds random scribblings so now I let it all go and I often change the direction of a sentance mid way through and so nobody can understand me sometimes; which means I'm not so good at english anymore and I've forgotten or ignored most of the rules. Art is a recent talent which I am becoming better all the time with and I can't match most people who have been doing it for years. Music I love but don't have the patience for to learn, I used to play keyboard/piano but I lost interest and whenever I have a passion to learn a song I can never find the sheet music for it or I never get around to it.

So yeah, don't worry that you don't know what you want to do, if you coast through life without knowing what you want to do then your more likely to find something you love. And just because you suck at something doesn't mean you shouldn't do it, naturally talent gets you so far but its the people who have been sticking to it even though they might have been bad to begin with who become the masters.