Is there anyway to make my life more awesome?
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Like the title of this song says, life's what you make it. My advice to you is while you're looking for work and money, take a good, hard, long look at yourself and figure out who you are, what skills you have, and what your interests in life are. Perhaps make a Pros/Cons list of each category. The key thing is to really be honest with yourself, or even ask friends & family members for their opinion of you, and have them do their best to be brutally honest. Then, once you have your lists, use them to try and determine possible future career choices based on what type of person you are, your skills, and your interests. For example, take me. I thought of being a math teacher for a while because I'm really good at math and I'd get summers off. However, after thinking about it more clearly, I realized that I'm a night owl, so waking up at 5 when I normally go to bed isn't for me. Also, I maybe really good at math, but I don't like it like I do other things. So I crossed that off the list.
I find self assessment to be really helpful in leading a good life. It makes it where you can do your very best to avoid the things you don't like and strive for the things you do like.