Oh, what don't I want to do with my life?
I'd like to be an author. It remains to be seen if that will ever happen. I have been published once, and I was (and still am) proud of that short story, but that's the key thing: short story. I have yet to finish a longer project, or come up with an idea that would require a novel in order to be told. Maybe if I discipline myself enough, I might get into writing it... I could easily write a collection of short stories, but I am told that publishers don't find that particularly attractive to publish since it doesn't sell nearly as well as novels, especially where a debutant author is concerned.
On the other hand, I encourage myself with the fact that George R.R. Martin only wrote short stories for a long time, and look at what he's working on now. Yeah.
I'd like to do photography, but this is more of a naive wish. I'm not nearly skilled enough to be able to support myself on that, so it's more of a "I'm learning a little at a time and in a five years maybe I'll manage to sell a photo or two".
Ever since I was a child, I've been interested in paleontology and archaeology (yes, I actually stood in front of my class at age 7 declaring I wanted to be an archaeologist), and I'm definitely still interested in it. I even thought of studying it at university for a while, and it still tempts me. I'm just as interested in that as I am in the subject I've chosen to study (international relations and politics), and it was a difficult choice, but I went with what I chose because in the end I thought it would be more useful knowledge for me, and because I'll definitely never stop reading about archaeology and ancient civilizations and dinosaurs in my free time, and get an "education" in that way. Also, I'm terrible with science and with the kind of archaeology I'm interested in, there will definitely be science involved.
However, nothing's lost yet. I'm 20 years old. If I feel the overwhelming need to study it later in life, then I can do so (screw student loans). My mother didn't begin studying to become a teacher until she was in her 40s and she's now quite a successful teacher. It's never too late.
Finally, something which is related to what I'm going to study; I'd love to work for the UNESCO. But they require French. The one useless bloody language I didn't study, and principles forbid me to take it up. They won't even take interns if they don't speak French. The French can fuck off. Nobody (apart from other Swedes and some Finns) speaks my language, but do I complain? No, I learn five other fucking languages because I like it, and you will too once you start, bitches!
(I could always learn French, I suppose)
On a side note, why do people want to move to Sweden? Here nothing awaits but mass unemployment and ridiculously high taxes and living costs, plus a social democratic government that seems to yearn for the good old, Soviet, state-controls-all days. Wait a few years until the 40s generation retire, then you can move in and take all the jobs, because the then 20-30 year old Swedes won't have any experience, since there weren't any jobs for them when they were younger.
On a second side note, these days I only ever post on this board when I've had alcohol. I wonder why.
