I thought I would post one of these memoir things. I read sooo much more than I post here, and these life updates from strangers always hit that community aesthetic for me. So here's mine.
I've worked since I was 14. Fry cook, Computer repair, cashier, computer repair, bakery slave, cashier... Always something mundane that never made me excited. Four years out of high school and today is my last day of mundane work. I'm going to school to study chemistry.
I've been taking one or two classes a semester in those four years. Chemistry really hits the spot for my curiosity. I'm methodical enough not to be bored by experiments. I'm curious enough to handle the mind bending nature of learning quantum theory. Thermo clicks in y head and makes sense.
I'm so excited to know where I will be for the next 4-6 years and what I want from that time and that I will enjoy it. Here's to hoping my next job title will be chemist.
Congrats! School is fun. I'm headed into my third year of engineering, and can't wait till autumn rolls around again. Worked in a produce department in Walmart for a couple months this summer to save a little, and quit three days back. Nothing exciting, just like you said, very mundane and repetitive stuff. But that's all going to change in September.
I've enjoyed it a ton! I'm actually doing an internship this summer at a little startup, doing embedded Linux software to control a generator. It's been fun and has kinda made me wonder whether I want to do more electrical things, not just computer. I'd definitely encourage you to get an internship in engineering one of these summers. I can't say that getting a job without any connections is especially easy, as I got my internship through networking, but it definitely is possible. Like you mentioned in your top-level comment, I'm really excited for autumn to roll around so I can get back to classes.