Dear Shirley:

Being pulled in different directions figuring out your future career? Your interests are many, from helping the elderly to… all the way to the latest: environmental science vs molecular biology. Be gentle with yourself as you navigate through your interests- there are many and there will be more. Read anything that interests you, investigate a bit: how could I use this field in a future career? Can I do this on a very part time as a volunteer and do the other thing for a living? Am I likely to be emotionally satisfied doing this vs that?

Pay attention to your motivations: when you catch yourself wanting to do a certain thing because there is more money in it and your parents will approve, pay attention: you only need a certain amount of money and you are not alive so that others- including your parents- will think well of you.

What you need to be satisfied and well is what is going on in your head (thinking and feeling) – not in other people’s heads.

Patsy, by the way, reads like an unpleasant character, manipulative, bossy. What do you feel about her character?

anita