Don’t know what I want to do/be when I leave school... 😕😔

I’m 13. I’m not sure how it works on other countries, but here in Scotland once you get to 3rd year in high school you choose your school subjects.

(This means you choose which subjects you will be taking from now on, English and math is a must and you must pick a language... etc... depending on which subjects you choose you will then take your exams on which pretty much determines what you want to do when you leave school.)

Well... I’m in 2nd year, going into 3rd year. And in a week I have a meeting with a job counsellor, there we discuss what we want to do once we leave school and they tell us what subjects are best for us to take depending on what I want to do. And then in a few more weeks I pick my subjects.

But the thing is. I honestly don’t know what I want to do/be once I leave school. I seriously don’t have a clue. It worries me a lot, that if I don’t decide I won’t be able to do anything or have a good job and I’m scared of that and I’ve cried over it many times. (Honestly. I’m crying just now about it.)

All of my friends know exactly what they want to be, they know what classes they need to take and how well they need to do in those classes. They seem to have everything sorted out. And I don’t.

I’ve searched for jobs online and job descriptions. I mean I have seriously looked through plenty of jobs but I don’t think I’d be able to do them for whatever reason or they sound un amusing.

My parents just want me to do well for myself. They want me to do better than they did. And they have way higher ambitions than what I actually think I can accomplish. They both want me to be a lawyer. I’ve said this since I was small that that’s what I want to do and that’s final. But now that I’ve looked into it and read about being a lawyer I don’t think I’d be able to do it, not even that I wouldn’t be able to that it’s that I’d do it and then figure out that I’ve just wasted years doing something I hate.

I’m honestly scared to death about when I’m older. Because I don’t actually know what’s going to happen to me, job wise.

Any advice please?

I mean any at all... I could really use it currently,

Thank you.

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