Kasım 5, 2025
Dürüst olun arkadaşlar… 2025’te liseden sonra seçilecek en iyi kariyer aslında nedir? Kayboldum 😭💭
Tamam, gerçek konuşma. Herkes “tutkunuzun peşinden gidin”, “sevdiğiniz şeyi yapın” diyor – peki ya tam anlamıyla neyi sevdiğiniz hakkında hiçbir fikriniz yoksa? 😭
Mühendislik kulağa stresli geliyor, tıp sonsuz gibi görünüyor, kamu işleri sonsuza kadar sürüyor ve iş dünyası bir kumar gibi geliyor.
Temel olarak… O klasik “hayatımda ne yapıyorum?” aşama 💀
Bu yüzden gerçekten şunu sormak istiyorum: 2025’te, iyi para kazanabileceğiniz ve yine de biraz gönül rahatlığı yaşayabileceğiniz en pratik, geleceğe yönelik kariyer yolu nedir?
Lütfen “bu sana bağlı” demeyin 😭 Orada bulunmuş insanlardan gerçek deneyimler duymak istiyorum —
Hangi alanlar gerçekten büyüyor?
Hangi yollar tükenmişlik ya da pişmanlıkla sonuçlanmaz?
18 yaşında olsan ve yine kafan tamamen karışsa neyi seçerdin?
Sahte motivasyon yok, alıntı yok; yalnızca gerçekçi tavsiyeler verin. Bunu, kafası karışan her öğrenci için nihai rehber haline getirelim. 🙌
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The reality is, it doesn’t work like that. Look at computer science. For years it was the “best” major and a guaranteed job. Now it’s kind of mess with over saturation, outsourcing, and layoffs.
The reason people say to do what you like is that you never know how a field/demand for a field will change in the future. So your best bet is to do something you enjoy doing so that when change happens, you have the energy and motivation to change with it.
Don’t go into crazy debt for a fancy college with no plan. If I had to start over with no idea what I wanted to do, I’d apply for whatever aid I could get and go to community college. There, I would try as many different classes/fields as possible until I found something that I liked doing, was good at, and had enough career opportunities tied to it.
Do NOT follow your passion yet. You don’t have one anyways when you’re 18 (what you have now are interests). So, here’s what to do:
1. Follow your TALENT first– you’re likely to know more about what you are good at than ‘passion’. Or, at least you know what you suck at, and just flip that. If you suck at talking in person, then maybe your talent is behind the organizational scene, for example. Otherwise, you can take this quick test that suggests your talents and some potential jobs ([https://onetinterestprofiler.org/](https://onetinterestprofiler.org/))
2. Discover PASSION after that– Gain skills while you’re ‘doing your talent.’
3. Niche with your MISSION/Purpose– Even later once you’re ‘working on your passion.’
If you want to start something, start with something that is natural to you, something easy to you, so we don’t fail. And that is following what you are predominantly good at already.
So, reflect and jot down what you are decent at, or take an aptitute test or so, and we’ll narrow down your options from there. One step at a time.
Good luck 🙏
If you have no idea what you love, start getting out of your house and experiencing things. No one is stopping you from going to a college campus and talking to people about what they are interested in doing and why and how. There is no tuition required for this. You can most likely walk into any large lecture class you want and listen for free. You only have to pay for a grade in a transcript.
The same goes for workplaces. Many of them have orientation programs for high school students. Healthcare certainly does. You can also call and make appointments to talk to professors. I did that in the 7th grade as a school project assigned by my teacher. You can also apply for jobs you don’t want and go on interviews just to learn about the job and the workplace. You can turn down any job offer you don’t want with no penalty.
First thing if I could go back is actually pursue what I wanted and put all my eggs in that basket and see what happens.
2nd thing I would do is what I’m doing now. IT audit. It is still pretty lucrative depending on certs you get and frameworks you work with, you can make 200k with 7-8 years of experience. Starting out you’ll make ~60k after 2-3 years you can make about 80k.
You can get here with an accounting, CS, information systems, engineering, business, any degree that’s a little technical.
I did tech sales first out of college and it ended in burnout for me. Did that for ~6 years.
I have a non technical degree but most college grads that get hired out of school had one of those technical degrees above.
I’ve read there is about a 30% expected growth in this industry the next 10 years. Not sure if AI will affect that or not.
If you’re okay with labor or trades I’d go for that. Plumbing, electrician, HVAC etc.
People always recommend nursing but I think that’s a career that you really have to love or enjoy it can be difficult and there’s lots of burn out.
Edit: also I know you don’t want to hear this but most people will change careers in some way at least 7 times in their life. It’s okay not to know what you want to do right now. With that said I love when young people are interested in their futures. Remember to have a good balance of being open to change and new ideas but also being realistic and working hard towards goals that are in your present.
Honestly, tech in general is becoming more and more of a gamble even though it what I would generally recommend. The good news is that the bar for IT is very low compared to dev roles – I got hired without a single cert to my name and have been getting OTJ training while getting paid.
I would recommend checking out one of the many low-cost CompTIA programs and getting a cert. Sec + and Net + are shorter tests than A+, and either will be enough to qualify you for an entry-level IT job, if you decide it’s something you want to pursue. And if not, at least finding out you didn’t like the field didn’t cost you $10k+ of student loan debt.
Everything is a gamble right now. Learning soft skills and touching a lot of different general areas is super important. Its the time to be a generalist with great communication skills. If you have great communication skills you will be the cream of the crop because you can outperform others with your prompting abilities.
I think you’re thinking too long-term. Get a job, any job. Figure out what you like and don’t like. Get another job. Figure out what industry you like and what you like/dislike.
In each of those broad categories, you call out, there are literally thousands of jobs. For example, medicine. Being a doctor is endless schooling. Nursing is 4-5 years (maybe less, depending on your path). What about an Xray or MRI tech? What about doing IT support for a hospital? My partner was a nurse but now writes workflows for the hospitals patient management system. There are hundreds of jobs in a hospital and probably over a thousand if you think about outpatient/clinics/EMTs and other pieces that make up the medical system. A lot of them require less than 2 years of schooling.
Or let’s take tech. That’s awfully broad. You could start in a data center doing basic server maintenance. Or maybe on a help desk. Then decide- maybe go into networking? Or writing code? Or the operations side? If you go into the operations side maybe as a site reliability engineer (the guys watching alerts come in and fixing what’s broke). Or maybe deploying new software? Or writing it? Or building out the monitoring system? Or maybe managing changes?
Before I turned 25 I worked in multiple restaurants, drove a shuttle van and running cables in new stores, and probably a few other jobs I’ve managed to forget. I figured out what was interesting, got a job, got the next job. Got some schooling. Got the next job, rinse repeat. I now have a job that pays a couple hundred K a year that didn’t exist when I was 25, or 35. (Now in my early 50s).
I did do a few years of college straight out of high school (while working as a switchboard operator which doesn’t exist anymore!). But what I knew about jobs/the world at 18 was miniscule. I’m watching my own kids go through this same thing. The fields/jobs you know about are just a small percentage of what’s out there now and a smaller percentage of what will be out there. Go find what you like you doing and chase it for awhile.
“ what if you literally have no idea what you love? “ – Only you can figure that out, not us. What do you do daily? Have you ever held a job? Done some volunteering or internships position? You need to try different things to know what you may or may not like if you finished high school without still not knowing what you want to do or be or major in.
“ in 2025, what’s the most practical, future-proof career path where you can make good money and still have some peace of mind?” – nobody knows! The world is evolving at a fast pace and anything is possible. However, you will not magically make good money unless you have some types of degrees (bachelor’s masters and/or PhD), certificates and on top of being in the workforce for at least 5-10 years with about 4-7 jobs that you held to build yourself up.
“ Which fields are actually growing? There are more job opportunities in the field of STEM and Healthcare contrary to other fields”
“ Which paths don’t end in burnout or regret?” any path can end up burning you if you are not in the right environment and you don’t have any passion in the path you are following.
If you are 18 and still confused, make sure to
1. TAKE A GAP YEAR and use that time wisely to go to open houses and see what the universities and colleges have to offer jn terms of major, job prospects, grants and scholarships for incoming students, start at a community college to get your associate degree first. If you don’t want that major anymore you can still make a better decision and change your major for your bachelor’s degree.
2. After your sophomore year, start looking for internships and summer opportunities right away.
3. Make sure to get your driver license first by all means!
4. Stay focus and study hard, Learn to say NO to others! Don’t lose your virginity in college, don’t be dating or going to parties since this is how easily you can mess your life (r@pe, alcohol, drug ..) and if those are the reasons why you are going to college, you will ultimately f@il! Don’t let the bad influence of others get to you or you may wind up dropping out, unexpected pregnancy … which will make your life harder than you can image.
5. The road is long/hard, but you can do this if you make the right decision and don’t let your guard down with unnecessary distractions! Go get your Associate, bachelor’s and master’s degree and take a gap year in between to avoid burn out and think about your next move/path. Keep working while studying simultaneously after your sophomore year so that you can be financially stable and move out when you finish your bachelor’s degree. Don’t date or get married or bring any kids into this world until you are at least 30yo, accomplished and financially stable! Your 20s are meant to lay down the foundation of your own freedom and financial independence by studying and working so to not depend on others forever later on
Good luck
The US market is in desperate need of electricians or skilled machine technicians. There is a lot of talk of bringing manufacturing back to the US and when/if that actually happens it will all be automated because labor costs here are too high, so the actual jobs that will be needed are people to maintain and repair these machines. Just my thoughts as someone who works in machinery sales.
In the AI boom, the intersection of soft skills and blue collar work is probably the peak, but I don’t know what jobs that would entail. Learn to be good with people.
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People tell you to follow your passion because 1. If you love what you do you’ll try your best to make it work 2. Your life won’t feel miserable when waking up for work every day.
Listen to that. Don’t brush it off hoping for some miracle career that’ll make you money asap.
My dad listened to people around him and went into engineering cos they said it’ll make him money etc etc. he hated it. He opened his own business in a field he was passionate about and he flourished. He wasted his whole education cos he doesn’t use it now. At all.
Follow the suggestions that say to sit in classes and maybe even apply for jobs / internships or volunteer or even job shadow just to experience different fields.
Some form of government contracting work.
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If you’re lost the first 2 years or so can be used to figure it out.. maybe find a place you could see yourself finding a path towards that.
Don’t pick a job only based on the tasks, or what you’re “passionate about”. Look up the typical conditions that come with the job you want such as :
1) average salary
2) schedule (are you expected to work weekends? are you expected to work in 12 hour shifts?)
3) time off (do you get a decent amount of paid time off?)
4) degree requirement (will it take 2 years or 10 to complete?)
5) benefits (do employers in this field tend to pay benefits including insurance? how much would those cost?)
6) availability in your area (is there a strong demand for the job where you live or are you willing to relocate)
Honestly I find most jobs boring to some extent, so what worked for me was finding something I don’t hate doing, that keeps me on my feet all day long and that pays well and has good benefits. A job isn’t supposed to be your passion in most cases and if that were the case people would work for free lmao
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Look into blue collar jobs. They can make good money without going into crazy debt. It’s difficult work though.
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I’m a software engineer but if I could go back, I’d probably try to do civil engineering instead
You know what the best career is? The one you enjoy the most, you are young and might not understand this yet but there are so many people which hate their job because they did what you did and listened to other instead of themselves,
What do you enjoy? What is your passion?
You have to figure out what you like first than choosing your path will be very easy,
When I didnt know what to do I used [pravay.com](http://pravay.com), it helped me find my passion and maybe can help you too,