{"id":6957,"date":"2019-03-18T09:52:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T13:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=6957"},"modified":"2019-03-18T11:26:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T15:26:32","slug":"do-you-ever-really-feel-comfortable-with-your-career-choice-i-think-too-often-about-the-what-ifs-especially-because-grad-school-is-so-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/03\/18\/do-you-ever-really-feel-comfortable-with-your-career-choice-i-think-too-often-about-the-what-ifs-especially-because-grad-school-is-so-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you ever really feel comfortable with your career choice? I think too often about the &#8220;what ifs&#8221;, especially because grad school is so expensive."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"316\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aw031819-11.jpg\" alt=\"Do you ever really feel comfortable with your career choice? I think too often about the &quot;what ifs&quot;, especially because grad school is so expensive.\" class=\"wp-image-6934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aw031819-11.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aw031819-11-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aw031819-11-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>Do you ever really feel comfortable with your career choice? I think too often about the &#8220;what ifs&#8221;, especially because grad school is so expensive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nThe reality is that many if not most people will change careers, sometimes multiple times. It&#8217;s not a final decision.  I&#8217;d check in with the Career Center (bit.ly\/BC-career) for some validation of your career choice. There will always be &#8220;what ifs&#8221;.  Even I wonder once in a while if I should have studied to be a memorial wall, like my amazing cousin, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, but I know that I have a valuable role to play here at BC doing my answering.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reality is that many if not most people will change careers, sometimes multiple times. It&#8217;s not a final decision. I&#8217;d check in with the Career Center (bit.ly\/BC-career) for some validation of your career choice. There will always be &#8220;what ifs&#8221;. Even I wonder once in a while if I should have studied to be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/03\/18\/do-you-ever-really-feel-comfortable-with-your-career-choice-i-think-too-often-about-the-what-ifs-especially-because-grad-school-is-so-expensive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do you ever really feel comfortable with your career choice? I think too often about the &#8220;what ifs&#8221;, especially because grad school is so expensive.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[510,351],"class_list":["post-6957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-life-career","tag-career-choice","tag-graduate-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6971,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions\/6971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}