Graduating high school soon and I realized that I don't want to work

I graduate in less than a month, and it just dawned on me that I have no idea what I want to do with my life. If I go to college, I'll get a degree and find a job to do until retirement comes. If I don't go to college, I still have to get a job to make a living. I wish I could be a kid forever and not have to worry about this. Some of my peers have clear career plans in mind -- teaching, medicine, politics. And here I am with absolutely no goal.

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LadyGrace ·

Do you enjoy mechanics or anything like that? Find a trade that you would really enjoy doing even if it's welding or whatever and then go to trade school for that and you will always have that under your belt to see you through life and you only have to do that once, instead of taking all these courses in college that you won't even use. And for four years or more!