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Originally Posted by activeStick
Yup, it's an odd phenomenon of the west and seemingly supported by many. I've never understood it for the most part. If the year off is spent legitimately exploring potential career paths, then great. Not a fan however of 17 year old kids taking a year off to sit around at home doing nothing that relates to their future career plans or even worse, going on some backpacking expedition in Europe or SE Asia to discover themselves.
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Not everybody knows what they want to do at 17. I went to university at 17 and failed miserably because I didn’t care. After that I decided I wanted to do some travelling so I worked 60-70 hours per week at crappy jobs to pay for trips. Both the working and travelling were great experiences for me and I went back to university with a lot more focus and maturity and did very well the second time around.
I’m very happy I took a few years to do that before settling into ‘real life’, and Id highly recommend that to anyone who isn’t certain of their career path.