Last month, as I had to choose the speciality of the master I am going to do when I go back to France, I had to think seriously about what I wanted my future and my career to be like. So I freaked out. Since the age of six, I have always known what I wanted to do as a job, I have always had an answer to the typical question “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, even if it changed a lot, from veterinary to teacher or journalist. Since I entered university, I was sure I wanted to work in the highest realms of French public administration, especially in local authorities. However, when I had to tick the box of the Master I wanted to do, in front of such a large range of choice, I was not that sure anymore of wanting to do “Public Affairs and administration”. Living a whole year as an exchange student in Chile made me realize that having a prestigious career maybe was not that important and that politics was a definitely a ruthless world. Moreover, I was afraid that choosing to study public administration would ruin my possibilities of working in outside the borders of France.
However, I decided to choose public administration, because it is what I am interested in, and that I would improvise in two years what to do. I would like to have responsibilities, and wages corresponding to my level of studies enabling me to leave a confortable life and to travel, without worrying me to much for money, and I would definitely like to work abroad. But I know I do not need to earn a lot of money to be happy, and what matters to me is having a profession I find very fulfilling, and which enables me to have a blossoming social and family life.