Hey! I (21M) struggled a lot with figuring out my carreer path and I think I finally found something I enjoy - but I'm wondering, is what I'm doing enough to build a career? Am I on the right path? Will I be able to achieve my goals?

Keeping it short - In 2020, I graduated in High School with a associate degree in IT. I'm an certified IT technician. And with full honesty, I hated 90% of that course. I only did it because my parentes asked me to and at the time I still struggled with over pleasing them. But I recognize that a few skills I've learned, like graphic design tools and apps, a little bit about UX/UI and overall Things like fast-typing and knowlodge in various operating systems, are very importante and cool to have!

I struggled with a depression episode after high school, one I was struggling with suicide thoughts for many reasons, one being loneliness and other one being my professional future. I always dreamnt with working as a writer, producer and/or diretor for TV/movie industry. I didn't follow this path but I started looking for things I enjoy/would enjoy doing and that could pay enough to give me some financial estability (I live in the biggest city of Brazil).

I was always a very shy kid who found comfort and escapism in media. I've decided to give myself a chance and challenge myself a little. So I started a bachelor major in Communications with Emphasis on Advertising and Marketing. I started college with two thoughts: One - Advertising will be a great course to challenge myself, I'll have to work in group, take leadership roles, do presentations in front of class, etc. This will certaintly help me be more confidente and communicative. And two - Communications is one of the few courses I think I can attend 4 years without dropping college. Filmmaking became more of an hobbie (I do have a few classes of filmmaking in college, in fact, I'll shoot a short documentary this semester).

I'm on 6º from 8º period and I took two internships jobs. One at my own college, as a creative internship on the very own Advertising Bachelor's course Experimental Agency. And another one as Creative Director and Planner on the marketing department of an online jewelry store.

I'm doing things like:

Content/Trends Research, Content Planning for Social Media, Content Marketing, Market Research, Strategy, Branding, I'm directing models/actors on photoshoots and fashion films, References research for the brand, Production, Advertising Campaing planning, Analysis results and Supervisionising the visual material produced for social media/website.

And I started to fell in love with Social Media Marketing. So much I'm considering starting an graduate course on Digital Marketing as soon I graduate in Advertising. I want to keep learning more about what I already do, I want to Learn UX/UI and I want to Learn paid traffic as well. I've also heard about Inbound Marketing but have no idea what that is.

Next year I'll only need to write my final paper to graduate during the entire year, so I'm thinking about transfering to the online classes from my college (it's way cheaper and same diploma!) and start some course of 6 months, 1 year (do you guys have any suggestions on what this course could be????)

Besides college, I sign up for paid a 5 week Digital Marketing course on the best university of my country and am doing a few courses on Coursera, also attending to lectures. I even did a professional Linkedin/Portfolio Photoshoot. But my biggest struggle is netwoking. I do have contact with talented and people working in amazing companies. But only a handful.

A few of my dreams include getting a job in another country, travelling to a few countries, being stable to build a family and getting carrer experience to - in a decade and a half, or so - take a qualification course to become a university professor and teach students bout communications, another huge dream of mine.

I also speak English fluently - learned by myself by interacting with fandoms in foruns and with lyrics from musics from my emo phase.

So, do you guys think I'm on a good path? :)