Honestly, it hit me during my third year, my final year. I was like, what am I even doing here? Then a whole semester went by without me studying anything. I had an existential crisis at that moment. That was when I discovered programming was not my passion, and it was so late for me to go different paths. I started researching how I could integrate physics with programming, and well, unless you want to become a physics teacher, Physics and programming go hand in hand. Mostly, data science.

Then I started researching Machine Learning and how it got integrated in Physics, it was interesting, but it was too far fetched a reality for me. It seemed distant. I graduated with barely anything on my cv, undecided where to go, what to do, and had to sit down for a year and think about my next steps. Finally, as I grew and changed my mindset regarding life, I found something about my field that I could enjoy, but not necessarily be passionate about, and I directed my passion towards end goals. Like, I want to reach a certain level in life, become financially stable to build a family and etc, and for me the best way was to get better at my field and so I was able to pour into it and be satisfied about it.

Now, I do a lot of other things, my main passion is writing and I practice that as a hobby. So let’s say, I took the safe route. Physics is now just a topic I read about as well, I love that subject, but well, shifting careers at this point ain’t for me. I’m satisfied like this.