dream versus reality

Good evening.

I am currently attending The Entrance Campus to obtain my High School Certificate. The certificate that pretty much determines your occupational/financial future. I'm only in year eleven, and well, when I first came to my school I had no idea what I wanted to do for a career and had no real goal or ambition, except to have a University Admission Index, so I can go to university when I decided my career path. As of late, I've grown ambitions to become an English Teacher. But what I really wanted to discuss or... Express is my concern for the people around me. It may be too soon to be thinking about my future, but the people around me say it's too late, or the decision time is now. This subject has been pressing my mind. Over my years of schooling i've heard lots of my friends and peers discuss the 'dreams' of their occupational future. To be frank, It infuriates me. Why? Because people need to think about social and economic factors of their careers. Basically, your future, and the money you earn will mould who you will be when you're an adult, and to be honest. The people around me have no idea, and it really gets to me. I've been planning my career since I was fourteen, though it's jumbled through a few things, It's always been realistic, and something that can actually be done, and obtained. To the point. I think at my age 16 - 17 people should be thinking about their future, rationally. I say this because there are people around me, who I know will read this, and hopefully get a wake-up call from it. An acquirable aspiration and a dream are two different things. Example. I have a friend, we shall call this friend P for now, P is extremely bright, and I mean, one of the most intelligent people I have ever met, kind, self-less but blissfully vein. P is quite sheltered, and is different from everyone else around them. P has no career plan, letalone a learners drivers license and is fully capable of great, amazing things. P leads an incredibly boring life, and is quite eccentric, but having no one around them to push P into thinking about the future, I fear that P will not develop and that the school that P attends with me will give P nothing in the next decade. P needs to break out of nurturing, babying arms and grow up. P needs to escape from certain things that are binding and restricting P from maturing, thinking for him/herself. I only post this because I fear for P, P is a good honest friend and if P does not begin thinking about future prospects P will be forever young, and completely useless. I don't say this to insult P at all, I really want to help P but cannot openly discuss it with P without sounding harsh and insensitive. P if you're reading this and you know who you are, ask me. I really do want to help you. I don't want to see you become nothing.