Growing up with no map?!

People ask me all the time what I want to be when I graduate from college. I tell them I want to be a drug and alcohol counselor, I am called to help those in one of the darkest places of life. I know about myself is I will not be one of those who say I understand(nothing against them) but that's not who I am. I will not tell you I understand when I have no idea what it is like to go through the situation. BUT I will listen to you, and help you in any way that I can. I will straight up tell you where I am coming from. I am empathic and I know how you feel and I will feel your high emotions and everything. That is who I am. God created me that way for a reason. The reason is that the people I will work with are tired of hearing someone say I understand, then when it come to it they have no idea or empathy for them. I have great people skills and I love people.  It's not me, I have one of the biggest hearts for people and I don't like to see them hurt. But I also know that sometimes the truth and being real right away helps more than it does later on. I also keep most things light and funny. I'm goofy and love to laugh. I do know how to be serious but even then my take is more light I will find the good somehow. I search high and low for the good. Because no matter how dark or deep someone goes there is always a good, always hope, always someone there for them.