16 year old college student without a major. Please help

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<p>Ok, so I'm 16. My gift and curse. I'm graduating in June and will get my AA soon after because of a lot of dual enrollment classes that I've taken. I've already been accepted to a university (USFlorida) for the fall. </p>

<p>I was originally going into premed to be a psychiatrist but after learning that as a med student I'll have to deal with cadavers and surgeries, I've decided against it. </p>

<p>I wouldn't mind being a lawyer, but everyone says that it's over flooded because EVERYBODY is getting into law school. PLUS, the debt trumps the starting pay. </p>

<p>For the sake of staying in the vein of psychology, I was thinking about getting a Psy.D in psychology to be a clinical psychologist. BUT with all that schooling, I see that they only make a median of 50k-70k.</p>

<p>When I was younger, I wanted to be a journalist or have a career with anything in writing. BUT nowadays, that field has seemed to lose job security. When it comes to "anything in writing" I don't know a lot of careers like that except for.....business.</p>

<p>Business is also something I'm interested in because of its writing intensive-ness. I like that the field allows one to have room to climb the ladder. It would also be great to get skills that will allow me to start my own business one day. Being a management consultant would be my absolute goal. BUT they say that it's overflooded as well and that the job security is iffy. </p>

<p>so overall, as you can see, I'm LOST. Because I'm young but took so many classes, I don't really have experience or time to explore other options. Money is important to me and so is job security. I'm mostly right-brained and would like to use that portion to excel in school. I really need help in deciding and exploring new options when it comes to majors and careers. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.</p>

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<p>@i.will.not.lose: What about being a psychologist? Median salary is about 80K.</p>

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<p>Hate to point out but… you ARE only 16! You probably have just as much idea of what’s out there as the next 16 year old, regardless of your education. You’ve never worked because you haven’t exactly been legally allowed to.</p>

<p>Apply for any summer job out there, even flipping burgers. You need to get some real world experience in seeing how things really get done like people management and dealing with customers.</p>

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<p>I started attending university when I was 16 as well. Get some real work experience just so you have a more intimate relationship with the inherent processes of working with other people.</p>

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<p>because you’re very interested in psychiatry, here are some related majors that honestly i think you would find more interesting and better overall. my younger sister is going for international relations and was also interested in psychology, so these should be similar to the type of field you’re looking for:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Government, specifically in the intelligence community (like the CIA, Dept of State, Defence intelligence, etc)…there are MANY choices for your type of interest, like analyst, etc. This would be my personal favorite.</p></li>
<li><p>Corporate consulting. I had an economics professor this semester whose brother had a consulting job that takes him around teh world, like to saudi arabia. This also works very well in-country too though, highly recommend if you’re interested in business too - kind of ties it in with psych.</p></li>
<li><p>International relations. Very psych-intense field, in my opinion - almost like “Applied Psych” B)</p></li>
</ol>

<p>hope this helps open up more ideas :D</p>