Hi! I am finishing up my freshman year of college this week and I am having a bit of a crisis. I went to a 4 year university in the fall and then transferred to a community college for the spring. I have also changed my major many times. I started out doing biology and then went to education and then political science/ economics at the 4 year school. Then I transferred to the community college to do respiratory therapy. I am now strongly considering changing to diagnostic medical sonography or transferring again to do nursing. I feel as if I change my mind to often and am never going to actually settle on anything; or go to too many schools and things will just get too complicated. How do I know that I am doing the right thing? Or should I just finish up what I am currently doing? I have about 70 hours of college credit (i did AP and concurrent classes in high school) and I feel that I have just been wasting time and money. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
There’s never any light bulb or grand epiphany moment when you just realize that you are doing the thing you were always meant for. Most of the time, the way it works is small building blocks over time that help you realize that you like (or don’t like) something. In many cases, what happens is that you simply pick something and stick with it because you like it well enough to finish.
At some point, if nothing strikes you as likable enough to stick with it long-term, you simply have to make a decision about what you are going to settle on.
Why do you keep changing? What is it that motivates you to change?
Nursing, respiratory therapy & diagnostic medical sonography all suggest that you want a practical technical degree that will prepare you for a specific trade or profession. Seems like a wise choice of direction to me.