<p>Can knowing your interests early on give you a leg up in getting the the career you want? To a point, certainly. For example, if you decide the summer before your final year of college that your calling is not early childhood education, but instead medicine, you’ll have some issues. If you can commit yourself to spending the additional time and money, you can overcome this problem and qualify yourself for medical school admissions. But do you really need a 10 year plan? No way. Think about how many English or Chemistry majors go into ibanking from elite schools, and who’d never had the intention to take such jobs before.</p>