<p>I am a pretty good student. 3.5+ GPA, AP/Honors classes, 75+ volunteer hours, club president, etc. But it seems like no matter how well I do in school or how much I aim to get into a good Florida school, I still don't know what I want to be. I ask my friends and they all seem to know. (International lawyer, join ROTC, pediatric doctor, etc.) I ask my teacher and she says that switched majors and never knew what she wanted to be, but then found her passion for teaching while in college.
I mean, I adore psychology and sociology. I am a beast at creative writing. I want to help people by joining the medical field. But I'm also good at acting and singing.
Next year I'll be a senior. So I'm running out of time of choosing what I want to do with my life. :( Is it just me that feels this way?</p>
<p>No its completely normal, as long as you are aware of your weaknesses and strength you’ll be ok. I, for one, have a friend attending an Ivy school who at first wanted to major in mathematics and is now in med school. You have all the time you need to figure that out. </p>
<p>Good luck</p>
<p>A lot of people don’t know what they want to do until their first or second year of college. You’ve got time.</p>
<p>If it helps to narrow things down though, don’t choose a career just because it’s easy. If you’re good at it but hate the job you’re doing, you’re not going to be happy. If you’re choosing between two equal interests, consider whether you’d be able to study one while pursuing the other as a minor interest (e.g. if you want to be a doctor and an actor, it’d make a lot more sense to study medicine and take acting in your free time than it is to be a full time actor who studies medicine in his free time). You could concentrate on the psychosociological field while taking extra classes or joining clubs for creative writing, acting, and singing.</p>
<p>It’s not bad. Try applying for schools like Brown or Stanford that give you more guidance towards your career choice rather than U Penn, for example, which is more oriented for people who already know what they want to do.</p>
<p>Phew, it’s a relief to hear from you guys that I have time. But okay so I have interests. </p>
<p>But just because I may have an interest in a field doesn’t mean I’ll get a good job with good money to support my future family.
What jobs are there for a person that likes psychology? I was thinking about being a child/adolescent psychologist. But where does creative writing fit in?
What jobs are there for a person that likes sociology and philosophy?
Am if I’m fluent in 3 languages, what’s next?</p>
<p>Grrrrr…I wish my school was more helpful about this.</p>
<p>And let’s say I go out of the country (my birth country provides students fresh out of high school into the field they want to go in. Like medicine, whereas here it’s college–>medical school–>etc.) If I get my degree in another country, fully accredited and impressing, how can I be so sure I’ll get a job here in the U.S.?
Even though I like to act and sing, I’m pretty sure Hollywood isn’t the route for me lol.
I know these are a lot of questions- you don’t have to answer them. Haha, these are just things I’m pondering.</p>
<p>lol, maybe I’m stressing too much about the future.</p>
<p>I think you’re stressing out too much. It’s healthy to consider possibilities, but you don’t need to have anything set in stone officially. A lot of people who are certain in what they want to be in the early HS years most likely end up changing their mind by the time it’s actually supposed to happen.</p>
<p>Check out the College Board major profiles for some good exploratory information: [Majors</a> and Careers Central](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools)</p>