I am a female Sophomore Student being pressured by everyone around me, parents, guidance counselors, ect. to start making dissensions about a career, but I still don’t really know what career/major to pursuit.
I am pretty good at any subject (A/B), just not extraordinary at any in particular, but I do enjoy math and history the most, and biology is my least favorite of the sciences, all the other sciences are not bad, and I dislike English (though I do well in it)
As far a personality wise, I would consider myself totally incompatible with any job that is purely based on human interaction, such as teaching, physiology, ect., I have no patience for people, although I am trying my best to overcome this obstetrical, I don’t believe it will ever be a strength of mine.
My requirements are:
Pay Well
No based on human interaction
Leaning toward a STEM major, but still very open to other fields.
As of right not the careers I am currently considering are Actuary, and Engineering.
Just for reference, Freshmen all advanced classes 4.75 GPA
Currently in all Honors, plan to take a few AP classes next year.
Any and All suggestions are greatly appreciated.
engineering is arguably the hardest major; the only thing that really matters about an engineering degree is where you’re getting it from (you seem to be bright and have potential to get into really good schools; like Texas A&M for example, just be prepared for 15+ hours of studying per week). An actuary is a pretty good job overall. Definitely math-heavy, so if you have a passion for numbers and stats and all that, go for it. But, what high school teens fail to realize (I’m in no way trying to bring you down) is that you need to figure out whether you’ll be happy to have that job, and work towards that major. Happiness comes before money. If you’re working a job that pays extremely well but you hate working it, you will be miserable. The last thing you want to be is miserable. So just keep that in mind going forward. There aren’t a lot of jobs that contains 0 human interaction and pays six digits. Communication skills are extremely important when getting a job, so even though you don’t like interacting with others very much (which is fine), still develop some interaction skills. This will definitely help you in the long run. Hope this helps!
I first thought that you were a college sophomore, where choosing a major would be a more time critical decision in October of sophomore year.
However, what I quoted suggests that you are in HS. There is no way you should be “making decisions”.
What you should be doing is considering options, and learning more about them so that when you are applying to colleges, you have some idea on a general direction.
I think this is the benefit of many summer programs that allow you to explore topics that you wouldn’t have access to in HS.
For example, check out the list of two-week courses that have been offered by Michigan Math and Science Scholars.
http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/mmss/courses/mmss_courses_pastyear.php
It’s a little premature to get hung up on that right now. Just focus on getting into a decent university. You have plenty of time to decide what to major in once you get into college.
You are a sophomore in HS. Please take this off your list of things to worry about. It is just too early. In the time between now and when you apply to college you will expereince personal growth, you will find out more about your academic strengths, you will learn more about what things interest you etc. . And FWIW many people don’t decide their major until sophomore year of college.
Yeah, if your parents and guidance counselors are pressuring you at 15 to make a career decision…just tell them that you’re still trying to concentrate on high school 
Or, more seriously, tell them that you’re thinking seriously about it, but you want to make sure you try out a lot of classes in high school to get a good idea of what you want and don’t want. Lots of people don’t choose their career until after they graduate from college, and plenty of people have more than one career.
Also, I don’t think there are very many careers that don’t have any human interaction. There are some that minimize human interaction. For example, in the medical field, there’s pathology - instead of seeing living human patients, pathologists often deal more with tissue samples and organs. Actuaries deal a lot with numbers, and so you may spend most of your days calculating algorithms and formulae for risk management - but actuaries also have to meet with people to communicate results and help achieve business goals. It’s probably less based upon human interaction than, say, teaching.