What should I major in? Virginia tech freshmen

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Ok so im a freshmen at Virginia tech and originally wanted to do aerospace engineering but had little reason to actually want to do this as my major and I have realized now that’s I don’t really want to do aerospace engineering.
here is a little background about me: I took a bunch of drafting classes in HS and am CAD certified and really enjoyed doing those drawings and like that aspect of engineering
also took a CS class in high school but my teacher (didnt like it then but that was 3 years ago) was awful and the coding that I have done so far this semester for my engineering class I have really enjoyed especially cause of the entire problem solving aspect that coding entails
I really dont know what I want to “work on” as a career after college. I also really like my intro to economics class im taking this semester which is focused on microeconomics so here are what I see as possible options:

Major in mechanical Engineering + minor in CS

major in CS
double major in ECON and CS

Currently im taking Statics, Differential Equations,Microeconomics, Ancient Mediterranean History, and Foundations of Engineering (i had a good amount of AP credit and so I have space in my schedule to experiment with different classes next semester and am planning to take Foundations of engineering, intro to software design, and i dont know what else but im looking for like 4 more classes. Any help on what i should do would be amazing!

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I have no idea what you should major in but I like this Career Services graph that shows what grads in all majors earn:
http://www.career.vt.edu/scripts/PostGrad2006/Report/DetailReportSalaries.asp?College=00&Majors=Y&Cohort=2013-2014

I bet they have some kind of testing for you to decide what really interests you. Double majoring while in engineering sounds like a recipe for disaster but maybe you are brilliant. My son is really into CS/Robotics/Coding but he’s considering BIT at Pamplin which will include some Econ. Take a look at that major.

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Architecture.

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Haha im not meant for architecture at all.

ospreyCV22 thanks for the link but I double majoring in CS+ECON is pretty feasible for me though i wont consider myself a genius I am defiantly have academic ability above that of your average Virginia Tech student in the engineering department so far.

Coming in I wasnt even looking at CS but the programming we have done in ENGE 1215 thus far while not super hard has been extremely interesting to me and the coding assignments have been like a puzzle for me which is one of my favorite things to do so I started looking into it more and it seems like something I would enjoy. But then again Mechanical Engineering also appeals to me because of the wide variety of fields I can get into and then econ has been one of my favorite classes this year but i would want to pair it with CS if I did it.