I'm tired of people telling me what to do with my life. I"m sure that I've visited this topic before, but once again I feel like people are trying to tell me what to do with my life. It usually starts with, "Hey, you would be good at this." But then it turns into a, "You should really consider this as a career option." And it progresses from there.
Usually when this happens, we quickly reach the point of, "What do you want to do with your life?" And then I get to respond and tell them that I want to be a youth pastor. Then I get comments like, "You're too smart for that," or "Maybe, you should consider this as a fall-back career." Then, I get to respond and tell them that being a youth pastor is what I really want to do and what I feel called to do.
The worst people to have this conversation with are teachers. I don't know why, but for some reason, their opinions really matter to me. Most of my teachers know that I want to be a youth pastor. But, of course, some of them don't. Today in English, i said something that I guess created reasonable doubt or poked a hole in someone else's point. Then my teacher asked me if I'd ever considered being a lawyer. I laughed and told her flat out no. We didn't get to the point where I tell her about my wanting to be a youth pastor. But we'll get to that point someday.
Well, one of my friends and I were talking about this "incident" at lunch. Another one of my friends decided to join the conversation by saying another one of those, "You're too smart for that." I just told her to join the crowd. There are just a lot of days where it seems like the whole world is telling me what to do. I'm going to have to start making some really big decisions in my life and the people around me aren't making it any easier.
Too bad I'm one of the most indecisive people I know. That doesn't help either.
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I am in the same boat as you are. I had no idea what I wanted to major or even be when I graduate college, but Im still a freshman. So one day I decided that I was going to figure this out. I sat down and made a two lists- one was what i like to do versus what I don't like to do- like be outside, do math (Im a dork) or play paino- stuff like that. And the other list was what I'm good at versus what I'm bad at- like chemistry, talking to people, using computers- stuff like that. This helped clear up my head a little and put things in perspective.