The truth is, I've never really known what I wanted to be. I've had ideas and I've had passions, but nothing really tangible. When I was younger, I wasn't sure that one day I'd be a doctor, a lawyer or a dentist. I wanted to be an author, a singer and a marine biologist, all at once.
Some people have known what they've wanted to be their whole lives, so that's what they go after. When they were younger they wanted to be a nurse so that's what they went to school for. That's what they learned about and that's what they're slowly becoming. In my college career, I've changed my major three times. The first time was literally on the day of freshman orientation. I didn't even get through scheduling my classes for me to realize that major was NOT for me. I went home and locked myself in my room and cried because I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and everyone else was so sure. The next day, I called my advisor and dropped my entire college. True story. It wasn't until my junior year that I finally settled on a major. My first two years of college, I took a bunch of different classes. I learned about science, and math and writing and business. I was figuring equations in one class and reciting poetry in the next. When I finally settled on my major, it still didn't mean that I settled on a career. I picked one of the most broad majors I could, but one that I've been so successful in already. Communication. I can be that author I always wanted to be, I can be a singer — kind of. Maybe I can't be a marine biologist, but I can report about it on the news. I can do business with whatever company or I could have my own talk show. I've found something broad enough as my passions are. It took my two years and a whole lot of thinking, but eventually I found where I belong.
What I'm saying is, don't freak out if you don't know what you want to be. Life takes us in a million directions and what you experience throughout your life will bring you to where you're supposed to be. People's careers can always change, so even if you find yourself in a job you don't enjoy, just like changing a major, you can get out and explore something else. And even if you do change your major three times, or even if you contemplate finishing college in the first place, along the way you'll learn what you like and don't like and eventually you'll be where you should be.
