An education is an investment.

Time and time again, college students hear a chime, a sign that something doesn't sit right with their major. Perhaps your parents keep asking you, "What sort of job will you do with that?," or maybe it’s some really God-awful grades or maybe some spiritual mentor says "But is it what fulfills your dreams?"

Shoot. Heart sinks to your shoes. "What if I don’t like what I’m studying? If I switch majors now I have to fill new prerequisites and will graduate by 2030."

Or maybe you land an internship in the field, and you realize everyone around you hates your work or doesn't appreciate your skill set. That’s when it can really suck.

Dear "predetermined failures,"

There are usually two majors we fight ourselves over: Major X and Major Y.

This is what could be going through your head: “All my life I wanted to be an X, but X doesn’t make much money, so I’m going to study Y. Y makes more money, and I guess I’d rather be financially stable than homeless and looking for a job I’ll never get. So, I’ll study Y. In the meantime, everyone studying X looks so happy and, oh my goodness, he is getting a job doing X? And She is getting a big job doing X? I can get a job if I do X?”

So, maybe you take classes in major X, but then, you are disappointed to find how hard it is to be successful in major X. So you dump your miserable self back into major Y realizing you are doomed to be jaded, but at least content that you will be able to afford an ordinary life in 21st century America. Because it was "too hard."

Here's a filter you should think over before you become overwhelmed by "hard stuff" and make a big decision:

Find out what is so difficult about it. Were their realistic steps you made to conquer it? There always are, I promise. Did you truly try your best? Admit if you didn’t, because then you can try your best next time. If you really don’t want to try it again, what’s stopping you? Are you more caught up in something else? Is that something else worth more or less than your main pursuit? If it is, make that your main pursuit, if not, find out how it can be implemented into your main pursuit or eliminate it.

Millennials are expected to have 20-30 jobs over the course of our working lives. I wouldn’t say it’s a good thing to job hop, but what I am saying is you are not alone in having trouble being decisive in your career path.

Millennials are now the largest living generation, outnumbering baby-boomers in the 2015 U.S. Census by more than six million. At some point, your job will change and you will either be better off or not.

As millennials, we are so caught up in predicting, planning, and customizing our lives that we forget that at some points in our pursuits we will fail. And something has to drive us to pick ourselves back up. So, if we will end up changing jobs anyway, either because we quit, were promoted, or — God forbid — fired, why not start now on what we really want the most. If we are going to fail, change or grow, why not let it be on something that we can be driven to develop in?

So, if you asked me, maybe you should take another look at Major X, but this time, give it your all.

Yes, college is an investment, but make that investment worth your time and not the other way around.