How did you discover what to do with your life?

With college looming, I'm starting to grow worried on what to do for a living. It's not that I don't want to learn: On the contrary, I have lots of different subjects I'm interested in, from history to English to music. The problem is that I want to pick what's right - really right - for me in the long term. I don't want to look back one day and regret the decision that I made.So how did you discover what to do for a living? A lot of people say that they "just knew" what their careers would be; others have regrets because they didn't take a risk and study to be a musician or a writer. Yet others search for years in many subjects before they finally realize what they want to do. How about you? Any recollections or advice on picking a career?Thanks for any input

That's really interesting; it sounds like The Matrix. I wonder if that technology would mean the end of school? That sounds very interesting, and I'm glad that you found what you wanted to do. Do you research genocide, like a history professor? Or do you help countries to recover from genocide? This was similar to my experience: After twelve years of intense piano studies, including a long stint with a university professor, I recently decided that I didn't want to go into music. Needless to say, my mom was furious. Now that I've stopped officially preparing for a professional music career, I can play whatever I want to play; I've found that that is far more musically rewarding.I think that everybody has various subjects that they're interested in, but most subjects are pretty superficial; they eventually grow boring over time. Those select few subjects that don't become boring, even after years of work, are the best areas around which to build a career. My goal, then, is to weed out those subjects that are superficial, and to focus on the subjects that can last a lifetime. Yeah, I'll try. It can't be that hard; it seems that everybody pays the bills somehow. For me personally, I'd like to accomplish two things: to pick something I love to do, and to be very good at what I do. If I can manage that, I'll be happy with life.

That's quite a story! It seems like you've studied a little bit of everything. So you feel that the extra time to look for a career was worth it, even when your search seemed to go nowhere? Yeah, my great-uncle was an electrical engineer and worked at Los Alamos all his life; my mom's side has all the brains in the family. I remember we visited him once, and he said he was working on a camera that took a picture of an atomic bomb while it was exploding (the camera was, like, thirty feet tall.) At least, that what I think it was; I was only nine years old.