MinggI'm so indecisive on what the hell to do with my life.
I switched from biomedical engineering to business(marketing/finance) to accounting and now I'm leaning towards marketing and finance again. I like accounting a lot. I do extremely well with little effort in those classes but I cannot see myself as an accountant. I can see myself doing something in Finance and having an accounting degree is way good for that but I don't know. I feel like that would limit me to just finance related stuff.
So maybe marketing and finance? I really enjoy marketing but realize it's pretty much hit or miss with getting a decent job. So having finance in there as a bit of a back up/ way to open up other opportunities is a good idea? I don't know.
I also really regret not staying in science/medicine because I did not give it any chance. First two years are boring pre req classes no matter what your major is and freshmen me didn't realize that. I seriously wish I could go back into it but it's way too late now and I just want to be done with school.
I also am at a point where I really want a job where I can work from home/my laptop remotely or something so I can travel and live in cool places without worrying about a job holding me back from doing so. But I also don't want to be getting a new job every year so i can do stuff like that.
Gah. Life is hard.
I'm totally unqualified to be giving advice on this, but since I'm going into college undecided and with virtually no direction, I've had way too many conversations about choosing a path. Every single adult I've talked to has said (to put it simply) that your undergrad major really doesn't have much of an effect on the rest of your life, so long as your successful in whatever you do choose.
Basically, just go with what you're good at and enjoy, because someone who loves science and hates their school's econ department is going to have a fucking shitty time trying to make it to Wall Street through their undergrad major alone.
I had a great conversation with a woman who had been a senior partner at Goldman Sachs before retiring. In college she majored in biochem (or something of the sort) because her parents pressured her to be a doctor but she knew it wasn't for her. However, she was super fucking smart (Good Will Hunting type shit from what it sounded like) and caught the eye of whatever recruitment-type people GS has. I don't remember the details but GS basically takes top college kids and puts them through a series of tests and interviews, knocking them off one by one. They do not give a flying fuck what you learned in college, as long as you display what they are looking for (confidence, intelligence, ability to pick things up quickly), because they know you can learn what you need to learn to get the job done.
It's not what you know but what you can prove. If you prove your willingness to learn more and that your overall hunger for something surpasses others, you'rs going to beat out a lot of people in the professional world no matter what field you end up choosing.
tl;dr
Don't stress so much about your major, choose whatever you like, go HAM in any opportunities
Once again take this with a grain of salt since I'm only 18 but the things above are principals I know I'll be following for the next four years and beyond.
