How do I decide?

Question

I am a senior in high school and i'm preparing to go to college. The problem is, I don't know what I want to do with my life. I don't know what to study. People tell me just to do something that I like but I'm not really fond of any school subjects really. I mean marketing, adverstising, spanish, and science ar ok but I am absolutely NO GOOD at math. Like I have barely passed all my math classes. So what's left out there for me?

Answer 1

you don't have to know. college is a time to find out what you're interested in doing, not to start doing it quite yet. unless you want to go into some special professional program, there's no reason why you should declare a major or a career path for a couple of years.
good luck.

Answer 2

I don't think you should worry too much about what you will major in when you get to college. Lots of students do not choose their major until the end of their sophomore year. In a lot of colleges you arent even ALLOWED to choose until then.
So you can go, take some different courses, and think about things for two more years. By then you will have a different view on how life works.

The math thing is a problem, though. There are a lot of careers where you definitely have to be able to do math or you cant do that career. Whether you are cut off from all these great opportunities depends on you. You have to make up your mind that you are going to learn math, and then you have to sit down and do it. That might mean taking an extra math class, or doing extra help with themath teacher every single day from now until you graduate. And then taking another course in summer school. Not being able to do math is a serious handicap in a lot of ways. So, you have to take action and learn some math, and not just sit around saying that you are bad at math.

Answer 3

Well, at 34 years old I really don't know what I want to be when I grow up either. I can tell you that I just got my college degree in Business 2 years ago. I am not good in math either. However, once in college I found that college professors teach math very different than high school teachers and I learned much more in college. Don't let math intimidate you. College will offer remedial math until you catch up. It's not the end of the world. My suggestion would be to talk to people in lots of different professions. Ask about their jobs, duties, likes and dislikes. Explore your options by doing homework and research. Don't limit yourself to just things you are familiar with. Expand your job options by looking around the country and not just in your neck of the woods. I am not telling you to leave mom and dad just yet, but look at what other people do for a living outside of your community. Also, there are so many school options now a days. You are not bound to going to a traditional college. You can check out a trade school, business school, or something that might spark further interest in something in another direction. For example, you might check out paralegal school or court reporter. That might spark an interest in law or criminal justice. One piece of advice for you. Money is not everything in life. Be happy at the profession you choose and you will be successful no matter what. I hope I have made some sense to you. Good luck.

Answer 4

While you like science, you can't really major in it without a solid math background.

The good news is that you don't have to decide right away. For most majors outside the sciences you don't usually have to declare your major until you are a Junior. That gives you two more years to figure out what you like. During your Freshman year -- take a broad sample of classes that you think might interest you. That will give you the information that you need to decide.

Answer 5

You still have plenty time to decide on what you want to do. When you go college/universitys, during the first two years you don't have to have a major decided yet, you have to decide on your major in your third year. So when you go to college, take some courses that might interest you, and figure out from there. There are plenty of majors that do not require much math, sociology, political science, history, english, art etc.

Answer 6

You don't have to decide what you want to do with your life just yet.
When you go to college, you'll be taking core classes for about the first two years. Take a wide variety of subjects that might interest you.
You'll figure out what you like and don't like. I'm not saying it's going to be easy, but don't worry about it.
Everybody who has gone to college has gone through this and you'll be just fine.

Good luck!

Answer 7

Go to college, do your general ed, do internships and/or volunteer work and believe me! You will figure it out! I didnt decide until junior year. It was definitely a long and stressful process. All I can say is find out what you like, what you dont like, what your values are, what type of life style you want to have and cross majors/careers off your list until you've figured out what you want to do.

Take lots of career tests, and career personality tests. Maybe talk w/ a career counselor/advisor that may help.

Answer 8

Communications is a good place to consider. You will take a lot of classes that require interaction with people, writing skills, critical thinking. Regardless of what you decide to do, you will have good preperation. Make sure you take a foreign language series of classes, as many writing and english classes as you can stand, and consider public speaking, business management or accounting, and logic. Good luck.

Answer 9

take it easy boy is not time to decide now .you go to college and after you decide
good luck