Career help medical/business?

Help me to choose best career in my situations.?

• Hi! My name is Jenna and I’m 17 years old. I’m starting my senior year of high school and starting to think about what I want to do about a career. Right now, all I feel is confused about what I want to do with my life. You see, all my life I’ve been the “brain” of the school. I’ve never thought that I was much smarter than anyone else. I just work harder and get lucky with my studies. However, because I do pretty well in all my classes, people expect me to do something important like be a surgeon or a great writer or something. However, no one seems to have any advice on which career I should pursue. My parents are pretty supportive. They tell me I can do whatever I want, to pursue my dreams. This feels good, but it doesn’t help me make any decisions. My dad’s a lawyer and my mom’s a nurse, so these are pretty much the only two careers I know much about. Some of the things that I’ve mentioned to them, like law school or environmental science, they don’t seem to think are very good ideas. My mom says that being a lawyer would be really stressful and hard to balance with having kids. Because I want to “do it all”, I’d like to try to find a career that allows me to be flexible with family. My dad doesn’t think that science is my strong point, he’d rather see me become a professor in something like history. I like history, but science seems like might be more practical to me. Science classes always make me a little leery anyway. I mean, I always do really well in them, but my teachers don’t seem to say much to me about pursuing careers that relate to the classes. I find the materials difficult, too, but actually I like that. It’s kind of challenging. Sometimes, I think science is a bad idea because it’s so cold – it doesn’t really have to do with helping people. I think it would be good for me to do something that tries to help people. Then sometimes I think that I just feel like an outsider in science classes – all my science teachers have been male and my classes seem filled with guys (which I don’t always mind!). I asked my physics teacher about engineering, but he told me that I’d probably prefer something more creative. I guess he’s probably right. Sometimes, I wonder whether or not I’m really smart enough for a science career. If I were really good at science, wouldn’t my teachers tell me? Like I said before, I’m not always sure that I’m the genius everyone thinks I am. At times, I wonder if I have been fooling everyone. My friends seem to think I should major in something like English or history. I love to read and do well in classes like that. I’m not too sure what I’d do with a degree like that, though. Sometimes it seems like an easy way out. Another thing that I worry about with some of the careers I’m looking at is how long I’ll have to be in school. I mean, say I go to law school – that’s another 3 years on top of college! What if I’m in a relationship by then? Will my boyfriend be willing to take a back seat to my career? The way I see it, guys say they’re open minded, but few are willing to let the woman in the relationship be smarter or make more money. Will I be ruining my chances or ever getting married if I pursue something like law or medicine? I’m applying to colleges now, and I feel as if I have to make a decision soon about what I want to do. The possibilities seem endless to me in some ways. I mean, I know I could do just about anything I put my mind to. On the other hand, I can’t think of anything I know I absolutely want to do. And that’s really scary.

• Answer:

  i think you should consider what you enjoy the most, and also what is the most stable choice as well and see where those two ideas collide. if you enjoy creativity and also want to help people, then maybe you CAN go into science, making things for people who are disabled, mechanical legs n such, or you could go into engineering, and design houses that are eco friendly and affordable for the general public. just some suggestions, but make sure you research anything you think you like and see what it takes to get there. besides, you can always change majors if you like something else later on.