No one has their entire life plan figured out even if it may seem like it sometimes. You have probably heard your classmates or friends talking about how they’re going to study this at that university, and they seem like they have everything figured out, but you’re still confused or might even be completely lost.
If you think you’re alone, you are most definitely not. A survey conducted on 500 high school students from classes 2019-2022 by YouScience, an integrated college and career preparedness platform, shows that 41% of the students felt unprepared to make a decision regarding a career or a major choice for university and 42% were only slightly confident in the career path/education that they chose.
As high-school students, society expects us to have our entire life plan figured out. However, many university graduates end up working in a completely different field from what they specialized in during university.
The pressure is big, but it is okay not to know what you want to learn and do for the rest of your life at the age of 17/18. You have very little experience in the different working fields, and probably most of what you know is how to study well because that is how the school programed you to be.
Now, the goal either way is to go to university, but how to choose a major?
Step 1: Find Your Starting Point
The starting point which will pave the way for your university major choice is when you set and know your priorities.
Is your priority to follow one of your passions? Is it to do what your parents want you to do? Is it to make a lot of money?
You should ask yourself these questions and see where your priorities lie. Everyone has a different life and has different goals, so it is important to carefully assess them so that they can lead to a final decision.
If your priority is to study something you’re interested about or are good at but not sure what it might be exactly, taking a test will give you an idea of possible jobs and careers which you could pursue based on your answers.
