I have no idea what career I want?

Question

I know it's a little ridiculous asking people on the internet who know nothing about me but I presumed it would be worth a shot.

Basically I've come to the point where I have to make big life decisions and am freaking out about it. I don't have many specific interests, or alternatively, I have many interests that are fleeting and never last. No actual passions etc. I'm intelligent, was predicted for, you know, Oxford and Cambridge and whatnot, but completely bombed everything and underachieved ridiculously.

I don't have the attention span or the dedication for medicine or law, not artistic, musical, can't write, not good with people, good at sciences, maths, fixing computers, but that all bores me terribly and do not want a career in them. Don't have many hobbies, I read a lot, some philosophy and psychology, listen to music, and watch anime, so obviously nothing I can make a career out of. I suppose I'm into ancient history too, but a) I flunked my high school history exam, and b) a career in history is unrealistic. Other than that my interests are all so fleeting I know that I could never study them seriously.

The ideal for me would be travelling and opening, say, a coffee shop in some city somewhere, having a nice apartment and time to read and go on walks and all that, that but find me a teenager in the world that wouldn't want that, its ridiculous.

What the hell do I do? Please tell me I'm not the only person to feel like this. I know I can hardly expect someone to instantly know the career for me from reading this so I'm just after some help at all, any advice.

Thank you xx

Answer 1

I kind of know how you feel - it's hard to focus on one thing when there is so much out there. I'm kind of stuck what to do myself now and i'm 43!



Anyway you mentioned about opening a coffee shop...for that you would needa business plan which you can get here for free:

http://free-business-plans.com/business-plans/coffee-shop-business-plan.html

Although I would say you need social skills for that...so you'd probably get bored of that although I suppose you could hire people to do the work and you can just take the profits once it's all set up.

Answer 2

You should make your body as nice as possible and marry a rich man. Working is BS and a waste of time. If you can find a way around it, you should take it.

Answer 3

Have you tried a career to test? I took one at a college nearby. Maybe that will help.