Career Confusion.

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I'm really unsure about what I want to do. And everytime I think I get an idea, the path I would want to take isn't the path that others tell me to take... and I get frustrated and give up.

I'm about ready to graduate, which should be a time of opportunity. But right now I'm even more confused as to what I should do than I did when I started college.

Initially I wanted to be a math professor. I was set on getting a Math major, since I like math and am good at it. Well I took a couple of advanced math courses, and found that my ability isn't what I thought it was. And my interest in the subject is starting to wane.

I have memory problems that creep into every subject I try to learn.

Now it's music, I started writing music just for fun. Then I took some music theory courses at college to expand my music knowledge. Now I really like writing music and decided to look into that for a career, and maybe get into graduate school for composition or just go to more school for writing music.

Well I guess that route is not for me either. I don't have the proper background, and I am not into writing "serious art" music. Plus I hate dealing with standard music notation, and find the whole system archaic and a stumbling block to musical ideas. Which I guess is the only way you can work if you go into composing.

Oh I was also told there is computer music degree programs, but these are even more abstract and bizarre. More about creating advant-garde music I wouldn't want to listen to, much less create.

So now I'm pushing music back into a hobby, which is fine by me... with hopes that I could some how write video game music some day... but I have no network to speak of... so that's no good either.

What I'm having the most trouble with is everytime I go to someone for help or guidance... all I do is get discouraged.

I was thinking about being a high-school math teacher, but I'm so forgetful and disorganized I don't think I could manage a classroom. Plus I would have to get a teacher certification some how, and that runs right into my memory problems I have.

And I always look like a lost puppy dog when I go into interviews. I forget everything I need to say or want to say, and I can't even convey how much help I actually need to people.

Any one else unable to find a career path that fits them? Any one else run into problems when asking for guidance? And anyone have 'secret' mental deficiencies that they are unable to overcome... that feels like it keeps them back from what they could do.

I have to pick a path and go down it, but I am unsure if I want to go down any one.

Pick one, give it a try, if you don't like it, try another later. I know people who have made drastic career changes several times in their life. There is nothing wrong with that, people do it all the time, it doesn't make you a failure. When these type of people find a career they enjoy, they don't regret the road that got them there. There are just simply glad they are there!! !

The only failure is if you try nothing. Just know that if you choose something, and end up not liking it, then you can change. You're obviously smart enough to make a career change anytime you want to. Remember that and you won't feel trapped or bogged down. The miserable people are the ones who are scared to change.

In these current times, no one stays in the same career for one's entire life. Just be certain you develop job skills that allow you
to be flexible to weather difficult economic times...