nightstreaking
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I’m sort of floundering around in my college major and I can’t tell what I’m actually interested in. I am in an information science program with a computer science minor, but I don’t spend a lot of my personal time programming, though I enjoy the courses. I loved writing and philosophy as a teenager, but the philosophy and writing classes I’ve taken haven’t felt like a “calling” of any sort. I do a lot of “research” in psychology due to my mental health, but I don’t think that counts as an interest. I’m a teaching assistant for a couple of the programming-related courses and I enjoy that to some extent, but I don’t think I love teaching (likely because I haven’t mastered it).
Should I look at what I end up doing most of my day? Should I spend more time trying to spark heightened interest in something potentially lucrative (data analysis/CS)? Should I spend more time reading and writing? Should I just keep trying a variety of things? I’m a junior so I don’t have a lot of time left to do that in the context of school and need to worry about internships. I don’t think I’m particularly good at anything (though I’m not bad at learning most things), and I can’t tell what I like or what I’d want to do as a “career”.
Should I even care about identifying what I like? The only reason I’m asking this question is my motivation seems inextricably tied to level of interest and to get good enough at anything to get a well-paying job it seems I need to be interested in what I’m doing. Maybe I just need to learn to work harder.
(I also posted this in the INTP subreddit, in case anyone is seeing it twice. )
Should I look at what I end up doing most of my day? Should I spend more time trying to spark heightened interest in something potentially lucrative (data analysis/CS)? Should I spend more time reading and writing? Should I just keep trying a variety of things? I’m a junior so I don’t have a lot of time left to do that in the context of school and need to worry about internships. I don’t think I’m particularly good at anything (though I’m not bad at learning most things), and I can’t tell what I like or what I’d want to do as a “career”.
Should I even care about identifying what I like? The only reason I’m asking this question is my motivation seems inextricably tied to level of interest and to get good enough at anything to get a well-paying job it seems I need to be interested in what I’m doing. Maybe I just need to learn to work harder.
(I also posted this in the INTP subreddit, in case anyone is seeing it twice. )