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okay I have been palying around with this issue in my head, I don't know if it is because I fear success My thought: I have often wondered if I really want to become a lawyer because I desire to be one (and the mere fact that I spent all 4 years of high school in the law program) or am I just trying to make my mommy or grandparents happy?

. Don't get me wrong I love the field and the challenge that it gives my brain, but don't really think its what I want to be. Yes I want to get into Family Law, I want to help kids - battered, orphaned and homeless - and be someone to change the law for them and provide a service to them, but lately I feel like I just want to be behind the scenes, not necessarily a lawyer. I know I can do it and become a lawyer, but my best friend told me she thinks that I have a fear of succeeding (or it could just be laziness), which I know I do experience from time to time (fear of succeeding that is), and she asked me to stem back to when I decided that I wanted to become a lawyer, was it because of high school, mommy or myself. And man, I have come up with the weirdest conclusion. At one time I really loved it and saw myself as a lawyer, then mommy loved the fact that I did so well in highschool and at John Jay College, then I just got turned off from it and now back at it again. Yeah I am confused, but my question is

When you decide to go to college, do/did you select a major that you really want to do as a career or do you select one that satisfies your family's desires or your friends? Or is it because its sounds good on paper? Share some stories.

Interesting topic.

Well, as many of you know, I'm heavily involved with science; currently in my senior year at LIU.

When I entered LIU I entered as a Biology major which I still am. I had intentions of going off to Med school and becoming an aspiring intellectual Cardiologist. :p Funny thing was my mother never really pushed me to do that. It was actually my own plans and intent to do so.

Over the past three years I've decided not to go on to Med school based on a few reasons: desire, grades, and a broadened view of the medical field. At the time I entered LIU, everything was Med School, MCAT, Med School, MCAT. That was how the administrators in the Biology and Bio-Chem Dept threw it at you. They made you feel as if there were no options. As time passed I looked into different fields such as Physician's Asst., Respiratory Therapy, Occupational therapy, etc.

So..here I am in my senior year, looking into GRE/GMAT prep courses. I'm looking into Public Healthcare Admin. Its not too clinical (which can drive you insane ) and its not all business. A mixture of the two. I'm just a lil anxious to get into my field of work. I'm losing interest in this preliminary undergrad Bio. bullshyt. :

I can identify with your feeling of confusions D'only1. I once felt the same way about becoming an attorney and realized that it was based on false impressions about the career. I was intrigued by having the poorer to change a guilty man's reality. I wanted to help the disenfranchised and become a successfully powerhouse attorney.

However, I soon realized that law studies was to me the most boring thing I ever studied. I started meeting with lawyers and didn't like what they had to say even though they seemed pretty happy. What made them happy about being a lawyer did not interest me.

I also realized that my parent's dream of their first born being a lawyer would not come true. It took them some time to get over it and I had to deal with all my friends asking me if I was sure about what I was doing. But I went ahead a did a lot of research about other careers and don't regret not showing up for the LSAT.

Panman is right, sometimes we miss out on the several types of work in our fields of interest. Check into it and see what you find.

I have been around lawyers and I do find the study's kinda boring but I had the passion before but still can't put my finger on as to why I changed. I really think its my fear of failure. I'm very smart and learn very quickly but its not in me anymore. Since I've stopped working in the field I don't want to go back to it. Oh well I will have to make up my mind before september semester.

There is nothing wrong with a little fear of committed study. I have been considering doctorate level studies for the past year and scared, scared, scared. Who knows if I will ever do it. My dream is to be a college professor but the laziness and fear is keeping me down bad, bad, bad.

I wonder what we can do to kick these feelings. Maybe it is all the fun we are having just living life day by day!!!