Where do you want to go tomorrow?

Its about this time in life where people start to ask "What do I want to do with my life?" Its usually because they don't really have any idea where to start. Theres too many possibilities out there, and no real way to tell which one fits each person. It would probably be helpful if we had some sort of futurama like device which tells us what kind of job we'd be most suited to. Too bad we don't :(

After becoming an adolecent, I never really wanted to be anything. There was no driving force to do what I'm doing now. I kind of just adapted to whatever I was doing at the time. For example, I hated literature like English classes in year 11, but by the time it was the end of year 12, I'd already come to enjoy it. In the same way, I think I'd come to enjoy any kind of uni course once I got into it.

So I really don't get it. People drop out of uni because its "not for them" or something along those lines. It "isn't what they want to do". Well if I had a choice of what to do, it wouldn't be study. I'd be sitting on a beach somewhere drinking pina coladas for the rest of my life. But alas, to finance such a lifestyle, it would help if I had a job. Moreover, how can it be "not for them" if they've been at school for the last 13 years? Surely another 3 more wouldn't have that big of an impact.

Maybe I'm looking at this too much from a snobbish well off university student's point of view. But then you go look at the people who drop out, and they go and get themselves a dead end job selling vaccum cleaners. Do they like it? It doesn't look like it, but thats just my view. Maybe I have too much bias on this topic :/ I like to think that I'm just adaptable.