[Mr.Mustache]

"Some people really feel the weight of this choice, and it scares them. I see this a lot with students. What if I choose the wrong major in college? What if I get a job I don’t really like? What if I start a business and end up hating it? Those are all good questions. It’s great to be asking them ahead of time."

I'm a college student and I definitely feel the pressure. The effort I'm putting in as a student is currently lacking because I feel like I'm showing up just to show up. I've never been the academic type. Not that I'm stupid or I don't have a passion for learning (I most certainly do), its simply that I have never been motivated just doing something because it was expected of me. In high school I'd get Ds and Cs because I ignored the work that I felt was trivial (most of it) and often I never bothered to show up at all. Before my senior year I just dropped out and took the equivalency exam. I felt no anxiety over it either; the finger shaking of society has never fazed me. Which is one of the reasons I gave up my childhood religion, it just wasn't doing it for me and no amount of pressure would have changed my mind.

Picking a major is way more difficult than showing up to class. The first problem is the necessary uncertainty that goes along with just picking one in terms of finding a major that is the best possible one for you and that will also fulfill you as well. The second, is the fact that even if you chosen one and feel confident about it the ambiguity of where it might take you, how many options you will have in the future and if any of those options can provide enough motivation and money to satisfy you is daunting.