Confused College Student!!

[Lissa]

Advice and Opinions are GREATLY appreciated!! Everyone's always telling me to speak to the wise when you have a problem, and I'm hoping you all can relate or have some good advice. (Forewarning: I do know how to write with correct grammar. I'm simply choosing to write in a more casual fashion)

So, to be honest I'm what I call a Serial Careerist. I've wanted to be everything from Missionary to Cardiothorasic Surgeon. I'm a Sophmore in college and I still don't know what I want to do, and I gotta make a decision quick.

My plans were to learn German and French, go to law school, and try to get a job at the UN or the State Dept up in DC. But my plans have changed. I've decided that I want to stay in Texas permanently and my political ideas won't get me a job here. Being a card carrying Republican is a must for most Texas government positions. So I'm not so sure I want to go to law school, especially because the kind of law I want to practice isn't in this area or is all pro bono.

My family keeps telling me that I should still go to law school and become an attorney cause I'd be decent at it. But law schools are turning out more grads than the demand so there's alot of out of work attorneys and lawyers struggling to pay off student loans. My fear is that I'll end up as one of them, and I don't want to be paying off loans til I'm 86.

My fall back is being a SCUBA instructor. I just recently got my certification as a diver and I love it with all my heart. I was talking to the dive shop owner and he told me that there's a huge demand for female scuba instructors. Sure I wouldn't be making as much as I would if I was a successful attorney, but it's something I love and I don't need the big fancy house and the cars right off the factory floor. And I can get my certs and get college credit for them as well.

This is getting insanely long so I'll wrap it up.

I'm staying in college, I've always sworn that I'm going to get a college degree, and, come hell or high water, I will. I'm studying Political Science, and my family doesn't believe a Liberal Arts degree is worth anything.

So...HELP! Any advice will work, I need real world thinking here!