I'd be happy doing any of a thousand different things and one is being an environmental analyst doing water resources planning. Luckily, that's what I began doing three months ago. But it took years of being trapped in a less interesting (to me) environmental field before I scored this transfer. I guess it wasn't too bad before, since I stuck with it so long, but I'm much happier now.
When I was in high school, I wanted to be a nuclear engineer in the Navy. Since then, I've seriously considered about 589 different career options. I don't know what to think about people who haven't. That said, some of those career ideas would have left me fighting a lot of people for a few jobs. While I'm interested in anthropology, for example, I have a hard time imagining that I would have been the one chosen for one of that field's rare jobs. So I'm glad I went with something that not only interests me but also provides opportunities. Both matter.