My wife and I were having a conversation about making decisions. I was raised as a child and young man in the 1950s to think like a Business owner and entrepreneur. My father came to me and said something like "Don't ever worry about making decisions. You just have to keep making them your whole life. The whole thing about making decisions is you never have enough information really to make "ANY" decision. So, you just have to make decisions with the best information available, while always knowing you might have to change that decision later when you get more relevant information about any given thing or person."
So, he demonstrated a relaxed attitude about decisions. For example, children often feel pressured to make a decision for a college and staying with that college or major or they will disappoint their parents, relatives or friends. It really shouldn't ever be that way. Often people change colleges or drop out of colleges and this actually makes or saves their lives and futures. You never know what opportunities are going to arise (at ANY point) in life that you sometimes cannot pass up. For example, look at Steven Jobs and Bill Gates. Steve Jobs is a Reed College Dropout and Bill Gates is a Harvard dropout and they did just fine with their lives. It all depends how you want to spend your life. So, unless you want to be a doctor, lawyer, teacher, or engineer or Nurse or other technical profession, a degree might not be the best thing for you at this time. The flip side of this is once you get passed 25 or 30 you will tend not to get your bachelor's degree because you might be married, have a job overseas, have kids, be running businesses etc.
Basically what I'm saying here is "Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans!" And it has always been this way and always will be.
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