New Plan for the Future

So in the past, my life's ambitions have all led to music. Everything I do says, "Go into music after high school." But what scares the crap out of me is, what if I don't make it? And if I don't make it, then what else would I do? I wouldn't want to have to pay to go back to college. I wouldn't want to pay to go on and study something else, so what do I do?

A couple of weeks ago, my sister's old roommate from college gave me a "Major Minor Finder" test. This test was, I believe, from the 1980's. She is becoming a school counselor and for a class she is taking, she has to issue survey/tests and then write about them. She knew I was struggling in what I wanted to do after high school, so she called me and asked if I wanted to help her out. Of course, I said yes.

She came over to our house and instructed me on what to do. There were about 9 questions in total and somehow, those nine questions truly helped me clarify some things. So what you do is, you answer the nine questions, and then you go through the list of majors and see how many matches are made. The most matches you could get were nine, and the least were 1. What caught my eye was that anything related to music only had about 4 matches. This made me think, maybe music isn't what my conscience thinks I should do after high school. Maybe deep down, it knows that there is too big of a risk for failure, and that is something I just don't want to mess with.

The next thing that caught my eye was Physical Therapy. I have always wanted to go into the medical field, but not to be a surgeon or anything like that. I had never really thought about physical therapy, and when I had 7 matches, it sparked my interest. So here I am, doing everything in my life that should lead to music, but what I think I may want to do now is physical therapy. Why, you might ask? Personally, there is more job security. People are always getting hurt and are going to need someone to help them recuperate. But in music, unless you are the top of the line, you're out of luck. Sure, there is always music education, but in today's economy, that doesn't seem to be the right place to be.

So now I am thinking I want to be a physical therapist. This is certainly not set in stone, but it's a nice change of pace. It is kind of nice having some idea of what I may want to do. I beats the heck out of having no clue.

Will you decide?

Note: If you need help deciding, I recommend this website.