I am perhaps overly concerned with the future of my life and overly focus on education with respect to my future in particular, but I have become distraught at my seeming indecisiveness and ambivalence in relation to my educational goals while as an undergraduate. Do I want to work in the corporate environment or do I want to work in academia as a college professor? Does majoring in a particular field inhibit my aspirations towards one of these paths if it happens that I actually definitively choose one of them?
If it does turn out that I decide that the corporate environment either as a corporate lawyer or investment banker really are careers I think are in my best interests, this would be because of the salary I would likely be paid and the argumentative and analytical skills I like to commonly exercise. My natural or acquired inclinations excite in me the idea of living without the worries of wealth, with a loving family, and with the joy I would feel by owning a membership in a country club whereby I would be able to play golf at my convenience. This aspiration perhaps conflates the "good life" with an aristocratic, high-society model, but I believe this is an aspiration that is reasonably noble to say the least.
A possible career as an academic, however, also excites my fancy, because I love studying the greatest thinkers and their greatest thoughts and I love researching and simply learning this. This inclination of mine is perhaps properly credited to my over-estimation of my own intellectual abilities, but
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