Very welcome, and thanks for the friend request! Glad to accept.

OK! I see what you mean now, about your family finding their thing and sticking to it. They're lucky, and maybe even quite rare nowadays. Seeing as you get on well with them, maybe that's another good topic for conversation - what helped them decided and stay with it. I live in England so I can't give you practical advice on other sources of info, but I'm sure there must be. I'd start with questionnaires like Myers Briggs. That finds out what sort of personality you have and what you're best suited to doing. It's a more complex version of "if you're quiet, you'd hate working in a bar" - and there are lots of resources like that on PC. For me, there was a big disconnect with what I was good at at school and thought I wanted to do, and the kind of person I am and how I want to spend each day. There may be other state provided resources like a careers office or advisory service, and it won't just be for people who left school. Yes, there's the internet nowadays and people don't bother with libraries so much, but that's somewhere else to consider too. And when you decide on something, talk to someone who already does that. Ask them what it's really like. Hopefully someone from the US will come onto the thread and talk about benefits, because meds are free in the U.K. As is all our healthcare.

FWIW my dad had the same job for about 40 years and I never held one for more than 4-5 and we always argued about this. For me, each new thing was a step up financially and in my lifestyle (like not being tied to a desk M-F 9-5)........

Good luck