Completely Uninterested.

One of the problems I have had for some time finally became big. My parents are getting fed up (in very jerk-like ways) about me playing on the computer and reading all day. I do this because I have no idea about what to study. At all.

There are very few things that interest me, and none of them interest me enough to study them for years and make a living off them. I actually have very little abilities too, and am being forced to work in my dad's office building for 5$ a day.

He didn't even think about bringing me there, he just got mad at me one night and brought me two days later, out of impulse. I was never told what I was supposed to do, so I just waste my time.

I'll continue frustrating myself in there until I find something to study in college. But nothing at all would make me happy then.

Does anyone have suggestions? Maybe some kind of career that doesn't take much study and leaves a lot of free time. It doesn't need to be that well paid, just relaxed.

Can't say there is any particular major that would be easy. You could try going to tech school and be done in a couple years.

Well, what does interest you? It's amazing what you can make a living doing.

I was without any clear idea of what I wanted to study; I too have very few interests. So I picked something I thought I could do, and went with it... I didn't even decide what to start studying for masters degree until the last semester before I graduated. Now I've started my master's, I like what I'm studying, and now I have a clear idea of where I want to go.

Sometimes you must take a leap of faith when deciding what you want to do, and it's okay to change your mind.

You say you like to play on the computer. How about a career doing something with computers? There are 2 year programs for that. I had a friend who took a program at a community college for debugging code. It paid a decent wage and didn't involve long study.

My daughter is in college and didn't know what she wanted to do. I took her to the college bookstore, textbook section, and told her to just wander around and look at all the books and see if anything sparked her interest. And then to take a class in that subject. Maybe if you did that, it would help you uncover what your interests are.

Good luck.

UPDATE:
I took a course in psychology because I wanted to learn about it (I would be terrible at any career related to it). However, the university I chose ended up being...really disappointing. I could write a whole thread ranting about all the problems with.

A helpful member of PC told me through the chat feature that I could take a course in medical transcription and work from home, which seems ideal for a loner like me.

The problem is: My parents are unreasonable and don't take the idea seriously.

I am pretty sure they are acting out of hate rather than reason by this point, my dad even threathens to force me to work in some random factory (although I'm not sure if he would really do it, he is pretty impulsive, as you might have noticed).

I'm not even paying attention in university now, I do not want to go through 5 years of this nonsense. I'm even skipping the exams...it wont be pretty when they find out, but how would they, with their closed minds understand that I found a better choice and that staying there would be a waste of time and money?

It also seems that if I would need to pay for any other idea myself (and be forced to keep going to that university while studying/working with whatever I choose to work with...which would be very tough in terms of time consumed...and unecessary).

I have had urges to do bad things to them and to myself, but I am not like my parents and have stayed calm until now. But...how would I get them to think?

P.S. My dad also raged at me today for having the cellphone he bought me (I didn't even ask for it) off all the time, he says he got it so that he could rant at me whenever he wanted to, and said I was being stupid when I told him I would only use it to call for a pick up.