I don't know what to do with my life

My sophomore year is almost over. I've been thinking about what I want to do with my life. To be honest, I don't know what I want to do with my life. People usually say what I should because I do something well.

For example of what people say:
"You know so much about the health and stuff you should be a doctor"
"You are so great at makeup you should be a makeup artist"
"You are so good at drawing fashion you should be a fashion designer"
"You are so good at drawing you should be an artist"

Blah!

It's so confusing, and it throws me off track. I know you're suppose to do what you want, but honestly it hard not to listen when it's your family doing it also. My mother wanted me to be a nurse, but I have no interest in making a career out of it. My older brother(well respected around the family) wants me to be an artist. They say they're not trying to force it on me, but the vibe and the way they say things like "hint hint" it makes it so obvious.

I don't know what to do with myself, and I have a interest in a lot of things. It makes it so hard.

Though maybe I'm not persuaded enough for a certain career. Is it possible to visit someone with a certain occupation to just ask them questions about their job? I'm thinking of doing that, but wondered if it's consider intruding.

My mother does that too. One day she'll say I should be a store owner, the next day she'll say I should be a scientist and so forth. Just keep in mind to do whatever fits you the best. If you're 5'5'' and weigh under 100 pounds, consider being a horse jockey, but don't attempt to be an NFL football player just because they make a lot of money. My family goaded me into doing that.

It's okay to visit someone like that. It's called an "informational interview".

I think it is called job shadowing. You can ask if someone will allow you to do this. You can also do internships in various fields if you think you are interested. Many of my fellow students do them during the summer, although a few have taken a whole semester during the year to do an internship. This pushes back graduation sometimes.

I think it might be helpful if you stopped looking at your whole life being bound up in one career, and one career only. You can have a career and an interesting hobby or outside interest that is or isn't related to your career. You can have multiple careers either sequentially or at the same time. I have a friend who teaches and she also is a professional singer. You can combine interests into one career: medical social worker, for example.

Smile and nod and say "That's a thought!" and maybe keep a list of everything that has been suggested to you and a list of what you yourself are interested in. Dig the list out every so often and see if you start seeing some interesting combinations. And you can read about careers and speak to your advisor who should be able to help you get more info and advice. Take your time. I wish you a happy life.

I am a nurse and I got permission to take a high school senior I knew to work with me for a day to see what nurses in the hospital do in a typical day. Might not have turned out that way, but she ended up becoming a nurse.

Do you have careers advisers at school? They should be able to help you narrow things down, a bit, at least.

One thing to be mindful of is that while some people have an identifiable passion for what they want to do, most people don't. Most people decide because of some blend of opportunity / luck.

Something that people never made explicit to me - so I had to learn the hard way - is that there is something of a 'hierarchy' of stuff to do. It isn't hard and fast and you find great people (and crap people) all over the show... But most people have this idea of 'aiming as high as you can' and see what happens with that... Partly it is based on earning potential. It isn't hard and fast... But on average... Etc....

So... How are you grades? Good enough to get you a scholarship to college? How good a college? Can you find a way to go to college without a scholarship?

I guess the idea here is... Even if you end up doing poorly / bailing you are most likely to meet / marry someone who has a good job by going to the best college you can afford.

What are you doing best at? How is your math? That is often the decider... Are you mathematically inclined or verbally inclined? Engineering / medicine etc are for the science kids... The more and less mathematically inclined, respectively. Not many people can do high level math... It is MUCH appreciated / renumerated... Law is for the verbal kids... Of course there are things like finance etc, too... And there are the arts... Used to be more for those wanting to become university professors or wanting to find husbands... But now you have to do degrees BEFORE applying for entry to professional programs like medicine or law so you can do whatever you like for your first degree...

If college isn't really a thing for you then onto the next chunk... Community college / vocational training. Electritions and so on... Do you like to do stuff with your hands (/ less academically inclined)? Then something here could be for you. I don't know how things are around where you are... Careers people should be able to let you know... Here, you start out doing a particular program (I did physiotherapy for a while - long story of how this got to be that kind of a degree in commonwealth countries) but plenty of people changed into other things during the first year as they got to learn abotu other things (e.g., occupational therapy, midwifery, sports science, electrical etc etc)

Of course some people get straight into work and work their way up. Once you get that first paycheck coming in it can feel very rewarding and there are prospects to work your way well up if you work hard and smart and turn up regularly on time etc... You may find plenty of opportunity to distinguish yourself from the field. If you find yourself at university or community college there are plenty of opportunities to change up what you are doing as you learn about different things. If you don't know if university / college is for you (if you don't know about having a professional career, being a professional wife, learning some kind of trade) then maybe work for a time... See how that goes... You can always go later in life (more people are doing that now and adult students are typically much loved for their work ethic and emotional maturity).

I had a bit of an odd time of things with not understanding about the hierarchy... Ended up going from a high ranking university to a tiny community college type of place because i wanted to learn exercise science / personal training... I was shocked to learn about... Humanity. People. I was shocked at some of the things they couldn't do that came naturally for me... But I also found plenty about them that was terrific... Even though it came so naturally for them to even be recognised as the amazing thing that it was. I was a poor fit... It was a bad thing for me... Partly it is about trying things out and seeing where you feel you fit...

Were you relatively happy at high school with a group of friends? What are they up to?

Idk just because someone says you're good at drawing fashion doesn't mean you should be a fashion designer because that's not necessarily a lucrative field for everyone to go into just because they're good at drawing fashion, same goes with the other examples you provided. Figuring out your future job/career should not be a group project.
It's something you really have to sit down, and realistically think out for yourself.
Try to remain as realistic as possible with what you want your career to be. For example, just because you're really good at basketball, doesn't mean you'll be the next best basketball celebrity and make a living from it.

You need to look at the economy and what jobs/careers are in demand. You need to look at your skills and what you could actually see yourself doing every day in a job, and you need to have realistic expectations of what a job is, meaning it isn't something that you're going to fall in love with doing every day and skip off into the sunset living happily ever after with your chosen career field. I've been struggling with a dose of reality lately too as far as my career choices are concerned.
Honestly, nothing sounds exciting to me. But that's because it's called work for a reason.
So just be realistic and honest with yourself when you go job searching. Take a hard look at your skills and your personality and try to go from there.
Also, consider all jobs/careers, not just prestigious ones.

Edit - you mentioned you know a lot about health? you don't have to be a doctor, you can narrow it down to the health care field and go from there...there's hundreds of jobs in the health care field...and most of them don't require you to go 100k in debt.

Thank you for all of your replies. It certainly helps me. Also, we don't have career advisers at my school. Though I put in some thought around it and I think want to do real estate or financial adviser. I will certainly ask around to see if I can get my questions answered from them.

So... Management / economics / accounting type of stuff... Basic computer skills never go astray...

My brother was a real estate agent for a while... I know nothing about it in the US... But here... He had to pay quite a bit of money to do this course so he could register. And then he had to pay for a nice car (to take people to view places) and nice clothes and so on and so forth...

He's working for commission... So... Make a sale, make a certain percentage of the sale price. How many sales do you need to make per year for your quality of life / for your financial security? He found it a majorly stressful job that he quit... But he was the main income earner so there was financial pressure on him to support others... Some people do very well out of it... It has a high turn-over in this part of the world.... Many tricks and tactics with respect to how you manouver yourself into getting the cut and how you negotiate 'on behalf' of your clients - given that you earn a cut of the settlement price....

I don't know how things work... But if you could do something secretarial / administration for a property management place... That might give you a great head start on learning about the property market / learning what is involved etc. There were senior people at the firm he worked for who paid high school kids to do things like printing off copies and delivering them to mailboxes and stuff like that...

Luck.

Banking... Accounting firms etc... If you can work hard and smart sometimes... Sometimes they will pay you to get degrees...