I dont feel like I have a meaningful life...?

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I dont feel like I have a meaningful life...?
Right now Im a year old college student. My major is International EconomicsBusiness, and Im not really that happy with it. Yeah, I am semiinterested in it, but its not what I want I want to do with my life. The problem is, I dont really know what I do want to do. I just dont know that Im not doing what I want to be doing. Part of me actually wants to drop out of college, but I only have a year left, so its not an option. I just dont know what I want to do.

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You sound like you have your head on straight and everybody elses confusion is your problem. Since you have endured many years high school and college to get to where you are now, year shouldnt be that difficult, especially since you sound like an eminently practical person. When you have a degree in Bird Calls, it doesnt matter if you get a job making bird calls, YOU HAVE A DEGREE. That puts you economically in a better place to choose ANY career. You may have to bend your interests slightly to make enough money to pay off your loans or whatever, but you DONT have to take a job in your field if it isnt what you want to do. A semester or two extra and you can TEACH. Or you can work for a magazine using your knowledge of International business to WRITE about international business. Or you can travel and use your knowledge in the traditional way but in an interesting PLACE.brbrI think you have the world by the scruffy parts, and that may still have nothing to do with feeling meaning in your life. Meaning often comes from activity, not from introspection. Try some new things like volunteering or take some elective course you would never have dreamed of taking before.brbrMy gut says you will be fine, but only you can know for sure.brbrGood Luck.brbrPS Asexuality is a lot more common than people think. One can have a great life asexually. Sex is overrated anyway, and as one writer says quotA sex drive is like being handcuffed to a lunatic.quot