Then take a more pragmatic approach. Go find the classified ads in the Sunday paper and look in the jobs section. See what areas have high demand, and see which jobs are paying the most. Then go learn the skill with the highest demand and the highest pay. If you get into it and you find that you don t like it, then pick another area and do that until you find something you like.
Children only know about the few jobs they can see in their world.
Children cannot see those things, so they never consider them. You likely carry that same narrow vision with you now as a teenager. There are millions of high-paying jobs out in the real world that you have never heard of. In fact, you cannot even conceive of them. What is interesting is that you have certain skills things that you are best at that you can exploit in a good job if you know that the job is out there.