I feel like this is an every day thing and it’s really annoying. I feel like I can’t commit to a single career choice. Every time I choose one thing I get so interested in something else. 

I’ve been a dental assistant for 3-4 years now and I work at an office I really love. I was recently thinking of going to a University for a BS in Biology with a Marine bio focus. But I keep overthinking this and now I think I want to go to Dental school. I’ve been in the field, I know it, I’m comfortable here and I really do love what dentistry entails and how it makes a difference in peoples lives. But yet I still can’t commit to a single career. I’m constantly thinking about what else I can do and if I’d be able to live comfortably and if I would like it. Sometimes I spend hours at a time researching careers and don’t even notice but it gives me so much anxiety because I don’t want to make the wrong decision. 

Idk if it’s because I feel like it’s so far away (im about to start my Bachelors this Fall and then after that 4 years of Dental school) so I’m like “I don’t want to be in school that long”. I’m great at academics, it’s just hard when you’re working full time and taking classes at the same time. I have a 3.6 GPA right now. I also don’t really have the option to move back home with family because I have a very abusive and toxic family so I live by myself at the moment. 

I just feel lost. Idk how to just stop overthinking it and just stop and commit to one field. I chose dentistry because I’ve been in it for so long and I keep on coming back to it so I feel like it’s for a reason. I guess I can admit I’m scared of being in school for so long because I’m already 26 years old and don’t want to feel like I wasted my life in school.