How did you decide your career path?

Just wondering when exactly people made their decision moment and how this decision came about. Have you decided? If not, how do you plan to decide on your career path?

Whilst working on a temporary contract, I decided it was what I wanted to do permanently.

I have always liked helping people, and my friends tend to come to me for advice, so I did some research and decided that becoming a psychologist might be something to consider. It sounds very interesting, and I just see myself going in that direction.

Awesome Aspirations to become a psychologist seems very popular these days.

I love Chemistry so I wanted to do something with that, I then narrowed to pharmacology and right now I want to be a neuropharmacologist but knowing me that's subject to change

Wow that's very specific How did you narrow it down to this point?

Did you have a feeling before you started your temporary contract that this could possibly what you wanted to do for the rest of your life? Or did you just fall in love with it when you started working?

Not sure yet but I know I want to do maths because maths is the best

By playing video games... Literally! I had no idea what I wanted to do in the long run before my GCSEs, but I enjoyed trading on the virtual market place on the game I played. I read into how I could improve my techniques and found out a lot of people offered online tutorials that made use of aspects of stock market trading and applied them to the game. I realised from then onwards that a degree in Economics would be for me, though now I'm not really looking to be a stockbroker, I'm more interested in becoming an economist or some sort of financial analyst!

I just jumped about from job to job and I have been on EU or Corporate barrister for a few years now.
It went something like this

Footballer: I don't even...
Olympic Sprinter: Winning every sports day race really got me excited about that career. The 2012 Olympic games almost sparked this dream again but failed.
Teacher: Thought I would just have to take the register, write on the whiteboard and be bossy
CEO: To be honest it was all about the cash with this one.
Doctor: For a few weeks because my Mum said so
Teacher: Looking at it properly I would love to be a primary school teacher regardless of cash.
Prime Minister: I liked politics and was eager to be the first black one
Politicians: It was more practical than the above
Mayor of London: Same reason as Prime Minister and it felt more do-able
Barrister: Loved the job from day one
Solicitor: Was told be a teacher that I should forget about the above as this was more stable
Barrister: Bounced back to my dream job

That was my story.

Just wondering when exactly people made their decision moment and how this decision came about. Have you decided? If not, how do you plan to decide on your career path?