Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Okay, I need some advice about school

It is sooo normal to change your mind right in the middle (or even beginning ) of your first degree. nobody is going to be able to tell you what to do, but here are some things to think about.
you said you have wanted to do this since you were very little...how long have you consiously wanted to do the baking thing?
is there anyway to complete the interior design course with less stress, even if it takes more time, you could get a medical cartificate or something..? How much of your current 'lack of interest' in it so you honestly think is down to burnout? It is very common for people who take something they love as a hobbie, and turn it into a career or a study course, to become sick of it and inspireless.
Have you fully investigated what it would take to become a professional pastry chef / baker / confectioner? Have you investigated the stress involved in that course?
In England (where I grew up) we specialise very very early. At the age of 16 we have to choose 3 subjects to specialise in for two years (called A'levels) and the results of those exams get us into university. if you want to study a science at university, at least two of your A' levels have to be sciences and vice versa for the arts subjects. so effectively, at 16 you are having to decide you entire future!!!!
thank goodness I at least got the sciences right, but am currently transitioning from environmental science to nutrition and dietetics. I knew I wanted to do nutrition from the end of my first year of environmental sciences and had to sit through three more years of it!!! I told myself...if nutrition is what you really want to do, you will still be passionate about it when you finish this degree and then you can have both. I wanted to make sure if wasn't just a fleeting passion (as young people so often have). Turns out it wasn't and I feel even MORE sure about my career path.
You need to sit and investigate the job markets for both of your possible careers. Maybe before you do the two year internship you can take a year out and investigate the pastry thing.
Ask yourself honestly, why did your fire for interior design suddenly go out????

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