Post secondary life choices

[Fina1234]

As of right now, I am a 17 year old high school student almost half way through the year of grade 12. I am very confused as to what to do for my future, being pushed in the academical aspect of my life by my mother a lot, I tried to peruse life-science since my mother is a doctor. But I realized it's not something i truly want to do. What I really want to do is something with computers. Now, I took programming classes in my high school but I find it very boring and not really my thing. What I am really interested in is the hardware, and how it works, how its designed. So what should I look into for post secondary to study the hardware part of computers (im okay with some code writing but i really don't want to focus on that). I was thinking of like a idunno designer at corsair or someting. Where should I go for something like that ? Thats one of the ideas

 

[bignastyid]

Look into Electrical engineering or computer engineering.

 

[MU_Engineer]

The best advice is to look at what's actually marketable with a good job outlook (most things in healthcare, government work, skilled trades) and pick the least unappealing of the bunch with the shortest training time and income-to-debt ratio. (For example, the 12+ year training time and high debt to income ratio makes medicine a bad choice.) Yes, work won't but fun but it's called "work" for a reason. You will however be able to enjoy your time off because you'll have some money to do so, unlike the "I followed my dreams but got paid nothing despite my mountain of debt and now I am unemployed on welfare" crowd.

It's a little cynical but it's very true.