From a parent's point of view?

[DrGoogle]

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Fast forward a year and some months, and I realize I still haven’t found what I want to be doing…and this major isn’t really what I thought it would be. After stressing over it for several months, I told my mother, who told my father, and everything blew up yesterday over the phone. My father basically told me he really doesn’t care what I pick as my major/career anymore because he doesn’t give a **** since it’s “your life, not mine”. On top of that, he brought up the fact of how he wanted me to be a doctor, but because I “refused” to, I should pick whatever the hell I want because it doesn’t concern him. My mother really didn’t help much after that, 'cause she brought up how she felt I might be changing majors/careers for the next 8 years, piling on more student debt with no viable career, and… well you get the point.</p>

<p>Ever since the end of that phone call, I pretty much spent the entire day crying in bed. I don’t think I’ve ever felt this crappy in my life before. As a girl who dedicated the last 19 years of her life in hopes of pleasing her parents and this happened… What’s even worse is that out of 6 billion people on the planet, there was not a single person I could call to talk to afterwords…which explains why I’m turning to strangers on the Internet for help.</p>

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It sounds like you are not sure yourself about this field and your crying is not just about pleasing your parents.</p>