@Ryanjingle, no one was trying to criticize you here. Pentaprism was offering you some very useful and targeted information. We do often see students (in this forum and offline) who believe that graduate school will help them identify their goals rather than the other way around, and they genuinely don’t know that you need well-defined goals before going to graduate school. We don’t want them to spend $$$$ chasing a graduate degree that they don’t need or that isn’t a good fit for them. It comes from a place of trying to support students in identifying concrete goals and help them avoid making choices that maybe aren’t the best fit for them.
People answering your question directly in exactly the way you want is not the only way to get good advice here. Just as you can ask many questions from many angles, people can give answers from many angles.
Since we’re not interacting with you offline, the only way that we know what you’re thinking about is what you post here. It’s only natural for us to wonder about a student who has posted about several very disparate career paths over the course of a few months. And, like I said, it’s fine to be interested in many different things at this stage of your career - or any! It might be useful if you indicate that your musings are more information gathering for a variety of different paths, though.
Since you say that you have a career path in mind and are already working towards it - would you mind sharing what that is?