How do I choose a college major?

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I need help choosing a college major. Since I'm an Aspie I tend to have unusual interests in a subject for a period of time and I wanted to be something when I finish high school. But after a while I want to be something else. It keeps changing and changing, it can't stay in one place.

I need some help. How can I stop doing this an choose a career that I can stick with?

Well, most people change careers several times in their lives. My advice would be one of two approaches:

1) The practical one would be to get a major that gives you skills that will transfer across fields, so that when you tire of working in, or are forced from by economic conditions, one line of work, you have something that will allow you to function in another.

2) The quixotic one would be to find what you really enjoy, and study that. If you're going to spend four to six years of your life learning something, and paying for all that, it might as well be something in which you really have an interest. Most bachelor's degrees are pretty useless in the workforce, telling an employer only that you managed to finish what is now a kind of middle-class finishing school. Work alongside your studies, if you can, so that you have a resume to show that you are functional when you get your diploma.

Best of luck to you!

No one ever stays in a chosen career their entire life these days...so choose a college major that expresses your interests, aptitudes and stills allows flexibility in your life for that time when you become "bored" and desire to make a change in your life.
That day will certainly come...and prehaps sooner than you think.

Do you want to go to a college or university or learn a trade? There are some vocational trades that are more in demand and provide more job opportunities than a college degree in these ever-changing economic times. No matter what path you choose,
nothing is ever carved in stone...you can always change your mind and choose another path in life. Yet, for those careers than
are more demanding and require years of education...like medical doctor, dentist, lawyer...choosing those careers later in life is
not so easy.

Do you desire to be your own boss...and own your own business? That requires much self discipline but, many people prefer it than working for "someone else."

Choose wisely...and good luck!

Go to college undeclared. Many students do that, they take a large variety of classes, see what subject they like best, and then make that their major.

Also, different majors will open you up for a lot of things. Don't lock yourself into anything really specific, for example, instead of opting for "cellular and molecular biology", choose, instead, biology so even though you study one subject, your not locking yourself into something too permanent.

Simple. Take a bunch of different classes in different subject areas, major in the subject you enjoy the most.

I want architecture (preferably the non-conventional po-mo urban type). It technical, organized, artsy, investigative, psychological and always changing and challenging. It sucks how suburban our town is, though. Not very exiting, but that is where the money is I guess. When we youth take over things might change and we will go to a purer, more holistic form of a habitat.

That can be biased on teachers and curricula. I wanted to do physics but found I didn't have the patience for it. That goes for most science, too, that it isn't quite useful when going to a more liberal-arts major.