I never had a plan for my life. My dad is an engineer and inherited a lot of his engineer-brain, but I've always been more creative. The mixture of those two different elements has resulted in a varied set of skills and passions. I've watched my dad love his work every day. He still works and he still loves it today, at 70 years old. That's all I want. To do something I love and hopefully make a decent amount of money from it so I can live without too many restrictions and travel.

I went through that same phase you mention right before I dropped out of film school. I had taken far too much on and couldn't keep up. I felt that everything I did was worthless and unproductive and I was struggling to stay afloat. I pride myself on doing work well and I wasn't doing anything well at that point.

I made a hard decision between focusing on school/classes or focusing on the work I was doing outside of school - editing and producing a senior thesis films. Those are the things I truly enjoyed and wanted to dedicate 110% of my time and energy to, but the world told me I needed a degree to survive. The decision to drop out, so far, has been the best one for me. Right now I'm looking for a new job and I get that little sinking feeling every time a job demands I have a BA or BS.

After dropping out, I worked and lived in NYC for another year and a half - splitting my time between working with my peers on their films and freelancing video services for money. I split with my ex, took off to Australia for 3 months with the money I had saved and security deposit from the apartment, drank and had fun, returned to the states, and landed a position at a company I freelanced for in college. In that position I was immediately expected to wear hats beyond shooting/editing product videos.

So, I taught myself HTML/CSS, learned Illustrator, took a graphic design course, took another graphic design course, and now take a javascript/jquery course. If you had told me when I was in Australia that I would be building Android apps and websites in 2 years, I would have laughed in your face. Shit changes. But I still do things I love - I love creating shit that didn't exist before. I love telling stories. I love solving problems. The medium is the only thing that has changed.

I have the beginnings of a good career, amazing friends, a kickass apartment, and an enormous passion for learning new things, solving problems, and being challenged by my work.

Unfortunately, my current job doesn't challenge me like it used to, hence the desire for a new job. We'll see where that ends up. My 9-5 is killing me but I'm lucky enough to have a string freelance work keeping me challenged and happy and in control.

So to answer your questions - no I still don't know what I want to do with my life. I could go get a producing job or a design job or a web dev job and figure out how to be successful in any of those positions. They would all make me happy too. It's never to late to change and you need to change to be competitive today. Change fast. Do what you love. Figure out how to make it work for you. Have a savings account and emergency fund. That's it.