You don't marry your career.
If you're in high school or college, your parents and relatives, maybe even your friends, may be pressuring you to figure out what the hell you want to do with your life, even though you probably don't even have two decades of experience on this planet and are still trying to figure out how your newly adulted body works (thanks puberty!).
Despite the fact that you will have to make some decisions (for example, should you go to college, what major do you want to declare), you don't have to commit long-term to any field or career. You don't have to decide your entire future. The choices you make now will not set you on immovable tracks to a set destination that you can't change or straight up abandon. You're allowed to make a choice, try it out, decide it's not for you, and then shift gears. You're allowed to do this at any point in your life. In fact, we should be encouraging each other to do that.
Will there be consequences for shifting from one career to another? Of course. But you can research and understand the implications of your potential decisions (to the extent that anyone can) and do your best to deal with them.
In other words, there is no "right" decision that will make or break your life. There are only decisions, and you make them "right" or you try something else. This is just work after all. It won't hate you if you break up with it.
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