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There are three things you want to consider when choosing a career path.

1) Do you like doing it?
2) Are you good at it?
3) Are companies hiring for it?

Generally speaking, you want to have a 'yes' on all three for the best chance of getting a job. Two out of the three is okay, but it may still end in failure depending on which two you have. The problem is when you have none or just one out of the three.

A lot of people get stuck at 1. They like to do something, but they are not honest about their ability to do it or what jobs are out there for it. And people who think they have all three come to realize they misinterpreted the parts of the job they liked. I know a guy who loved playing video games and was good at them so he wanted to make video games for a living. Well, he had 1 and 2 down, and companies were hiring for it, but he had the strangest idea that he would be making all the games he wanted and playtesting them and have a good time, when in reality he was just stuck coding someone else's video games and was miserable.

TC, you say you are good at English, so you have 2. Do you have 1 and 3? Do you like doing it? Can you see yourself doing it for a long time? Who is hiring for it? You may want to look up employers that hire people with English degrees.

For me, I was encouraged to become and architect. There are many jobs available and I was pretty good at it at the vocational high school where we took an architecture class. But I hated doing it. I considered doing it just because I was good at it but realized I would hate my life for it and passed.
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