What Is The Best Major/Job For Me?

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I have Asperger's of course. I don't ever wanna work inside a corporate office or anything of that nature. My mom does, and all she does is complain about the mind games and racism there. I don't want to deal with mind games, and on top of that racism. Here are my interests, I'm starting college next year and already got accepted to 3 universities.

I like to study:

Languages
Music (writing songs, making beats, singing, and some dancing)
Building and designing buildings, trains and cities.

My favorite out of those is music, but I doubt I can do much with a music degree. I don't know about architecture, may be too stressful of a job, but i like to build things and use my creativity. I always used to make houses and cities outta my legos and connects. I also like to study languages, but I don't know what job I can get with a degree in lingusitics or spanish etc.

Idk help me out here

No matter what your likes and dislikes are, you must support yourself.

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
- Ayn Rand 1905-1982 -

I sincerely hope you find a profession that you enjoy and pays the bills.

I found I am very good at software engineering, and it pays the bills.

Please read my post in the other forum about how college is america's most overprised product. I recommend before you spend or borrow tens of thousands of dollars, that you learn

study skills
people skills
work experience (or volunteering)

have you thought about looking for a job at a store or a small business? volunteering at a hospital? it's good experience and will help you get a lot more for your money when you do go to college.

the fact that you got accepted and that there many degrees to chose from is irrelevent. these days, college make a big deal out of acceptance and the name of a degree. what you are interested is having a job after college.

first thing you can do right now is pick up a bunch of books and read them from page one till the last page. practice studying for four full hours a day with breaks in between. go to social groups through meetup.com or craigslist activity partners section or volunteering and practice socializing without being inappropriate or alienating people.

from now on, cook your own food, take out the trash every day, and wash dishes every day and do your own laundry.

you don't need to pay money to learn what college pretends to teach you. also, think, are there any jobs in the field you are chosing? do you know anybody who works in the field?

and last but not least, is if you think you will fail, you create a self fulffilling prophecy. best to act like you are going to succeed (do homework, socialize, apply for internships, etc).

as for major.. I recommend that you don't go to college and look for a job. Unless you got accepted into MIT or Harvard, you can get into college after a gap year or several gap years.

but if you do go to college, don't go for a job that requires master's or a phd to find work. in college you will be taking a lot of general education classes that have little to with a profession - English, Philosophy, social studies, physics, math, etc. That is how colleges make a profit. These calsses usually cannot be transferred, so once you go into a college, if you decide you want to go to a different college, you will have to take the same classes again there.

actually, i think if you are more descriptive about what you have done so far and what your itnerestests and strengths are then i'd have more to say. maybe you can check out a career counseler? some specialize in helping aspies.

when you start to make money, you might be willing to deal with a fair amount of mind games, office boredom, and racism because you like money more than you dislike these things. what field are your family members in? taht is the best place to start!

oh and by the way by asking this question now you are doing exactly the right hting imo.

If you like studying languages, check out the job boards for the US Govmt. If you can speak a middle-eastern language, or Chinese, or an eastern European language, and if you are truly fluent in it by the time you graduate from college, you will find work.

Music - there isn't much you can do with it unless you plan to teach, which will require either a teaching credential for the K-12 system, or an advanced degree if you want to teach at a level above that. If you're independently wealthy you can get a degree in music purely for the enjoyment of music, but other than that, there is, in practical terms, not a lot you can do with a BA in music.

Enjoying building things is nice - so do I. But that doesn't necessarily translate into a formal degree. Engineering requires a ton of math. I look back now and then and think I'd have been much better having gone to a trade school to be an electrician or a carpenter, but that wasn't an option for a woman in my day.

Take some aptitude tests. If your parents are going to send you to school, great. Otherwise, do not borrow heavily to fund a degree unless you know you will be able to pay it back later. Best of luck to you!

Not entirely true, general education classes usually transfer just fine (I used to work at a transfer credit evaluator). If you get a crummy evaluation you can appeal or apply to other schools and get the best offer. You are correct to be smart about how much you spend for school though. I think it would be wise to knock out general education requirements with independent study. LSU independent study is $262 per 3-credit course. You basically learn the material on your own and then just go in for a proctored exam. The textbooks are usually cheaper because they are a couple years old (the school doesn't want to rewrite the course every year). For example, for LSU's College Algebra course you would have to shell out a whole $2.29 on half.com for the textbook.
LSU Independent Study (click here for course list)

My generic advice...

Study something that you can tolerate that will get you into a good paying job the day you graduate (meaning it's in demand). This works best for NTs.

My generic advice for people with AS...

Study something you can tolerate that you're interested enough to focus on that will at least support you well enough to be self-sufficient.

In your case, I find your interest in languages is a huge plus. If you can learn some that are in demand of interpreters, you could make a very good living, but I don't know what the work environment would be like or if you could tolerate it.

Your interest in being some type of architect is interesting, but a lot of that work is pedestrian in nature. The truly visionary projects are highly competitive to get, and until you get established, it's never easy landing a contract.

There is never a guarentee that you get a job when you pick a study. Who knows what will be in 4 or 5 years time? Choose something you're comfortable with. You like music the best, but you also like to study languages, why not do both? There must be a way to do this. The more skills you have the more change to get a job.