Career Decisions & Diverse Interests

Quietgirl212

Hey everyone,
Something has really been stressing me out lately and I'd really appreciate some advice and insight on how to cope.
It isn't a massive problem but it's been making me quite upset lately.
Alright so, I'm in my first year of college at the moment in a law, business and language based course. I do like it so far and find it very interesting, particularly the language and law aspects. Pursuing this course is something I really did consider for a while and I had all similar courses down on my CAO. Also, I could always imagine myself in a law profession and learning foreign languages.
However, the trouble is that I have always had an immense interest in Mathematics and Physics. I spend spare time learning about these subjects for which I have no need for my current career path. It breaks my heart that I have to neglect these passions on my current career route, yet I also love what I'm doing in college right now.
I can't help but ask 'What if I would have loved and excelled more with Maths and Physics?' I also fear that I will end up not liking law as much as I had thought and have to go do a whole new degree course later in life and hence not having the time to build as good a career as I could have if I had only studied maths and physics in the first place.
Basically I just wish I could be doing everything but my interests are so diverse, it's just not possible. I mean I can't be a lawyer and a physicist/mathematician.
I had always felt kinda torn between the two career paths. But in the end, I chose law and business because the course allowed me to also cater for my love of language while science courses do not. Also I did not study Physics for my LC so it may have been a risk doing it in college but I do know I am passionate for the field. So yeah I'm driving myself mad with all of this.
Any advice or insight please?
Thank you

Elemonator

Into law myself, transferred from Economics which is very maths based and I hate languages so we are very different people

I think you need to sit down and ask yourself where do you see yourself in the 10-20 years. Would you like to work in a law firm in another country or Ireland? Or would you rather be developing the latest laser technology? Each one of these career paths has its own challenges.

Benefits of staying with the law included money is likely to be good (sky's the limit with your own firm) and there is room for specialisation (maybe physics related field like energy?). Law has its own cons too though such as years of training, the fields are not as diverse as fields maths and physics may bring you down and you maybe have difficulty moving your degree country to country.

The benefits of a maths/physics career are much more diverse. You could be working in a maths related job in a bank or working with computers. You also will have less training. The only real cons I can think of is the difficulty of the job even if you are maths savvy. I know many people doing physics and one got an A in the Leaving for Higher Maths and isn't struggling too much. Another got a C and got smoked.

At the end of the day it is up to you. I get the feeling that you don't truly love the law for sure. It may be a field you have to love to succeed but that is just my 2 cents. I recommend you go and talk to the careers counsellors in your university, they will always lend an ear and its free. Maybe think about sitting in on some lectures for maths and physics?

I know one big bugbear is fees. I have no idea where you are in university but usually a new first year is about 7,000 euro. BUT, I know as a DCU student that some colleges offer to massively reduce this fee if you stay in the college or internally transfer. I know my fees were only 500 euro more than the usual when I transferred