When I grow up, I want to be...........

There's an interesting phenomenon that I've just recently thought about. Ask a kid, any kid, under the age of 10, what they want to be when they grow up and they'll have an immediate answer. Fireman, policeman, rock star, president, professional athlete, astronaut, even exotic animals. It runs the whole gamut, from mundane to outlandish, but the thing is, they know exactly what they want to be. It may change from year to year, but these kids know what they want to be. Then growing up happens. You find out that it's not practical to be an astronaut, very few people become rock stars, and they're not just handing out superpowers at the local supermarket (if that isn't a misnomer, I don't know what is). You found out, probably as a teenager, that you have to grow up and be logical. I started out thinking I was logical. I loved history and I loved adventure, so why not become Indiana Jones? Of course, going into college I knew that I was not going to become a fedora-wearing whip-carrying archaeologist such as the movies depict, but I still thought I was being smart and playing to my interests to do something I would love. Then I think the tediousness and mostly little findings that go along with actual digging turned me off. I still loved history and learning about ancient cultures, but digging them up and piecing them together didn't appeal to me. So I went straight to the (written) source and decided to learn about the cultures through their texts. (We're not going to get into the history vs. archaeology debate, suffice it to say I think they're both very important). I learned Greek and Latin and loved it. But now I've graduated college, and what exactly am I supposed to do with my degrees? as evidenced earlier, I don't want to dig for a living. I also know that the market for classical studies professors is limited. This leaves me in a bit of a bind, because I'd like to figure out what I want to do for the rest of my life. I did something that I was very interested in during my college years but now there are few practical applications for my degrees. So what do I do? I think I'd like to teach something, but what can I get into that will be not only fulfilling but also carry with it long-term job security? I'm trying to find out the answers to these questions and am not coming up with much. Life has been pretty well in a logical and well-formed order for the first 22 years of my life, and now I'm not sure where to go from here. I've got big decisions to make about my career future, and it only gets more difficult as time passes. In the meantime, I'll keep thinking. Maybe I'll get lucky and be exposed to radiation and become a full-time crime fighter. Or maybe not. Yeah I'll go with the probably not.