career decisions

so i at first, at the young and tender age of six until ten, wanted to be either a nun or a bartender, and then for several later years wanted to be a vetrinarian, and then free floated with something in the biology field or possibly forgeting my whole debt-to-humanity-complex and going all out in the astronomy feild, or possibly just saying screw it all and going off to be a reclusive artist who lived on saltine crackers and cat food, but i have finally decided on an actual, concrete career. i want to be a marine botanist. i mean it this time, for serious and for real, i want to study (and i quote) "... the startling diversity and environmental dynamics of the hundreds of micro- and macroalgae, seagrasses, mangroves, and salt marshes as well as phytoplankton (minute, free-floating photosynthetic plants) and benthic communities (attached plants) that comprise the flourishing botanical garden submerged in and around the surface of our vast oceans."
cool huh? i can't frickin' wait, i mean, come on here, life on a boat or near the ocean... what more could a water-baby like myself ask for?and this works perfectly with my ideas abotu a double major in astronomy, i mean, where else will you get free of land based pollution long enough to set up a telescope unless it's on top of a mountian in Hawaii. (or at the Very Large Telescope, and yes, i swear, it's called that) of course, i'll have to find a way to get aorund the swaying of the ocean, but that's not all that hard. this gives me a way to work on world hungar and possibly energy and all sorts of nifty hey-if-this-is-solved-we-can-go-to-space-now things!