text: is choosing a career a matter of heart?   if you want to be happy, it should be a major consideration, but be reasonable. determine your strengths, interests, values and skills; identify options; set goals; and create a development plan.  if you want to be the first  martial artist, physists, brain surgeon, with his own rock and roll band, to fight off an alien invansion, well you are too late.  you might want to do a web search on "career management"