Re: What job should I plan on doing,
If you didn’t have 6 months to choose what you wanted to be for the rest of your life, I would agree with you here. However, you don’t have any time left to choose “many other career paths”. What I would strongly suggest you to do right now is scope out the market, see what future careers will still exist 7 years from now, or which will be up coming in the next few years. This will require you to do some serious researching, opening up journals, magazine articles, watching/reading news stories, and actually talking to people who are in those career fields. Based upon that, choose one of your “many other career paths”. Unfortunately we live in an age of information, and what was relevant 10 years ago isn’t relevant 10 years later, so what you think will work out for you right now in the future, may not work out for you in the future.
Also, don’t forget, you spend 8 hours a day at your job. You have 16 other hours of the day to do whatever the heck you want. Instead of going down a career path of documentary journalist, which btw, will be nothing but sar khappa, unless you’re David Attenborough, do that as a hobby instead. If in the future you are actually making money out of your hobby, you can leave your 9-5 paying job, but don’t think what you’re really really passionate about can make you money. It might seem like it’s easy and intuitive, but unfortunately, that’s not how the real world works.