Career decisions rarely fail because of a lack of passion. They fail because the options were never compared on the same criteria.
The problem is comparison, not information
Most people in the first years of their career do not lack options. They lack a way to compare them. Two roles are held in mind at once, evaluated on different criteria depending on the day, and the decision is postponed until something external forces it.
A realistic direction starts by writing the options down side by side and scoring them against the same short list of criteria.
Use criteria you can actually observe
Choose five or six criteria that you can check against reality: the daily tasks, the skills the market is paying for, how quickly you can enter the field with what you already have, income range, working conditions, and how much of the work you can realistically tolerate on a bad week.
Personality tests describe preferences. They do not describe constraints, and constraints are what usually decide.
Then test the leading option cheaply
Before committing, spend two weeks testing the strongest option: talk to three people who do the job now, do one small piece of the real work, and read two job descriptions carefully to see which skills are missing.
A direction you have tested for two weeks is worth more than a direction you have thought about for six months.
