I'm not sure if this will help, but I've got a PhD and a know a lot of people (from before and after my graduate student days) with PhDs. Everybody has their o

I'm not sure if this will help, but I've got a PhD and a know a lot of people (from before and after my graduate student days) with PhDs. Everybody has their own path in life, even if you do a PhD and end up in academia or not. Partway through my PhD I realized I had no interest in being a researcher. The reason was that after seeing what life as a tenure-track professor and/or researcher (e.g. Postdoc) was really like, I had no interest in that life for myself. Forget research interests, being the next Godel, and all that. Ask yourself, is life as a researcher or professor what you want - because that is what you will have to deal with no matter what your research interests are or if you are working at an R1 university or community college. Also, life is long. Don't worry about making the perfect career decision. Just make the best decision you can.