How did you decide what you wanted to be when you "grew up"?

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I am a sophomore, technically, in college. I received my Associate in Arts degree this past May from a junior college. Currently, I am working in a job I've been at for the past 2 years. It's a 9-5 office job that has helped me get through school, taught me new and useful skills and really helped me mature. I'm going to school to be a teacher -- I don't know that that's what I want to do, though. What I want is to work with kids... but counseling, DCFS, social work and all that is too much for me. I'm very emotional and came from a troubled home so I wouldn't be able to sit back and have to follow the rules when I saw children who were hurting.... ANYWAY -- (Sorry, I tend to ramble) -- I'm in school to be a teacher. I'm about to quit my job to nanny (which just barely covers my bills and is a major pay cut from the office work I do now) just because I want to be around kids. But I still don't know what it is I WANT to do in life. Perhaps this is why it's taken me almost 5 years to get my Associates! How did you know what you wanted to do? Have you always known? Did it come to you one day while you were doing something? Are you stuck doing something you don't like because you never figured it out? Please offer any stories, advice or suggestions you have. Thanks! -MK-