Would you like your future to be determined by others? Why or why not?

Personally I think the option to choose what I want to do and live how I want to live is something I would not want anyone to take away from me because I wouldn't want to have to live with a profession that I don't enjoy doing, I mean I don't even know what I, myself, want to do, how is ANYONE else supposed to know and choose for me? So, no, I would not want my future to be determind by anyone else because I think that in order to learn, you have to make mistakes in your decisions with everything including what you want to do with your future. I find it annoying even when my parents try to tell me what I should do, so if someone that I didn't know very well, like in "The Giver" tried to tell me what my job would be and that I had to live with it, no question, I REALLY don't think that I would be too happy. On the other hand, I think that if I grew up in a community like in "The Giver" I would find it absolutely terrifying to have to choose what i wanted to do because no one had ever given me the option to choose what to do with my future I would think of it as unsafe and an a really stupid thing to let people do because I, and most of the people before me, had been shielded from the pain of mistakes or failure, but I still think that it is important that we, as people, get to determine our future.