I seem to be at a bit of an inner struggle. If you know my blogging habits, normally this inner struggle is me attempting to get all of the blog entires done so I can salvage my grade in the class.
Well, you're wrong, I won't give you what you want this time, even though not giving you what you want is probably the reason for my C+.
Anyways, my struggle at the moment involves my major. Maybe if I didn't have this inner struggle, I wouldn't even be in this class (Reading my entry from start to this point...Wow, I'm bitter). I'm at an impasse right now. I like to write. So I'm a writing major. That seems simple enough. Well, what doesn't seem simple enough is my career opportunities for when I leave college. I'm slowly beginning to realize that I should have came into this school as an exploratory major. I feel like I would have been in a much more comfortable spot that way. Right now, I'm looking at my options after I graduate: a magazine writer? a journalist (Probably not. Or else I'd be a journalism major)? a novelist (I've never written anything more than 12 pages. As an alsmost-nineteen-year-old, i feel like I might be a little behind on that), something else? Probably nothing else. I do like to write things. But more than my own writing, I like to analyze others' writing. That is what brings me the most excitement. I know, I have a wild life. But I love taking pieces of writing and deciphering what the author really wants and really means, how they did it and why they did it. I guess the only thing that falls under that category would be an english teacher. Well, I'm far off from that right now, as I'm not an english major.
But the struggle doesn't just begin and end with what I wanna do after I graduate. The struggle becomes even bigger with what I HAVE to focus on after I graduate college. I like to write, and I like to analyze text, but I don't like living in boxes. I know that not everyone ends up jobless after majoring in humanities, but it is usually the gifted individuals who make something of it. I'm discrediting myself as having no gifts, but I'd like to discover them before I decide that they're going to decide my future.
That being said, and though I spoke against it in high school, I'm probably going to look for a major to begin my sophomore year that will be a little more financially stable for my future. And though I haven't decided that major yet, I know for sure that a minor in an area focused towards business and finance certainly won't hurt me.
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