Thursday Thirteen
January 28th, 2010 by Jen Hen under Thursday Thirteen. 1 Comment.
Thirteen college degrees I have considered for more than a minute….
- Social Work (I know, this is the obvious one)
- Criminal Justice (my declared major when I was at Michigan State University, briefly, after they rejected me from #3)
- English (Michigan State rejected me despite my 4.0 grades in college English, Honors English in high school, and my 29 on the ACT… they’re picky)
- Sociology
- Psychology
- Secondary Education with a focus in Organizational Communications and English
- Journalism
- Broadcast Journalism (there’s a difference between number 7 and 8… one does news print, the other does radio and television)
- Theater (I don’t want to be a starving artist though. We can cross this off the list already.)
- Travel and Tourism (My dream job: Traveling the world and telling people about everything they can do wherever they go)
- Photography (I’ll keep it as my hobby instead.)
- Business Administration (because let’s face it, I’m good at being bossy. Don’t laugh mom, or DH, or …. anyone related to me. (DH just did when I told him what I wrote. haha.))
- Finance (we’d be living well… but I get really uncomfortable dealing with other people’s money. I put on a mentality of “this is my money” so that I’m more cautious (as I would be with my own) which leads to high levels of stress when people aren’t spending their money wisely.)
There’s a common theme aside from a couple of the choices: helping people enjoy life more, in one sense or another. All of the career tests I’ve ever taken have listed most of these same things, but have added in Lawyer (which, I do consider doing once the boys are older since there isn’t a law school closer than a 2.5 hour drive) and Librarian. The latter always seemed like a curve ball in the mix.
Anywho… thanks to BossSanders for the reminder in her comment on yesterday’s post. I do appreciate that. I think I had forgotten that goal as I’ve been stressing out. Of course, I’m still sitting here debating my direction. C’est la vie.
I know that I can make the necessary grades and complete the necessary coursework for any of the things I listed. I know that I could find a job and probably do well with it. But I want to LOVE my job and LOVE going to that job. And it’s not illogical to want that. It’s what professors say you should do all the time. DH likes to remind me of his professors talk with his finance class: “I made a lot of money working in Finance, but I hated what I was doing. I really enjoyed teaching. It only pays me a fraction of what I was making, but I like coming to work. Do what you enjoy. Money isn’t worth being miserable.” (That’s loosely paraphrased and quoted.)
bosssanders on January 29th, 2010
You are right…you DO need to be happy and you do need to find something you LOVE. Maybe you can find someone to watch the boys for a full 24 hours while you go off ALONE somewhere with nothing else to do. Like a nearby inn or something. (So you won’t clean or cook). And do nothing but think? It may seem like a little much, but you are about to make a HUGE decision. Also, pray. Alot. And, just because you have a piece of paper, it doesn’t mean the end of things. You could still work with tourism and such with any degree or none at all…sometimes you just have to be creative.