baylin Wrote:bflatnine Wrote:Pwnage.
Really, I majored in music. Didn't work out so well. I just started on a second bachelors. Majoring in Chinese, minoring in Japanese. Or maybe minoring in art history with an East Asian emphasis.
What do you plan on doing after you graduate?
Going to grad school.
Really, the plan is to get a PhD and a career in academia.
Quote:I thought about majoring in a foreign language as well. I'm currently majoring in English, but I have a hard time deciding on a major since everyone likes to refer to everything I'm interested in as "basket weaving degrees" and that includes English... Japanese as well of course.
Listen carefully....F*ck. Them.
Seriously. Who cares what they think? Too many people are "career-oriented" and they forget about just doing something you love. If you're an intelligent and capable person, you can make a career in doing what you love instead of just settling for working in a box like so many drones do today. I couldn't do it. I think I'd go crazy.
However, I will say make sure you know what you really want to do before you just pick a major "just because." I got burned the first time through because I majored in music because "what else am I gonna do?" But TBH I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. The problem is I ended up working in service industry jobs like foodservice and retail management because I didn't want to move to LA. Through doing all this I realized my love of language and of reading and writing about them (they call it "research"), so I decided to drop everything and go back to school.
People look at me like I'm crazy when I tell them I have management experience and I'm going back to school to major in Chinese. Of course, some say "Yeah, that's a good plan. There will be huge business opportunities for you once you get done with that. You could work for a big company that does a lot of work with China." And I just laugh. I think I'd die rather than work in a box. I worked as a bellman at a really upscale resort/convention center for a while and felt sorry for most of the businessmen that came to the hotel. You could tell they were just kind of hollow and didn't have any passion for what they were doing. It's just a paycheck to them. Now there was the occasional person who was on fire about business, but they were generally the more successful types, CEOs and such. Joe Cubicle hates his job 99% of the time. That's no way to live.
Long story short: do what you really love to do.
