RIP Steve Jobs
So as you know, I'm currently in college - about to face the beautiful sound of exams in approximately 2 days and 6 hours - and thus my parents have started The Talk with me. Regarding my future prospects, etc etc. The subject combination I'm taking now allows me to do either Law, Economics or Literature (let's just...leave Maths out okay? Maybe if I were my boyfriend, I would have a shot at it but since I'm not particularly numerically-inclined or anything of that sort like he is...ughhh).
Frankly, I'm leaning more towards Literature - for obvious reasons.
Not because it's easier, per say. I've learnt you need to know a little bit about everything for Literature to write up a good thesis, and you need to research everything thoroughly. Yet it sounds appealing to me. If there's one thing you can guarantee I'd do, it's to read fiction. I remember stories after a first perusal and I usually remember storylines after the first reading (lol I make it sound like a Bill passing through Parliament). But at the same time, I'm battling my career options. Not a lot out there if you're talking in terms of financial aid (for myself and my parents, that is) - meager salary as a teacher or lecturer, plus I don't have the patience to work with kids.
Hence I thought of doing a double degree. Which sounds impossible with my current forecast. Blergh. I'm interested in Literature and Journalism, and I'll see how that ties into me prospectively becoming a journalist in the future. I know I can write reports, but at the same time I want to do something which would interest me i.e. Literature. I have a senior who's doing Law as a degree course and she's miserable in university. Even during her work attachment days, she was bored and mostly playing with her laptop. I don't want to become that. I want something which I know I'd love to do. Or at least have a comparative advantage in (comparative advantage - econs. ohhh lord what is A Levels doing to me). Except I think my dad isn't too keen on the idea.
Then I watched Steve Jobs' speech today. I'd read it on tumblr before he passed away, of course, and even then I was impressed. But then I actually heard him speaking - he's got the voice of one of those audiobook readers! He speaks well, and when he mentioned doing something he loved, and how you have to trust that the dots will connect, and everything will eventually work out...
...well, let's just say - I'm doing Literature.
Thank you, Steve Jobs. Not only for Apple and Pixar. You will definitely, definitely live on - forever.
Frankly, I'm leaning more towards Literature - for obvious reasons.
Not because it's easier, per say. I've learnt you need to know a little bit about everything for Literature to write up a good thesis, and you need to research everything thoroughly. Yet it sounds appealing to me. If there's one thing you can guarantee I'd do, it's to read fiction. I remember stories after a first perusal and I usually remember storylines after the first reading (lol I make it sound like a Bill passing through Parliament). But at the same time, I'm battling my career options. Not a lot out there if you're talking in terms of financial aid (for myself and my parents, that is) - meager salary as a teacher or lecturer, plus I don't have the patience to work with kids.
Hence I thought of doing a double degree. Which sounds impossible with my current forecast. Blergh. I'm interested in Literature and Journalism, and I'll see how that ties into me prospectively becoming a journalist in the future. I know I can write reports, but at the same time I want to do something which would interest me i.e. Literature. I have a senior who's doing Law as a degree course and she's miserable in university. Even during her work attachment days, she was bored and mostly playing with her laptop. I don't want to become that. I want something which I know I'd love to do. Or at least have a comparative advantage in (comparative advantage - econs. ohhh lord what is A Levels doing to me). Except I think my dad isn't too keen on the idea.
Then I watched Steve Jobs' speech today. I'd read it on tumblr before he passed away, of course, and even then I was impressed. But then I actually heard him speaking - he's got the voice of one of those audiobook readers! He speaks well, and when he mentioned doing something he loved, and how you have to trust that the dots will connect, and everything will eventually work out...
...well, let's just say - I'm doing Literature.
Thank you, Steve Jobs. Not only for Apple and Pixar. You will definitely, definitely live on - forever.