Random musing
Today was a day for soul searching and basic paranoia concerning my future. My future looks like this right now:
_________ death. The end.
This is a pretty general outline, but I think you get the point. I know that I’m going to have to do something with my life, but figuring out what it should be is very hard. I’ve always been told to go with my interests and base my life-related decisions off those. My interests look like this:
I’m not sure exactly what this adds up to but right now I’m telling people that I plan to work for a pharmaceutical when I get out of college. This is a very realistic and practical solution because my major (Biopsychology) usually recommends for people with my training to go into the medical-health related field. My minor (MIS) will be very useful for picking up pretty much any kind of office job. I will be able to manage and maintain databases to my heart’s content, there’s no doubt about that.
I picked up a sheet at the psych building about a neuroscience minor. Apparently if I take one more class than I intended to take anyway, I can pick up, and finish, a minor in neuroscience. I can’t see any reason not to, so that may happen next semester.
Biggest problem with this plan is that in order to get anywhere in the pharmaceutical world, you pretty much HAVE to go to graduate school. It hadn’t been my intention to get my masters at this point in my life. I see that as something to do when you’re 28 or so and getting bored of your stupid little job and you’ve saved up enough money to either start a family or go back to school. I guess I’ll be picking to go back to school.
Starting a family sounds like a great cop out right now. I hate kids, I never wanted to be a mother, but man, think of all the benefits mothers get. They get taken care of by their husbands (assuming they have one, welfare if not), they don’t have to go to any stupid office job, and there’s tons of social and non-profit groups out there to support you if you really muck it up. It is a very socially acceptable way to get out of doing any real work. I’m almost 20 years old now. If I lived in Victorian England I would probably already be married with kids. It’s a damned creepy thought, but accurate nonetheless.
The biggest problem with this problem is the back-lash I’d get from my family and friends who will tell me that I am ‘wasting potential’. Mostly I would plan to get this reaction from my older sister, who doesn’t like me much anyway (even if she did call right as I was writing this sentence to ask when I am coming out to visit her). *sigh* I just want to go to sleep now.
EDIT: please, don't take my having kids idea seriously. I meant it as a joke, I really don't want to have kids right now.
_________ death. The end.
This is a pretty general outline, but I think you get the point. I know that I’m going to have to do something with my life, but figuring out what it should be is very hard. I’ve always been told to go with my interests and base my life-related decisions off those. My interests look like this:
- Anime and Manga
- Indian Food
- Writing silly stories
- Biopsychology
- Some neuroscience
- Computers
I’m not sure exactly what this adds up to but right now I’m telling people that I plan to work for a pharmaceutical when I get out of college. This is a very realistic and practical solution because my major (Biopsychology) usually recommends for people with my training to go into the medical-health related field. My minor (MIS) will be very useful for picking up pretty much any kind of office job. I will be able to manage and maintain databases to my heart’s content, there’s no doubt about that.
I picked up a sheet at the psych building about a neuroscience minor. Apparently if I take one more class than I intended to take anyway, I can pick up, and finish, a minor in neuroscience. I can’t see any reason not to, so that may happen next semester.
Biggest problem with this plan is that in order to get anywhere in the pharmaceutical world, you pretty much HAVE to go to graduate school. It hadn’t been my intention to get my masters at this point in my life. I see that as something to do when you’re 28 or so and getting bored of your stupid little job and you’ve saved up enough money to either start a family or go back to school. I guess I’ll be picking to go back to school.
Starting a family sounds like a great cop out right now. I hate kids, I never wanted to be a mother, but man, think of all the benefits mothers get. They get taken care of by their husbands (assuming they have one, welfare if not), they don’t have to go to any stupid office job, and there’s tons of social and non-profit groups out there to support you if you really muck it up. It is a very socially acceptable way to get out of doing any real work. I’m almost 20 years old now. If I lived in Victorian England I would probably already be married with kids. It’s a damned creepy thought, but accurate nonetheless.
The biggest problem with this problem is the back-lash I’d get from my family and friends who will tell me that I am ‘wasting potential’. Mostly I would plan to get this reaction from my older sister, who doesn’t like me much anyway (even if she did call right as I was writing this sentence to ask when I am coming out to visit her). *sigh* I just want to go to sleep now.
EDIT: please, don't take my having kids idea seriously. I meant it as a joke, I really don't want to have kids right now.