i don't want to work
I have no idea what to do once I graduate. Less than two years, it's not a long time. Do I go for graduate school or try to get a job? Do I try to make it as a writer or try the film route once again? Will being a English major provide me the opportunity to have a job where I don't have to say, “would you like fries with that?”
A friend once told me that you should match your job with something you love to do but everything I like would not make for a fitting job. I like swimming but I wouldn't be able to pull someone above the age of six out of the water. I like photography but don't have the talent to get paid for it. I like traveling but I can't think of anyone who would pay me good money to do so and besides if you do make your job something you love, doesn't it take the fun out of it?
I remember writing in an old journal about how it seems that most people I know don't work in their majors. For example, my friend, Mark was a biology major but now he works in the computer field. Is that because people pick majors based on future job possibilities (ie picking engineering over acting) and later can't stomach to work in a field they never had a real interest in or because they choose a major which didn't equate to finding actual work or both?
I am happy where I am now though. I am a full time student so I can get away with not working at the present moment. At my old school, it is a 2-year so there was no such thing as a English major there. It was “general studies with a concentration in English.” I was looking over a friend of mine's English 112 paper, it was on compare and contrast, and I thought to myself how glad I am to finally be able to take upper level English (it only went to the 200 level there) classes and not have to do boring work like that ever again. Hopefully.
A friend once told me that you should match your job with something you love to do but everything I like would not make for a fitting job. I like swimming but I wouldn't be able to pull someone above the age of six out of the water. I like photography but don't have the talent to get paid for it. I like traveling but I can't think of anyone who would pay me good money to do so and besides if you do make your job something you love, doesn't it take the fun out of it?
I remember writing in an old journal about how it seems that most people I know don't work in their majors. For example, my friend, Mark was a biology major but now he works in the computer field. Is that because people pick majors based on future job possibilities (ie picking engineering over acting) and later can't stomach to work in a field they never had a real interest in or because they choose a major which didn't equate to finding actual work or both?
I am happy where I am now though. I am a full time student so I can get away with not working at the present moment. At my old school, it is a 2-year so there was no such thing as a English major there. It was “general studies with a concentration in English.” I was looking over a friend of mine's English 112 paper, it was on compare and contrast, and I thought to myself how glad I am to finally be able to take upper level English (it only went to the 200 level there) classes and not have to do boring work like that ever again. Hopefully.