Fuck this, I'm going to Hogwarts

[icedevil0289]

so this is for those who are in college or who have graduated and are not entirely sure of their career plans

Comments

[kiku_cha8_8]

I'm getting my undergrad in Finance and I'm set to graduate in about two quarters. However I'm wholly disenchanted with the Finance classes I've taken. The material doesn't come easily to me but I find it so disheartening that my own professors are such horrible people.

The one I had last quarter even said in class "If you guys don't understand such a simple concept then you shouldn't even be allowed in this department. If you do get this wrong on the exam I will push needles into my face." It was a 'joke' but who says this kind of stuff?

This sucks because I have another focus in Information Systems and I now want to get a job in that field, but a lot of my internship experience is finance related and now the job search is only going to be harder. sfjsldf

I wish I knew beforehand what I was getting into. Maybe I wouldn't have chosen business school after all.

[icedevil0289]

wow that sucks about your teachers. it's like jeez thanks, I feel even more motivated now.

have you already taken classes related to information systems?

I think one of my problems and I don't know if it's the same for you, is that it's like I spent all this money for this so it kind of seems like a waste to switch. then again I did that when I switched from pharmacy to psych

[kiku_cha8_8]

I'm almost done in the Info Systems option, but I just want to have another thing to market on my resume ;; I intended Finance to be my major though so idk. I wish I could switch out and do something else but my university won't let me because I'd have too many credits and it would cost so much money :|||

ugh he is the worst professor ever, i was always too scared to talk to him in person but i basically told him he was the worst professor ever on the teacher evaluation things.

[hopeandmemory]

If you do get this wrong on the exam I will push needles into my face

the fuuuuuuuck omg.

what exactly is information systems? i bet you could still search for jobs in that field if you undertook some self-study as well. internships are all well and good but if it's something you're more passionate about and you understand it really well, maybe future employers won't penalize you for it.

[oldwillow_brook]

This is the worst club to a part of, man.

I've been an English major since ever and I decently like it but I'm sort of sick of the pretentious bullshit that comes with it. As well as I'm more interesting in Cultural stuff, I took like a gabajillion Anthropology classes but it's not necessarily what I want to do per se.

I do want to do music and I do want to do languages. I've taken a year of Japanese and half a year of Korean and I want to keep going. So I've thought of just doing East Asian Studies, or something. But the schools that HAVE Korean as an option are like USC and UCLA. :/ Basically never going to happen! AHHHH I HATE THIS ALL. :((

[icedevil0289]

seconding your last statement and first as well.

curious, what do you want to do with languages?

[oldwillow_brook]

I'm not entirely sure? I've been wanting to be a translator for awhile. I was contemplating doing stuff for the U.N but it was mostly a backup to the fact that I really want to perform on stage.

I just feel like if I do English than I can do publishing or something, and just sit down and read books all day. It would be wonderful and I know I would enjoy it. But I can't do 9-5 jobs. I'm just not made for that sort of existence. But it would be a source of income; it's why I want to do it.

[kiku_cha8_8]

ugh I am in the same boat with you. Except I'm a business school major and I deal with cocky douchebags. I think it'd be fun to do societal research, write grants for a government body to do research.

fuq this i just wanna be a pokemon master

[devilstay]

What am I going to do with 'Sociology & Media?'. I like it, but all my seminars are boring as shit, because no one talks apart from me or only about 4 people show up, including myself. I have no ambitions, dreams or hopes. I don't even like uni.

People can say what they want about Seohyun, but right about know, I need someone like her to tell me what's what, and that I need to get going in life, if it kills me, either that or she can magically transfer some of her discipline to me. Even if I found her annoying, I really need someone who isn't an ambitionless slacker (like myself) in my life.

[icedevil0289]

ngl sociology and media sounds kind of fun.

anything else you're interested in?

[devilstay]

I'm interested in books/writing, animation, debating and politics. I just don't have any discipline whatsoever, to make anything out of them. It's really horrible. I completely work at my own unhurried paced, and it's just not realistic...

[icedevil0289]

no I know what you mean, kind of. its like I have all these thoughts, but no drive to put it all together. I wish I could create a job just solely for my interests, but that's impossible.

[baka_tenshi]

i'm actually a computer science major (i may switch to web development but i don't know). i really want to be a writer but it's so much of a competition and i wouldn't have anything to back me up unless i had a very good job that'll give me the time and energy to work on my novels... which doesn't exist.

i don't mind my major that much since i love learning about the computer anyway, i just wish i could write my fantastical adventures. 8(

[icedevil0289]

my sister's dream is to become an author. lol she kind of wants to be the next JK rowling and my dad is like that's nice and all, but you need to minor in something a bit more stable. so she's probably going to major in english and minor in business or something.

hmmm this is a stretch but since you like writing and are a computer science major, ever consider technical writing?

here's hoping you end up writing and publishing those books.

[baka_tenshi]

i wish her luck, honestly. :( but i agree with your dad - it'd be good to get a fallback plan. D:

i thought about it but i don't like computers that much, haha. i write for leisure mostly and i like researching random things that i think would be good for it. ¦D;;

thanks. i may just end up writing on the side.

[itstheworld]

yay another cs major! at least you enjoy it... all my cs classes lately only seem to accomplish making me go crazy.

[kmrawr]

ikr. why can't we do what we want ): i feel like a puppet rather than my own person lol. everything i've done in life is basically for my parents/family.

[shadow_kitty47]

you have to do what you want. I used to feel like I had to do what my parents wanted me to and I was aways miserable when I thought about the future.

I finally decided to do what I wanted to and now I have an awesome job that I love and my parents are super proud of me - even though I'm not doing what they had initially hoped. So we're both happy now.

[shampoo]

super late comment but my mom had the exact same expectation of me with a different city & career. i just graduated with my bachelor's in psychology (which she encouraged when i first graduated high school and chose my major) and she's spent the past couple years telling me i'm a terrible daughter because if i were a good daughter i'd go into vet school and live in an apartment in san francisco and give her free pet care. for a while i listened and considered vet school, and it's something i'd enjoy in the long run, but if there's something you love then you go after that. i don't care if going into teaching won't benefit my mother; she didn't become a nurse for my grandmother, so why should i become a vet for her? do what you love. ♥ end of story. you aren't a disappointment if you're happy and doing something you have a passion for.