This seems like a good plan, but it's a lot of schooling. You sure you ready for that, especially if it's something you've abandoned before?
It sounds like you have considered this pretty thoroughly, though, so I'd say go for it. Especially since the economy sucks so bad right now, there's probably no work for you if you just jump into it. And it seems like you'd at least have other options to fall back on if you didn't make it all the way through the schooling. If nothing else, maybe something else, some other combination you haven't thought of, would jump out at you in undergrad.
To respond to maeritrae's economic arguments, I figure you already doomed yourself to relative poverty by a. specializing in Art, and b. not wanting to "spend the rest of my life making more garbage for our spoiled society to throw into landfills", which is really where the money is at in the world. :(
I remember you talking about wanting to go into art therapy several years ago.
I'm sorry I'm not going to give you a lengthy comment, but my advice is simple: Go for it. It's what you want to do. This update to me sounds more like you want us to reaffirm the fact that you should do it because it's what you want, even if that's not how you intended it to be - and yes, I do think it's what you should do. As you've already expressed, you don't want to do something that's not fulfilling permanently.
If you choose not to do what you want to do because of money/long-term cost, then the only one who would have held you back is yourself. Do what you want, and I strongly believe art therapy is just that.
This sounds like something you're really interested in and definitely worth pursuing. That being said, as much as it would suck, paying for that is likely to mean a few years in the 'design' trenches even though you're not keen on the idea. I think it might be easier to take a job like that short term since it's a lot easier to stick it out when you know it's not forever.
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This seems like a good plan, but it's a lot of schooling. You sure you ready for that, especially if it's something you've abandoned before?
It sounds like you have considered this pretty thoroughly, though, so I'd say go for it. Especially since the economy sucks so bad right now, there's probably no work for you if you just jump into it. And it seems like you'd at least have other options to fall back on if you didn't make it all the way through the schooling. If nothing else, maybe something else, some other combination you haven't thought of, would jump out at you in undergrad.
To respond to maeritrae's economic arguments, I figure you already doomed yourself to relative poverty by a. specializing in Art, and b. not wanting to "spend the rest of my life making more garbage for our spoiled society to throw into landfills", which is really where the money is at in the world. :(
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I'm sorry I'm not going to give you a lengthy comment, but my advice is simple: Go for it. It's what you want to do. This update to me sounds more like you want us to reaffirm the fact that you should do it because it's what you want, even if that's not how you intended it to be - and yes, I do think it's what you should do. As you've already expressed, you don't want to do something that's not fulfilling permanently.
If you choose not to do what you want to do because of money/long-term cost, then the only one who would have held you back is yourself. Do what you want, and I strongly believe art therapy is just that.
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This sounds like something you're really interested in and definitely worth pursuing. That being said, as much as it would suck, paying for that is likely to mean a few years in the 'design' trenches even though you're not keen on the idea. I think it might be easier to take a job like that short term since it's a lot easier to stick it out when you know it's not forever.
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