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LOVE TO DO. My dad hires people for his company all the time and always talks about how he rarely highers business grads, but instead hires people who were top in their class in majors like physics. If you love doing something, you'll most likely be successful at it. You can learn how to do the job while working, you can't learn how to be intelligent.
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LOVE TO DO. My dad hires people for his company all the time and always talks about how he rarely highers business grads, but instead hires people who were top in their class in majors like physics. If you love doing something, you'll most likely be successful at it. You can learn how to do the job while working, you can't learn how to be intelligent.
Look at it this way. If you major in something that claims to get you a better job, but you don't like it, what is your like going to look like down the road? You wont be happy, you'll probably be stuck in a job you don't like and have no motivation to succeed in. If you major in something like philosophy, graduate top of your class, and love what you're learning, you'll be happy in the long run. Your 20s will be hell since you wont be working.... hmm maybe go with the mixture with a focus on what you love. And there is always grad school.
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one of the nice things about college, I think, is you don't have to make that permanent life long decision /right now/. that is why you are not required to declare a major until your senior year...and even if you /have/ already declared a major...you can change it. College gives you the opportunity to explore many options. there is no reason why you can't "focus" and both..what you love to do..or what will get you a job. and you might find that they are one in the same thing....or not.
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one of the nice things about college, I think, is you don't have to make that permanent life long decision /right now/. that is why you are not required to declare a major until your senior year...and even if you /have/ already declared a major...you can change it. College gives you the opportunity to explore many options. there is no reason why you can't "focus" and both..what you love to do..or what will get you a job. and you might find that they are one in the same thing....or not.
unless you have a crystal ball, you have really no idea what might help you get a job. or what kind of a job you might want or might be available in the future.
and by limiting yourself to any single "thing" you confine yourself to a little box.
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Without a doubt, go for what turns you on!!!!! Go for what you love!!! Go for what gets you excited to be alive! Don't get caught in the trap of doing what you think you should be doing or what you feel obligated to do. Don't sell yourself out. All your potential is in your passions and while the future may be uncertain, you are more likely to succeed and be happy with your life doing what you LOVE. Trust me, I've dropped out of 4 different colleges over 22 years learning this lesson as slowly as possible. Don't be afraid of uncertainty!
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Make your passion your career and you'll always feel energized about your 'work' day. Sometimes work won't even seem like work (and that's the best kind!). If you're pursuing something something that's traditionally a lower paying job, it can be helpful to have something higher paying to balance it, for instance I know some wonderful teachers who spend their summers in their alternate careers and artists who occasionally take time off to work a regular job (working as interpreters, programmers, accountants).
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Go with what makes you happy. No amount of money is worth being miserable 8 hours a day,
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Keep in mind that no matter what you choose there are going to be jobs that can make you happy and can be financially rewarding. There is a good chance that early in your career you'll have the crap job where you are basically a coffee monkey and you hate your life. You'll wish you had done something else and you'll be full of regret. Almost all of us go through it. If you keep your ears open and don't tie yourself down with a house and family too early you stand a good chance of finding exactly what you want after a few years. Hard work also ties into that a lot. Some people are just more naturally talented but if people see you work hard you'll get what you want eventually.
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Keep in mind that no matter what you choose there are going to be jobs that can make you happy and can be financially rewarding. There is a good chance that early in your career you'll have the crap job where you are basically a coffee monkey and you hate your life. You'll wish you had done something else and you'll be full of regret. Almost all of us go through it. If you keep your ears open and don't tie yourself down with a house and family too early you stand a good chance of finding exactly what you want after a few years. Hard work also ties into that a lot. Some people are just more naturally talented but if people see you work hard you'll get what you want eventually.
Good Luck!
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thank you, I really do appreciate it. Right now I'm a Film and Theater Double Major, but I've started really missing music and wanting to do that. But at he same time that has been making me really think about what I should do.
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Do what you love, follow your heart. Fulfillment and happiness is worth more than a big paycheck (as long as you can put food on the table). And don't stress about it too much, I've found in my experiences, that keeping my mind and options open have allowed what I need to find its way to me.
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Do what you love, follow your heart. Fulfillment and happiness is worth more than a big paycheck (as long as you can put food on the table). And don't stress about it too much, I've found in my experiences, that keeping my mind and options open have allowed what I need to find its way to me.
Have faith in that whatever you do, will be just as it should be. :-)
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Money does not necessarily equal success which does not necessarily equal happiness.
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Money does not necessarily equal success which does not necessarily equal happiness.
Do what you enjoy and love to do. Having a lot of things will not get you any closer to obtaining happiness, especially if you hate what you do. There's plenty of things that you're not going to like all throughout your life, so you might as well have something to enjoy, even if you don't have a bunch of stuff.
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Combining them seems logical. But if you had to choose between the two, do what you love. If not for the given reason of being happy, then for the economical and logical reason of job employers don't care so much about what your bachelors degree is in anymore, it's just that you put in the work to get one. It's the masters and such that really depend on the focus.
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Definitely go for what you think is interesting. It's better be poor and happy than to be rich and hate your life.
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Jobs ain't gonna make you happy. A "job" sucks and you go to it everyday for the sole purpose of getting money. Do you want that to be your life because you were afraid or do you want to learn about the sh*t you love? You know what to do.
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