I'm really enjoying not being in school anymore. I'm not gonna lie, worrying about waking up and going to work and then going to classes and taking tests and preparing homework or readings and then studying for finals all on top of doing a good job and making money at work all became very....well, stressful.
I really am enjoying just getting up and going to work and then going home at the end of the day. It's a little boring, but it's money! That's what Degrees are for!
Well, sort of. I know everyone hopes that you'll get a degree in one thing and you'll do that for the rest of your life. Say, for instance, myself. I got a degree in Anthropology and I would love love love to run a museum some day and maybe do some field work. However, fiscal responsibilities and time and travel all go into account of whether that's going to work out for me.
The bottom line is, you quickly realize as you get older that a lot of people don't know what they're doing. I'm finding this out fast. A woman I just met two weeks ago is already leaving work to go back to school for something completely different. I applaud her, I think it's great. Inevitably a lot of people change their minds. It's hard to get internship experience and even then you still glamorize what it is that you want to do. When you actually get out there in the middle of doing it, you might find that it isn't what you want after all, and in the professional career field you get to meet a lot of people that have been doing other jobs for a very long time. It's possible you might meet people out there who inspire you to do what they do, so sometimes you'll go back to school for that.
Of course, it's very common now in that most people just get degrees in something and end up doing something completely different. A lot of jobs don't require that you necessarily have a degree in a related field, just that you have a degree. Also, pure experience really right now matters more than what your degree actually says.
For me, it's all still up in the air. I might find one of these days that I really want to be a vet. I might not. For now, it's still just a matter of ok...what do I do now?!
2 comments:
Great column this week. So very true, and right now with this economy just having a job is a success.
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