What should I do?

[~Beauty_from_Pain~]

Lately I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do with my life. And I have a couple of questions that I was wondering if you might have some insight on.

Ok, so I want to be a counselor, but I am not sure what field that I would like to work in (I am thinking marriage counseling). I will be a junior this coming semester. Yet, even though I like Psychology, very few of the Psychology classes I have taken hold interest to me. I don't feel like I have learned a lot my past few years of study.

My questions are, is it normal to feel this way? To not really care about classes in ones major and still want to be doing that major? To feel like one has not learned very much? To wonder the importance of certain classes?

I do want to be a counselor, but are these signs saying that I shouldn't? What would be your opinion and what do you think that I should do about this?

 

[fishstix]

I think that you are completely normal. University degrees do tend to contain a lot of classes that don't seem to have much to do with one's goals at the time. Classes tend to contain a lot of theoretical background information that can be a little dry, even if you are actually interested in the subject. You just have to push through it, because you need to have those classes in order to be qualified to do the job that you want to eventually do. And until you've spent some time actually putting what you have learned into practice, and learning practical applications, it will seem to you like you haven't learned very much. I've found that the more I learn, the less I feel like I know, just because I realize better how much there is that I still don't know.

I would suggest that you go have a chat with a course advisor and see what he/she has to say about this. Are you planning on doing a graduate degree? If so, you may find that it will make a difference when you get to that point.