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What should I major in?

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Briseis

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I am considering going back to school some time in the future, but not too soon. I am getting married this summer and I dont want to be in school while a newlywed. I am a horrible student. I get extremely moody and depressed so not a good idea just after getting married.

I went to college for 2 years right out of high school. I took one semester of Business Administration, and 3 semesters of English. I was decent in business but didnt enjoy it. I enjoy English but totally suck at it. I was failing and dropped out just before the end of my second year.

I did a 6 month office assistant course at a community college and graduated with honours, but havent been able to find a job with it and that was 4 years ago. I work at a grocery store and now that I am getting older, and spending time with other young couples, with women who are nurses or teachers, I am really starting to feel pathetic about my job. I wish I had thought of a better major when I was right out of high school and didnt have to worry about it now. I dont know when I will feel ready to go back to school since my fiancee has a $35 000 student loan and I have $10 000 from the community college. But hopefully someday I can have a career that I enjoy and am proud of.

So, rant done, here's the info. I went to a small college that didnt have a lot of programs to choose from, so some more experienced students might be able to help me.

Besides literature, I love history, art, architecture, and culture. So I was considering taking art history, but you need a MA to get the good jobs. The ideal jobs that I can think of are to be a librarian or curator. Altho these positions are not common, I dont want to waste money going to school and taking something I dont enjoy.

Does anyone know of any other majors or careers that might suit my interests?
 
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The most important thing to do when choosing a major, or a career, is to first look inside yourself. 85% of the process to finding meaningful work is understanding what makes you unique. What are your personality tendancies, skills and abilities, values, dreams and passions? Really spend some time talking to others about what they see in you as well. Then, after you have a good understanding of who you are, you will be able to find work that fits into the life you want, instead of you trying to fit into something you're not made for, and don't enjoy. I hear your frustration and empathize with it. Pick up a book called 48 Days to the Work you Love By Dan Miller. You can apply what you learn from this book to every area of life, not just work. God Bless!

Nick Sevier
 
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Well the first thing that strikes me about your post, is your own self awareness that you aren't a good student and you don't enjoy being a student. I think the first thing you need to do before even considering a degree or career is figure out why you dislike school. From experience, if you don't like school you won't do well.

Secondly, as someone who graduated with a BA in art history and history, I will tell you that I did not end up in a career at all related. That is the great thing about university these days, it teaches you how to learn and it teaches you skills, it doesn't necessarily teach you the information you need for your job. I ended up in advertising, despite my degree, where most of my colleagues are marketing majors who went through business school. So don't think your degree will limit you to a specific career, because a BA can basically lead you to anything.

Also, before you set your heart on a "career" perhaps you should try it out. Volunteer at a library, or at a museum to see what that is like and if you would actually enjoy it. I worked at a museum as a volunteer for 4 years and while I had a lot of fun I realized for how little it was going to pay it really wasn't something I wanted to do. Instead, I continue to volunteer as a docent on weekends while having a career that is different.

Anyway, hopefully those are all things to think about and I wish you luck!
 
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Please don't take this the wrong way, I feel that you should go to college (nothing wrong with being educated), but I also feel that you must not abandon the role God has created you for in the family.

Women who stay home to raise the children have the most influence on the world (because they raise the children of the next generation) often throw this privilege away and have child care programs raise their children instead. All in a pursuit of a career. God has not called women to go into the work force only to be placed under the headship of another man. Their place is at home as a mother and helper to their husbands

Titus 2
3Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good,
4so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
5to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored.
 
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Jib - She never even mentioned being a mother.

"Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good,
so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored."

I know plenty of great Christian women who do all the things listed in this verse, and still own their own businesses, go to school, etc. This verse does not say to 'only' do these things, but to be sure they are 'included' in what she does.
 
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When you apply proper biblical hermeneutics to this passage, we can gather some very interesting implications. We as the reader do not give meaning to the text, the author does. We as the reader do not create implications, the author does. We simple discover them. We do this by following the pattern created by his initial examples.

So, what did Paul mean? And how did his original audience interpret this passage?

Being a mother, being a homemaker, isn't just her job. It is her "career". Being in the workforce places her under various headships other than her husband. Being in the workforce disrupts her duties at home. Being in the workforce takes away support that belongs to her husband. Being in the workforce can create sexual temptation, as she will be around other men without her husband around. If any of this is true then she surely will "dishonor the word of God" by being in the workforce - regardless if she is a good juggler of two things.
 
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Isn't this a forum on colleges? Why is advice being given out for women to stay barefoot and pregnant? She is not investigating being enslaved to wine.

But teaching what is good.... how would one do that without learning?

Christians have roughly a 25% divorce rate. That means one out of four submissive unschooled women will be stuck with no way of making more than minimum wage.

The advice about art history, I know others with the same story. If you are going to invest the time and money, in hopes of making more money, work backwards from what jobs are in demand and paying decently.

A degree does not guarantee a good job. But it shows employers you are capable of meeting deadlines and learning quickly. Some require degrees now, even for the lower jobs.
 
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You have a point -- there are some companies out there now who want degrees across the board, no matter what job you are in.

On the other hand, I have friends with Master degrees who struggled their whole adult lives, because they chose a degree with low demand, and low pay in the field. Forestry, Fine Arts, Philosophy, Dance, Music, Literature. Even teaching those subjects can yield income frustrations.

Be wise. Plan while you have the time and freedom. Once you're in the program, you'll be so busy and you will want to maximize what you've already taken. It will be somewhat harder to rethink once you've started.

There's a good salary generator at http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=office+assistant&l1=

Some salaries are not directly proportional to the amount of schooling. For instance, a couple years of criminal justice schooling can give a policeman a higher salary than an assistant professor of criminal justice with a PhD. Less risk of death.
 
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