Degrees and Careers

The things you love may not be the things that pay decent money in the real world. I'm fortunate, I studied journalism/communications in college and have worked as a writer my entire career. Of course, I knew that it was a field that I'd be able to get a job in, as opposed to something like philosophy.

I know many people like this too. When I picked my major I found something that I loved and I know a could get a job easy and make enough to support myself. (Human Services)

first choose Careers It's much easier to determine what you are good at than what will satisfy you in a career. It has been proven, time and again, that the job-seeker who pursues a career choice that is challenging and satisfying is MUCH more likely to do well and to be satisfied for the long run, than the candidate who chooses work based solely on aptitudes. Maybe you did well in math, but it was soooo boring or you simply dreaded going, so don't pick based on that skill match. Think of the things you enjoy doing in your spare time, the places you go when you have time off, the kinds of work you'd volunteer to do, if economics allowed. Those are the placements which will allow you to grow and thrive, and that you will look forward to showing up for every day. The tests you need are those which assess personality and attitude, rather than aptitude. The one in the following link may be useful, although much of what you need, you already hold in your heart.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Almost everyone I know is the same. I'm going for what I am intrested in. I think just that when a job is open and they pay good or they need the money they stick with that job. That's what happened to my uncles. They went to school for mechanic because they loved cars but now they are tech support for a school district. OH well.

I know several people who went to school and then left the field they majored in to take a job somewhere else. My sister got a degree in education but her first job was teaching in high school science to rich kids. The kind whose parents solved a problem by throwing money at it. So is it any surprise when they were failing they tried to bribe her; and when that didn't work their parents came in with threats of lawsuits. She left teaching and became a purchasing agent for a major insurance company. Eventually she got back into teaching, special ed kindergarten. She loves the field and helping the kids, but sadly the paperwork involved has pretty much taken up all her time and she has to leave most of the classroom work to her aide, or teach the class herself and then put in another 6 hours a day on paperwork, so this year she will be retiring. I think sometimes people have an ideal of what they want a job to be, but after going to school and getting the job, they find out it's not what they thought it would be. Then they have to take whatever job they can tolerate just to pay off the school loans.

This has become very common now a days. For the sake of getting a job people do any thing irespective of their qualification. When hey dont get a job matching to their qualification they compromise.