Your college degree, a personal choice or chosen by your parents.

i am a licensed pharmacist by profession and it wasn't really my choice. it's my parents' choice for me to take up the course. at first, i wanted to take up accountancy for i love numbers. but later on, i find excitement in science and i wanted to learn more from it. now i am a pharmacist for more than 6 years and i love my profession. i even thanked my parents for helping me love science.

First, congrats on graduating!!! That is a HUGE step and I think it's wonderful you have gotten that far! Secondly, your parents intentions I am sure are all meant well. Most of the time they just want to try to help insure their children will be successful in life. However, your parents will not be able to work your chosen career for you. I think you should research your choice very well, then decide what it is you can see your self doing for the rest of your life that will also pay enough to give you the things you want. Thank your parents, then reassure them they have done a fine job in raising you and you know what you are doing. Good luck Dear.

Neither. It was conveniently chosen. You see, I had three career choices : to be a doctor, a pilot or an engineer. I chose the last one since it was the one we could afford the tution fee. Convenient.

I was pressured by my parents to get a financial management or similar degree, but I ended up going for a degree in science rather, and ended up with a degree in physics, Maths and Computer Science. In retrospect, I think I should have taken at least a couple of accounting and business courses, it would have come in useful as I am trying to start my own business.

am doing engineering... to do electronics is my choice.. but the college am doing is chosen by my father as it was close to home ...

it was my choice what degree to pursue. Better to go with your heart.

My Choice. You will never be happy if someone forces you to study courses that is not of your interest. It would only give you a lifetime of frustration

Well its my choice and yes supported by my parents. :) Remember always do what you think by doing that you will be happy in doing it and you really love to do it. This will take you to greater heights in that.

It is said that, if you enjoy the things you really want you may not need to exert much effort to like it and result best result, while if you just like it but your heart is not into it, you must exert twice than the first one before you love it. I took up an accountancy course too, my personal choice but not what i really love. My parent's did not dictate me what i should take up or not, but my parent's are incapable to provide the course i want, so i just take the second option which our budget can afford. Till now i have regrets in my life, but have no choice because that is the only available. How i wish to be an engineer that time and till now, but the opportunity fails to knocks on me. I tried to love the job for accounting but it makes me bored easily. I don't have choice but to move on and try and try and try. Time lasts already for me, since i'd reached the age trying to settle down and if i will be going back to school again, it takes me five years to accomplish and shall take the first step again of the career. So now, i had changed focus and try to have my own business in the near future by saving money from time to time for initial investment. How i wish my offspring will like the dream i have before and they will be the one to fulfill it for me.

My first college degree was Accounting, not my choice but my sister's choice. She was the one who spent the money for my schooling but I finished that course. She finally helped me to get my 2nd degree Nursing and finished it last March 07. And for 2nd time around, she was the one paying for all the expenses. Isn't she great? She is. No matter who chooses the course you are taking, do good and finished it. Go to work and save money. Then if you got the money, go and take the college degree that you want. goodluck to you.

My parents are kind enough to let me choose what I want for college. They are just very supportive. Well if you love what you're doing now though, I guess it's OK.

hi faylinn! Like you, I also graduated with a degree in Accountancy. But it was my choice. I'm glad that even if it wasn't your first choice, you were able to get through with it and graduated without any failures. Your parents might have reason why they let you take the course, you can easily find a work with such degree. :) Have you taken the board exam? It will add more to your qualifications if you did. :) Take care and God bless!

My degree that I will be pursuing is of my choice. My mother wanted me to be a teacher and I hate the classroom so I detoured and eventually I am where I want to be.

I am blessed that my parents trust the decisions I make in life. They actually help me analyze and think through my choices before I make one that is irreversible. I took up Biology in college and majored in Ecology. It is completely my choice and I am so happy that it was.

after highschool (march 1996), i then took qualifying exams in universities in the city to start going to college in june the same year. while taking up entrance exams, there was this blank asking for my desired college to tak up. i don't know what to take. so, i went out the room first and asked my mom (she used to accompany me most of the time) about the course that i should take. she said, "pharmacy" and i said, okey. actually, i want to be an engineer. but both of my parents are engineers already and i wanted to get into another field. and so, i thought pharmacy is a good idea. it was my parents' choice for me and i never regret taking it. i hate science at first but fell inlove later on. i am not the best in my class but i say, i did great. i finished college within the 4 year curriculum and passed the licensure exam for pharmacists 4 months after my graduation day. i love my profession. i get knowledge on medicines that i can share to patients and the customers. and i know i have a lot to offer them.

no its my own choice its a degree of computer science and i like it

I completed my b tech,in computers,It was my choice and my dad s too.My mother wanted me to do medicine.But I convinced her that my choice is engineering.

In the UK when you leave high school you can go college for 2 years to earn the qualifications to get into unniversity where you spend 3-4 years doing a degree. This was a path i've wanted to take since I was a little girl so it wasn't really an issue when the time came. I begin university later this year and cannot wait. It will be a great experience and is my personal choice. I think my parents would be disapointed if I dropped out but they wouldn't of forced me to go.