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It's OK To Think About A Career Change Before You Graduate And Commit To One

You definitely don't need to have your entire life together before graduation.

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Here are some questions for you, readers: What are you currently majoring in? What is your dream job, if you have any at the moment? And finally, do you see yourself working in your major? Is your dream job specifically in that field?

You can see how these questions can easily intersect with each other. Figuring out what you want to do after you finish college is one of the trickiest things we have to deal with as college students. In fact, I'm still dealing with it as a senior.

When it comes to having a set major, my academic college career has been through some ups and downs, but I feel that I've finally settled down into an ideal path of study. I am currently majoring in advertising-public relations (or Ad-PR as we like to call it). In the very beginning when I first came to this school, I was pretty much dead-set on staying in this major and getting an amazing job in this field. But now...

I'm not sure.

I've been dealing with this frustration and indecisiveness for a while now. While I've thought it would be really cool to work in an ad agency or PR firm as a creative person (copywriter, mostly), I don't know if I would consider it my dream job. I used to hear people within my major say that their dream jobs were among working as a public relations practitioner of a major company, or even celebrities. I've heard others say that their dream job is working in a big-time advertising agency like Ogilvy & Mather.

You would think that I'd say my dream job was along those same lines. But to tell you the truth, I couldn't really relate that much to others in my major about this because I've realized that maybe my dream job just doesn't lie in this industry. Maybe public relations or advertising isn't what I would absolutely love to do for the rest of my life.

And that's OK.

They always say that you don't have to have your entire life mapped out by your 20s, and they are absolutely right. It's OK if you feel like you don't see yourself working in your major's field. It's OK to have a career change before your career even begins.

The great thing about college (and grad school) is that you have options. If you realized that you don't want to really work in your field anymore that you are majoring in, that's perfectly fine! If you want to do grad school, take a look at all the programs your ideal school has to offer. You can even get a certificate in something and not only add it to your resume to show off, but it can also aid you in your future career change(s).

I'm just saying, the major(s) you graduate college with is not the be-all and end-all. At the end of the day, the world is truly your oyster.

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