I immersed myself into the finance world.
Summer internships were always working for a personal financial advisor, business classes took over my semester schedule, and the stocks app, the one everyone wants to delete off their home screen, became my life.
My parents were pleased, connections were abundant, but I wasn't happy. I told myself I had to try, give it a chance, I had already started down this road, I might as well stick with it. So I did, interviewing with different executives in the financial world, confirmed my internship for summer 2018, but then December 2017 rolled around.
December I cracked, I couldn't do it anymore. I was skipping classes, due to absolutely no interest and my incapability to focus on blah, blah, and blah. Math was never my subject, I write clearly, and I love history... why did my parents think finance was the field for me?
As much as this is true I'm thankful I tried it, maybe not for as many months as I did, but I learned from this experience. I would have always regretted not going into the financial field, with so many family members taking over the financial world, I would be an idiot to not have dabbled in it. But my main reason was to please my parents. They were waiting for my business card: Sophia Teicher CPA. Have you heard the phrase, "you can't please everyone," case and point.
Your undergraduate is four years, your working life is roughly 40 years. Wouldn't you rather love what you do, to walk into work with a smile, instead of hitting snooze every morning? That was me last semester, snooze was all I knew, because the idea of waking up for economics class, made me want to projectile vomit.
This semester, I arrive to class 15 minutes early, sit closer to the front, and can't wait for the lecture to start. Advertising, Mass media, and more classes like this take up my day and I could not be more pleased.
The people sitting around me I can actually relate to, they're not speaking "stocks" or "derivatives," were speaking about human emotion, the media and how to manipulate it, what that Coca-Cola advertisement really means. I now cannot watch cable TV the same now knowing the tricks and psychology behind the advertising and the marketing.
So here are my last words: You need to be selfish, you need to only think about your future, because if you are in a major you hate, it will only get worse. Do what makes YOU happy, not anyone else. Take the classes that get you out of bed, not stay in it. And lastly, go to class.
