In the world we live in today, we are pressured to know what we want to be and want to major in by the time we graduate high school. How can a teenager be forced to make a decision about the rest of their life when they can't even decide what restaurant to eat at with their friends? As people pressure students daily starting from their junior year of high school, the students choose a major or an occupation, something they aren’t sure about, out of pressure. Although some students know in their heart of hearts what they want to be, where they want to go and what they want to major in, others don’t.
Even though it's not said often, it's OK not to know what you want to be or do by the time you graduate high school. You have the whole rest of your life to figure it out. I am going into my junior year of college, and I have changed my major six times. I was one of the kids that felt pressure to decide what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I chose a major I thought I would enjoy, sports management. Although I would have really enjoyed the job, I didn’t see myself doing it for the rest of my life. The same scenario followed for the other majors. Each time, I felt excited about the classes and about my future, but that slowly declined.
As the years went on, I knew I had to come to a decision about what major I would want a degree in, and I didn’t have much time to decide. When I thought about my life in the future, I always pictured myself working with children. It was more what I wanted to do with that that I had to figure out. Since I was a kid, I have always had a love for art. I loved to draw, paint and create something out of nothing. I always wanted to do something medical but I never could grasp science as well as the other subjects. When I thought about what I loved to do and weighed out the options, I came up with a major all my own, one that I could really do anything with. I double majored in family studies and studio art and minored in public health.
With this major, I can be almost anything I would want to be. As I get closer to graduation, I know that after graduation, I want to go to graduate school. This would be to further my education into becoming an art teacher, a child life specialist or maybe even something completely new. For those of you struggling with the same problem I once had, I ask you to think about what you love to do or what makes you happy. Once you know what that is, try to create a major out of it, one filled with multiple possibilities. Life's too short to do something you hate. It's OK to not know what you want to do with the rest of your life. What you should know is that it should be something you cant picture your life without or something that’s a part of who you are. After all, if you love your job, you'll never work a day in your life.
