Mommy, I Want To Be A...(Part 1)

What do you want to be when you grow up? I’m sure that we all remember being asked that question as a tender-hearted child with lofty goals. All of our responses to that question were always something farfetched or something that just seemed cool--I want to be an astronaut, a firefighter, a superhero…what do you major in to be a superhero?

Forbes polled elementary school children on their dream jobs and concluded that 7 out of 33 5-year-olds want to be superheroes; while, 5 out of 33 6-year-olds say they want to grow up to be firefighters which make $44,130 a year according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Children are very indecisive and are incapable of making such important decisions due to their young age. Before you know it, it’s fall of your senior year and you are forced to pick 1 out of the hundreds of majors out there.

In high school they place such a large emphasis on choosing a major, but is your major really that important? An 18-year-old does not know what he/she wants to the do as a career, which explains the frequent change of majors seen in undergraduate students. I have already changed my major 3 times and it’s only my first semester!

Should you compromise your passion for practicality? The NY Times conducted a study in which 9 out of 10 students claim that picking an interesting major is way more important than picking a practical major. What would you do?
It is best to find a common ground.

We all want to be “successful,” but success is in the eye of the beholder. As long as you are happy and content, you ARE successful.

“To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.” 
― Vironika Tugaleva