As Promised, A Post About My Future

Where better to find inspiration for my blog than from what is about to take over my life again?  I mean school, of course.

I am three school days into my last semester.  It's only been two days, really, since I don't have class on Fridays this semester.  Hooray!  I have been to all of my new classes except photography, and being in one meeting of each class has given me a little time to think about things.

The four academic courses I am taking (meaning not photography or indoor rock climbing) are Finance 301 (Intro to Financial Institutions and Markets), Math 382 (Advanced Calculus), Economics 471 (Econometrics), and GBA 490 (Strategic Management).  They each promise to be challenging individually, and I am somewhat regretting taking them all simultaneously my last semester.  

I feel like now is a time to soak up as many experiences as possible rather than to soak up as much "knowledge" as possible.  That's probably not ideal for a college senior to be saying, huh?  It's not that I don't love to learn.  I really, truly do, and I always have.  But I don't really love school anymore or what I am learning in college.  I want to learn what I want, and I don't want to be pigeonholed into learning what somebody else has decided an economics and math major should.

I'll go ahead and say what a lot of you are probably thinking: It's my own fault.  I know I should've picked a major I enjoyed instead of just falling into something.  But I didn't, and it's too late to go back now.  I just need to go forward!  The decision I have to make is whether I want to stay on a math-y or econ-y track or if I want to start over with a clean slate post-graduation.

I loved math and economics once upon a time.  Algebra and calculus were my favorites!  Principles of microeconomics came to me naturally.  It's just that my taste for these subjects soured as I learned more and more of each.  I want how I relate to my field/job to be like a friendship (or relationship... but that topic should be saved for another post); I want the bond to grow stronger as my career and I spend more time together.  I need to find something that can keep me interested and motivated!

I can't help but wonder how many people ever actually have a moment of total clarity concerning their career.  I've been told by plenty of adults (I mean older adults since I'm basically an adult now... uh oh) that they sort of just fell into their job, whether or not it was doing something they had learned in school.  Maybe I wouldn't mind falling into a career; I can only hope it is more successful than falling into my major.