As of right now, my freshman year of college, before anything is set in stone, I plan to major in Industrial Design: Product Design and minor in Creative Writing. I know I want to write, but what I am not sure. I would love to try to make it as a novelist, but because books seem to not be selling as much anymore, being a novelist is not the best career choice.
Writing novels was never the most promising career. Being an author has always been seen as risky. Therefore, writing is not the best option with the bookstores’ sales taking a nosedive. However, being a writer was not my plan when I started college.
When starting college, I planned to major in Apparel and Textiles and be a fashion designer. What I did not realize then, however, was how much I would change over the course of a semester. As of right now, I have no clue what I want to do with my life. As an eighteen-year-old American girl, this is considered an acceptable state of mind to be at in my life.
In five years I see myself living at my parents’ house and schmoozing off them. I plan to play video games in the basement and lie on online dating sites to find my Prince Charming. I will help keep the video gaming and World Wide Web industries up and running. Plus, my parents will never have to lose their precious angel. I might take a few classes and write and sew. However, I do not like the whole idea of becoming an adult. Which is why I plan to boycott against it. To me, growing up is not really a requirement. I plan to grow up when I want to, which is not right now.
The point of college is to help young adults figure out what they want to do with their lives. As a freshman, I am simply beginning the journey of figuring out what field I would really like to get a career in. It would be nice to get involved in the fashion industry, but it might be a little too stressful for someone like me. The journalism industry is not appealing to me at all so I would never want to get involved in that.
With so many options of majors at Appalachian State University, it is especially difficult to decide which one I want to do. While Apparel and Textiles seemed appealing at first, I realized I did not want to learn that much about textiles. After realizing my love for writing, I wanted to transfer to a liberal arts college and major in Creative Writing. However, the college I had in mind is extremely expensive. Also, as previously discussed, there are really no promising career options for someone who majors in Creative Writing. My academic coach recommended I take a specific class with a specific professor. Thus, I am taking Design Drawing I next semester. I then realized that Design Drawing I is one of the classes required for the Industrial Design major. This is the only reason I have considered Industrial Design as my major. So as of right now, my plan for college is to take classes I enjoy and see if any of them connect to help decide my major.
The reality is that the major people choose in college does not decide their future career. For example, my dad majored in marketing in college and decided to go into the construction and has made it in the construction industry. Another prime example is my mom. My mom majored in industrial engineering and after she graduated, she only had one career that went with her major. My major in college is unimportant in relation with the real world. What matters is that I have a college degree.
After I have acquired such, the career opportunities are endless. If I decide I do not like the job my degree entails, in America, I have the freedom of finding another job that might not have anything to do with my major. In conclusion, I am very comfortable not knowing what I want to do with my life as a freshman in college.
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