I'm in College right now and slowly finding out I've spent 2000 dollars or my first semester and I don't really want to be in this program. I am in Community, Family, and Child Studies and it just is NOT what I expected, or what the school told me it was. Anyway, I can't enroll in University as you need a second language, which I don't have... so I'm thinking of doing University Transfer. If I do this, though, I have no idea what to study. I mean, really, what can you do with a degree in Sociology, Anthropology, etc.? I really don't want to be an academic sitting and researching and teaching every day. I want to work physically, but the things I'm interested in don't usually allow for that, and won't give me a job until I have a PhD anyway. I don't want to go to school for 10 years for a PhD. Another problem is MONEY. I can't get a student loan for lame, complex reasons (I'm considered a "dependant" of my parents because I graduated high school in 2006, but I've been on my own since I was 17 and my parents aren't around and don't help out, so my student loan would deduct some of my parents' incomes from my loan... and they haven't done tax returns anyway so they don't know their net income and the forms can't be completed.). Wow, that was long. Anyway, I'm really not sure what direction to go in. What are you all doing for a living? If you have any degrees, what are they in and what kinds of things can you do with it? I need to make up my mind by December 8th, if I want to get back any of my registration fees.
Well with sociology and anthro you could always be an academic, but who the hell really wants to do that. Alternatively you could always try and get into archeology, thats always sounds like an interesting option. Just dont expect to be in the Andies discovering lost civilizations... Its not quite Indiana Jones, but hell... hands on has to be better than your nose in a book.
Stay at the school you're at right now and take all the basic classes that you'll need in order to graduate (look at the university you would like to go to to know what those classes are), usually they are English, a math class, a history class, a humanities course, etc...these core classes are needed to graduate at most universities for most degrees. What I did was probably the smartest thing for me since I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do with my life. I went to community college for two years, got my core classes out of the way for next to nothing tuition-wise. During that two years I worked various places and through doing that I finally figured out an IDEA of what I wanted to do. Of course, I still don't know exactly what I want to do, but I know what field I want to work in. Now, I'm graduating from a 4-year university with a Bachelor's Degree in less than a month My major is in environmental studies with a concentration in political science. I had an awesome political science professor at the community college I went to that inspired me to try to get into the political scene. If I had not had her as an instructor I would have never been interested in doing anything politics wise. I hate the poli sci professors at the university I go to now, they're incredibly boring. What I want to do with my degree is up in the air, but I'm thinking about becoming an advocate for organic farming. We'll see Anyway, I cherished my community college experience. The professors work closely with the students because class sizes are smaller and they are more dedicated to the students because they aren't concentrating on their research, like you'll find at most universities... So that has been my experience...and my advice is to go somewhere cheap to get your basic classes out of the way and then transfer when you have more of an idea of what you want to do. No sense in wasting money taking those classes at a university when you can pay a third of the price at a community college.
what about the trades? You'd said you wanted to work physically, if I read your post right, and most of the trades are in very high demand.
Well I want to work physically, but I don't want to do a workout. I mean, I'm not strong and don't want to be. Lol. I sort of meant that I wanted to be on my feet doing REAL THINGS instead of being on the phone or writing at a desk. Annie that was some good advice. Yeah I really like going to my community college for the tuition fees and smaller classes. I'm also interested in Poli Sci. I want to take University Transfer of Arts and do a lot of classes. I think I'll go into Social Work because there's a lot of opportunities worldwide for that. Thanks again.
