RE: Need help deciding on a major
Consider Doctor of Pharmacology. 95k straight out of school. but it sure isn't easy! No, I'm not one, just dated one for a while...
but it's an important question - should I make something that I love into my career, at the risk of coming to dislike it.
my thought on that is... no matter what career you choose, there will come a time when it sucks. When you hate it, and never want to do it again, no matter how much you once loved it. At that point, you either leave it, and go to something else, or you learn to like it again, and get on with your life.
So, if your carrer is based on something that you once loved, you may be able to re-discover what it was that made you love it in the first place, and then you can go on to new challenges and new successes, with a new level of satisfaction and achievment. Short of never being burned out at all, this is the best outcome.
If however your chosen career is not based on something you ever really cared about, then your chances of recuperating to it are very slim. You will, at that point, be forced to find a new career. You are young now, you see how difficult that can be. Yet at your age it is a hopeful process. I have seen 50 year old men go through it, and it is not the same. They look like they are staring death in the face.
So, I would recommend discovering what it is you love to do, and finding a way to do it to make your way. It may be something that you have never heard of, never tried. Go to a good University, be curious, and adventurous, find a vocation, save your money, make careful investments, take care of your health, and if you are lucky you could be happy, for a very long time. Oh yeah I forgot, find a good woman and do what it takes to make her happy, life will be so much better.
Have fun!
DC
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