my left brain needs to STFU!

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Wow. Sorry that I really haven't been commenting on the comms and on my friends lj's lately, but I've had midterms and shit.

I've just come to a realization about several things about college. All this time (throughout a lot of high school), I always wanted to do something focusing on Japan, because I like the culture and mythology. But now I realize that that is just it. I don't like the language, nor do I want to go business as a minor.

Everything in life that I am passionate about schoolwise is culture, mythology, and literature. The languages that I really like are Russian and Finnish. Europe is my homeland. My culture, my family, my history comes from there, and I've always been incrediby drawn to it.

It's just the pratical part of me has always known that what kind of job can I get with taking classes in Literature, Western and world mythology and history? But if that is my passion, then I guess that the only thing that I can do that will truly make myself happy is to tell my pratical side to STFU.

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[strangelyshaded.livejournal.com]

Ooh, you're just like me. I find culture and history facinating, but learning languages just bores me. Too much logical thought. They're interesting until you get to sentance structure and grammer and shit. But then I give it up and it makes me wish I didn't.

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I agree with Gothic Buddhist. Unlike my mom, you're not a single mother who needs a quick degree that will earn her enpough cash to support her kids. She is now a nurse, and is really hating it (or so she's told me on occassion). Be glad that you have your liberties and a whole plethora of options and opportunites ahead of you. It really comes down to what *you* need/want out of life, not "what does the world/every one else expect you to get in life."

You might want to look into anthroplogy (or even archaeology) as a career. You might not earn a lot, but the price of your sanity/happiness might be greater, ne? You could learn about ancient cultures, their mythology and maybe even go to the county of your choice. I read a post from a girl who ditched a career in political science to become an Egyptologist. It was terrible, she ^_- *had* -_^ to translate the myth of "HetHeru and the Destructiono fMan Kind." How terrible, hahahaha!! YOu wouldn't have to learn the language unless yo uwanted to though.

I'm learning Chinese for their advanced/experimental stem-cell medecin basically (though I usually tell people that I'm doing it to travel and learn crap - I'm not a druggie, honest!). My passion is martial arts, and my spine is no longer in complete working order. If I can speak Chinese (and if I can also work at the National Security Agency), than my access to information concerning doctors who can do advanced bone therapy would be greater (wouldn't it suck if after all of this work, Korea discovered the cure?). I have no real interest in China (other than that it's pretty and they have kung fu). Once I learn Chinese and have a steady paying career, I may pursue other things, my real passions being Ancient Egypt and Greek mythology...especially Egypt. Or maybe I wonn't and I'll allow myself the free time to explore the art I love to do. In conclusion to this little rant, you may also choose a career in something that you don't necessarily want to do, but use the high income from that job to support your other interests/expensive habbits/tuition.

-Sierra

Ps...It's all about you!

[bynx89.livejournal.com]

The only thing I can think to tell you is what I intend to live by when I'm older, that "when you find the right job for you, you'll never work again"

Go with your passions and interests, because who wants a well paid job they hate when you could do something that you love?

I'm the same over the whole Finland thing, I've only been twice, but the whole thing just....well, as you can imagine I'd like to live their eventually and I'm starting to learn Finnish, but all the tense really bore me.