Majors/Career

So I just finished Eating Animals and I've been thinking even more heavily about what I honestly want to do with my life. I'm less than a month away from turning twenty, and it seems like one should really have more time to figure out what they want to do with their life, but not really. Anyway, not too long ago I decided to switch my major and minor to anthropology for the major and creative writing as the minor. But as I was looking over course descriptions again, I really couldn't think of what that combination would even mean. I mean, I could obviously write on my own and just as easily take whatever random English classes I wanted (like Arthurian Legends and Myth as Literature.) So my mind has changed again.

I decided I would definitely major in anthropology and minor instead in "communication studies." Why? Well, communication is really what I'm doing now and if T.R. is right, I'm apparently good at it. The minor only has two required classes and then four electives. So it's really only going to be a 12 hour minor for me once I transfer. (I'll have taken a required and an elective.) Another reason I decided to change is, frankly, I think it's more useful. I think I'll be able to figure out ways, in things like interviews, to combine elements of the two to show how good I'd be at such and such job.

One career I think I could probably go into is public relations. But I don't want to be a media person for any old company, corporation, organization or what have you. I think it'd be really awesome to work for some non profit organization that I really believe in. For fun, I was shopping around for places to intern or whatever and I found Farm Sanctuary and the Animal Welfare Institute. These are both places that I do/could feel passionate about working for/with. Especially Farm Sanctuary. And their message is something I would love to spread, including as a public relations "specialist" or whatever its called.

While interning with the Joplin Globe and writing quite a few Health & Family stories, I ended up working with the public relations ladies at the local hospitals. I kind of got a view of their job from a journalist's perspective, and it actually seemed a lot better. At MSSU, you can basically major in public relations, but that does not sound fun to me at all. Anthropology, on the other hand, (as well as sociology) are very interesting and fun to learn about it. Obviously, studying anthropology is studying people and public relations deals with appealing to people. By studying anthropology, I believe I will have learned enough about people to know what appeals to who. Plus, with the communications minor, I'll take actual public relations classes.

So, considering what I'm interested in and jobs I could be passionate about and relatively good at, I think this new plan is a pretty solid one. Hopefully I don't change my mind again!