Hey. I'm in my first week of my last two semesters of college. Right now, I'm majoring in Psychology. I really think that was the wrong choice.
My whole higher-learning story: I graduated in 2010 and took a year off to work, not knowing what I wanted to do. I decided computer science would be a good fit for me, so I went to a local community college to do that. First semester was alright, but the second semester was one of the worst periods of my life. I was only taking one computer-related class, but it was awful. I had doubts that CS was the right fit for me, and decided to switch to something else. My favorite class of that era was psych 101, so I decided I should do that. I was getting a lot of pressure to commit to something, so I latched on to the first thing I sort-of liked. I finished up at community college, transferred to four-year, and now here I am. Thing is, I'm wondering if I made the right decision the first time.
I really think computers would be a better fit for me. Something more along the lines of IT than programming. I think the big reason I had such a rough time the first go-around was because I just had a terrible professor (seriously, he was the worst I ever had. He would straight-up ridicule you in front of the entire class if you got something wrong. The class test average was something like 32%). More-so, I was an emotional teenager with an utter shit work ethic. Hence the whole dropping-the-field-as-soon-as-it-got-hard thing.
I really don't see myself as a therapist or researcher. I don't think I ever did. I just kind of told myself that to try to sell myself on it. I can definitely see myself working in IT though. I've been building/fixing computers for as long as I can remember, and my friends always come to me for help when they're having problems with their tech stuff. I have a lot of friends in that field, and we talk about stuff they do at work/stuff they're studying all the time. Plus, I'm friendly, patient, and practice proper hygiene, which I hear gives me an edge in that field.
All that said, I'm worried that it's too late for me. Like I said, I graduate in two semesters in a completely unrelated field. I'll be an old man of 23 when I graduate, and I don't want to start again at square one. I'd like to start my career before I turn 30. People in my family are already giving me shit for "being in school forever." It doesn't help that my sister is the perfect student at a prestigious private school and my cousin literally goes to Yale.
So... yeah. I really don't know what to do. Should I just see what I can get with my psych degree? Should I look for graduate programs in IT? (I haven't found many, though I may not be looking in the right places. What bothers me about that is that I have very little undergrad experience in the field. I do have a 3.9 GPA though, and I'm taking honors psych courses, if that helps at all). Get a job at Walmart and work on an Associates degree at night? See if one of my friends in the field can help me out? I feel more directionless than I have in years.
My whole higher-learning story: I graduated in 2010 and took a year off to work, not knowing what I wanted to do. I decided computer science would be a good fit for me, so I went to a local community college to do that. First semester was alright, but the second semester was one of the worst periods of my life. I was only taking one computer-related class, but it was awful. I had doubts that CS was the right fit for me, and decided to switch to something else. My favorite class of that era was psych 101, so I decided I should do that. I was getting a lot of pressure to commit to something, so I latched on to the first thing I sort-of liked. I finished up at community college, transferred to four-year, and now here I am. Thing is, I'm wondering if I made the right decision the first time.
I really think computers would be a better fit for me. Something more along the lines of IT than programming. I think the big reason I had such a rough time the first go-around was because I just had a terrible professor (seriously, he was the worst I ever had. He would straight-up ridicule you in front of the entire class if you got something wrong. The class test average was something like 32%). More-so, I was an emotional teenager with an utter shit work ethic. Hence the whole dropping-the-field-as-soon-as-it-got-hard thing.
I really don't see myself as a therapist or researcher. I don't think I ever did. I just kind of told myself that to try to sell myself on it. I can definitely see myself working in IT though. I've been building/fixing computers for as long as I can remember, and my friends always come to me for help when they're having problems with their tech stuff. I have a lot of friends in that field, and we talk about stuff they do at work/stuff they're studying all the time. Plus, I'm friendly, patient, and practice proper hygiene, which I hear gives me an edge in that field.
All that said, I'm worried that it's too late for me. Like I said, I graduate in two semesters in a completely unrelated field. I'll be an old man of 23 when I graduate, and I don't want to start again at square one. I'd like to start my career before I turn 30. People in my family are already giving me shit for "being in school forever." It doesn't help that my sister is the perfect student at a prestigious private school and my cousin literally goes to Yale.
So... yeah. I really don't know what to do. Should I just see what I can get with my psych degree? Should I look for graduate programs in IT? (I haven't found many, though I may not be looking in the right places. What bothers me about that is that I have very little undergrad experience in the field. I do have a 3.9 GPA though, and I'm taking honors psych courses, if that helps at all). Get a job at Walmart and work on an Associates degree at night? See if one of my friends in the field can help me out? I feel more directionless than I have in years.
