https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 18 May 2026 02:21:56 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-132120 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:00:11 +0000 Meridian 132120@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was one of those girls who dreamed about their future wedding... and always secretly read wedding magazines at the public library. </p> <p>Then in college I started planning events (fashion shows and conferences) and LOVED it... so weddings + events = Wedding Planner! Voila! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-131967 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:39:58 +0000 Modern Daisy 131967@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was always best at art and math, but knew majoring in art would severly limit my career options so I started out as a math major. I hated Calculus and C++ so I knew it wasn't right for me. I knew business would be a good major, so I literally opened the pamphlet for the business school and looked at the classes I would have to take for each major and Marketing looked like the most interesting. So marketing it was! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-131862 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:38:23 +0000 joyjoy 131862@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For as long as I can remember, I wanted to be a doctor. I chose my original major (Biological Sciences) with that intention. As I was doing my lower division classes and internships I discovered that I was horrible with patients (too much empathy. I cried a lot) and that I was really good at genetics. I also discovered that my real interest wasn't the patients with the weird diseases but the weird diseases themselves. So I switched my major to genetics and did my emphasis on infectious diseases. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-131850 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:31:32 +0000 Adira 131850@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Minnie_Girl: Thanks! I may one day do it, but I won't be disappointed with my life if I never do, haha. I'm just impressed with other people who follow their dreams like you did! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-131846 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:26:29 +0000 Minnie_Girl 131846@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Adira: Haha, that's the problem with a writing career...you actually have to finish writing a book! And then you have to do it again, and again, and again! </p> <p>There's no reason you should give up the dream. Getting published is a great addition to any career! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-131795 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:50:57 +0000 HabesBabe 131795@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wanted to be a teacher my entire life! So I got a BA in Liberal Studies and got my teaching credential... but halfway through my credential program, I knew it wasn't for me-- I just finished it because I was so close.</p> <p>Now my career has NOTHING to do with teaching. LOL. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-131775 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:33:20 +0000 littlebug 131775@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My whole life I always wanted to be in some kind of helping profession. As a little girl, it was pediatrician. Then later it was child psychologist. I went to college and declared a psych major. As I got into the classes, I hated it. I thought the professors were pretentious. Then I had some roommate issues and took a semester off. While I was off, I did some research into other majors. I discovered social work and thought it seemed like a much better fit for me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-131748 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:14:18 +0000 Honeybee 131748@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think I decided in high school that, although I love theater and performance arts, I was never going to make a career out of it. So I chose my majopr based on my other interests, reading and writing. I had no clue what I was going to do with a Literature degree for the majority of undergrad, but sometime my senior year I started getting interested in library sciences. Now I'm in grad school getting my library sciences degree and hoping to start a career as a public librarian in the near future. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-131597 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:09:57 +0000 Adira 131597@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Minnie_Girl: Oooh, I'm so jealous of you!!! I've wanted to be an author since the 5th grade! I LOVED writing sooooooo much!</p> <p>BUT, my parents felt like I wouldn't do well in the field since I almost never finished anything I started, and they were worried about me being able to support myself after college, so I decided to major in Computer Science instead since I had taken some CS classes in high school and enjoyed them a lot. So that's what I majored in, and I'm really happy I did! I LOVE being a Software Engineer! Though I do still dream of publishing a book someday... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-131574 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:56:00 +0000 Mrs. Sunglasses 131574@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I knew I wanted to do something in the arts but clearly felt like I had no clue what was out there. I went to an open house, saw a info booth about graphic design. Never really understood what it was but applied anyway.</p> <p>Then when I got accepted and started the program, realized I loved it. I was lucky I guess! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-131528 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:23:34 +0000 PBandBaseball 131528@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wanted something stable, so I went into accounting. I am now in grad school for early childhood education, so I think you can tell how I feel about being an accountant! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-131521 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:18:53 +0000 LuLu Mom 131521@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was in nursing and decided it was too hard to keep up with, and I had a general marketing class that came easily to me. So I decided to go with marketing, never planned to stick with it but just did. </p> <p>I don't think I necessarily made the choice that makes me the happiest or even fullfilled, but I'm good at what I do and have been successful so far in my choice. I do always dream of going into teaching. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-131518 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:16:36 +0000 oliviaoblivia 131518@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: yay for architects! I love how similar our stories are. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-131513 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:14:32 +0000 yoursilverlining 131513@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was undecided between political science and social work – followed by law school. I was more interested in majoring in social work…but I worked full time during college and getting my degree in social work would have taken more than an extra year due to the required internships and class scheduling (which would have been very financially tricky for me to do since the reason I was working full time was because I paid for college myself after the first year). In the end, I majored in political science, which I was happy with.</p> <p>I sort of “fell into” my career, but it was my education and work experience that got me in the door, and I’m extremely happy where I landed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-131485 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:03:14 +0000 volksgirl64 131485@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@skibobrown: my hubs has a Physics undergrad and is teaching Physics at a HS now. I think he would absolutely love to become a Phys Prof though.<br /> I'm a Manufacturing Engineer. In HS I always liked Physics and was good at math so I figured why not. I don't love it but I like it enough and the salary isn't bad either :-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-131483 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:01:50 +0000 heffalump 131483@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: Wow, that's awesome that you followed through with it after all of those years! When I was little I wanted to be a music therapist- but after my band teacher quit a sucky one came in and I didn't love it at much. That's when I switched to art. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-131482 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:59:50 +0000 mrbee 131482@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I always knew I would start a tech company. I acquired a love of media from delivering newspapers starting in elementary school. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-131479 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:57:29 +0000 regberadaisy 131479@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>One of the lucky few who has always know what she wanted to be. My first memory is probably when I was 10 or 11 sitting in my bedroom wanting to redesign it! I knew I wanted to be an Architect so I went to a specialized high school that had a architecture major. And got into the architecture program at my university.</p> <p>@oliviaoblivia: heyyyyy! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-131319 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:39:55 +0000 mediagirl 131319@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I tried so many things and hated a lot in college. I ended up Transfering out of my first college because I didn't see much there for me. When I got to Salisbury, I clicked with my comm classes. They had a TV and radio emphasis and I was smitten. It was an easy major and I didn't really learn many life skills but it got me my first job and that got me where I am today. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-131314 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:31:26 +0000 Andrea 131314@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was pre-med at first but it was too hard! So I bagged it and did economics instead so that I would have a good sensible degree. Haha. So happy I did that. I graduated early and started making great money vs still being in school for years and years. I guess I really didn't have a passion for medicine after all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-131310 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:26:31 +0000 Alivoo01 131310@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My dad chose my major. He was strongly against what I wanted to do (pediatrician). Asian parent NOT wanting their kid to be a doctor - crazy talk right? My dad said a dr career would be too stressful and long that I wouldn't marry until much too late. After many arguments, I obeyed my father and went down his path. I chose my career though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-131090 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:41:05 +0000 googly-eyes 131090@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I worked in a very closely related position! I'm not actually in my career yet, though, but I believe I will be soon! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-131086 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:37:50 +0000 BSB 131086@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I took one of those tests in high school. It was right. I'm in the science industry. Not sure about my certain career but if I change careers, it will still be in science. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-130944 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:14:39 +0000 twodoghouse 130944@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I originally went to school to become a dentist, but I was in a liberal arts honors program my freshman year where we read/wrote a lot. My English professor at one point told me I was crazy to take all those science classes when he could tell I loved reading/writing. Over the summer I thought about it and ended up dropping all my bio classes on the first day of the new semester and switching to English. I had no idea what I was going to DO with that though. I just stumbled into Marketing/Design work, luckily. :) Oh, and when I told my parents I was switching my major my mom just laughed and said "I knew all along you'd end up with an English degree! You were writing plays when you were six years old." I wish she'd have filled me in before taking all those science classes freshman year though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-130942 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:14:21 +0000 cyneswith 130942@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I decided to try Geography because I had 2 years left of my scholarship and it was the fastest one. Good thing I fell in love with it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-130941 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:10:57 +0000 oliviaoblivia 130941@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm an architect and was always interested in houses and decorating and redecorating my room. I picked my major before I enrolled because of the dedicated professional degree path. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-130921 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:02:33 +0000 lilteacherbee 130921@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I "played school" when I was young and I've always enjoyed working with kids. What really cemented my dream was during senior year of high school. I took a class where I would go to the local elementary school and help the teacher/tutor for an hour a day. I ended up in a kindergarten class with the same teacher I had in kindergarten (pretty cool!). </p> <p>I went to college for elementary ed (K-6), but after graduation I got a job working at a daycare as a preschool teacher and I've been hooked ever since. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-130913 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:57:30 +0000 skibobrown 130913@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was totally going to be pre-vet in college, but then I took physics during my senior year in high school and found out I was really good at it. So I ended up majoring in physics, and got my PhD in a related field right afterwards. Now I'm going to be a physics professor starting in the fall. I thank my amazing high school physics teacher for pointing me in this direction. I'm hoping to inspire other women to pursue careers in the hard sciences. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-130907 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:55:51 +0000 Mrs. Train 130907@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I knew at a young age I wanted to work with or study animals. So my degree is in biology with emphasis in zoology. During college I worked with marine mammals but redl ly liked working with people and education. So post grad I got my teaching credential and taught high school biology </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/howdid-you-decide-on-your-majorcareer#post-130906 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:54:56 +0000 Minnie_Girl 130906@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It was easy for me. The one and only life goal I had from about age 13 on was to become a published writer. So I got a Professional Writing degree. :) </p>