Hey everyone -
I’m going to be graduating this December with a fine arts degree and minor in English and I have no idea what to do from there.
I’m worried, stressed, and feeling incredibly uncertain about my future.
I feel like I entered college and left it feeling absolutely the same - meaning, I feel completely dumbfounded about what I want to do in the workforce.
Everyone in my family is pressuring me to “just get a job” in a big corporate business as a writer somewhere, but honestly, I really really don’t want to join corporate.
I’ve had experience working as a copywriter before and it’s honestly soul sucking work.
Yet almost every night at the dinner table they nail it into my head about how that’s what I need to do, and how I need to go to job fairs and get a large corporate job, and that’s not my goal.
I’ve tried branding and marketing as well, but none of it feels fulfilling or makes me feel proud of what I do.
I want a job that helps others. One where I see the difference I make in other people. One that makes other people’s lives better, happier, and more fulfilled.
I also want a job that has good healthcare benefits, but does all of it have to be corporate??
But, I have no experience other than my degree that I’ll be leaving college with this December.
And as much as I’d want to continue schooling and maybe consider Art Therapy - my parents aren’t having it with me staying in school another semester or three to finish a psychology minor since I’ve been in college for so long, so I’ve taken psychology off my degree plan to graduate this year (this’ll be my fifth year).
Ideally, I don’t want to take extra education. I’ve been in college for four years, I don’t want to spend more time there as it is. But at the same time, can I actually get a fulfilling job with benefits if I don’t consider a different career path?
Any advice for a soon to be arts grad that wants to avoid corporate?
Submitted September 12, 2019 at 06:37AM by chrysanthemym https://ift.tt/32wG6kO
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