When I Grow Up
Hey guys!!! Welcome back to my blog! Hope your week has been great!
For me, this week has been a crazy one full of ups and downs, but also with a lot of thought about the future. It's that time in the semester where I typically go a week or two running low on academic motivation and the end seems out of sight. That said, the end is actually very near. Next year I will be a senior and a large topic of conversation within my circle of friends is what we all want to do after college. Some may want to join the military, some may go to graduate school, some may take a year to travel, some feel they have wasted their time not liking what they are studying, and as for myself, I have no idea what I am going to do or what I'm really studying.
For as long as I can remember, I have fallen in love with the idea of certain jobs and then made sharp turns, disregarding those jobs and falling in love with different ones. When I was 6, I was sure I wanted to be an artist. By the time I was 10 I swore I would be a dolphin trainer. I found out you have to be good at science to do that so I decided I would be an architect. I found out architects have to be good at math so I thought I might be better at interior design. Next I thought I would make a good social worker. Maybe a year later, I swore I would own a bakery, be a mom, and write a book and right before I went to college I was positive I wanted to be a Youth Minister at a parish. I actually chose Mount St. Mary's in part for that reason.
Once I got to the Mount, I began drifting away from that idea and into a different mindset. Rather than fixating on a job, I became very comfortable with the idea of having no idea what I really wanted to do. I was speaking to a professor one day, and he said that what is so great about the Mount, is that the core curriculum allows you to explore all sorts of majors. Another professor told me that what you major in, unless you are on a very specific career path, does not matter very much. Moving forward, it is the fact that you have a degree more so than what it is for. At the end of Sophomore year, I looked into an Interdisciplinary major. It is something you can do where you almost create your own major. This appealed to me because it grants the ability to take a wide range of types of courses. Right now, I am in Ethics, Social Media, Business, PR Cases, and Death and Dying: sort of an interesting mix.
Social Media came into the mix because I have become increasingly interested in marketing, social media management and PR. Last semester, I had an internship in which one of my jobs was to create content to post across multiple platforms daily. I really liked this aspect of my job and learned about a lot of business features on social media, that I did not know about before. Having this job also made me conscious of my own social media. Upon getting the job, I gained the following of the people I was working for and I needed to be conscious that what I was posting on my personal accounts, did not contradict what I was posting on the organizations account. Doing things like Facebook Live, somewhat added my face to the many others of the organization, and I needed to make sure I was well representing that. This gave me a lot to think about as far as what I had been posting and what I would or would not post moving forward.
All in all, I know that I will be able to do something, and when I do, I will have all sorts of different courses and experiences to draw on, and with fields such as social media growing so rapidly, it is definitely something I am considering to make a large part of whatever it is I do next.
If you made it this far, thanks for reading! I'm Nicoletta and I'm just Happy to Be Here 🤗 HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!!!!! ❤
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