Ma Future Carrière

You are probably wondering, what the heck my title says besides the word future. It’s the French translation of my future career. It is an assignment I have had to write throughout my entire life in school and a question I am currently asking myself right now. My future career? When I complete my 4 years of college what would I be waking up to do? Who do I want to become?  Data Analyst? Financial Advisor? Data Security Analyst? I am still yet to find an answer. 

 

To understand my dilemma, I will start from the beginning. I applied to the University of Arizona as a physics student. I clicked on physics thinking it was psychology and that should tell you how rushed the decision to apply to the U of A was. I was following my high school sweetheart’s decision in applying to the school, in hopes of us going to school together. Long story short, that never happened, and my parents fell in love with this school so now here I am. 

 

Back to the journey in deciding on a major. I switched to psychology after realizing the error I made after reading the word “PHYSICS” on the decision letter. Unfortunately, it was the cliché move made by most when they have absolutely no idea what to major in. I ended up identifying law as a career I wanted to go into and that gave psychology a meaning beyond being a placeholder. 

 

However, the psychology dream was quickly short lived after realizing that I could pursue any degree and still go to law school. Once again, I was back to square one searching for a major. There I was a week before school struggling to think of a new major to choose. I eventually settled on pre-business and have currently applied for a double major in MIS and finance. 

 

This where the problem begins, throughout all the changes one thing haunted me and it was a personal finance class I took during my freshman year. I fell in love with the everything personal finance entailed from savings accounts to retirement funds. But (there is always a but when it comes to me), the opportunities associated with a career in personal finance are limited and so I am stuck thinking about what I want to do moving forward. I had to choose between a personal finance minor or a finance major at Eller. I chose the finance major but I am silently regretting it because I feel like its not the type of finance I am looking for. All the advisors I spoke to said a finance degree from Eller would look good on my resume and make me stand out when I am applying for jobs. It comes down to one question. Why am I in college? To get a piece of paper  that will prove to employers that I am worthy of being paid a bit more. So if that’s the answer. Why doesn’t it feel like I’m doing the right thing by choosing majors that present that opportunity? Hopefully, I figure it out and update you before the class ends. Till next time!