the transgender adventure

Good to hear from a longtime member like yourself! I'm glad things are working out better for you, even though you're not decided on what you want to do with your life (I'm in a similar position, but I don't even have the confidence to try college again after my last experience, so from my perspective you're definitely in a good place). I hope you decide to stick around a bit—it's an interesting time to be a BZPower member, and we could use more mature members like yourself going forward if the rumored Bionicle return leads to the site's resurgence.

The Bionicle hype is something, isn't it? I definitely hope Lego takes some of the most significant criticisms of Bionicle, and for that matter, Hero Factory, to heart, especially when crafting a new story. Hopefully the success of The Lego Movie will motivate them to give new themes (including a potential Bionicle return) such a meaningful story, and populate them with a similar cast of interesting and diverse characters. I'm not expecting perfection—Bionicle would still be a merchandise-driven story, after all, so I don't expect it to do much that would court controversy in a world still struggling on many fronts to come to terms with its past prejudices. But that doesn't mean I'm not holding out for improvements to quality and equality alike.

Major in what you enjoy.

I say this with a level of perhaps unwarranted certainty, but seriously. College is a unique experience and you should have the right to pursue whatever you choose. "You can't get a job in that" can be said of half the majors out there. As a musician, I hear it too. Heck, I think most everyone gets that.

The fact is that since college has become a thing that most everyone does, it's become the next high school. One is not differentiated based on one's degree, and one's career path can differ wildly from one's degree. People have this weird cultural assumption that a choice you make in your late teens or early twenties is going to box you in career-wise for the rest of your life, but in fact, it's nearly the opposite that is true; my mom went to nursing school, but she hasn't been a nurse for nearly twenty years.
 
The bottom line is that you should pursue what you enjoy, not fulfill someone else's expectations. If you like something and you want to pursue it and you live your dream like there's no tomorrow, then good things will follow.

that's pretty much why i'm planning to change back to an English major, though knowing of vocations in that field beforehand is more to help my own anxieties (it lessens the fears and stuff i have regarding my own future, like makes me feel a little safer and less nights of wanting to throw up). teaching came up just as i was thinking of possible careers one hour and i actually felt pretty happy at the idea of becoming an English teacher down the road, though the anxious side of me gets more like "can you be financially stable and live where you want on their salary, could you support a child if you got married and wanted to adopt, could you afford therapy and other medical expenses, would you end up in a position of crippling finances," etc... and a lot of other things that just slowly start to become irrational (and i know all can be covered since like, i knew my old English teacher and she lived completely fine). 

 

but yeah, it's the route i'm most likely gonna go since it puts a lot of my mind at ease (and i don't need to sit in business classes), and it's a subject i enjoy a lot even if i'm not the best at it.