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Originally Posted by allaboutmusic
The fact that you have a degree of some kind will be useful to you if you pursue other qualifications generally, and certain jobs will require that you have a degree (even if they are not specific about what degree you have).
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Originally Posted by ngdawg
Take it from an old Dawg who completely changed her path while seeing her second half of a century looming on the horizon....it is NEVER too late to change your course and everything up to this point is a learning experience.
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My college degree doesn't have too much to do with my current profession (I have a BA in English Literature and manage a website for a financial firm). Something got me from doing too much insomnia-induced web surfing in my freshman year to aspirations of becoming a graphic designer and website programmer to where I am today. My attempted mastery at the English literary canon was in no way wholly responsible for it, but it definitely helped me along the way.
What comforts me is that we're no longer living in a world where the decisions we make as high school and college students set the course for the rest of our lives. Lifelong careers are becoming a thing of the past, and it's not uncommon for people, even well into adulthood, to change their line of work significantly a few times before they retire.
I'm not doing exactly what I want to be doing in a career right now, but to be honest I'm still not even sure that I know what that would be. Right now I have a long list of things that interest me, some of which I feel intensely passionate for; many of these probably wouldn't make very realistic career choices for me right now. I plan to stay where I am for a while longer; the benefits are excellent and the long-term incentives are definitely... incentivizing. All of this is not to say that I won't end up back in school five to ten years from now to pursue an MFA in design or writing, or in a conservatory to for a degree in violin performance, and turn those passions into my livelihood.
The other blessing in disguise is simultaneously a challenge: to keep a less than 100% inspiring career within the confines of the work day and use your time outside of it to find your excitement and/or peace. As Crompsin said, you may be "what you do," but you are not where you work.
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If one million people replaced a two mile car trip once a week with a bike ride, carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 50,000 tons per year. If one out of ten car commuters switched to a bike, carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 25.4 million tons per year. [2milechallenge.com]
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Originally Posted by roachboy
it's better if you can ride without having to wonder if the guy in the car behind you is a sociopath, i find.
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