advice anyone?

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Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

Wow...yeah I'm basically shadowing your situation. I'm pursuing engineering...or I was. I got pushed into engineering out of high school because I love computers and technology and I guess I'm somewhat intelligent. I think patience and discipline really come from enjoying what you do. I don't have the patience or discipline that I had freshman year, and even then I don't think I had what it takes to get through 4 years of Engineering. The stuff is hard, and some of it is interesting, but the stuff that isn't interesting is a double whammy...it's hard so you should study more but you're not interested so you just don't care. I've always been fascinated with psychology, I started listening to Loveline when I was in 4th grade and I always thought that Dr. Drew had a really cool job. I'm fascinated with the way drugs interact with people physically and emotionally. I'm also fascinated with early child development, specifically child abuse, parent relations, and stuff like that. I also enjoy writing, but being in an Engineering major does not present many opportunities to write. I enjoyed writing my psych papers, and I had to write a couple philosophy papers.

Part of why Engineering was so appealing was that it is big money. And, coming out of high school with really no idea what I wanted to do it all kind of made sense. But now, after 2 years of doing engineering and working a full-time summer IT job (stuck behind a desk 9-5, I can't stand it, I never want to do that as a profession), I've decided that I'm just going to do what I enjoy and hope that I can secure a job. I'll definitely research teaching, I always wanted to do secondary education, but I think I would enjoy teaching psychology at a University. There's a lot of options for me at this point, but school is expensive and I would like to be out of here in another 2 or 2 and a half years. I just feel better knowing that I'm not the only person who has gone through this. You hear a lot about engineers switching into business majors, but not so much doing something as dramatic as going into English or Psychology. But, I guess it all comes down to what you enjoy.

Haha you do remind me of myself. I took Calc, Chem, Comp Design and some other stuff freshman year and by mid-semester I knew it wasn't for me. I had no idea what I wanted to do so I continued on through freshman year since already had the textbooks

That was an awful freshman year. I just wasn't having fun in doing what I was doing. Psych was the only shining spot since I scored an easy A (not easy as in no work as in it came natural to me) and as it went along I decided I wanted to focus on children as well. Since, I know I don't have the patience for being a teacher, I decided and this is where I hope to pursue to work with kids on a more one on one basis. Which my current job doesn't offer me many chances to.

I also enjoy writing psych papers especially when you can explore different avenues such as my senior project on the Psychology of Videogames. I do need to do further research on that but eh