Goodness, I've been off the facebook game for a while... Sorry for the lack of eproping and such. Usually all my facebook updates are sent to my AOL address, and since I haven't been on AOL for a while, I haven't been able to see 'em. I feel so out of touch with what's going on in everyone's lives...
But anyway, I chose to update 2nite for my own personal reasons. I guess bein a confused college student has gotten the best of me. Shame. So... let's get down to it.
I'm having a complete Robert Frost moment, and I'm not entirely sure of which road I should choose. I thought that going pre-med was what I wanted. My whole mindset from my sophomore year of high school 'til senior year was to become a pediatrician. I love little kids, and I guess that was magnified when Butchie was born [for all those that don't kno... Butchie is my lil brother]. On the other hand, I love fashion. Clothes and accessories have been my obsession since I could remember. I spend my last dollars on buying Lucky magazine, or Elle, and I analyze every trend depicted in those magazines. I kno that it's a typical "girly girl" thing to be into fashion and shopping, but I think that I might take it to a whole nother level. Take this into account though: I'm not a superficial person in the slightest. I never had the money to buy all the clothes I wanted, and I wouldn't count myself as "the trendsetter" of any group of people..... but fuck, clothes are exciting to me lol. Call me a freakin loser all u want for that statement, but its true. Most people have a passion for producing beats or writing poetry, but I kno that my heart rests with fashion [and fine-ass men, among other things... =]]. I didn't kno what a person could do with a degree in Fashion Merchandising, or in the case of O-State, Textiles and Clothing, so I kinda left it alone and chose to do Psychology and Pre-Med instead.
Buttttttt......
I fugured out that there is this job out there that is perfect for me~ to become a fashion buyer for a major retail company. Let's say I get hired at Gap Inc or Saks Fifth Avenue. If I were to be a fashion buyer for these stores, I would get to choose what clothes would be sold or put on display for them. I would go to fashion designers, and negotiate which clothings would be sold for their fall or spring lines, and essentially bring those clothes to the major stores. Anndddd since I get to schmooze [is that a legit word?!] with the various designers, I also get to travel to places like Paris and Canada and Asia....and... -gasp-..... go to fashion shows.
So, I figured that since I found my dream job, a change in major would have to be in order. Instead of doing Psych and Pre-Med, I would have to make an appointment with the business college here and change my major to Marketing with a minor in Textiles and Clothing.
The problem...
I ran the idea by my parents, and they weren't exactly excited by it. As a matter fact, my mom was pretty pissed off... but I kinda expected that. My dad supported my decision at first, and then he changed his mind on me [AGHh]. Understand this though, my mom and her whole side of the family come from a health background: she's a nurse, my aunt was a nurse, my cousin's a nurse, my uncle's a fucking nurse, my uncle's uncle's a nurse... so naturally, she's gonna push for me to do something doctor or, dare I say, nurse- related. Basically, anythang not related to the health field is a big "HELL NO! 
" in her eyes. And their reasons for me not changing my major? Well, they told me that: A). Marketing is not a reliable major; B). You can't make a good salary with marketing; C). There is not a large demand in the job field for marketing; D). Nursing and Pre-Med IS a reliable major; E). You're salary is huge in the health field; F). People get laid off easily in the business world, whereas in the health industry, help is always needed, and you always have a lot of hours; G). Business people don't like people straight out of college; H). As soon as you graduate college/ med school a job is always available to u..... ETC......... I could discredit so many of the things that they told me-- it's insane.
But hey, all I did was chicken out and tell them that I'll change my major to nursing after all-- Despite the fact that I am horrible at chem and bio and physics, and despite the fact that I have no desire to dedicate my life to science classes for the next four years, and despite the fact that I kno being a pediatrician/ pediatric nurse is not what I truely wanna do. The health field is kinda like a safety net for me-- it's my security. I don't kno what the future would hold for me if I were a fashion buyer, but with something in health, I see something so routine and BLah!!!
Sigh... I donno what I'm gonna do. Help me?!
