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For Money or Passion?

Do we follow the status quo or do we venture off and follow our hearts...

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For the last two years, I've been getting criticized for choosing to major in Mass Communications. "There's no money in that!" "That major is so easy, I'm sure." "You're going to be poor and struggling." Pause, with the way the world is going today, we're all going to be poor and struggling with our current economy. But I digress. Money or passion? That's the question.

In the mind of a high school senior, "should I be an engineer or a cosmetologist?" A teacher or an artist? A computer scientist or a dancer? Engineers, teachers, and computer scientists are presumed to make the most money in our country today. But in our generation, our burning passions are in dancing, creating art, doing hair, writing and reporting, etc. The things that are presumed a "waste of money." A waste of a major, an easy major, and the opposite of money makers.

My major is Mass Communications with a minor in Spanish. Mass Communications involves writing, reporting, publishing, editing, public relations, marketing, advertising, the list goes on. However, I'm still looked down on for choosing passion over money. Little do they know, depending on the job I end up having, I'll get to experience both passion and money.

In the eyes of parents paying for their child's collegiate career, they feel that choosing passion over money is not the future they want for their child. But honestly, most of us are trying to live the best of both worlds but primarily choosing passion. A lot of us don't want to be in a job a few years down the road loathing waking up in the mornings, staring at the clock all day waiting for lunch time and longing for quitting time. We want to work with people we have things in common with, people we can talk to and hang out with outside of work. We may not have our futures paved out to a T but we know what we want to have.

I chose passion because I've been writing forever, I love spilling my thoughts out on paper and letting my fingers do the talking for me. I love surrounding myself with people who are like-minded but are also unique in their writing. I love learning from other writers in ways that'll help me to become a better writer. It's passion I chose and I have no regrets.

Some may do it for the money, others do it for the passion.

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