globetrotter wrote:Winston,
Where do you attend college and what degree did you receive?
I went to Ohlone College in Fremont, CA for junior college, and then to Cal State Hayward in Hayward, CA where I graduated with a four year Bachelors Degree. I majored in Business Administration with emphasis in Computer Information Systems and a minor in Marketing.
I enjoyed Ohlone College. It was easy and relaxing and the teachers were interesting. But I hated CSU Hayward. It was a total machine where people were all business and no connection. I felt like a total sore thumb there. Everyone else was all business. And the courses were too tedious and left brained. All those calculus classes made me feel like I was walking on a tightwire, totally alien to my talents, and totally unnecessary for life too. I hated it so much and felt so disgraced there that I didn't even bother attending the graduation there.
If I could do it over, I would have majored in English or Journalism, so that I could have classes reading English literature instead, which would have been far more enjoyable.
The problem with Journalism though, was that it felt too structured and rigid. You couldn't write what you wanted. It had to be dumbed down and follow strict guidelines and patterns. There was no creativity in it. That was not the kind of writing I liked. I took an introductory course and discovered this, and got bad vibes from it, so I didn't pursue it further. I never knew what I wanted to major in in college, so I selected business since it seemed the most broad and applied to everything. So I saw it as casting the widest net. But the classes were boring as hell and I wish I had majored in English literature so my schoolwork would have been far more interesting. Or I wish I had gone to drama school in LA instead and tried to get a career in show biz or the entertainment industry. That would have been following my heart at least.
Oh well.
After college, I had no idea what to do next. I was a follower and without someone telling me what to do next, I did nothing. Plus I soon moved to Washington to be with my online girlfriend, which put me in an even deader end since we had to live in a small town (Bellingham, WA) with nothing but retail jobs. So I couldn't even use my degree. My life was stinted there for years, until I went to Nevada and then overseas after that.