I spent Wednesday at Auburn, in the Horticulture department (yay, Ag School!) talking to students and interviewing a few. This was so exciting for me for many reasons… one is that it was Auburn, another is that I could go to the bookstore, and yet another is that I was going back to where it all started.
Funchess Hall: Where every day smells like formaldehyde and dirt.
That brings me to our (optional) prompt for the day. As usual, PLEASE feel free to just free write for 5 minutes about your topic of choice. It’s your space and your time. Just write!
Today’s (optional) prompt: How did you settle on your major/career choice?
I went to Auburn as an Exercise Science major. Then I put on my Freshman 15 (er, 20) and decided I didn’t like the word “exercise” so I left that major.
Accounting it was. Definitely accounting.
I was good at it, too. Only problem? I’m a little OCD with numbers and sometimes they give me nightmares. I remember them and count in my sleep and ohmygod why can’t i forget my ex-boyfriend’s phone number? The numbers were everywhere.
Did I mention I would have to dress up for work if I was an accountant? Yeah, that wouldn’t be fun. CPAs don’t wear jeans and t-shirts on a daily basis.
I set out to look at the course catalog. Surely there was something that wouldn’t require this girl to wear a suit to work daily.
A is for Agriculture.
Ooh, Horticulture looks good. Plants are pretty. Dirt’s not too scary. I can memorize latin names.
I think I’ll do THAT. Yeah. I’ll be a plant girl.
So I set out to do just that.
And now I wear jeans and t-shirts to work every day.
How did YOU choose your major or career path?
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This was my 5 minute Stream of Consciousness Sunday post. It’s five minutes of your time and a brain dump. Want to try it? Here are the rules…
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That’s funny no exercising and no suits. I’d say I have to agree though!! I’d hate either one of those if they were a daily thing for me! =)
Anna Hettick recently posted..Stream of Consciousness Sunday | Career Choices
Pretty cool.
Now that is definitely how I should have chosen my major. Instead? Finance. At least where I work at the moment is pretty “business casual”.
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Jeans and tshirts to work every day? I’m all over it! My dad was a forestry professor. When I was little I said he was a tree doctor and I thought for the longest time that he went into the woods with a stethescope and listened to the trees.
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Ha! I should have picked my major that way. I like dressing up, and don’t mind it so much for work, but if I could wear jeans, a tshirt and sneaks or flips every day I absolutely 100% would!!
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Yep, and that’s the way Jana explained it to her dad & me…..only then it was all about LL Bean shorts & t-shirts…which all sounded OK with me !! (We are a t-shirt kind of family……..does anyone want to buy a few Really Cheap?)
Sounds like a happy time – dirt and all. I love how you found your career.
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I never followed my original chosen career path – teaching music – but I often wonder where I’d be today if I had gone in that direction. I ended up being a mom… and you know, I get to wear jeans and t-shirts to work every day and I love my job.
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My mom told me once, “If you can type, you can get a job.” It has proven true for me – I got my first office job at 18 and I’ve worked my way up since then. I am now a very experienced executive assistant at the ripe age of 31. I was lucky to take this tack since I didn’t go to college. I’m at the top of my field and don’t have a degree. It’s not exactly what I love to do but by now it’s second nature!
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I love that. She was right. It’s the one skill that WILL allow you to work all the time, doing just about anything.
Good at accounting? I am so impressed. Looking back, I think I would have loved something outside with growing things. Landscape architecture maybe? It is fun to go back to your school. I’ve only been back a couple of times in 20 years. It was a great time in my life –
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becuase I don’t have a blog….here’s my post…first ever
Probably so faux pas to do it this way!
I don’t remember which came first….Either…I always wanted to be a brain surgeon OR my mother was in graduate school…which meant that I went to the UAB library with her and read books on the supernatural and the brain…..Either way I loved the brain. Then I got into high school and discovered that a brain surgeon has to learn about the rest of the body….Gross, boring, and deal breaker…So I decided to go into the next logical profession…..Architecture…..Between my jr. and sr. year in high school I attended an architecture camp at Mississippi State and decided architecture was not for me but I loved State. I liked to talk to people and loved the brain so psychology just seemed like a default when I returned to Starkville the next fall. I never changed. Ironically I avoided physio until the last semester because it was hard. When I took it I fell in love again with the brain. I went to grad school because I did not want to enter the real world….Clinical psych because it was competitive…And I ended up here. I am a psychologist. In graduate school I found my true love…TRAUMA….love it…don’t know why but I do….And now I am combining it more and more with my old flame….The brain! Life is go
Good work
This is a perfect place to do it, Steph!
Great post – and I have to say, as a SAH caregiver, I do not miss high heels, pantyhose, and makeup.
Heck, most days showering is optional. (Oops – TMI?!)
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