I think this will be alot like the rock bottom post... I just don't know what to do anymore. I am enrolled at University of Missouri in Columbia. I am studying to get my BA in Computer Science (gonna design video games). WHen I enrolled this all seemed good and gravy... but now I realized that I hate programming... which, of course is the BASIS of what I am gonna be doing! I am begininng to hate the thought of sittin in front of a computer the rest of my life... However... I am thinking of changing my major... I am thinking of becoming an art teacher. I know I would like doing it.... but I wouldn't get paid worth a crap... and I don't know how easy it'd be to find a job doing it either.... my g/f supports me and says I should do what makes me happy. She can go anywhere with me.. she wants to be a hairdresser, and theres a place for her to work where ever I go. I don't know what to do guys! I feel like I am over reacting! maybe if I stick with it i'll like it... I don't wanna do it too soon, but then again I don't wanna have to take an extra semester of classes b/c I couldn't decide what I want to do.($$$$).....what do you guys think?

Besides that... at least my g/f and me are good again... this summer was unbelieveably rough for me... she broke up with me twice. After two years of being together.(the best two years of my life.) But its alright... we're back together now and everthing is alright...(except for the fact I drive 50 miles to see her every weekend (and sometimes during the week when I miss her or she misses me...).....

My life ain't so bad I guess, but I just don't know what to do. I am worried about becoming a teacher, b/c I know there isn't much money in it and I dunno if I could find a job doing it..... I don't wanna end up workin at Schnuck's the rest of my life... my g/f won't be able to support my a$$ b/c she won't make that much money either... I just kinda hope we can sqeeze by on both of our salaries put together... what should I do?!

 

figure out what grade range you want to teach, and call the board in that area and ask if theres openings, and what there pay scale is, mybe talk to kids in your classes and see what theyre getting into? best i can offer you bro, good luck

 

There's only one thing to do man! Party and live life one day at a time! Sooner or later, you'll get a vision of what you were put on this earth to do.

 

Maybe try something like Graphic Design or Information Technology? Seems to be more like what you want to be doing but still with the computer aspect in there.

I just switched my major today actually because Electrical Engineering is getting farther and farther from what I actually want to do. I just switched to an Electrical Mechanical Engineering dual major so what I've already taken isn't lost and I can just start taking the mech. things and graduate on time and everything.

You'll find your thing man, stick in there!

 

Programming??? Forget about programming, why don't you get into 3D design...I can't even begin to tell you what the possibilities are...and you can still work on videogames

 

if you dont like it i would get out of it now, there is no point wasting your money and time with somthing that you dont even want to do..i no sooo many people including my sister that wasted years and thousands of dollers to do a program that they thought they would like..did it, and when they get out they realize that what they took is exactley what they DIDN'T want to do..so they go back for somthing else..or in some cases, dont go back at all..you should take some time and seariously think your options through...and just reamber that there are tuns of people in the same situation that you are in, i hear it alllllllllllllll the time bro and it even effects my own family..so goodluck with your decision..do somthing you will be happy with

 

Ok dude here is what you are going to do.

First:
Get some payote.
Second:
Eat the payote.
Third:
Get a vision.
Fourth:
Do what the vision tells you to.

After that everything will be all good.

No but seriously, if you are not happy with programming, get out now and do something you think will make you happy. I was in this situation living on my own in Philly, I got out and I couldn't be happier. Don't ever do it for the money. Do it because you love to.

 

"Hey, wait a minute! There's no such thing as a talking dog!"

 

thanks guys. I have two different advising appointments set up for tommorow morning. The first is with an advisor in the teaching section and she'll tell me about the degree I would need to become an art teacher and wether or not it will be hard to find a job as an art teacher. The second is my current advisor and we're gonna go over the classes that I would be taking if I were to change my major to Information Technology(with a focus in Media technology ie., video games)... I really don't know what I am gonna do yet, but I hope tommorow will shed some light on things.

Another thing - I talked to my advisor today and she told me that there isn't much of a job opportunity for video game designers around here.... I would most likely have to move to either the West or East Coast... I REALLY dun wanna move to cali... i would hate it... plus my g/f (future wife, mind you) doesn't like it either. But besides all that, I just don't really want to move at all. I'd like to stay in missouri at least.

BUT I hope that I don't find out that there is NO need for art teachers around here or I will be screwed on both ends... THIS SUCKS.

thanks everyone