I'm having issues choosing the right major for me. The only thing I know is that I need to do something creative without becoming a starving artist. Have any ideas?
2006-09-02 17:02:33 · 9 answers · asked by Livia 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
I have an English degree and almost starved to death with it.
If you're smart enough for the laboratory sciences (Chemistry, physics, biology, engineering) and mathematics then that's where you belong as a major, believe me. You'll be working in a dizzyingly technological century and you'll have the lab work and the science so that you won't be b*llsh*tt*d by others.
Take Shakespeare and classical music as your electives and use them to remain sane during your adult life.
Knowing your way around math and calculus will make you more creative than the way they teach arts nowadays -- and then no one will tell you while you're doing those art projects that you're gonna starve when you get your bachelors!
They don't teach or enhance creativity in college! You can't build an empire doing that, you won't get federal grant money for that, the current operating fantasy is that everyone is "creative" if it is "unlocked" by "enlightened" leadership.
Get thee to a science lab, to update the advice offered Ophelia by Hamlet.
2006-09-02 17:10:25 · answer #1 · answered by urbancoyote 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hello.
I just answered a question for someone about Arrchitecture school. it's creative, but very difficult and fewer people pass the architecture licensing test each year tfhan for any other profession. I'd get an associate's degree in aechitecture from a Comm. College before entering fthe five-year college program.
I have friends who majored in art at UNC, Chapel Hill,NC who are successful artists, but that's not a very sure thing.
Music is hell unless you already play classical piano and sing very well.
A good compromise between creativity and landing a good job would be advertising journalism or RTVMP(Radio, Telrvison and Motion Pictures).RTVMP majors are what television stations look for when hiring anyone.
Thanks and Good Luck,
JB :)
Hope I helped.
Yours,
JB :)
2006-09-02 17:52:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Design--very general, it can account for many fields, Art, Drama, Sculpture, Photography, Advertising, Teaching--especially lower grades, Web Design, Graphic Design, etc.
It's hard to pick a major. I'm in the same boat. Just know that you're not alone, but creativity is rare and shouldn't be wasted.
2006-09-02 17:11:33 · answer #3 · answered by xxthespianxx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i desire to propose not thinking approximately double or triple majors. that could desire to be too elementary for you. only p.c.. one technology significant. Then do a an extremely customized stepped forward degree. via the time you intend for graduate college you're able to have the skill to study what college has the college and adaptability to fulfill your interest. you additionally could make you Ph.D. interdisciplinary. i think of a double significant makes you too narrow throughout the time of a time while this is the final danger to develop your self.
2016-10-01 05:55:49 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Graphic design and architecture are great creative careers.
2006-09-02 17:56:51 · answer #5 · answered by MadameJazzy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a Master's in Story Telling at ETSU.
2006-09-02 17:42:25 · answer #6 · answered by metamorphosisa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
architecture or graphic design are good majors its alot of work but its good $ and you get to use your creativity,
2006-09-02 17:11:08 · answer #7 · answered by freckleface 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An MFA is the way to go. You could teach college Art and get paid pretty well.
2006-09-02 17:12:33 · answer #8 · answered by Venus 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
be the next thomas kincaid...... get an mba, learn business, minor in painting....
2006-09-02 17:07:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋