are degrees which are of interest to you a waste of time?

Question

What i mean is sure everyone likes films and the arts but if you spent 4 years studying fims and invested money to study is it worth it in the end if you can't get a job? I am unsure what to study but i need to do something as I am in a dead end job I am interested in animals and films but jobs in these are minimal the obvious answer is do a degree in finance or computers or management or something but that would be boring as hell and i would find it hard to stick it out and finish the course especially with no money, i know most people hate their jobs but get paid well for it. I hate my job and want to change but without no experiance or qualifications it is near impossible. I just wanna hear peoples thoughts and the fact im 22 doesnt help either lol

Answer 1

If you follow your heart and do what you love, then the money and jobs will pursue you.
Major in one field and Minor in another.

Answer 2

Well as you are only 22 you have time on your hands. I did a degree in Agriculture/Horticulture and I have a MA in Social Science, I did that MA because I wanted to do a dissertation on something that is of interest to me, I am now working in a tourist shop part-time, until I can find something better. My friend has a degree in English and has been looking for a job for a long time. So what good have these qualifications been to us? You need a skill that is marketable so you can pay back your loans. There seems to be a shortage of dentists for some reason in this country, because I haven't had a British dentist for ages on the NHS. If this country is having to get people from abroad that is an indication that there is a shortage of Dentists. You might not like to be a dentist but there isn't a shortage of Doctors, all the doctors I have had have always been British, however they do requite mental health nurses from abroad so perhaps that is something that can be good for you. You don't have to pay for a degree in health care because they make you go on placement and that is why you don't pay for the course, I know this because I tried it myself. In life you need to have some qualification which other people don't have, because then you will never be without work. Also if you have a skill you can work in any country.
Do courses in the films and arts in the evening as an interest because you can fall back on them at the end of the day. You said that you were interested in animals well what about being a vet, there isn't a shortage of vets in the same way as dentists but it is such a marketable job and if you love animals why don't you save them? Yes office jobs I agree are boaring.

Answer 3

Try biology or zoology if you like animals.

Great jobs in that, including television documentaries on animals.

Also, degrees are great social occasions. You meet lots of friends (that is, if you study on campus). You could even meet a soul-mate with similar interests, or a future business partner or boss there.

I know computer science and management grads who work in call centres and 24 hour supermarkets.

If you enjoy something, it's not a waste of time. Happiness is worth more than money.

You're 22, not too old. I know people who start their new career at 50. But that's the age to do something, you're young and filled with vigour.

If I were 22 again, I'd do my film degree again. Only this time, I'd keep a better Rolodex (have lost contact with a few friends, still have some of their photos and I forgot last names... aaah!). And I'd probably do it in the US instead of the UK.

Break a leg! (I'd say good luck, but with film and all, you might be an actor)

Answer 4

Hi again, I learned that there are no absolutes. So, everything has its positive side. Look at it as to glass with water in it when you are thisty. The positive is the liquid the negative is the air. Life is like that. One can look at the whater or at the air, and according to the way one looks at it, one feels like enjoying or not.

If you want to be THE BEST in what you do, go for what you like; there is almost no competition if you are competent and good.

On the other hand, one can learn how to enjoy something that doesn't tell us a lot. It is all in our minds.

And by the way, 22 is not a bad age. It is your age. It seems to me that you kind'a reject that - humor is the ability to reject. The question you have been asking tells me that you are very concerned. And yu look mature enough to decide about your life.

We, the answerers, are in a quite confortable position, but sure we all have our troubles and problems. And it is not easy to give advice impartialy. In the other question you asked - learning or earning? - almost every body talked about their own experiences rather than saying DO THIS or DO THAT, and the ones who told you to do both also had their experience attached and followed your lead: '' 'earning or learning', which is more important''.

So, if something interests you, and you feel YOU CAN BE THE BEST on the subject, GO FOR IT. This way it will never be a waste of time.

Answer 5

Absolutely not a waste of time, especially if it holds your interest. I am an inventor. I will tell you that an idea is a wonderful thing. The reason it is wonderful is because it is essentially, the essence of all creation. In a religious aspect, if it were not for Gods idea of creating the image of himself, likeness, and ways, (although we did not work out to be exactly as was planned) than what and where would we be today? OK then, enough of the religious aspect.
Now, unless you have walked through a chronos timegate of some kind, and have perfected time, space and energy constants correlates, (there actually are pathways to the future) I would say that you are pretty much like the rest of us and only, at best, have a great instinctual forsight of the future but when it comes down to it all, nada one on this earth knows what holds ahead. Even the greatest minds today can't tell us what is to be.
With that in our pockets at the moment pretty much being with factual basis, we can say that there is room in every field of study due to the paradigm of advancement. 30 years ago, not a person alive new I would be answering your question through a PC. PC back then meant personal contact (commonly)and at all places, something called Yahoo? If someone were chanting these facts that are today back in 77, they would put them in a dark room and throw the key away. Only 30 years by the way.
What I am leading toward before I go off course anymore is breakthroughs. This is especially applicable with animals. "If I could talk to the animals" remember that Disney tune (was it Disney?) anyway, this is getting closer to paradigm when we will be able to 'babel fish' per se and communicate with them. Does that not sound exciting? Do not underestimate yourself and others in thinking that this is not possible because it is. Now, who do you think could make such discoveries? People that work jobs with animals? They wish they could but there is somthing that gets in the way called work criteria. It disallows the timestaking of research and development. What allows this work to happen are colleges and universities; their study and research labs. If you go to school, YOU are the future. Things like this are just an example of how mankind needs you to do this, whatever it is that is to be. If you think this is not serious, consider this...Nuclear energy has been around for a long time now. We use Uranium. Once totally depleted it become Plutonium. We bury it, about the dumbest thing mankind has ever done and is still doing. Why is it dumb you may ask. Well you see, we are capable at this time of encasing nuclear radiation for the duration of about 20,000 years. That seems like a pretty long time doesnt it? Unfortunately in the eyes of Plutonium, it falls short, way short. Plutonium has a half life of 20,000,000 years which means 40.000.000 must transpire before Plutonium becomes a non-radioactive plutonic rock and is safe to open from containment. We have jumped ahead of ourselves in this case, which may prove to be a grave mistake, but one thing it has proven, is that we have disrespected ourselves in our future. We left it for future generations to figure out without caring about them. Sort of like who cares we will be dead anyway. Regardless of this genescidal move that we still do today. Weare depending on the minds of the future to figure it out, long before they are even born.

Some time in the future, movies will become 3 dimensional by triangualted or perhaps pentagulated projection and it will apear like you are actually in the scene. perhaps some type of interaction may be involved. Holography is right on th brink of creation for production in video games. Maybe this might be interesting to you, as the next step will likely be the theatre
Look at the whole spectrum of things including that which is not yet existing. I believe that the question will then answer itself. There is a huge horizon of new to come and although mankind does not require advancement in those fields of your interest like we do for nuclear energy; yet still there will be the demand for experts in your fields of interest.
Thank you, lagunapete

Answer 6

Difficult one to answer.

If you know what you want to do as a job then get out there and do a specific related degree to help you in to it.

If you don't know what you want to do yet then do a degree that's of interest to you ans that you'll engage with. Then you can later decide what you want to do. The degree subject may not be relevant, but the fact that you have studied to degree level and committed to it then that show commitment, tenacity, ability to learn, ability to meet deadlines (assignments), etc all of which are good skills for pretty much any job.

Any way that would be my advice on that one.

Answer 7

I advise which you come across something on your BA in psychology first. I guess interior some years, something will open up for you which you will choose. to illustrate, I actually have a chum who have been given his degree in forestry and worked on the interior reach paper mill. He replaced into presented something that replaced into thoroughly unrelated to his degree - laptop programming - which replaced right into a freelanced or minored potential that he had found out. He now makes 4x the money that he did engaged on the paper mill under his degree in forestry. in case you may bypass to tech college, then bypass. consistent with probability there'll be something that could require the two laptop publishing and psychology. My degree would be a BA in English (minor artwork background). i won't be in a position to be getting my instructor's certification so i think as though i'm somewhat caught. Upon listening to my chum's tale, i think hopeful that i will get any interest regarding my field of learn and then the wonderful probability for me will finally come alongside - like if i will prepare that i'm proficient for specific laptop enhancing classes, i could desire to artwork in an artwork museum and learn for them with purely a bachelor's degree.

Answer 8

Employees don't care what your degree is in unless it is job specific. The point of a degree is to prove you have the ability to retain and process information.

Do a degree if for nothing more than to say you did it. It will open doors that are closed to you at the moment.

Good luck hope you do it

Answer 9

It's more a case of doing what you are good at. If you are committed to being the best director in the world then you probably will be one day. The people who succeed are the people who keep trying to do what they are passionate about.

Answer 10

It sounds like it for you? I did two degrees one in philosopy other in psychology. The philosophy degree was soo much more fun however the psychology led me more to what i do now.