It seems like lately i've been feeling the "not sure what to do with my life" sophomore blues. Maybe this is because I desperately want summer to be here, or maybe it's because everytime I look at any list of jobs needed for the future... I see nothing that has to do with my majors. As a Journalism/Philosophy major it seems like the most practical thing for me to do when I grow up is become a bum. I'm definitely no computer saavant and my success as an adult could be hindered by it.After reading just a few top ten lists I was depressed to realize that thinking isn't enough anymore. I get the impression that if I don't know how to reprogram Windows or explain the systematcial, informational whatever of anything, i'm bound to be in the poor house. Every "Top 10 Up and Coming Careers" list is the same: network analyst, medical this, computer that, etc.But fact of the matter is not everyone is meant to be a software know-it-all. I sure as hell don't know very much...but isn't that the reason colleges have so many differing degrees, so that we can find our niche and do what we love? I could go to school for four years, work my tail off, graduate with a philosophy degree, not to mention insight into the world... and then be stuck in my parents basement till 30 because no ones going to hire people who would rather talk then email. Where's the love for the out-of-the-box thinkers of our generation? Is there no place left for the Socrates' and Plato's of our day? Hell, do we even have any great thinkers of our own? It surprises me that although as a society we've "evolved," I mean we have a gidget or gadget for everything imaginable, but at what expense? Sure we can mold plastic and put buttons on it to communicate globally, which don't get me wrong is an incredible invention, but what have we really leanred about mankind itself in the past half a century? In the whirlwind of technology that has become the norm, philosophers and metaphysics have all too nearly lost their place in society. I'm not saying there isn't a need for those incredibly whizzy kids who can take apart and put back together computers in 30 seconds flat; all i'm saying is that maybe we should direct a little more attention to human kind. In a thousand years, will our generation be remembered for owning iphones or will we leave a bigger mark in the history of the human mind? I guess it's up to us, right?
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Here's Career Exploreres Hottest Top Ten to see what I mean:
http://www.careerexplorer.net/ten-hottest-careers.asp?affiliateid=4085&type=&adgroup=&kw=&acctid=&ovkey=
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