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[cabrita]

Sooo...today was the first real day of studio. We pinned up the 15 perspective sketches we were assigned on Monday, and for the next 3 hours, we discussed everyone's work in great detail. I couldn't help but think about how I might be wasting my time pursuing industrial design. I mean, I've hated most of the work I've had to do for this class so

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[scarsnsouvenirs]

We're so much alike. And my brother is kinda going through this, too.

I'm a huge proponent of the "impractical" fields of study. I think it's more important to enjoy your education than to see it as a means to an end. If you're content with it, things wil be in line for you when it's time to get a job. I sometimes feel like maybe there are no careers that will make me happy, ever, but then I see my friends working at completely obscure jobs (example: History major working as an analyst at a software company, a job she got on a fluke), and they love them because the work is challenging or interesting, and they like their coworkers, the atmosphere, etc. And I don't like when people say this because ti sounds so patronizing, so that's not at all how I want to come across, but you change so much as a person during college, so ti's OK to want different things, change your mind, etc.

[cola_fan]

Sometimes it's hard to find the right career. The only advice I can give is to spend time on things you truly care about and you will be rewarded. And keep working at finding what's right.

As for school, you'll have to weigh the benefits (people, structured activity, interesting stuff going on) and the costs (work that you don't appreciate, confusion, etc).

Good luck. You'll figure it out.

[laurapatt]

no one says you have to do the same thing for the rest of your life :) who does that anyway? i think most people do a bunch of different stuff in their lifetimes. So, I'd stop worrying about the "rest of your life".

Also, when saying you don't want to be a musician, remember that there are a whole lot of things involved in music other than playing it. I'm not planning on being a performer. You can teach, compose, write about it, study the history or how different cultures use and make it, use it as therapy for all kinds of disabled people, learn theory, etc etc. So also maybe think about things other than like "being an artist" or "being a musician" because there's so much more to a lot of stuff than what's on the surface.

My advice is pretty similar to Graham's. Do what you like doing in your free time and consider what you also have to do with it. If you're not liking how tech is structured, maybe you'd like a liberal arts college better?

[mobius23]

While I empathize, I can't say I understand what you're going through... our experiences with major courses here seem to be polar opposites. You may even want to try taking intro to cm, or some other course only for the sake of it sounding interesting, as a way to gauge whether going through four years of said subject would be any better. You could probably arrange to take jewelry and metalsmithing courses at GSU over the summer as free elective credit for your Tech degree. While it's most important to do something you love, as everyone else has said, it's also possible that your depression is having an effect on how much you hate your classes - taking a minimum courseload, a break from tech for a semester, or therapy might help considerably, and you're clearly doing very well in your classes to keep the hope thus far, so exploring options without quitting might be a better plan for now. Alternatively, what about an internship or co-op? You said that one of the things that you loved about the summer was the feeling of being