As some of you may know... I declared Biology as my major in 2009, when I first started at UVU. Initially, I planned on becoming a Pharmacist and doing all of that really fun stuff. Shortly after making this decision, I realized how much I would hate that career. Mainly, I just realized how difficult it is to feel passionate about a career in Pharmacy, when it's all about pills and chemical reactions. I mean, while I'm sure some people manage to have a passion for pills, and become great Pharmacists, I'm almost positive that the rest of those people are passionate pill poppers.
Enter in, Career Choice #2. After flunking all of my classes in Fall 2010, I took a semester off to try and discover what it is that I really want to do. This made me affirm my abnormal love and obsession for animals. Ever since I was little, I have tried to catch all the neighborhood wildlife with the help of my trusty sidekick (and best friend), Christina Bauch. With all that in mind, a Veterinarian seemed to be the obvious career choice for a critter-loving lady, such as myself. But after some thought and consideration, I came to realize that I'm not interested in performing medical procedures on animals. I'm way more interested in stuff like the ASPCA, and rehabilitation of abused and mistreated animals.
This brings me to Career Choice #3... Animal Behavior. After reading Temple Grandin's, Animals in Translation, I automatically became intrigued with the idea of studying the behavior of animals and our ability to modify that behavior through breeding and other behavioral techniques. I also watched NOVA's Dogs: Decoded, along with other documentaries, and read the scholarly journals from researchers within the documentary. I would love to have a career in dog behavior specifically. I think it is so incredible how dogs have been bred to be so similar to humans. Dogs are the only other mammal, aside from humans, that will look to one side of a person's face in order to perceive what emotion they're experiencing. Need I really say more? However much I would love to live a life studying the complexity of a dogs, there is a downside. Money. It always comes down to money. I would have to undergo years and years of schooling and experience before I ever started making any kind of real dough.
So here's my current Career endeavor. We'll call it Career Choice #4- and hopefully the final career choice. Behavioral Science with an emphasis on Psychology, which is basically just Psychology. The reason being that I signed up for a Biology 1 class and do not find it interesting enough to motivate myself to study as much as is necessary. So, after two not so satisfactory test results, I withdrew from the class. My reasoning behind Psychology is that, almost everyone that is extremely close to me has told me that I'd make a good therapist. I have always wanted to help people. I guess I take certain problematic friends on in hopes of being a good influence on them or something. Doesn't make much sense. But I've always steered away from Psychology because I didn't want to be cliche. I mean, I have come from multiple troubling past experiences and now I would be helping others overcome the same? Cliche aside, it would be a good choice for me. The plan now is to take a Psychology class next semester, and make sure it's something that I'm really interested in. If that's the case, here I come.
Oh, and did I mention that therapists make dough AND work alone? Sounds like Heaven on earth to me!
