Depression Support Group
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hello all,
I am a 21 year old college student in my junior year. I changed my major an embarrassing total of 5 times (yup..,sad I know).
As a child and young adult, I was very visually and artistically wired. I loved to build/draw/paint whatever. But somewhere along the line, I let myself believe what my parents told me and what my inner critic told me, that I'd never make in an art related degree and it was unrealistic
ive failed out of math, engineering, computer science, and now I am currently failing accounting/business. Lengthy word problems on test confuse me and I usually do poorly.
I feel worthless, depressed hopeless, like at age 21 my fate is decided and I will never be able to do what I am actually good at (art), I keep having these fears I'll flunk again or my boyfriend will leave me cause he is a month from graduation while I'm stuck in a mid-college crisis.
I have so many interests in the field of arts/visual stuff. But I feel like a loser. I don't blame my parents for not letting me switch my major again. They didnt really give me the option of a non technical major, but that's because they are only going to support a major they think will get me a job.
Anyway, any advice would help, right now I've hit an all time low.
your parents are victims of their own idiocy. I have an ex husband like this. He can't leave things alone. He has to fiddle with them till they're ruined. I fight with him to help our daughter out financially so she doesn't have to work... before she's even enrolled for this year he's telling her she has to get a job. Gets his parenting advice down the pub from drunks with no children. Insufferable.
But the real bottom line here is that you're an adult now. And if you don't want your parents telling you what to do, you have to pay your way.
So make the leap. Time to say bye bye to their flawed view. They want you safe, but safety comes at a price. And if you aren't even cut out for accounting etc, why they want you to do it is beyond me.
Especially when your job will be being done by a robot in five years time. There's no future in accounting. That's insane. Financial advisory perhaps. But not accounting and business. Crap pay anyway.
You could end up just as poor as an accountant as an artist. What sort of art are you interested in?