I was browsing my Facebook newsfeed today (and anyone who knows me knows I HATE Facebook, too much drama) and I always see the same things that just drive me crazy. Crazy enough that if I see you do this, I'm automatically deleting you because I don't need that kind of negativity in my life. I have a few different circles of friends; there's the Performance Major friends (music, dance, theatre), there's all the people I went to high school with, people that I go to school with now, and my family. Now moving on to the point of this post.
The one thing that I can not stand is when people bash arts majors for doing what they do. I specifically know one guy who tries to make us feel like bad people. He has literally said "Why are you wasting so much money on school when you're not doing anything productive?" and "It's cool that you do that, but I don't have any respect for you."
I'm sorry that I'm not an Engineering major, or an accounting major or even an Athletic Training major, but why can't my major be important? I may just be an actor and a designer, but I'm doing what I love. I'm going to have more experiences traveling and meeting so many different people than you are sitting at your desk all day. I may not make a lot of money at first, but that doesn't matter to me.
I have another friend who is an accounting major ONLY for the money that comes out of the career. He doesn't care about the field at all. He just wants the money. That's not what college is about! College is supposed to be about pursuing what you want to be in life. We all have had dreams about our careers, college is where it happens! No body should have to feel that they aren't worth anything just because they don't have a fancy major. I have a ton of Music Education friends, and we all know that with state budget cuts that it is a ridiculously hard field to find work in right now. But that doesn't matter. It's what we're passionate about, it's what we love. And that's all that matters.
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