Don't Know What You Want to Do? No Problem!

One year ago, I was interning in the legal department of a large financial firm. While I didn't HATE the work, I knew it wasn't how I wanted to spend the majority of my waking hours for the foreseeable future. I had contemplated going to law school, but the fire just wasn't there. Learning about the law did not motivate me to get up in the morning, or to work 80+ hours a week in the hope of advancing my career.

Rewind even further back, to the spring of 2007, as I was teetering on the precipice of high school graduation. I had recently been accepted to Brandeis University, and was eagerly anticipating my move up to Boston. However, Brandeis seemed to be getting a bit ahead of themselves. Here they were, asking me my intended major, when I had not even finished high school! I honestly had no idea. History, psychology, and business were options, but how could I choose? I ended up writing "Psychology" on that form.

Of course, I did not major in psychology at Brandeis. In fact, I only took two classes in the Psyc. department. At some point during my freshman year, I decided I wanted to be an Economics major (this was heavily influenced by an amazing professor named Mike Coiner). Meanwhile, the questions about my intended career lingered. I remember people asking me, "Oh, economics. What are you gonna do with that?" to which my answer was usually along the lines of, "I'm not really sure. But I have a lot of options." Although this turned out to be the truth, I had no clairvoyance on the issue until a few months into my senior year.

How I became involved in the world of Internet marketing is a story for the next post. But if you remember one thing you just read, remember that you don't always need to have an answer to "Oh, what are you going to do with that degree?" You'll figure it out sooner or later.