Pursuing your Passion: Choosing a Major & Career

On Wednesday 11/18/09, I attended my final workshop which was the Pursuing your Passion: Choosing a Major & Career workshop hosted by the Starr Career Development Center in VC 2-125 at12:50.  I didn’t know about the workshop until that very day when I checked the list of workshops left to fulfill the career explanation category.  I decided to go that day because the other days didn’t fit my schedule.  Upon arriving, I saw only a couple of fellow students there, one of whom was Jane, my peer mentor helping out the friendly woman presenter.  After arriving, we waited for about 10-15 minutes for more people to arrive before the friendly woman started to present.  She first started us off by asking us if this was our 1st career related workshop or not and who had gone to the Starr Career Development Center before.  She then questioned us by asking which of us had all our majors and careers planned out.  Afterwards, she started to discuss the many different types of majors and careers there are out in this world.  We also discussed what was important to us in terms of searching for a job and major.  I learned from her that a lot of jobs are related and that one major doesn’t necessarily lead to only one job.  One major can in fact link to many job/career choices such as a psychology major can be a therapist, human resource specialist, social worker as well as many other jobs.  I also learned that different people that have different interests can be attracted to different types of jobs and careers.  I also learned about the hexagon of general occupational themes and what each major Baruch offers fits under in that hexagon.  Overall, I was very pleased with this workshop as I learned a whole lot about what Baruch offers as well as how one major doesn’t necessarily lead to only one job.  I also learned about a whole deal about myself because I learned that doing what I was interested in mattered to me the most and that I can switch between jobs and careers.  I would definitely recommend this workshop to my peers.