<p>I'm planning on graduating with a bachelors degree in Sociology in a few months. My path to a four-year degree has not been the common one as it will end up taking me seven years. I have been to three different schools, dropped a lot of classes along the way, and have been extremely indecisive about what I want to do.</p>
<p>I didn't major in Sociology because I had an interest in it. I didn't -- and don't. But I had to pick something and it wasn't as if anything else struck me as a much better option. I have had little or no interest in just about everything I have taken in college, be it Sociology or any other subject. </p>
<p>And in the end, I have learned absolutely nothing. I mean that literally. Not because my grades were awful -- I had a 3.0 coming out of community college and outside of out horrendously bad semester, my university GPA would be in that range as well.</p>
<p>More than anything, I just hated all of it. The vast majority of courses struck me as useless and irrelevant in the real world. As I said, I had no interest in any of it. That's the problem because I don't know what I have interest in. 4 years ago while at a previous school I did some career counseling but it didn't lead to a whole lot.</p>
<p>Back in high school, I thought I was all set. I was on the school newspaper for three years, was the editor for a year, and scored a couple internships in my first few years after high school. But neither went well and I realized that the real world of journalism is quite different than what I had been exposed to in high school. The fact that I battle social anxiety was another major factor. </p>
<p>I never really had a back up plan. I thought journalism was going to be it for me and anyone who knew me in high school would have agreed without a second thought. But I lacked the mental makeup for the job and have been left empty handed ever since.</p>
<p>Now that I can see the end of college quickly approaching, I don't know what I'm left with. When I look at job listings, I quickly come to the conclusion there is little that I'm qualified for. It's a merging of a number of negative factors -- learned nothing in college, questionable major, bad economy, and no career path. I guess it will be a good thing that I at least have a degree, but one I contend borders on useless.</p>
<p>My only employment history is an ongoing 4+ year stint doing a desk job at a retirement community. It's a classic low-pay dead-end job that requires no college. Looking at the positives, you could say it shows steady employment.</p>
<p>Two things I do know: I never have had the aptitude for trades and am not cut out for the military. Those two areas are usually alternatives for people who don't go to college, but neither was right for me. </p>
<p>You could argue college wasn't right for me, at least in the sense maybe I shouldn't have gone right away even though my grades in HS were top 20% of my class. In some ways, I was much more responsible than most kids who graduated H.S with me, but in other ways I was extremely immature from an emotional standpoint and even more naive. Even as a high school senior, I had no interest in the academics of college and only went because I thought I would be screwed career wise if I didn't. Now that I have went, I fear that might be true anyway.</p>
<p>I think college could be great if you have a good reason for going. For some professions, such as medicine, law, teaching and the like, you absolutely need college. But if you're just going to go, it ends up being a waste of time and that seems like that's what happened to me.</p>
<p>Thoughts? Feedback? Advice?</p>