<p>I’ve considered teaching, though I’d be more inclined to do it at the elementary level. But where I live, you need a masters to do much teaching and it’s a tougher path when your 4 yr degree isn’t in education.</p>
<p>Well you could try Teach for America</p>
<p>I’ve looked at that. However, I might not qualify as my GPA is 2.47 and they require a 2.50 or better GPA. My GPA is ruined because of one bad semester – take it out and jumps significantly close to 3. But that probably wouldn’t matter. I do stand a good chance at jumping over 2.50 in this, my final semester. That bad semester 2 years ago had me at 1.84 and it’s gradually risen since.</p>
<p>Yeah TFA is very (somewhat inexplicably) competitive, but teaching in general isn’t all that hard to get into. I think you just have to pass a certification test for where ever you wanted to teach, you don’t necessarily need a degree in education. With that certification, then, schools might be willing to give you the benefit of the doubt on your gpa. This is all just the impression I got from TFA and their info sessions.</p>
<p>“2 bad internships and the fact that I suffer from social anxiety makes it hard to do a lot of journalistic tasks.”</p>
<p>Become a copy editor or technical writer.</p>
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<p>As someone else mentioned here: teach. Teaching will allow you some financial security (assuming you go onto a master’s program) as well as some flexibility over the summer. Go for it!</p>
<p>I am very similiar to you. I loved journalism and wrote for the school newspaper in high school. Now I only freelance and have done only one report for my college newspaper. I also blog occassionally. Instead of making journalism my ultimate career, I have decided to consider it as a hobby instead. That might be something to consider. Teaching will give you some flexibility and financial security, and writing can be your hobby/side thing.</p>
<p>It’s really best to focus on what you’ll be doing, not how it pays…*As long as its tolerable and pays well, that’s the most important thing. * Because if you don’t like the job, it doesn’t matter how well it pays.</p>
<p>Have you gone to the Career Center at your school? They often can help.</p>
<p>BTW: finding a job in teaching is really, really hard these days. Most schools have a hiring freeze these days, and you might be competiting against kids who are qualified and really want to teach.</p>
<p>you need inspiration. Your lack of interest has caused not to care for what you learn or get out of classes which shows on your GPA. Although not everything in classes is applicable, there is always SOMETHING that is applicable to real life. The sad thing though, is that now you’re at the end of your college career and it’s impossible to change the past. You lost any passion you once had because of a few failures and now you have become a ritualist (you learn that term? it’s a sociological one).</p>
<p>Find a passion, nobody wants you to go day by day simply going through with life because they don’t know what else to do. I wouldn’t side with the guy telling you to teach unless you actually wanted to teach and teach passionately about the subject you teach. I mean cmon, don’t you know many teacher’s who no longer believe that they are educating kids who refuse to learn? Nobody wants to listen to a teacher who monotonously reads everything from the book in lectures and has no enthusiasm for what he teaches.</p>
<p>I’ll always remember what one professor told me last semester.</p>
<p>“That is hardly what is intended by a college education.”</p>
<p>I was talking to him about his class, which I was doing mediocre in, and described the type of experiences I had in previous courses. And upon hearing my description, that’s what he said. </p>
<p>The bulk of my college courses have been professors reading off powerpoint slides with little teaching, or in one instance using Wikipedia for notes. A few times I’ve had professors make all their notes available online before they’re presented in class, which certainly deflates enthusiasm for even going to class. One professor even gave out his whole semester of notes on day one. In retrospect, a lot of my professors kind of phoned it in and/or didn’t really care and when I had one who didn’t phone it in or did care, I kind of struggled because they were the minority.</p>
<p>I was a good student in high school… top 20% my class, but the train fell of the tracks in college somehow, someway. BTW - I agree with the person who brought up inspiration. I haven’t had any in awhile.</p>
<p>I think we may be twins separated at birth. The only difference between your experience and mine is that I somehow, through sheer inertia, got a degree (in engineering). I’m in grad school now, for no reason other than I didn’t know what else to do. Besides that, I totally get what you’re saying. I hate going to school because my feelings on engineering range from slight interest on the best of days to loathing on the worst. Most days I’m just indifferent. I wish I had some advice to give you, but I’d have to come up with some for myself first.</p>
<p>join the peacecorp, army, navy, marine to jump start your career.</p>
<p>What did you do the first six years of College?</p>
<p>Sit on your bum all day? Go party every night? Internet addiction? Video game addiction? Anything to avoid doing work?</p>
<p>A 2.5 GPA in Sociology doesn’t look like it will open any doors in this Economy. Even if the Economy started to prosper you would still have a 2.5 with a degree in Sociology.</p>
<p>You didn’t care to go to class.
You didn’t care to study.</p>
<p>And you wonder why your options are going to be limited?</p>
<p>Seriously, the reason why College was a huge waste of time for you is because you never put in any effort.</p>
<p>I see no reason to undercoat this - You are lazy.</p>
<p>^^My sentiments exactly.</p>
<p>I had a 3.07 GPA coming out of community college. My GPA was reset to 0.00 when I got to a university.</p>
<p>My University GPA is 2.47… only because of one bad semester in which I failed all but one class and registered an 0.83 for that semester. Take that one semester out, which is clearly an aberration and not the norm, and my university GPA is MUCH closer to 3.0. I don’t have an exact figure, but it’s probably the difference between 2.5 and 2.8. I was also unaware of the add/drop rules at my university. In retrospect, I would have dropped those courses in that one bad semester, avoiding the big GPA hit.</p>
<p>Students who are lazy won’t get a 3.1 even in CC. I was also misled for many years that employers don’t look at grades and only care if you have a degree, though I don’t know how much that really mattered in my mind. I never liked NOT doing well and always felt better when I did do well.</p>
<p>I was never top of the class material, but often found myself in the B- to B+ range.</p>
<p>What would you have to do differently in order to get a 3.0 gpa?</p>
<p>To a serious employer a 2.5 GPA in College looks like you partied too much(extrovert) or had an internet/game addiction(introvert).</p>
<p>This is just reality- You are graduating in a horrible job market with a far below average gpa, and what is considered an “easy” major. I’ve never taken a class in Sociology so I am not going to judge whether or not the status quo is true.</p>
<p>Since getting over a 3.0 GPA is realistically out of the question you should immediately find employment after graduation and try to work your way up. Even if that employment means $10-15 per hour.</p>
<p>I don’t see any other option- Does anyone else? He/She is in College for seven years and is just starting to figure out that to some extent grades do matter(as does your major).</p>
<p>Alternatively, if you ever did become motivated one day you could start your own company. Maybe you would take that more seriously than you took school.</p>
<p>“To a serious employer a 2.5 GPA in College looks like you partied too much(extrovert) or had an internet/game addiction(introvert)”</p>
<p>How do you know this? What basis do you have of this statement? </p>
<p>I read your other response about this person being a lazy bum, but how the **** would you know? You’re judging them based on their gpa as to what they did in college and not the person that they are. You dont know that they didnt go to class or didnt care to study. You dont know anything about this person so what makes you qualified to say anything about their actions when you have no idea?</p>
<p>As far as my major, I had to pick something and was often told “for most people, it doesn’t matter what you’re degree is in, so long as you have one.”</p>
<p>Obviously that was a bad tip.</p>
<p>When you’re unsure of what you want to do, and are not inspired by any available major, picking a major isn’t exactly fun.</p>
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so very true…</p>
<p>I think your problem is that you haven’t seemed to have had a single thought of your own. </p>
<p>PEOPLE told you GPA didn’t matter so you didn’t do squat.
PEOPLE told you that your major didn’t matter so you picked an “easy” one. </p>
<p>Why don’t you think for yourself? Sorry to sound harsh, but it’s the truth.</p>
<p>uh you go to college so that PEOPLE will hire you?</p>