Double major and a minor? Any feedback/help would be great.

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I’ve been trying to think about what to major in and been having some difficulties. I’m interested in nursing, maybe pediatric because I love working with children. I love to help people and I’m interested in life sciences and things of that nature. Nursing will always be in demand and always decent paying so I think that’s a plus. I’ve volunteered at hospitals a bit and have been to a camp in which we toured some different areas of medicine. Also, I’m think about teaching, early education. Although teaching does have some cons such as low pay, not a guarantee of a job, dealing with disruptive children, etc…, I do find this a bit more interesting than nursing.

Also, I would like to minor in Spanish; I’ve always been immensely interested in the language and have felt that anything that will increase my fluency will benefit me. Any practice that I can get is great. Spanish is essentially an absolute.

I’m not sure if a double major and a minor is too much but I’m really not sure and really don’t know how to work this. I would like a happy medium of good pay and something I really like to do. I think nursing is great for job guarantee and salary, (especially since I’m looking at nurse practitioning) and its somewhat what’d Id be interested in. Teaching doesn’t guarantee a job and I see a lot of lay-offs and such, and salary isn’t so great at all, but it’s something that I think I’d be full engaged in and excited about.

How would college life be with a double major and a minor? Leisure time?

Would it be worth it to major in both Early Education and Nursing?

After college, if I were to major in both, would it be a smart idea to look into teaching first and then have a nursing degree to fall back on?

Any help would be awesome! Thank you.

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Would such a double major even be possible? At my University (that has one of the top nursing programs in the country), nursing students have to follow an incredibly rigid sequence of courses alongside clinical rounds which together are very time consuming. I haven’t actually heard of anyone taking on another discipline while in the program.

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You’ve heard of the phrase “jack of all trades, master of none”??

It simply isn’t possible to become good at too many things at once. And you don’t want to be a mediocre nurse or a mediocre teacher, you want to be good at what you do. You want to spend the next 4 years learning the basics that will enable you to eventually grow into a great nurse or a great nurse.

Instead of planning to “fall back on” one or the other, why not spend some time deciding on which you think you would actually prefer?

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…oops… The end of that paragraph should have read “or a great teacher.” :blush: