<p>Hi everyone, I'm a new member here, so not sure this post is in the right place. BTW sorry for my bad English.</p>
<p>Drawing and painting have been my hobbies since I was a child. I absolutely love Gothic and Baroque arts (but can never draw a picture in this term :D). I did a research and found out that ASU offers many options for this major. My plan is to attend South Mountain CC then transfer to ASU.</p>
<p>And yeah, I'm really interested in Arts major. But from what I've seen, it seems to be a bad degree and only few people can get good jobs after graduating. I hope I'm wrong though. I'm thinking about Information technology/Computer Information Systems/Web Design as other options. I know nothing about Java and C++ stuff but I like computers and these fields offer better jobs than Arts.... but I still prefer drawing a picture to sitting in front of the computer.</p>
<p>Please give me advice.... and thank you so much for your patience (reading my terrible sentences, haha).</p>
<p>Thank you so much, but there’s a bunch of majors which were very confusing, like CIS/CS/IT… blah blah. So if I finish Associates of Applied Science, I’ll be able to go for those majors right?</p>
<p>I didn’t say which major you should choose so please keep that in mind. I just mentioned one reality that a lot of people don’t understand. </p>
<p>Getting a degree in an art form is not setting you up to become an employee. One key choice you have to make is whether you prefer to work for other people or to work for yourself, do you want to do what your told today in exchange for a regular paycheck and maybe benefits or would you rather follow your heart and risk not getting paid regularly or working in retail, waiting tables, etc. until your pay from art becomes more steady.</p>
<p>Being an artist is much more entrepreneurial and enterprising than getting a job. Only 5% of Americans are entrepreneurs. That is why 95% of people look down on the choice to become an artist. Who goes to college to work for nobody? 95% of people don’t get it.</p>
<p>Go into computer and get a job. Go into art and get an adventure (ups, downs, twists and turns). No promises, no prospects, no pay other than what you create for yourself versus what someone else created for themselves.</p>
<p>I think Madaboutx expresses the first issue you need to face rather well. </p>
<p>South Mountain CC will undoubtably have career counselors. i would make an appointment and lay out these questions. If you decide to go the IT/CIS/Web Design route the counselor will likely tell you that you need to start working on that degree now to graduate within a reasonable timeframe otherwise you could end up spending upper classman time at ASU on lower level computer classes that you could have taken at a fraction of the cost at SM CC.</p>
<p>You might also reach out to the ASU career counselors, explain your goals and see if they’ll give you an hour of their time. I did this myself many years ago when I was contemplating a mid-carrer change. The local state university counselor was happy to meet with me and it was quality time spent.</p>
<p>By the way IT, CIS, and Web Design are all very different endeavors. If you’re serious about these areas I would spend some time taking a closer look so you can narrow down which of the three you really want.</p>