Trying to decide on College Major (Wed development,design etc..)

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Hello,
I will try to make this short. I qualify for financial aid, and after several years spent wasting time I am finally stable and ready to go back to school (26 years old) having about 26 general earned credits. Now, I have always had this issue of not knowing what I would like to study.

My passion is photography,visual arts, creativity…but never thought of making a career out of it. Simply because I wanted to study something that actually may require a degree, and I do want to go back to school to take advantage.

I have ten years at the same job as an administrative assistant for a property management company. I am ready to prep myself to do something else in the future. Now, I don’t know what I may want to study but I do know what I like and don’t like. I am terrible at math, I don’t mind spending hours in front of a computer screen and I enjoy learning.

Point is, I narrowed down to the following majors offered at my school:
Education - I love the school setting and being in what should be a positive and inspirational environment. My school only offers early care/elem education…But, I have come to realize that I don’t know if I have what it takes to be a teacher. My communication skills aren’t the best.

Marketing - I like how broad this field is, but it seems like I would have to know a lot about fiances…again, I am terrible at math. I am also not much of a ‘sales’ person. I know with everything you have to market, but to do it overall not so sure about that.

Home and Building Remodeling - My husband knows how to fix houses, so I thought it would be cool to learn the inside scope and maybe get into a business of remodeling fixer uppers anyways, do I even need a degree to do that? nah…

Web development and Design - This is what I am aiming for now the most. I like the idea that I can study and practice this on my own (Codeacademy is great!) while going to school. The pay seems decent, and there’s a lot of job growth opportunities. I don’t know if I am aiming for development or design yet,maybe both… I also like how I can incorporate photography to it.

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There’s often an overlap between front-end development (HTML, CSS) and design. Some of the better front end developers I’ve worked with came to it through design. There’s definitely a lot of opportunity in this area. Folks often think you need a CS degree to do web development, but that’s more true if you’re doing back-end development in a language like Java.

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Thank your for your response! I am trying to figure out more on front end and back end development. I did see a lot of job opportunities through Indeed for both, I truly have no idea what each means since I am starting from scratch but I am going to do my research. I hope the program at my school breaks it down though, as I do plan on reading and learning on my own as well. The course states it will offer the following:

Web application development
Interactive web media focuses on making creative content by using rich media and responsive page layout. You will use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
General web studies, which is a mix of design and development skills.

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Marketing within a business school will normally require at least 1 level of calculus and 1 level of statistics BTW

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Yes, I decided Marketing wouldn’t be the best option for me for that same and other reasons.

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What about landscape architecture? It combines some aspects of remodeling and you work on a computer often in “Indesign” and “autocad”

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Landscape architecture sounds cool, but never thought of it…and my school if anything would only offer architecture or architecture technology, I think I would like something more board with different branches.

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When you say “your school” does that mean you’re going back to whatever school you were in originally?

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Marketing and sales are not the same thing. You would have to take some minimal math, but you don’t have to do sales - marketing is different.

However, web development is a good major/area to study and work in. Obviously everyone has webpages now and big companies do hire people (or entire teams) just to manage their pages.