Career Thoughts

Aug 13
2008

Well because I couldn’t go swimming, I just sat in the lobby chatting with these two Chinese women from Vancouver, Canada instead. I’ve talked briefly with them throughout the trip, and they were very interesting people. They used to be on the professional volleyball team in China, and they are so tall. Both of them are over 40 but they acted like 20 year olds. We got along well even though their kids are almost as old as I am. I learned about the economic situation in Canada, how they want their kids to go to college in the U.S. because schools here are considered more prestigious. I told them the best advice I could about college and that is for their kids to pick a major they’d actually enjoy, not one for career purposes. No employers give a damn what your undergraduate major is. I, for one, wish I had not taken business. I love business, of course, but I already knew from the start that a major in business would teach me stuff I already knew, and are generally outdated at this point in time. I wish I had done linguistics or English, or even computer science instead. But four years ago, like my business partner, I felt like I “had” to take it for what I wanted to become.