mindwanderings

As freshmen class entering college, we have a couple years ahead of us until we have to officially declare our majors, so it wouldn’t be a bad thing to look into what kinds of field of work you are interested in if you haven’t done so already. A part of college, to me, is about exploring about different types of education and discovering what you like. It’s about experimenting and veering off into all sorts of directions with different possible careers. A wise thing to do, I suggest, is to look at the jobs that are in demand, such as health care workers, or computer technicians, for example. Not only should one look at what jobs are in demand now, but growing fields that are “booming”. A job in the medical field is always in demand so it would be a good investment to go to medical school. A career of becoming, say, a hockey instructor, won’t be as high as demand, especially with our recession. While researching what type of jobs are highly needed in the future, one would have to look at the trend of the current market economy, stability of people’s income, the possible percent increase of salary of a particular job and how popular it will be in years to come, and among other factors. It is a fact that employers are willing to pay more to suffice for a lack of workers. Whatever job is in high demand and there is a need for workers, employers have to make up with income with the employees they lack. Say, for example, there is only one doctor in the three towns. The town who is willing to pay the doctor more for his skill would probably woo him over; he is high in demand and they are all competing for his specialized skill. In that respect, it would pay to do a little research beforehand.

I have declared my major as journalism because I think this will enable me to be more aware of my surroundings by learning about the world around me. I think being a journalist will give me access to resources by presenting me with a broad array of information. I think in order to be a journalist, one has to be a well rounded individual that has sufficient background knowledge in many areas. In addition to what I have just said, I would like to greatly improve my writing. I think because journalists do a great deal of writing, it would be hard not to learn anything along the way.

So I have declared my major already, but I know that it is still early enough to change if I want/need to. But looking at the future of the media, namely newspapers, I can see that the forecast is gray. I’m not sure what to expect for the survival of newspapers (or magazines) because they are fading away. Other media forms come into play, such as television and internet, that can reach millions of people faster. Do people even read newspapers/magazines anymore? There are subscriptions online, like the New York Times, but we are talking about the existence of these media forms.

Perhaps going into the newspaper field wouldn’t be as demanding, according to the trend, but online writing is growing considerably. In that respect, I wouldn’t have to totally change majors because I can branch off into a different department of journalism. And maybe that is where my research lies.

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