How to choose a major

Any individual caring for the future comes to the point when the need of choosing an education and career paths takes place. Even though we want to have our dream job, studying provides a number of opportunities, as well as some knowledge and skills that might be useful and providing us a good job for the life we want to build in the future. I already chose my major so I will try to be more specific on how to choose it by describing each step so you can succeed in choosing it easily.

As starting to think about choosing a major, the first step to take is consulting with someone that knows you and has a good career is a good thing to do. It can be anyone; parents, a friend or relatives. Someone that you trust and know his/her advices will be good for you, just go with it. Of course when it comes to the point you have to make a decision for the future, all of us think about which will be the best. Discussing all the thoughts and possible majors and listening to other advices can make you feel secure and having better ideas for your future major. For example, the person you are consulting can make you questions to help you think better such as: what are you interested in or passionate about? What kind of work do you want to do? What kind of life do you want to lead? In my opinion, parents are the ones who can give advices and of course those kinds of questions can make the mind think about a possible and guaranteed major to succeed.

After that, the other step to take is exploration of majors. The best way to do this searching the net like Google and looking in different school websites what majors they do offer. At the time of exploring the majors, taking notes and write down the major we are confident and we thought about before and then those you like and find interesting is the best thing to do. Taking all the majors one by one, and imaging ourselves taking the classes for that major, is also helpful to determine which one is likely to fit better. For example if it is likely to take business management and the individual doesn’t like to take a math class he/she can’t list it anymore as a considering major to take. Mentioning a major it should also be taken in consideration the future job opportunities, so after choosing all the majors possible it would be great to do a list of all jobs those majors can provide.

After we have done all the exploration of majors, the last but not least step is taking into consideration all pros and cons is a good way to have a clear mind for what we trying to study for all years in the university. Usually, as mentioned before all of us should make a list and write down is a helpful thing to do and this is also my advice for everything you are not sure. In one part write down all pros and in the other part all cons. In the paper pros and cons can be different, such as a major is, or is not, a good fit. Continuing with things that we like, or we do not and if a major matches or not our career goals. All the people that are going to do this should know that this such as researching careers, degree requirements, or course descriptions won’t take only one hour or one day to be done. To do this a faculty member can also help with the exploration of majors. By only focusing on a smaller number of majors the advisor can recommend you to talk to professors, academic or even students to have a better idea of the intended major. Choosing a major is a big decision not only for the higher education but for our entire life so we should be patient and continue looking and doing the best to achieve what is ideal for the life we want to live.

As finishing all the steps on how to choose a major, I think I was specific on how to choose it by describing each step so you can succeed in choosing easily a major. A large number of people will approve that after taking all steps, they will be more secure and confident on choosing the major that suit the best. Based on the results of your pros and cons worksheet, the individual should be able to finish the elimination for majors by crossing out all but one major on the list. And by now, the one that is left should be the major that has become very clear to you as the path ahead to follow toward graduation. The last word to say is:” Congratulations, you have chosen you major successfully!”