From the time I first started thinking about college in high school (and even through my first year of college), I tried to convince myself that I would be happy sitting in an office building every day from 8-5, doing something that bores me half to death because that’s where the “big bucks” are. My goal was to find something that I could tolerate doing that would pay me enough so I could live with doing it. What kind of life is that?
It was my second year of college when I realized that I could not possibly be a Business major for the rest of my college career without losing my mind or dying of boredom. Business wasn’t what I was passionate about. It’s what I thought would make me money. It didn’t excite me. I took a Sociology course my first semester and I loved it so much it’s what I changed my major to.
What exactly turns me off from the Business World? I can’t be myself. I cannot currently be Black and natural and tatted and pierced and opinionated in an office in America.
I love my piercings and my tattoos and my hair and my opinions and I would hate to spend the remainder of my adult life being self-conscious about them because my work environment feels a type of way. I want to be able to be myself and love what I do. I feel that everyone deserves that out of life.
No offense to anyone pursuing a career in Corporate America, I just hope that you’re pursuing what you love instead of pursuing the money like I was. I don’t know where I’d be or what track I would be on if I had continued as a Business major, but what I do know is that now I am on track to do what I love: write and provide others with a point of view they may not have previously considered.