Generation Girl: Ready for the 'Finicky Era"?

Intro:

In times of struggle, lay-offs, and money being cinched so tight we can barely breathe, this generation (and those before it) have to wonder "Where do I go from here?"

Growing up, I thought that was an easy question like a lot of people, and like most of those people I found out how wrong I was. I went from wanting to be a veterinarian to scientist with Pre-Med intentions and finally landed in a Psychology Major and Minor in Communications. I've wondered how I ended up in this field. Oddly enough if was by asking the following questions that were presented to me by a professor:

Questions:

1. Can a computer do it faster? 
-Well I would certainly like to see a computer psychoanalyze problems and fix the world for us, but I think that is a ways off. However, computers are now able to do a lot of things in the science fields and have greatly improved the animal medicine field as well.


2. Is what I'm offering in demand in an age of abundance?
- Not exactly, but if the Stock Market ever crashes again, I'm pretty sure people like me will be needed to help people. (At least I hope so). Also, it's human nature to feel things either positive or negative, I'm just a tool to be used to let people know how/when/why people may have crossed lines of overly positive or negative. 


3. Can someone overseas do it cheaper?
- Well in their country, sure. However, I don't think (recently looking at ticket prices) that bringing people over to the US is all too cheap. 


Pause:


So, yes *clap clap* Yay for choosing a major that a computer can't replace. However, what does the future hold for this Major that has a minor piece in society. Some people call Psychology a pseudo science (Mind you, that is far from true) and others rebel against that stereotype. What I'm asking is what employers will ask everyone "What do you have to offer that no one else can?"


My Tools of the 'Trade':

To be honest with you, when it comes to design, story, and symphony to the work I would like to do, I have no idea where to go. 


However, with the other three it is what my work is supposed to be based around? Trying to empathize while spacing one's self away from the situation?


Playing around and goofing off to make people more relaxed?


Then getting right to why they are there in the first place and getting them away from that plateau? 

Conclusion:


All I know is that I want to reach people, and that's as basic as it gets. I like analyzing and understanding things. It is the best way I know how to help. This may sound selfish, but getting right down to a person's basic side and right to the fruit of who they are makes me feel more accomplished than most things. A person at their basic is the most complex thing anyone can experience.