Re: Door Slamming/Question

[kdavis@mailclerk.ecok.edu]

Based on the obviously skewed sample of my own children, personality
matters more than major.  

My daughter--a senior English major searching for a graduate school
(let me know if you're interested in recruiting a top-notch person
for '96)--follows about 50% of my advice because she believes more in
her own heart than in anything else.  Ten years from now she will be
relatively poor and very content with her life, whatever direction
she eventually pursues.  She will follow paths of personal joy and
fulfillment, where ever they lead.  Life will take her far from here,
and she will live many personal adventures.

My son--an entering freshman who has declared a business
administration major--will in ten years be richer than the rest of
his family combined.  He follows about 50% of my advice because he
places great faith in his own reasoning.  He might drop out of
college, but he will still be successful.  He will stay in this town
and become the president of a bank or the owner of a successful auto
dealership.  His life will be filled with success, quantitatively.

But their paths are not extensions of their majors.  Their majors are
extensions of their personalities, and their paths will be true to
who they are.  If she majored in accounting, she'd never find or keep
a good accounting job.  If he majored in art, he'd still turn out
rich.

kevin
kdavis@mailclerk.ecok.edu