Saturday, August 21st, 2010 | Author: admin
Or cosmetologist and relater? And would going to college and majoring in voice and minoring in drama a bad thing to do?
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Saturday, 21. August 2010
I don’t think they are good career choices at all! All of the career choices you’ve listed are prone to recession. They are all luxury fields. Things people don’t spend money on unless the economy is strong and people have money to spend. When times get tough in my house, we don’t buy real estate or go to the movies or catch a show on Broadway. We don’t get facials. A wedding planner doesn’t get repeat business (usually) so you’ll never have a ‘customer base’ loyal to you when times are lean. But at the end of the day, you have to do something that makes you happy. Just know that if you go down any of these roads, you’re likely to become familiar with lay-offs and unemployment lines.
Saturday, 21. August 2010
Either one would be fine but what has one to do with the other? As a Wedding planner you would certainly have to work nights and weekends.
Saturday, 21. August 2010
I would like to do all of them, but not together. my wedding planner is super busy and works EVERY weekend. i feel sorry for her.
Saturday, 21. August 2010
Out of the three options, one is very confusing—majoring in voice and drama—if you have had experience in this field and have a good voice, I would go for this.
The other two involve long hours, but I wold suggest a cosmetologist over a wedding planner, atleast you would have nights and weekends free, unless you love the wedding stuff.
Saturday, 21. August 2010
If you’re good at these things and enjoy doing them, yes, they would be good choices.
I don’t think voice or drama would relate to your chosen field, I think you could find courses that are more relevant.
Saturday, 21. August 2010
you should do what makes you happy
Saturday, 21. August 2010
I think you have your head in the clouds, thinking that a makeup artist/wedding planner would be a constant source of fun and merriment. Or money.
Makeup artists don’t earn that much, and wedding planning is a lot less fun than it sounds. Especially when you’re planning someone else’s wedding. It’s hard to get ahead in that field, and it’s not that profitable. I just got married and from talking to other brides, I can tell you that wedding/event planners and wannabe stylists are a dime a dozen, and very few of them turn a profit. Seems like every starry-eyed bride who loved planning her own wedding suddenly wants to be a wedding planner nowadays. Yawn.
I have no idea what a "relater" is.
Majoring in voice and minoring in drama is pretty much a surefire guarantee that your degree will be useless. All of my friends who hold an art/drama degree are not working in that field … if they are even lucky enough to be working at all. Most were unemployed for quite a while. My art major friend works at a bank - I’m not sure what the drama major is up to these days.
If you want to study the arts, I would personally minor in that, and major in something that stands you a better chance of getting a job upon graduation. Markering, education, computer science, business or economics, nursing, counseling, physical therapy.
As much as I hate to admit my parents were right, I wish I’d gotten a teaching certificate in addition to (or maybe even rather than) my English degree. If you might be interested in teaching, I’d take a few education classes. If you can score a teaching job and hang in there until you get tenure, you’re pretty much set for life as long as you don’t screw up or there’s a gigantic budget cut.
However, it’s good that you want to go to college, and if you find something you love and want to seriously persue, more power to you. I’m just telling you what I’ve seen amongst my family and friends who’ve graduated in the past few years … it’s very hard to get a good job these days, and a degree/training in the arts isn’t going to help you much. And you usually have to work a lot of crap jobs (maybe not in your field) before you find one that suits you well, trust me. This isn’t like Grandpa’s time where you’ll get a job and work there until you retire. You’ll bounce around between several companies before you’re even 30, most likely.
Anyway, good luck no matter what you do, and work and study hard. Look into internships and establish network connections, and hopefully you will wind up doing something you love.
Saturday, 21. August 2010
Going to college for the fine arts isn’t bad… if you LOVE the fine arts, and don’t mind that the degree is impractical. If you want to teach music, go to school. If you want to be a musician, then put all your time into practicing and booking gigs instead.
As far as wedding planner goes, it’s a tough job. Almost all wedding planners are self-employed, and most can only do what they do because they have husbands/partners with regular jobs that can support the family and provide health insurance. Very few planners make more than 30 hours a week, and all of them work weekends.
Cosmetologists also have a limited upper income that’s not very high. Nurses who work for cosmetic dermatologists and plastic surgeons, however, is a different story. However, the salary is still not all that great for aesthetic nurses. From what I found, around $40,000-50,000 is typical, and obviously you need a lot more school for that than just cosmetology.
PS… Sapphirebullet it right. All of these fields suffer during economic recessions, because they are luxuries. If you wanted to study music to be a teacher, you could get certified in other areas (English, history) to fall back on. If you became an aesthetic nurse, you’d still be an RN or NP, and could still find work. Wedding planners and cosmologists have no built-in back-up plan, unless they plan or do makeup only on the side.
Saturday, 21. August 2010
Go to college, major in general studies and take electives until you decide.