10-08-2014, 08:46 AM
Hey man, that's a tough dilemma! Although in 5 years times it won't seem as heavy as it does now, that doesn't help you at the moment though : )
If you've got two years left of uni, doing a course you aren't motivated to do, you run the risk of doing the bare minimum work and could fail, then it'd be wasted! Are you interested in your course? Or is it a struggle to get the interest up? - if the interest is there, and it's just the job prospects that don't look good my advice would be to finish it. You get all kinds of transferable skills from places you'd never imagine. But... if you don't have any interest in the subject... I dunno man!
It's an easy thing to say 'follow your dreams' - it's a hard thing to do sometimes but I reckon it's the most important thing - no one can tell you the right thing to aim for but you! Looks like you've decided you want to pursue art.
The safest thing would be to freeze the year, give yourself a good bit of time to study art on your own, in that year you can maybe pin down what kind of art you want to do, from that you can figure out how best to make money from it. It's quite an enviable position you know? The prospect of having a whole year to focus on art! But it's a tough call man! I wish you the best of luck with your decision!
If you've got two years left of uni, doing a course you aren't motivated to do, you run the risk of doing the bare minimum work and could fail, then it'd be wasted! Are you interested in your course? Or is it a struggle to get the interest up? - if the interest is there, and it's just the job prospects that don't look good my advice would be to finish it. You get all kinds of transferable skills from places you'd never imagine. But... if you don't have any interest in the subject... I dunno man!
It's an easy thing to say 'follow your dreams' - it's a hard thing to do sometimes but I reckon it's the most important thing - no one can tell you the right thing to aim for but you! Looks like you've decided you want to pursue art.
The safest thing would be to freeze the year, give yourself a good bit of time to study art on your own, in that year you can maybe pin down what kind of art you want to do, from that you can figure out how best to make money from it. It's quite an enviable position you know? The prospect of having a whole year to focus on art! But it's a tough call man! I wish you the best of luck with your decision!