Nursing or history major?

endiabanana
Mon, 02 Dec 2013 10:12:33 +0000

Nursing is always more practical, but practicality shouldn’t necessarily be your only factor in choosing a major. If you have a passion for history and dance, you could be a history major and have plenty of room for dance on the side or have some sort of minor that’s related (Is there a dance minor? I’m guessing not) but you might want to think about what career that will lead to. I admit a limited knowledge, but I’m guessing you’d end up either in academia as a history teacher at some level, or a writer, or some kind of researcher. Or, alternatively, you’d end up with a job that is likely unrelated. Maybe it could take you into politics? Point being, consider what career it will lead to and if you can see yourself doing that for a living.

If you’d rather make dance your primary thing, you could be a dance teacher or a professional dancer and also just be a history buff. Nothing wrong with that. But for that you’d probably not need to go to college, although you might need to go to a dance school post-secondary. I wouldn’t know a lot about opportunities in that realm, but you get the idea.

If you do choose nursing, dance and history can also be hobbies or areas of interest. Personally, I think whether you choose nursing over the two is an issue of practicality, because while you may find it tolerable you don’t seem to have a passion for it, and nurses are always needed. Hope that helps.