This is why I don't like to tell people my major

So here is the section in my blog were I actually rant...so If you dont want to hear my annoying angry rambling please skip this section. You have been warned :-) have a nice day

So everyone says pick a major or job you love, they just don’t tell you that it also has to be prestigious or something that will keep a stable job or something “serious”

This is why I don’t like to tell people my major because they see it as a joke or a waste of my time and money at college.

I am sick of people saying things like “is that really a class?” in a mean way or saying things like “So what are you really taking?” “What are you real classes?” ok people these are real classes too. I know that you’re just bitter because you took all hard classes that you didn’t like and were super hard and confusing and you got bad grades and you feel like life is unfair or whatever. But that’s you, and yea my classes sound fun and easy and like they aren’t to be taken seriously but why is that lesser than yours really? I don’t understand. I’m doing what I love like everyone told me to. And I don’t understand why what I do can’t be important either.

My major is Theatre Arts Studies emphasis in Makeup Design.

I mean if you’re making fun of me because my classes are a “joke” I don’t get that either because makeup design is a legit profession, for weddings, photographers-photoshoots/modles, movies, you name it. There’s a lot of things I can do with that.

If your making fun of me for not having a job that will make enough money, like ‘starving for the arts’ or whatever, that’s not true either, if I wanted to be a makeup effects artist for movies or commercials I would get paid thousands of dollars a day, its one of the highest paying industries. So that is a fallacy too.

If your making fun of me because what I do is “useless” I’d say your wrong again. I’m going to be using the stuff I learn in this major all of my life and in everything I do, and to help anyone and everyone. All you nay-sayers out there that still don’t think what I do is important here is an article by Michael Key

Its just make-up? I would like to leave you with a few thoughts about what we do. When discouragement rears its head and tells us its just makeup, we should remember that makeup artists have the power to:

-Transform a wimpy actor into a ferocious warrior, or a plain-jane actress into a striking woman who turns every head

-Take brief descriptions of characters in books or scripts and bring them to life far beyond what the writers ever dreamed they could be

-create the evil monster who strikes fear in the heart and allows the hero to be brave and victorious

-help emergency personnel prepare to face real-life situations

-enhance blushing brides and create looks that will be cherished for a lifetime

-help those dealing with injuries or illness to look and feel better

-enable those with birth defects and disfigurements to feel whole

-see the potential in someone’s face

-make it possible to believe

I know that I wont walk out of college being able to do quadratic equations in my head, or remember the chemical properties of compounds like ether or whatever but I will have come out of college knowing and learning how to relate to people better and how understand what they are going through. I will come out knowing how to communicate effectively with people and show them new ways to look at the world. And if anything else I’ll be able to tell my kids really great stories and give them really great Halloween costumes and makeup. And I’ll be annoying to watch movies with because I’ll constantly be critiquing the directing/costumes/makeup. But even if that’s all, isn’t that enough for me? Why can’t that be good enough for me? Who knows when these skills will come in handy? You need to stop telling me that they are useless and telling me that my major and my goals and dreams are stupid and pointless because they aren’t to me. Ok I’m done ranting now. So please, even if you don’t think my major is as “important” or worth-while as yours is, please oh please just smile and nod anyways. Thank you.