选错专业的那些血泪史，谁难受谁知道……

经过高考洗礼后的小伙伴们，这几天该皮的应该已经皮过了。

接下来的日子里，想必大家都要好好想想选专业报志愿这档事儿了。 

相信有不少小伙伴们已经对上大学想学哪个专业心里有数，但依然会有童鞋拿不定主意。

还没想好的小伙伴们，出分前可要仔细琢磨一下了。因为对于上了自己不喜欢的专业，内心无比后悔这件事儿，早就有前车之鉴了↓↓↓

美版知乎Quora上就有这样一个问题：你后悔自己的专业吗？

嗯……感觉为此懊恼的菇凉小伙儿还真不少呢~ 

It's a total living nightmare to do something that's not you. 

做自己不爱做的事情，简直就是活受罪。

I fell into accounting because of family pressure, a certified jack*ss uncle who told me I was worthless, and a father who was broke all the time.

我选择会计专业都是因为家庭压力，我有一个说我没用的笨蛋叔叔（认证完毕），还有一个终日身无分文的父亲。

Don't trade your soul to the greenback devil too soon.

不要太快拿灵魂与金钱交换。

Life <= make it worth it, make it your way.

人生要活出价值，活出自我。

YES and no, I am in my first few months of my Computer science degree. I am in a good university, and I don't live at home. I know I chose this degree, and to be honest I am probably only doing this so I can have something to be proud of. 

后悔，也不后悔。我学计算机科学专业有几个月了，是所好大学，不在家住。我知道选这个专业，说真的我可能只是想有个能引以为傲的事。

Yes I do enjoy my modules, I, in particular enjoy my option module. Which is Code and Code breaking, but in the back of my mind I wished I studied art. I wished I studied interactive media or graphic design. And I wished I had The guts to change course.

我喜欢现在的课程模块，特别是代码和破解代码，但是我内心还是希望学艺术。我想学交互媒体或者平面设计。我希望自己有勇气去换专业。

As I mentioned above, I talked about doing this to have something to be proud of. I am the oldest, my younger brother managed to get into a maths fast track scheme with a top and well known university. My other young brother did a master class in mathmatics in another wellknown university.

之前提到，我选这个专业也是为了傲骄一下。我在家是老大，我弟弟通过数学特长进了名牌大学，另一个弟弟在一所知名学府的数学专业读研。

What did I do during secondary? Constantly worrying about my chronic eczema and realizing I am a failure?

我中学时都在干吗？为自己的慢性湿疹忧心，最后发现自己很失败？

This university. This course. Is my only hope to being proud of my studies. I know I will go through hell and back during my 4 years. But I know it will be worth it to see the smiles on my parents’ faces. 

这所大学，这个专业，是我为学业自豪的唯一希望。我知道这四年里会痛不欲生，但我知道这是值得的，因为能看到父母的笑容。

I have always been interested in technology, but my grades have yet to prove that. I am, however, working on that. I am studying more than I ever have. And learning that I can't always be what I want.

我一直对技术感兴趣，但成绩并不理想。可我现在正在努力，我比之前都更加努力，但是我也明白我无法永远成为自己想要的样子。

Yes. I changed my major at the last minute from psychology to business. I hated almost everything about studying business management but I stuck it out in order to “have more job choices.” 

后悔了，我在最后一刻把专业从心理学改成了商科。我痛恨所有商务管理所学的东西，但我还是坚持下来为的就是“有更多就业选择”。

Instead what I found is that “business management” is a pretty vague term. It can technically apply to any job and while it may have provided more job choices, the choices were not ones I was interested in, nor enjoyed, nor paid decently for. It felt like my Bachelor’s degree was rather useless. It looked nice on paper, but it meant nothing substantial.

然而，我最后发现“商务管理”是个很泛泛的学科。这个专业可以申请任何工作，虽然有更多的工作选择，但都不是我感兴趣的，更谈不上享受工作，挣到可观的薪水。我觉得这个本科专业没什么用，表面光鲜，但缺乏实实在在的内容。

Yes, a bit. I studied biomedical engineering, which is, for the rigor and intensity of the coursework, essentially worthless. You most likely will not get an engineering job (at least not the one you want) with a biomedical engineering degree. 

是啊，有点儿后悔。我学的是生物医学工程，课程要求严格，学习强度也大，但实际毫无价值。如果想要用这个文凭去找一份工程师的工作，那几乎不大可能。

You’ll be stuck in quality or regulatory, a glass ceiling and wall preventing you from getting that R&D job you thought would be so nice as an undergraduate.

学这个专业你会被困在质量与标准之中，玻璃天花板和围墙让你找不到看着不错的研发工作。

Yeah completely. I’m a psychology major with postgrad studies too, I work in psychotherapy and mental health.

绝对后悔了。我是学心理专业的，还是研究生，现在做的工作是精神疗法和心理健康。

I wish I’d have done engineering, maths or maybe chemistry I was really good at chemistry.

我希望当初自己学的是工程、数学又或者是化学，我化学真的特别棒。

I don’t really like my work at all, though it’s difficult for me to find much else.

我一点儿也不喜欢自己的工作，对我来说也很难再找到其他的。

Often my job is emotionally demanding. If I’m ever having a hard time in life I find work really tough, constantly dealing with the problems of others. I think that would be better in a technical field.

我现在的工作经常需要投入很多情感。如果我的生活中有难过的坎儿，那就是我这个工作了，老得解决别人的问题。我想要是在技术领域我会表现得更好。

Yes, I regretted because I totally don't have any interest in what I am doing which is nursing. My friend said I myself made my life miserable. But I don't know how to be happy working when one has to drag him/herself to work everyday.

对，我后悔了，因为我对自己干的护理工作毫无兴趣。我的朋友说是我把自己的生活搞糟了，但是我不知道要是一个人每天不得不干自己讨厌的事，怎么才能开心。

当然，抛开这些选择了自己并不感兴趣的专业的网友，也有不少人觉得自己选对了，并不后悔：

Nope. My major—philosophy—is famous for being useless, but I enjoyed it and it taught me to think and write, to really get down to the bones of a question. 

不后悔，我学的是哲学——出了名的不实用，但是我很喜欢，它教会我思考和写作，能够直接找到问题的关键。

Also, out of 180 credits required to graduate, it only needed 54, so that gave me lots of time to study other fun stuff.

180学分要求毕业，它只需54分，所以我还有不少时间学习其他好玩的东西。

Nope. I love CS.

不后悔，我大爱计算机科学。

I studied biology for a semester and I was very bad at it. I dropped out of general chem 1 and passed principles of biology 1 with a C-. This ruined my GPA and I almost cried in my advisor’s office. Therefore, I changed my major to CS.

我学了一学期生物，但是我实在很差。基础化学1我就放弃了，但是C-通过了生物学原理1，然后我的GPA就完蛋了，我差点儿在导师办公室里哭出来。所以，我换到了计算机专业。

I like my major because computer scientists are needed in every type of industry. I can work in health care, engineering, science and many more. I can create whatever I want and so far I'm doing great.

我喜欢我的专业，因为各行各业都需要计算机专家。我可以在卫生保健、工程、科学等更多领域工作。我可以创造我想要的，而且目前为止都干得不错。

I wouldn't major in anything else.

我不会再选其他专业了。

最后，跟大家分享这位童鞋的经历，人家对自己的未来可以说是有心了~  

Not in the slightest.

一点而也不后悔。

Now, granted, I did a little more exploring in high school than most people do. As I saw it, I had three career paths that truly interested me: Veterinary Medicine, Architecture, and Graphic Design. I investigated each as fully as I could before I got to college.

的确，我在上高中时比大多数人做了更多的调查。我发现有三条职业道路非常吸引我：兽医学，建筑学和平面设计。在上大学之前，我就尽可能多的研究了一下这三个专业。

I took a drafting class, and discovered that I hated it, even though I was good at it. Architecture was probably not the career for me. (I used those skills later when I drew up the blueprints for my own home.)

我报了一个绘图班，结果发现我并不喜欢，即便我很在行。建筑也可能不是我的菜。（我用绘图技术给我自己家做了设计图。）

I signed on as an assistant with a local veterinarian. I was proficient, but it turns out I faint at the sight of blood and guts (while operating on my own cat, no less.) So veterinary medicine was out. (Since then, countless doctors have told me, “Oh, you always faint your first time.” Wish I’d known that. Even then, my current veterinarian gives me a discount when our cat gets an abscess, because I do all the work except prescribe the antibiotic.)

我给本地一个兽医当助理，我很熟练，但是我发现一看到血和内脏就晕（给我自己的猫做手术也一样）。所以兽医学这个专业也不考虑了。（自打发现晕血后，有无数个医生跟我说头一次都是这样的，真希望我之前就知道。即便如此，我家猫有脓肿时我的宠物医生都会给打折，因为除了开抗生素，其他活儿我都能自己搞定。）

So I reluctantly took a course in graphic design, even though it sounded boring. And, it turns out, I loved it, and was top of my class in that for the last two years of high school.I went on, majored in graphic design and computer science, and, 20+ years later, I am still working as a graphic designer—and still loving it.

所以我不情愿地学了平面设计，虽然感觉有些无聊。但终于，我喜欢上了这个专业，还在高中最后两年拿了全班第一。我后来学了平面设计和计算机科学，而且过了20年，我依然是位平面设计师，我依然喜欢这个专业。

所以，还没想好的小伙伴们虽说现在可能来不及亲自去实践尝试了，但是你还可以问问已经上大学的小哥哥小姐姐，或者各行各业亲朋好友的意见，再拿捏一下备选专业的利弊。

世纪君祝愿大家都能如愿选到自己心仪的专业！

过来人小伙伴们对于自己的专业有什么想说的，留言说说哦~

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