Many factors including age, family, interests, hobbies, life goals, and past work experiences all help shape your future career choices. When planning for transfer credit, occupational certification, or other choices that will effect your future, it is necessary to have as much information as necessary to make the correct class choices. Be honest with yourself about your desires and interests. Many people today will change occupations at least five times in their life-time. Many people enter jobs that do not directly relate to undergraduate studies.
Many students change their major at least four times before making a final decision.
All of these changes are marks of personal growth. Let the counselors help you make your decision based on as much knowledge as possible about your future goals. Becoming workplace ready is as much about personal skills as it is about majors of study. However, education is a valuable investment at any time in your life. Life-long learners are more employable based on their desire to learn new concepts and tasks, their academic achievement, and their past work history including volunteer work and cooperative education.