What do you want to be when you grow up? This is a question that we have been asked over and over again since we were younger.

But here we are in college, and what seemed so far in the future is right in front of our faces.

We gain this stress in which we need to pick something to do for the rest of our lives but we also have to enjoy it.

Once wanting to be painters, actors, and dancers, now want to be nurses, engineers, and run businesses.

Making me ask, what made us detour from our original dreams?

Then I realized it was MONEY. People believe they can’t make a living off of there original dreams and talents so they just forget about them.

But while I was listening to an Alan Watts lecture he asked the most interesting question, “What would you like to do if money was not an object.”

I went ahead and took this to our DVC students to asked that same question to see if they are pursuing what they have passions in. The first person that I approached was named, Jerome Roant, he is a kinesiology major, but if money was no object he would be a dancer. Another girl, Kayla Broussard, that I had approached is currently studying clinical health sciences and quickly answered that she’d be a makeup artist.

I asked about a dozen more people and none of them were doing what they truly wanted to do, but instead ignoring it.

That is the problem, if you have a passion for anything then you should embrace it. I am not trying to say drop your major, but instead build on your passion and never loose sight of it because if you do then life will end up being a dull journey.

It might be hard because some of us are so focused on getting out of DVC, but take classes that interest you even if they are not major specific, and expand on your interests because if you become the best at any of your passions I guarantee that you will be able to use it as either a side career or a full career.

So I challenge you to go and pick one class in the DVC catalog for the upcoming spring semester, that will allow you to embrace your passions and interests and choose what you REALLY want to be when you grew up.