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[slumber]

I am sick. My nose is runny and my throat is sore and my head hurts and I'm missing two classes and I had to rush a take-lunch quiz for Accounting. *flops*

ALSO.

I got a shifting form from my college. I've been planning to switch course since last semester, and I only found the courage to start doing anything now. I got into an Accounting program because I thought it had Business courses in it too, so you know, getting both would be getting a fall back for one or the other, right? Except. The course I got only HAD Business in the name; it really WAS just all Accounting. My plan now is to shift to the plain Business course, which is what I'd wanted all along. (Well, not really, if it were up to me I'd have taken Creative Writing or Psychology something, BUT it's what I THOUGHT I was getting into.)

The problem is the parents. These are the people who wanted their children to take up Medicine, who were pleased I wanted to be a lawyer, who made derisive comments about me being a high school guidance counselor when I told them I wanted to take up Psychology, whose primary concern in their children's choice of career is not just how much money it makes but whether it has a title or not too. SO YES. Shifting to Business IS a big deal, just because I don't get 'CPA' at the end of my name afterward.

There's no way I'm sticking to Accounting though. I just need to find a way to talk to them and tell them about it, preferably before I really DO go through with shifting, as that's probably only going to infuriate them more.

Any ideas, flist?

Comments

[draconianangel.livejournal.com]

*pats* I can't say I understand you, because my family supports my decisions. Though I have many friends who have problems like you do.

Firstly, you have to GET OUT OF THAT ACCOUNTING COURSE NOW. It sucks grandly, and in my opinion, only those with ambition and determination to be an Accountant should get that kind of course. If you get stuck in a course you don't like, it'll suck bigger than anything that'd ever sucked in your life before. :D

About your family... eeep. You told me that you wanted LIA-COM in DLSU... did you tell that to your family? What did they say? Or if you haven't told them, I wonder what they would say...
Well, you can tell them your decision... and brace yourself for their reactions. Or can't you just return to your previous course? The one you had before you shifted to that course with business in name and accounting in reality? *sighs*

Sorry if I can't help. *huggles*

[slumber.livejournal.com]

Hah! This is the same family who wrinkled their foreheads in confusion and wanted to know why the HELL I was even thinking of going to DLSU when I could go to UP. *rolls eyes* I had no previous course, always been here, but I want to shift to plain Business. *snuggles* I think maybe just telling them's the only way.

[jaig.livejournal.com]

Just do it.

[slumber.livejournal.com]

*is terrified*

[jaig.livejournal.com]

I know. :|

[idroppedarice.livejournal.com]

Same thing here, love. Except my parents pretend that I can do anything I want and that they don't mind at all. :P It's all good, though, because will be teh future lawyer, lucky for them.

Only thing I can say is: do what you want. At this stage, if you can do it, and you know they'll get over it, and you like it, simply do it. You'll feel ten times better and without regrets.

Also. *sends soup, tissues and hugs* Get better soon!

[slumber.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, yeah, they pretended to be okay with whatever I want too, but the way they talked and stuff manipulated me into picking the Accounting course. :\

Ahh, but they have this way of making me feel terrible if I do that. Making me second-guess myself is their talent. :|

*throws Pringles and water aside in favour of soup and hugs and tissues* Mm, thanks, love! <3

[sailorsimba.livejournal.com]

Poor you! *pets and hands tissues*

As for the parents, I will probably not be good at this since my parents don't feel the same, and everything I say might give them a few aneurysms, but I think that in that situation, I would try to guilt them into seeing a very unhappy CPA!Slumber and an extremely happy non-CPA!Slumber. No idea of how, though, as I am bad at guilting people, haaa. :| *huggles* But I hope it works out for you, and don't stay just because you don't know how to tell your parents. --Or maybe you don't have to tell them? You can just forget to mention it and let them figure it out on their own? Er, well.

[slumber.livejournal.com]

*curls up at feet* Wah.

I don't think they'd see it as happy vs unhappy. *rolls eyes* For them, that's contingent on how much money I'd be getting. *sigh* Haha, they'll disown me if I forget to tell them, though that was the original plan. ;) Thanks, love. <3

[matter-matterz.livejournal.com]

Just explain to them that BAA and BA are hmmm... are in the same college and the same thing. You just want to get more B than A.

Don't go into the things like you don't like A, they're going to be agianst you from the beginning.

~iCe (too lazy to log into my account even if there's a small box that says username and password up there)