Ask Julie on The Job: I feel Insecure about My Major

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Because you're waking up.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
And ask Julie on the job. She's our show's career mentor,
and she takes your questions and also pulls the best
to the best from TikTok. And she's been in the
career world forever. She's helped me grow and helped this
show grow. So Hi, Julie, good morning, Good morning. I
think you'll like this one because we've talked about college
is quite a bit on the show. But I got
a message. I am a sophomore in college in marketing

(00:27):
at UC. I'm freaking out because I don't know what
to do with my major. I'm volunteering, I'm networking, et cetera.
But I feel like I'm supposed to have this figured
out by now because I'm paying for this degree and
it's just coming up nothing.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah, so here's the dirty little secret. People two and
three times your age also don't know what they're doing.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Okay, but life feels very different for someone in your
age bracket compared to maybe someone in college. For instance,
the cost of living.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, in fact that I want to buy a home,
yeah for sure, But this is not one of those
things that you put it under your pillow. And the
career fairy shows up. You learn this stuff one step
at a time, one success at a time, one you know,
face palm at a time, and eventually what should be
your next move, or your first move in this case,

(01:21):
will appear. The idea is to constantly be learning about yourself.
So if you're a sophomore in college. If you're in college,
you are in think of it as a four year
lab a four year laboratory with resources and people and
learning opportunities. So you go to job fairs, you talk

(01:41):
to the people in the placement office, you step out
and try some volunteer things. All of those things, besides
being wonderful things to do, are opportunities to learn more
about what you like and don't like, what you're good
at not so good at. The only thing you have
to worry about is your first job at this point,
and that will come to you. If you do all

(02:03):
of these things, you do not have to have the
next forty years planned out, and in fact, if you did,
I would cringe and worry just a little bit about you.
Because there are so many uncertainties and things that change
in life that we have to stay open and flexible
so that we allow new interests and new learnings about

(02:24):
ourselves and the world around us come in so that
we can flexibly pivot to something new when we're ready
to move on. It's not an all or nothing kind
of thing.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Before I get to maybe what your one tip is
for anonymous here are sophomore. You see, it feels like
the gen Z world and even the one that I
operate in is so used to taking the shortest way
possible to get there, also known as the most efficient way.
All the consumption that we do over TikTok, the videos
that we like, it's like, get to the point, land

(02:53):
the plane, move on to the next thing, because there
is no build up for us. It's just get it done,
get it done efficiently. So maybe just lotty dying through
a college career and networking. You don't think it's going
to go anywhere because you want to just get to
the end result and for no matter what age group
that is, that's not the way it goes.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
It's not the way it goes. So this is an
opportunity to flex your thinking. This is an opportunity to
take a different type of journey and say, with every
step in my day, in my four year experience. I'm
going to learn more about myself, and I'm going to
pay attention to what I learned, maybe even keep notes somewhere,
and pay attention to where you feel good, where you

(03:35):
feel happy, and the places where you feel like you're
wearing shoes that are the wrong size. Those are clues,
and so the clues are all around you. And so
give yourself a break, take a breath, and say, this
is a journey that I'm going to go on.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
One step at a time. Jordan Sparks said it best.
You know, it's no need to much. I'd ask Julie
on the job every Thursday on my show. You heard
it right here on Tiff in the Morning. Coming up

(04:12):
a few minutes from now, your chance to win the
Nelly tickets, and you will need the keyword career. I'll
even take ask Julie, I'll take Jordan's Sparks. I'll take
any of the three. We'll get to that.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
You're waking up with Tiff in the morning on one.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Good morning, I'm really hoping you have a keyword for
me career. Congratulations. You are calling number ten and you
got the keyword. You're welcome. You're gonna come party with
us and Nellie tomorrow night at Great American Ballpark.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
That's gonna be awesome.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
He's got so many good ones. Is there one that
you can think of off hand? Oh?

Speaker 1 (04:59):
My gosh, I don't know. He's so many.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
What's your name? What neighborho ad you waking up with
me in this morning?

Speaker 1 (05:05):
My name is Ronda Eling. I'm at work and Covington.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Well, thank you for listening to TIF in the morning
on iHeartRadio every day. I appreciate that. Speaking of Nellie,
here's his gal Ashanti with Foolish. We're still commercial free.
We're not far off from the three things you need
to know to get your day started in Sincy. Two
songs from now and if you took a loss on
these Nelly tickets. Sean John's got you this afternoon at
four thirty, and I have you again tomorrow at eight thirty.