Christine's Journal

So I went home this weekend. I was going to tell my mom how I'm thinking about going into constitutional law. I knew she wouldn't like the idea of me becoming a lawyer, no matter what jurisdiction it would cover. She would hear LAW and that's all she would hear. Lets not even THINK about brining up criminal law, I would be sent to my room till I was 30. And I've never been grounded.
You see, mother is a legal secretary for business lawyers. Business law. Very money grubbing lawyers. Even criminal law would make me poor unless I wanted to turn into a money grubber. But I figure with constitutional law, I wouldn't really have to worry about that sort of thing. Wait, would I? But even so: I am NOT going into business law. Ever, no way. Too much technical mumbo jumbo for me to even fit into my head without cliff notes.
Whats funny, is that most parents would be ecstatic, in a way. Their child wants to make millions of dollars a year (or at least 6 figures, but whatever) A lawyer is one of the most respectable positions in the world today (at least American ones, and again, only in America). but not in my house! In my house, I might as well say I wanted to drop out of school and be a professional mechanic. Hell, that might garner me more support than being a lawyer.
I'll be putting more thought into it soon enough, but I'm still torn about the idea, especially because I don't think selu has a pre-law undergraduate program. And certainly not for criminal or constitutional law.
I would have to major in Political Science for constitutional law (of which I would be taking a bunch of classes I DO NOT WANT TO just to have the credentials to go into it. And then for criminal law, I would have to be a criminal justice major. Whoo, that certainly sounds fun, no thank you.
I really just have no idea what I'm going to do with my life. Hell, I might just stick to this anthropology shtick, even though I have literally NO IDEA what I'm going to do with it after graduation in 20 years, or however long it will take me to get up to a doctorate, during which i will already have to be employed doing SOMETHING. Oh jeez, shoot me now. I want to just go back to high school or something.