Can you please help me explore these careers (I am undecided): assistant vet., business person, psychology, movie director, writer (for movies), or lawyer.

Hello,
I'm a founder of a nonprofit theatre organization, and I can help with over five years of experience.

As a writer, the lifestyle is very unforgiving, but the rewards are immense. You have to make it a habit to write, and dedicate your time to writing and learning your options: novelist, journalist, blogger, copywriter, ghost writer, and script writer. Best to get a degree in journalism, and learn all other formats through a workshop or one college class. I've made most of my money as copywriter, but I love the respect I gain as a Playwright.

As an entrepreneur, the challenge is keeping up with the industry to make money. And you can never settle for minimum wage, even though youre the last one to be paid in your own business. You should take economics or marketing, as starting your own business can be read up in the Dummies books. Very accurate, no fuss. But the reason for economics and marketing, as is because you'll always ask yourself money and advertising questions, and these questions are asked by everyone else, so getting jobs in these two degrees are more common than anyone thinks.

As a Corporate Secretary, for my nonprofit, I handle all of the paperwork. Im generally the Lawyer of the company. I give business legal advise, and write contracts, minutes, etc. I've looked into becoming a lawyer, as a career, and you'll need to pass the state bar, and two other tests - one challenges your moral standing in the U.S., the other challenges how you handle your credit. Best to google it, as each state has different rules for it. As a Lawyer, your bread and butter is incorporating businesses, para legal is what people see as working in Law, but most of the positions out there is paperwork.

I work with film makers, as a publicist. Please please take a theatre and cinematography classes! There are so many bad film makers here in Hollywood, and it can all be avoided if they only knew how to model their actors between lighting and camera angles, and discriminate between bad actors and good chemistry. It's just pitiful. But more than likely, you'll have to make your own film someday, and register with SAG-AFTRA to give vouchers to your Actors, as they build their Actors Equity. You'd be surprised how many professional actors will take you seriously for it. But never take this as a fling, film making takes years for dedication, as youre building your reputation, and people are watching you, and expecting to meet you at the next film festival. And there is at least three per month.

Hope this helps :)

Hi,
Great question. I will answer the part about Psychology and Business. I have had a unique education and careers in both...I did over 20 hours of college in Psychology and have worked in social services, case managment and public jobs as well as being in the private business sector for almost 20 years. In my experience, Psychology and Business are very close in nature...in business you have to understand how people think, how to motivate/sell to and deal with people. Being able to empathize with people while making tough business decisions is not always easy.

I know this is not very specific regarding either career...but wanted to mention that you can do both of these in school and in your career.
Good luck!

In response to Eugene about being a lawyer: I'm not quite sure if a person claiming to be a lawyer and not having a license (which is a crime in most states) is the best person to be giving advise about the profession . Practicing law is exciting and allows an individual to select their true passion. Most attorneys either do litigation or transactional work. Each subset has a multitude of different areas within them. The practice of law is more diverse than any other profession... if you can dream of a subject, most likely there is a law regarding it or people fighting over it. Additionally, if you like business, transactional law is a great area to consider.