Saving Her Billionaire

The problem was, Phoebe would not be able to get a very good job if she kept studying literature. There were a lot of opportunities, to be sure. Phoebe could just become a writer, the very thing that everyone thought she should be because she was so good at it. The problem with this was that writers very rarely started earning money right off the bat. They needed some time to finish their first work, whether it was a short story or a full length novel, and even when this work was completed there was absolutely no guarantee that it would be accepted by a publishing house straight away. Being a writer was dangerous business as far as finances were concerned, and Phoebe had never been rich so she needed a job that would allow her to start earning a decent salary immediately.

The other excellent option was journalism. Phoebe definitely had it in her to be a great journalist. She had a marvelous talent for analyzing things, so much so that throughout high school she had been referred to as “Sherlock” in reference to the world famous fictional detective that everyone knew and loved. Hence, she would be able to get to the heart of the story she was trying to write immediately, and she would be able to see the truth behind the things that people said to her while she was conducting interviews for her story.

Phoebe’s other great talent that would allow her to become an excellent journalist was empathy. She was a very empathetic person, and could very easily put herself in other’s shoes. She didn’t have any trouble whatsoever looking at things from someone else’s perspective. On the contrary, she had always found it quite easy because she had always been curious, asking people what they thought about certain things and asking them about their lives. This empathy would allow her to properly write from other people’s point of view. Empathy was something that journalism lacked, and if Phoebe became a journalist she would be able to be truly great by using her incredible empathy skills.

The fact that she was a great writer would also allow her to be an excellent journalist. She wouldn’t just be able to come up with a great story and find out everything there was to know about the topic she was researching, she would be able to weave her notes into a beautiful narrative that everyone would really enjoy reading. This would surely allow her to enjoy a long and successful career as a journalist.

The problem with this potential career choice, however, was that Phoebe did not want to have to compromise on her morals. She did not want to have to make tough choices and judgment calls. She did not want to have to write about something that she did not passionately believe in. She wanted to help people, she wanted to make a difference, and if she became a journalist it would be a very long time before her employer allowed her to write the stories that she wanted to write.

Until she was able to work with creative freedom, she would end up being extremely bound by the constraints of her job and would have to write a lot of puff pieces and articles about things that she did not like or did not agree with. She could take the moral high ground, of course. She could simply refuse jobs with any newspaper that made her feel like she could not do the things that she wanted to do. However, this would mean that she would not get a good job for a very long time, and once again this was something that she simply would not be able to do due to the fact that she was not financially stable and needed to start supporting herself.

That left only one possible career choice, and that was teaching. Teaching was a great career choice, and no matter what major she picked she would always have the option of becoming a teacher and teaching the things she had learned during her major to younger students. It is an important job as well, one that would allow her to work on the things that she was passionate about with her students.

The world was filled with awful teachers, but if she worked hard and did her job she would be able to give her students an excellent and very well balanced education. They would grow up learning things from a liberal perspective. If Phoebe became a teacher, she would be able to teach children to be empathetic towards one another. She would be able to teach children not just the syllabus that she was being told to teach but a number of life skills as well, and if any of her students used the things that she had taught them to go on and do great things, it would mean that she had succeeded in making the world a slightly better place.

Once, again, however, there was a problem here, and once again that problem was money. Teaching simply did not pay a lot. Phoebe would be able to afford certain things but she would struggle quite a bit as well. She would have to work extremely hard and in return would not get nearly as much pay as she would if she simply chose a different major to pursue.

Additionally, Phoebe was smart enough to know that thinking she could make so much of a difference was a wistful fantasy at best. She would be able to teach children, yes, but a teacher is bound by a lot of restrictions as well. If parents did not like what she was teaching the children she might end up getting in trouble. If the syllabus that she was being told to teach was wrong or did not seem like it was being taught in the right way, Phoebe would be forced to teach it to the children regardless. This would be an extremely stressful experience for her, and Phoebe simply did not want to have to go through so much stress. She did not want to have to spend her life dedicating her waking hours to a job that would simply not allow her to do good, especially if the job in question was one like teaching that gave her the potential to do great things and help a lot of people in the process.

 As a result, of all of these issues regarding employment upon completion of her college degree, Phoebe decided that it would be best for her to simply change her major.