Saving Her Billionaire

And so, she changed her major three more times over the next three years. The first major she changed to was business. Phoebe decided that if she wanted to work and earn good money she would have to work in such a way that she got a job in multinational or some other corporation that would give her good pay for the work that she was doing.

She knew that doing a Bachelors in business administration would set her on the course to earning a great deal of money. Not only that, but completing a degree in business would give her a great deal of job security as well. She would not have to worry about getting a job because someone with a degree in business administration simply could not remain unemployed for long. Every company needed someone with this degree, and if she did well, which she certainly would because she was so smart, she would end up getting offered a very good salary as well.

And so she started studying business administration. She was quite good at it, so much so that she was able to get straight As, continuing the streak that she had begun all the way since middle school. Her professors commended her for her knowledge of business practice, as well as the enthusiasm with which she learned knew things. She eventually became a favorite of her professors here as well. She was able to learn about how corporations worked, and how each setting in a corporate company would require her to behave in a different manner. She learned a great deal of problem solving skills and learned how to keep herself utterly composed if a pressure situation arose. She learned a lot of things and was extremely proud of herself for being able to get a hold of such a different subject so quickly.

She was proud, that is, until she realized that business was not what she wanted to get into. She would have graduated with top grades and would have been hired by a well known multinational corporation. She would have earned an extremely high salary, enough to support herself as well as her mother whom she desperately wanted to take care of so that she wouldn’t have to worry so much about money the way she had been forced to do for pretty much her entire life. In fact, she would not just be able to support herself and her mother, she would be able to afford a very luxurious life for the both of them since her tremendous work ethic would allow her to progress to a higher rank in the company very quickly.

However, she would have had to work for a big corporation, and she did not think that she would like doing this very much at all. In fact, Phoebe would have absolutely hated working for a big corporation. She would have hated the fact that the products she was involved with were probably produced using slave labor, and by skirting environmental protection laws. Pretty much every big company in the world created their products by destroying the environment in one way or another, and since Phoebe was very passionate about the environment, she would have been very unhappy indeed if she had to work for a company that required her to sell these products or be involved in the production or sale of these products in any way.

She also did not want her high salary to be facilitated by the fact that her company got so many tax exemptions. Pretty much every corporation got major tax cuts, and she did not want her salary coming at the expense of her general public.

And so, Phoebe changed her major once again, this time to something quite different: marketing. She wanted a good job, after all. However, her marketing major did not last long due to the fact that it had the same basic problems as her business major. She tried her hand at accounting as well, but once again she was unable to handle the thought of handling money for companies and allowing them to earn a great deal while making the world a worse place than it already was.

She then changed her approach. She started thinking about social work, and started to major in this. However, social work was a very exhausting field and would have taken a lot out of her and didn’t pay all that much either. So, in the end, Phoebe settled on her final major: psychology.

She turned out to be very good at it, and this surprised her because she had only picked psychology because she had thought that it might end up helping her understand her own feelings and her inability to stick with a major. She wanted a glimpse into the human mind so that she would be able to understand herself as well as the people around her.

As it turned out, she was very good at psychology indeed, and within a few years she graduated with her Bachelors degree in psychology. She was twenty six when she finally graduated, but she did not mind this at all. All of the younger students looked at Phoebe as a big sister and she really enjoyed fulfilling this role. She finally had a degree and that was what mattered at the end of the day, not how old she was.

Phoebe then started her career, the job that she had been doing for the past year. She became a counselor. It was a good choice, all things considered. The pay was quite decent, better than a teacher, and it all came from completely legal and moral sources. What was more was that she was able to help a lot of people by doing her job, help them get past trauma and deal with the things in their life that they simply could not deal with on their own.

However, a year later Phoebe was starting to realize that counseling was not the perfect career for her, and this concerned her greatly. She had really enjoyed it initially but having to help so many people through so much was starting to take a toll, mostly because Phoebe was such an empathetic person and could not be clinical and objective about her patients.

Phoebe was, once again, confused about what she wanted to do, and at this stage in her life she did not think that she could afford to be so indecisive anymore. She was sticking with her career, but the thought of having to do this for the rest of her life was starting to depress her greatly.