Thank you for your swift replies.
geekchic9, I will check out what you suggested as soon as possible
WanderingOak, that's a good question and also a good answer to pause my thoughts on. At
this moment I can say that I am at university because I started the course, so it would be a waste of money and time not to complete it :P
Had I been a bit more flexible prior to university, I would have done more to afford to study in the USA where colleges allow to take any course in the first years and select the major only later on.
But rest assured that I enjoy what I am learning right now, and I do feel that I've been enhanced under many aspects; I've used many things I learned in practical life as well.
I must admit though that before university, I felt more independent with regards to my actions and initiative (such as engaging in volunteering and activism without being a PhD in Peace Sciences
), whereas now I often tend to hear "follow the options opened by this degree", "do volunteering, this and that internship, those Model United Nations, and those other business case competitions so that you can get a brilliant CV". I have nothing against that, but I perceive it a bit as a boxed, over-structured life.
To speak in concrete terms I would like to finish my current degree quite well, and somehow find a way to get professional accreditation in the skills I mentioned. (I know that "certificates say nothing about you as a person", but you know: the older we get and the more we are absorbed into our primary profession, the easier we forget everything else. I want to stick to all my passions - or at least the most important of them - no matter what profession[s] I choose.)
I'm trying to consider where to start. Whether I should pursue some accreditation while I'm still studying Economics, or whether I should do that afterwards i.e. after I've established a safe career.
The main problem is that while I try to plan ahead all the above mentioned things, I kind of block the spontaneous flow of curiousity within my
current focus of study.
(remembering that famous quote that "life is what happens when you're planning it")