I'm kinda stuck. I'm 15 (in the U.S.) and in my highschool, we have the opportunity to go to a vocational school w/ polytechnic program part-time.
For the past three and half years, I have fallen head over heels in love with animation. 2D animation, character design, plotting stories, WRITING my own stories as well, etc. Just recently l've even joined a few voluntary indie animation projects to get experience with it. At this polytechnic, one of the options is LITERALLY 2D/3D animation! Awesome, right?
The problem is that I also have happened to fall in absolutely LOVE chemistry (and astrophysics haha). Balancing equations, learning the properties about all of the elements, conducting experiments, etc. I'm the type of kid to make up stories in my head with the elements so I can remember all the things. I haven't gotten super involved with anything that could help me because there really ISN'T much around here that could help besides watching videos about black holes (I'm a nerd trust me ik)
Obviously, art and science don't normally mix, let alone more niche subjects like animation and chemistry. The deadline to sign up for polytech is at the end of the month, but there's a trade-off. If I do the animation polytech, I will not be able to do AP Chemistry in my junior year due to not being able to fit it in my schedule. I know AP Chem is not needed to go to college and all, but it would definitely help if I were able to get the college cred. I'm in all honors classes plus an AP Biology class (which has frankly been kicking my ass and I haven't even had the freetime to draw or animate anything smh), so l'm not worried about my GPA much since it's roughly at
а 4.2.
The biggest thing that me and parents have agreed on is job security. With Al on the rise, animation (and honestly ANY creative outlet) is a bit scary to go for. What's the point of going into it when Al can do your job for you in less than a minute? Chemistry is a stable thing to go for, sure, but I do not want to be doing all the math, stats, and calculus stuff. Unless I were wanting to be a chemistry professor, which I don't, I'm not going to be covering the basics. I'll be doing a lot of research and analysis and blahblehahblah. I still love chemistry, but l'm just not super sure about the actual applications of it, yk? :/
I am completely split down the middle and I'm not sure what to do. This is rant, don't feel obligated to give advice, I'm just blahsgsb :'D
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Humorthis is rly just for the people in our yt group.. if you aren't part of it you won't rly get any of it.. that's the only thing. if you still want to read this that's fine. it'll probably just sound like alien talk. half the time it'll be that and...
