I changed major/goal
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I changed major/goal
I changed major to Food, Nutrition and Dietetics. It's similar to pre-med except you don't go to med school. When I graduate I can be a dietitian! I just realized that I like telling people what to eat a lot more than telling them and showing them how to exercise...plus the pay is about double.
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Hi Houston,
Thats a GREAT choice of major. I actually wish I had majored in nutrition. I ended up going into business/health and wellness (graduating this month!) thinking that I could use that to open or manage a gym... however I think being a nutritionist could definitely be more profitable and more stable than owning a gym. Plus you can always go on to get your personal trainers cert after college by going through ACE or NASM... or the many other programs out there. I'm planning on getting personal trainers cert now that i'm finally done with college. Exciting stuff!
Good luck with your studies!
Cassie
Thats a GREAT choice of major. I actually wish I had majored in nutrition. I ended up going into business/health and wellness (graduating this month!) thinking that I could use that to open or manage a gym... however I think being a nutritionist could definitely be more profitable and more stable than owning a gym. Plus you can always go on to get your personal trainers cert after college by going through ACE or NASM... or the many other programs out there. I'm planning on getting personal trainers cert now that i'm finally done with college. Exciting stuff!
Good luck with your studies!
Cassie
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I tikn a lot of patients never get the luxury of diet advice, they just get a low sodium, low fat menu to choose from and tick the best looking boxes 
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I only had to stay in hospital once for about 3 days, (nothing major), and the worse thing is when people who are not 100% certs to go, have to choose what they'd like the next day, incase they end up staying a bit longer, and then you end up the first day you're there, with their food, because you're in their bed.
The guy who'd had bed must have been 70+, and he'd ordered some sort of dry Pasty, errgh. Needless to say I didn't eat it.
As for your Qualification Cassie, don't knock it too much. One of the people who runs Gym, who recently took over, started there as a basic level employee apparently, around 10 years ago, and now they part own it.
So if you move up the ranks, you could possibly be managing a Gym within 6-8 years maybe, and by then have enough money set aside, to prove to a bank, you can be given several thousand $$$, to make up the remainder of any business startup capital.
Plus as well, a lot of Dieticians if they don't work in places like Hospitals, have to freelance, and make money off clients, which isn't always as lucrative as it sounds, if you live somewhere where you might only be able to get 4 clients a week in 6 months, instead of maybe 12-15. Plus you initially have to pay money for your own advertising, do you own taxes, possibly need an accountant, maybe even a legal representative to call on, if anyone gets ill and they or a relative accuses you of being potentially to blame.
Okay with a business, (bricks and mortar) running a Gym, you've got to have legal people, accountants, etc etc, but if you're taking over ownership of an established, or perhaps slightly failing business, you have some clients already to build on, and a chance to be a lot more creative business wise, which being a freelance nutritionist doesn't give you.
.I only had to stay in hospital once for about 3 days, (nothing major), and the worse thing is when people who are not 100% certs to go, have to choose what they'd like the next day, incase they end up staying a bit longer, and then you end up the first day you're there, with their food, because you're in their bed.
The guy who'd had bed must have been 70+, and he'd ordered some sort of dry Pasty, errgh. Needless to say I didn't eat it.
As for your Qualification Cassie, don't knock it too much. One of the people who runs Gym, who recently took over, started there as a basic level employee apparently, around 10 years ago, and now they part own it.
So if you move up the ranks, you could possibly be managing a Gym within 6-8 years maybe, and by then have enough money set aside, to prove to a bank, you can be given several thousand $$$, to make up the remainder of any business startup capital.
Plus as well, a lot of Dieticians if they don't work in places like Hospitals, have to freelance, and make money off clients, which isn't always as lucrative as it sounds, if you live somewhere where you might only be able to get 4 clients a week in 6 months, instead of maybe 12-15. Plus you initially have to pay money for your own advertising, do you own taxes, possibly need an accountant, maybe even a legal representative to call on, if anyone gets ill and they or a relative accuses you of being potentially to blame.
Okay with a business, (bricks and mortar) running a Gym, you've got to have legal people, accountants, etc etc, but if you're taking over ownership of an established, or perhaps slightly failing business, you have some clients already to build on, and a chance to be a lot more creative business wise, which being a freelance nutritionist doesn't give you.