Quote Originally Posted by Aristotle
There are definately introverted people, but perhaps you're taking this social thing a bit too far. Maybe you just didn't click in high school and by the time you got to college, had no social experience at all? So you're making excuses by saying things like "I need hours of solitude to be sane," to justify your excuses for not wanting to get more social. You just went from being 100% introverted in the beginning of your speech, but by the end you were saying things like "I know I just need to get out and meet people," in which you're only procrastinating. If you move in with someone else it FORCES you to get more social. My bro was a loser and didn't even go to his Senior Prom, but he's a junior in college right now, moved into a house and parties every weekend. As introverted as they came when he was in high school.
It's not that I don't want to be more social. I've decided that I'm going to go out and meet people. But moving in with people I don't know isn't a risk I want to take. Besides, even if I get a social life going, I'm going to have to leave all my friends forever a few months later.
It's definately not too late to start, especially at your age. For Christs Sake, you want to be a TRANSLATOR, one of the first jobs I would think of that requires social and communicational skills.
I think you're confusing translators with interpreters. Translators handle text, interpreters handle speech.
Also, you said yourself it was going to be hard to break into be a translator. You couldn't land a job or even find your own clients in such a competitive business without having confidence.
True. I need to build confidence, but there's no reason I need to stay at college to do that.
And as Kiwi said, you owe it to yourself to finish this last year. You worked hard all through grade school, high school and now college, and I'm assuming you had little or no fun through your entire education being as introverted as you are. You're going to throw all of that hard work away just because you want to start translating Spanish for immigration border patrol, making 20 grand a year? Sounds stupid to me.
I didn't say I was definitely getting into translating. I just said I was thinking about it. And besides, the border patrol doesn't do a lot of translating; they do interpreting. Translation doesn't actually pay that bad, since there is a high demand for it and not very many people who can do it well.

And even if I don't make that great a salary, so what? I just want to get by and derive happiness from the things that truly matter, not work my ass off just to get more stuff.
And no degree is useless, either. Every single college and University in America wouldn't offer large linguistics programs if the degree proved no good.
Most colleges and universities don't offer large linguistics programs. I chose this one because it was one of the few that did have a linguistics program, and even here it's pretty small. You tell me, what job can you get in linguistics? I can't think of one.