why are you majoring in that?

So, many people who have met me for the first time ask me what my major is, and you usually don't lie about your major. (Surprising, huh? Probably the one thing you wouldn't lie about is your major.) Anyway, so I tell people my major, and it's a really long major too so get ready. If you guys don't know, my major is Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing, but my major is also Sport Management. So, essentially I'm a double major. A lot of people at my university are double majors so don't be surprised. And, people are like, wow! Then people ask: Why are you majoring in that? And well, the answer is pretty simple, and it's also a really good story, so let's get started!

Before declaring my major in my senior year of high school, I have debated majoring in so many things. I was pretty much ready for college at the young age of 14. I really wanted to be a Drama/Theatre Arts major for a long time due to my love of the theatre, so that was one of the majors I wanted to do. I also wanted to be a Film Studies major because I wanted to be a screenwriter when I grow up. (I still do scriptwriting as a small hobby, in hopes of doing it as a side project in the near future.), which also prompted me to be an English/Creative Writing major. I also took a real love in NASA and astronomy, which made me want to major in Astrophysics or Aerospace Engineering, but I hated the math portion of it, so I was like, nope.

Then, probably when I was 15/16, my mom and I had a pretty long talk about me needing to throw away my Theatre dreams because Theatre is one of the most competitive job areas out there, and if you aren't the best, you're basically the worst and have to wait tables while you wait for your next big break. So, I faced the facts that Theatre won't bring me a lot of success and I can always do it as a hobby, so I finally settled on majoring in Business, after my mom, who also majored in Business Marketing.

Now, with a Business major, I wanted to take that and go into a lot of different things. Mainly technology. I had a really big dream to work for a television producer company (*cough, Disney*) or a company that specialized in technology (*cough Google cough Facebook cough YouTube cough any social media networks out there.) Being from the Bay Area, I knew I could get a shot. And finally, I was so obsessed with video games, why not go work for them? (*cough Nintendo) So, that's where that started.

About a year later, word was getting around that Brad Pitt was starring in this new movie called "Moneyball" and he was filming in Oakland, and every Bay Area person out there went pretty crazy. These two guys I knew in my childhood life even went to go to the Coliseum to see the scene in Moneyball where the recreate the consecutive wins get filmed. I watched it with my family a year later and discovered that this guy, played by Jonah Hill, did something that I thought was really interesting. He was basically Billy Beane (General manager for the Oakland A's) assistant, who took prospective player's statistics and translated them into building what would be the perfect team.

Now I had done baseball for a while, I had learned how to scorekeep baseball games and take stats when I was 15, no big deal. But, I found out that I had a lot of fun doing it. I would ask other parents to do their job for them because I liked it so much. So, I told my parents after the season ended that that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to work in sports. Now, females in sports? Not a lot of them. That's why I started to learn how to do different sports. My senior year of high school, I took on basketball scorekeeping, and I soon learned how to do volleyball (still working on volleyball), and next I hope to learn how to do football.

So, when I applied to go to school where I do, I took the initiative to double major, since Sport Management alone can only get you jobs in sports. The Business major will help me be well rounded in case I don't get into the sports industry.

Now, I'm working as a basketball scorekeeper for our Recreation Sports program at school, which is the best job decision I have ever made. Seriously, I love my RecSports family. And over the summer, I hope to take an internship with a Pro Cycling team working as their marketing intern. (If you guys didn't know my dad is an avid, I believe might be nationally ranked...cyclist. So I like cycling. I have been kinda forced to for my whole life. Hoping I can go into that too.)

Anyway, there's my story! It's really long, as I have now looked back...but if you ever were skeptical about it, then you can read this. xo, brittany

High school basketball court, College basketball court, NBA court.

If I can get to work here in the future, that'd be really really nice.