» Wed Feb 05, 2014 5:03 pm Some background information: I live in singapore, a small developed country in southeast asia. Generally the country appears to value science degrees more than arts degrees for now; probably because science can enable the country to develop faster. However i'm quite a staunch believer of the 'Get a job you like and you never have to work for a day' mentality.
That being said, the crux of the issue is that i don't really know if i really like doing liberal arts. I do enjoy drama and writing (Begone, peasant! Your putrid body shall not desecrate the XXX! lol.) and i can write fiction stories pretty well, though im not really sure if im cut out for it. Im also not sure what do people do with their creative writing degrees and such. Do they....all become authors?? 
The other things that i do know i enjoy are games and music. For music i prefer 'new age music' which doesnt involve modern singers. Not sure if there's a genre for that. For example, game music and movie music, orchestral or non-orchestral. Pieces with latin vocals get a plus 
Not all that keen on classical music though, which is all im seeing when i mention 'music degrees'. For games i don't see any other career other than a game reviewer, since i can't program for nuts
My other choice is to start with a science degree in bioengineering / biological sciences. I'm neutral about this field; i don't exactly hate it, but im not loving it either. Probably would be a more stable, if mundane option.
A rather improbable choice is to study Arts overseas, which im assuming (lots of assumption here) is a better place to have an arts degree? Although i keep seeing all the 'Oh, you have an arts degree? I want fries with that.' which doesnt help much. A friend of mine suggested to go to canada. However if i were to study there, the fees would be 3-4 times compared to local universities, not to mention i wouldnt have loans with a reduced interest rate. So:
-Should i go for the 'easy way out' and take a science degree, or should i go for arts which doesnt have such good career prospects? (I'm also not 100% sure that i want to do literature for the rest of my life.) Alternatively, how about taking a science degree and if the fancy strikes me, i switch to an arts career (say writer or actor) in the future? My parents told me that people with science degrees can get 'arts' jobs, while people with arts degrees are unlikely to land a science job like a researcher.
-How is the situation like in other countries? How much are the arts embraced there?
-Also, how does one become a choir singer in some orchestra? Im pretty fascinated with languages such as latin, and coupled with the orchestral music i think that'd be a pretty swell choice, if i'm able to get in.
On a side note, i adore european culture (or perhaps i should use 'architecture', since culture encompasses too much) and language. A lot. Also i'm generally a lazy and 'dreamer' kind of person, so no, i have not studied the cultures and languages in great detail, though im close to for latin. I generally just lose myself in games like skyrim or metro.
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