Am I Actually Studying Anthropology?

According to the wiki, both geography and linguistics falls under the broad field of anthropology. When I took an intro course to anthro/socio/psyche in grade 11, I hated anthropology with a passion. I did not want to look at fossils (one reason why I won’t study geology or paleo-anything), did not care about the found remains of some broad way back when, and did not care about the Mayans like everybody else did. Imagine my disdain after reading that, but I cannot deny it.

I just got offered an interview for a PAID position in downtown Toronto with the Ontario government. The person contacting me said my resume was “impressive”, but I think he should tell that to all the other people that never contacted me. I know LC would love this position as it deals with archaeology (yet another branch of stupid anthro). I would also love this position because it pays and also because I can finally add some real GIS experience to my resume. I figure if I’m going to work in any of the fields I study, it’ll be either strictly academic for linguistics or working with GIS for geography—either an analyst or a technician. Unfortunately, I’m already at a “job” that I love/like, although it’s unpaid and it straddles many favourable boundaries such as time, money, and location. I’m mostly fact checking and researching, but since I’m working at a magazine that deals with geography I’m fascinated by every single article that gets handed to me. Right now, and after this, I will just try to get my name in print in any other sources. Then I think I will try to go for a (paid) internship at a famous publication. If I got the job with Heritage and Libraries, I’d be looking at…archaeological sites. Whoopee. Now there are two forks in the row, the one heading straight to the future or the one that loops back into itself and along the way has posts marked with the words “regret”, “shoulda”, “lost opportunity” and the like. My regret as I had to sadly put the interview down was very great. I wanted to quit Ottawa right away, go back to Toronto and scream, “I’m all yours!” But after about three hours of contemplation, I’ve decided to shelve this missed opportunity as just another. I thought about where that opportunity could’ve led me to, and where this one is currently leading me. Both expose me to professional worlds, one in archaeology/GIS, the other in journalism/geography. I could go into journalism. I really like it—I love interviewing people you would not talk to in any other job and learning about their experiences, their fields of expertise, and feeling so much more informed. I could do research with linguistics. I could work in GIS. Any which way, I’m an information junkie, says jobfutures.ca, so just give me facts or a chance to research and I will be addicted.