Anthropology and/or money

Money, its a crime.Share it fairly but dont take a slice of my pie.Money, so they say is the root of all evil today.But if you ask for a raise its no surprise that theyre giving none away(8).

When I got into this degree I always thought about the possibility of having no money, but I didn’t care. The first thing my father told me when I informed him that I wanted to study anthropology was: “But you’re not going to find any work, why don’t you study sociology?” The thing is that I never thought about money when I got into this degree, maybe because my mother always told me that I had to study something that made me happy and something that I liked, and that when you need money you always can find a way (not steeling) to get it. Besides, all the people think that if you study anthropology you’re going to be unemployed, but you can work in many things if you know how to search and how to apply the anthropology. This science has a work field, if you know how to use the knowledge that it gives you.
I think that when I got into this degree I was thinking more in social sciences than in money, in using anthropology in social aspects. Actually I never thought that I will be unemployed or something like that, I don’t know why, but I’m very hopeful about my future even when I don’t know well what I’m going to do when I graduate. If you want to earn money you can work for the government in public policies, or in a ONG, or in the University as a professor, or in projects of different institutions, etc. For me Anthropology is more important, as a science you can use with social and political purposes, than money, as long as I have enough money to support me and my family (if I have). I always knew that I wouldn’t be a millionaire if I study this, but I didn’t care, and I still don’t care. The only thing I want is work in something related with anthropology, or in something where I can use it, and earn enough money to pay my bills, the rent, my food and any other basic necessity.
It would be stupid say that I don’t care about money, but is like I said before. You always care about money, because in this capitalist world if you don’t have money you can’t survive and, in our case (Chile) if you don’t have money you can’t pay your education or your health. But as long as I can pay my basic things and as long as I enjoy what I’m doing I’m going to be happy.
At the moment I’m not working, because I don’t have time to work in anything, buy I intend to in holydays. I’m lucky, because my parents can pay my education and my life in Santiago. But I want to earn my own money so I want to work this summer vacations.

Regards,
Penny