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Career Aspirations

Saruman

Hi there all, I'm just curious to know what everyones plans are for their long term career path. This is coming about because I'm facing a hell of a dilemma, since I want to get on to a medical degree but have accepted offers for a chemistry degree, and me, being indecisive, have changed my mind. It leave the possibility open to do the chemistry degree then join a medical degree, but thats a chore time-wise and it rapes the bank balance quite heavily. This leaves me with the option of resitting my last year of A-level to get AAA grades, which shouldn't be too hard because I should get A,A, B or C anyway, which would mean retaking one Alevel in a whole year, and with one subject to focus on wouldn't be too hard hopefully. In that case I would do biology in one year to replace the B/C in further maths I am likely to attain this year.

Anyways my panicky rant is over now, so what are everyone elses aspirations?
 
I changed my major from Computer Engineering to Computer Science and am glad I did - fortunately, the two majors were very similar, so the time costs weren't major.

As far as long-term, I'll probably get a cube job and work my way up from there.
 
I'm looking to get my Doctorate, in which I plan to become either a Professor of Secular Religious Studies or Political Science. Political Science is a much more credible field of study, no doubt, but I'm a lot more interested (and better at understanding) religion in general.

We'll see though. I have a year and a little bit yet to change my major (second year of Uni is coming up this September), so I'm in no rush to make an overly hasty decision.
 
I just need to earn enough to support my pokemon addiction.

Graduate with a 2:1 in economics and go work for the government because it. is. so. easy. Alternatively, I could opt into the private sector for fatter paychecks, and thinner women.
 
I've very recently decided to change what I want to do in life. Before I was like "lol website designer! I like the internet so it will be fun!" Then I realised all the stuff I need to learn and how I skate too much to get anything like that done. So I've decided to start up a skateboarding company. My friends and I are so tired of "the man" [Corporations like Route 1 and SS20 over here in England] using skateboarding as a way to make money out of people, when it should be about the skaters. I've got a meeting with the Prince's Trust later on this month about getting a grant for starting up this business, so in the meantime lots of preparation and writing of business plan so I don't look like a noob to them.
 
That's awesome Dan, I love hearing about things like that. Businesses get too big and forget about the people, and they're the most important thing.

I'm a month old at my new job at the largest national law firm in the states. I'm at a pretty low ladder rung, but I'm told repeatedly that I'll be targeted for upward movement into a paralegal position in the future, probably a couple years (maybe less). I suppose if I really had to say one thing I want to do, it's to become an attorney myself and come back and work for this company for the rest of my life. One month, and I know this is the place for me.
 
I'm studying plain old Biology at uni, but I don't really think that is what I wanna do at all. I guess I am just looking at the degree as a ticket into a good career, and just doing the subject I enjoy/am good at.

I most likely want to move into something like Accountancy/Banking/blah blah when I've figured out everything :/
 
I go to an art school and I'm majoring in Illustration. I plan on being a fantasy/children's book illustrator, but I'm going to get into some 3-D graphics and animation so that I can work in film and video game development as well.

BUT that will only happen if I can stop pokemoning so much... =[
 
I'll hopefully teach people later. I don't know why because it doesn't really suit my personality much and I tend to suck at wording sometimes. My motivation's more of a feeling than a good reason.

Then again, looking at how well I'm doing in school right now I should be glad if I finish school. But if I manage to become a teacher I will be able to read the minds of all these naughty children who think they can skip school and present me with lies.
 
After high school, I plan on running for an university in Jyväskylä to study economics. I hope I'll be in the marketing business after that. I've already chosen my high school courses in the way, which directs me towards an university, in which I can study economics. Jyväskylä happens to be the best option, because I like the concept of following my dad's footsteps. The problem is that I have to study long-term mathematics, which is quite difficult at the moment, but I've managed to pass all my courses so far.
 
I'm going into a Game + Simulation Arts program, and that fits my life pretty well. Always loved video games, always will... so why not :]
 
Whatever I post in this thread is pretty much trolling considering I have no idea...it doesn't even help that I'm good at everything I try my hand in. I think I'm going to do a degree in mathematics/chemistry and leave the finding a job part of the equation to later on when I have a better idea of what I want to do with my life.
 
I hate how we all everyone makes us think about what we want to do now...I just want to enjoy life for the while, not think about what i'm gonna be doing for the rest of my life. Maybe it's just the kid in me, but there's so much pressure on everyone these days to be the best at everything, and people forget to enjoy it.
 
What Dan Dan says is right I suppose, but I need to decide how best to get on to a medical degree financially and time-wise and its a fucking hard decision to make.
 
I'm pretty sure I just want to teach history at the highschool level and marry a slightly older (2-3 years), horny rich woman with some cushy executive position. The job because I really want a low stress job (well, at least compared to a 9-5 desk job) with decent hours (Leaving work at 3 pm is grand). The wife for money + I want to outlive my wife + I need direction.

That's basiclly the position that my dad is in now (Except he hasn't worked since I was two, thus I need a job to keep myself ocupied), and he's the most depressed person I've ever met. I mean, he'd have probably commited suicide by now were it not for the fact that he and my mom still constantly fuck.
 
Dunno. 16 is a tad early to decide what one whats to do for the rest of his life.
Having said that, im currently interested in the medical field, so i guess i would be considering that as an option, especially since docs are filthy rich and never go "out of style".
 
spot on, Dan. the only reason i went to university was to postpone a career, heh. in today's world people go through so many career changes anyway, there should be far less pressure on young people to decide what they want to do for 'the rest of their life' since they probably won't be doing it for that long anyway. they say youth is wasted on the young - then let us enjoy it!

personally i am going to go into some sort of computery thing assuming i pass my degree. programming and suchlike... paying off debts and doing as little work as possible while still having a good time. sounds ideal to me if i can actually get it to happen.
 
I am a mathematics major, intending to specialize in combinatorics, partial differential equations, and harmonic analysis.

Although I knew what field I wanted to be in from an early age, I do understand Dan Dan's point. Youth are typically chaotic in a sense and mostly unable to make long-term plans of any sort that truly suit themselves, and the immense pressure via aggressive, virtually fear-mongering rhetoric from school administration put on them to choose a particular, usually highly specialized career path for the remainder of their working lives probably is not the best approach educators could take. Then again, I could be wrong, since I'm not an educator by any means, nor do I want to be - I do not look forward to the teaching aspect my job will almost certainly entail. The current approach may actually be effective, but based on the admittedly not conclusive anecdotal evidence from I and many others I talk to, it seems to be disillusioning many students with the entire concept of careers, and subsequently, working, rather than promoting it.

Cerivious said:
Dunno. 16 is a tad early to decide what one whats to do for the rest of his life.
Having said that, im currently interested in the medical field, so i guess i would be considering that as an option, especially since docs are filthy rich and never go "out of style".
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Never assume one's job cannot be obsoleted, by technological advances of sorts or other means. I say this not because I think the medical field is doomed in the foreseeable future, but that I think it is erroneous to assume any profession is immune from such a fate.
See: assembly line workers, retail positions, etc.
 
My grand goal in life is to get to the point where I don't have to work at all, as quickly as possible. I have so many side projects I'm vastly interested in and I can't realistically pursue all of them with any sort of job.

I am 100% serious about this. This isn't some fairy tale. I will figure out how to live the life I want to live without needing a job. It's only a matter of time.

That being said, if I was making some sort of revenue from one of the myriad of interests I had, enough of that could add up. Right now I'm bullish on derby. Roller derby is becoming fucking HUGE, and being intimately involved in the creation of one of the first ever male leagues will put me in a good place for that. I'm already talking with some folks about trying to create a central derby community to really focus things right now - and, actually, I'm basing a lot of the ideas for it off of Smogon, believe it or not.

So I'm hoping that if that goes well, I will actually be able to make enough money off of that to dedicate my time to skating, writing, music, and the like.
 
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