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at the end of next year, i will be a fully qualified primary (elementary) school teacher!

edit: seriously.
 
I'm getting into uni this year most likely. It's a four year course in computer science, at the end of which I plan to get a job.. guess things will work out from that point onwards
 
I'm finishing my Vet major this year. After that I'm going to a nearby animal hospital for my six month apprenticeship and then either work in a clinic or apply for a specialization on farm animals in the US. My ideal future is to have a clinic, not much else.
 
Game Designer: I bought a whole book about the carrer. To get the job I need to be able to express my ideas perfectly so the book suggests a strong background in English Literature. People just starting out will usually receive 40-60k a year while seniors and lead designers will take home at least 80k a year.

Of course, I am just entering High School so I might change what I want to be. Other things I would like to do are: Animal Biologist, Marine Biologist, Vet,
 
Ooh cool, a vet! I never would've expected see someone who aspired to run their own clinic on an internet forum, to be honest, however stupid that might sound.

Good luck with that Pax.
 
Unownasofyet said:
I want to be a music teacher :)
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heh that what my friend wants to be.

I'm prolly goign to become an engineer or some type of a physics involved job. Next year is my last year of high school so i really need to start looking at good colleges to apply for. But math has always been my strong suit and physics this year was pretty legit so i plan to go towards that.
 
I'd love to do something with quantum mechanics, it's something that I truly have a passion for.

Also, I loved AP Biology last year and if physics doesn't work out, I'm sure I'd be happy doing something with medicine as well... neuroscience seems interesting.
 
I am majoring in biology and minoring in music. The natural world is fascinating to me, and because of that I think that the biological sciences are a perfect career choice for me. I will probably go for botany because I hate dissections. I am going for music because I live in music.
 
Later in life I can see myself being a high school teacher, and I've wanted that for a long time, although I'm not completely sure WHAT I want to teach...it used to be math, and it still is, but math just seems really boring and I don't do my homework and stuff, so yeah. Exercise science/Kiniesiology sounds really interesting, so I might become a gym/? teacher since I have to have 2 things I can teach.

Teaching people things is something that I love, so I'm gonna try my hardest! =)
 
whatever you do, don't be a teacher...

they get payed very little, and they get trapped all day in a room with twenty-five hyperactive, screaming children
 
Ideally i'd love to publish comics and make enough to survive. Not like superheroes, i'm thinking more of graphic novels with beginnings and ends. Like Bone.

Since that's incredibly unlikely and difficult i'd settle with the slightly less unlikely aspiration of doing storyboards or design/concept work and drawings for essentially anyone. Some big game company like Blizzard would probably be fun to draw for. They've got cool concept work.
 
Groudon80 said:
I'd love to do something with quantum mechanics, it's something that I truly have a passion for.

Also, I loved AP Biology last year and if physics doesn't work out, I'm sure I'd be happy doing something with medicine as well... neuroscience seems interesting.
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Wait until you take a quantum course in college... if you still like it, then you'll be able to tell you truly have a passion for it. Quantum weeds out quite a few physics majors ; )
 
Either working in the field of computer science or theoretical physics.

Both of which I really enjoy studying. All my science fair projects since 8th grade were in Computer Science.
 
Wow, someone else here has a passion for quantum mechanics.. Nice.

I'm still in my senior year as a high school student but I will definitely have a Physics/Chemistry double major (there is a course at the uni I'm going to which offers both). I seriously can't decide between the 2, so why not take both?
 
minister2 said:
Wow, cool, I never pictured anyone on this forum as an elelmentary teacher, but if Steelicks is good at it, awesome! I myself have no idea, as any of my interests don't exactly = a consistant job (I like to write and voice act 0_o,). I'm pretty concerned actually, especially after seeing some of these other posts.
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lol there is a user "bluelightstar" who doesnt post much on smogon but goes on another pokemon forum I visit and he teaches various sciences and maths at a high school. But yeah steelicks is awesome too!
 
Nerdling said:
whatever you do, don't be a teacher...

they get payed very little, and they get trapped all day in a room with twenty-five hyperactive, screaming children
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that means that if you're good at it, you're the most fucking noble person in the world. i have a lot more respect for people who manage to do that and want to do that than some businessman who earns a fat lot of money in the trade. it's a much more honest profession imo.
 
I never would have guessed it since my original idea for my career was Law School, but for the past year and a half I've been in the hotel industry, with aspirations to move into the Revenue Management field by the end of 2007.
 
Altmer said:
that means that if you're good at it, you're the most fucking noble person in the world. i have a lot more respect for people who manage to do that and want to do that than some businessman who earns a fat lot of money in the trade. it's a much more honest profession imo.
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QFT. It may sound cliche, but I agree whole-heartedly with the notion that teachig is the most noble profession. There's simply something about sacrificing your personal aspirations in life selflessly for the sake of wanting to teach the future generation. That is simply awesome.
 
Groudon80 said:
I'd love to do something with quantum mechanics, it's something that I truly have a passion for.

Also, I loved AP Biology last year and if physics doesn't work out, I'm sure I'd be happy doing something with medicine as well... neuroscience seems interesting.
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quantum mechanics seems like a lot of guess work to me.

i want to be nurse practitioner one day. i mean, its sort of like a pediatrician, but with a lot more time taking care of patients.

i also want to win the hugo award for best science fiction novel one day.
 
I don't think he feels like its alot of work; I also have a passion for quantum mechanics and nuclear physics to boot, and what I can say is so long as you have a passion for doing something, it won't seem like a lot of work to you.
 
Ecksodia said:
I don't think he feels like its alot of work; I also have a passion for quantum mechanics and nuclear physics to boot, and what I can say is so long as you have a passion for doing something, it won't seem like a lot of work to you.
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I've developed a sort of love/hate relationship with physics: (same with math, my other major) I hate it when I can't figure out the answer to a problem, then when I finally solve it I love the feeling of accomplishment you get.

What I really like is working in the lab, though. I spent a summer working at a national particle accelerator facility, and I'm doing some nuclear/particle physics research with one of my professors this summer. It's a blast.
 
If anything I would consider the teaching profession to be noble because business revolves around trade secrets and teaching is the antithesis of "secret."

But yeah, I want to be a higher up on an innovative project (hopefully involving the web). Maybe end up working at Facebook or Google. Right now I work for my university as a web designer/programmer but I'm not completely happy with it because I'm coding on a Microsoft cluster in ASP and anyone who knows anything about web programming knows ASP pre.NET blows really really really hard

Oh yeah, and I'd like Smogon to grow. And :) maybe open my own freelance web firm. I'm not really in the position right now due to time...
 
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