How did you pick your major/career?

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2003-08-21 02:26pm

Tsyroc wrote: Aerospace Engineering ---- to Med School?

My highschool friend tried to get into med school for a while (his father was a doctor)... There were a few people he knew that went from engineering to medical school. You need a bachelor degree in something to get in (unless you're a boy genius), and engineering is as good as any (most would go for a BSc. however), just make sure you have the needed biology and chemistry credits.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-08-21 03:31pm

It kinda just happened to me. I'm a secretary BTW.

I had just finished school with very little qualifications. I was working in kitchens while going to night school doing various basic office qualification. I decided i wanted to be a chef. Then i threatened to knife the chef i worked for and my career was over. I then applied for and got a job in the Civil Service. I was fired for not being a very civil servent and spent a while unemployed. However i realised i liked office work. Easy, well paid work AND there is very little trousersnake in an office I.E. a target rich enviroment. But in my own defence i will point out i'm an excelent secretary. I'm nopt allowed to answer the phone at home becasue my family keeps thinking they got the wrong number. I now work for a charity combining 2 things i love, working for the community and getting shit loads of dosh

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-08-21 04:08pm

HemlockGrey wrote:My ideal career would be one where I sat around and got paid for relaxing. Sorta like David Blaine. Anyone know anything like that?

Professional gamer. Or work at a gaming magazine

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-08-21 04:16pm

Exonerate wrote:
HemlockGrey wrote:My ideal career would be one where I sat around and got paid for relaxing. Sorta like David Blaine. Anyone know anything like that?
Professional gamer. Or work at a gaming magazine

Modeling would also be high up there in the money for nothing stakes.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-08-21 05:53pm

I just went to college as an Undeclared, took some classes, and found two majors I liked. Nothing to do with each other, but I'm doing both.

And modeling isn't quite a simple, do-nothing job. I did one modeling job as a (very) young child, and it was a bear. Of course, Sears Catalog isn't around any more, and I don't know what other companies are like, but it wasn't fun.

SpacedTeddyBear · Post by **SpacedTeddyBear** » 2003-08-21 07:37pm

My interest is in Physics right now at SJSU. Though it is hard to keep interested and stay awake in class when every instructer you've had speaks with a heavy accent. Hopefully if I start pulling my act together and stay the fuck awake in class no matter what, I'll probably go into the nuclear field. There is no greater high than having the power of "god" at your fingertips

. I have no idea how I got interested in that particular field. I just gravitated toward it.

CelesKnight · Post by **CelesKnight** » 2003-08-21 09:43pm

I don't know when I decided my career. Ever since I was a little kid, I always knew that I would go to college and take the sciences. I was a natural at Computer Science and made that my major (and now what I'm getting a master's in). I took an economics course and a accounting course, loved both, and made business my minor.

I assume that most people here are in (or are going to be in) the sciences. Is that correct?

BTW, business courses are fricken easy. If you want to sit around for four years and get a reasonably valuable degree, go into business, marketing, or management.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-08-21 09:57pm

BTW, business courses are fricken easy. If you want to sit around for four years and get a reasonably valuable degree, go into business, marketing, or management.

I must disagree, quite fervently. Accounting courses are by no stretch of the imagination slack classes (I do agree with you about marketing and management, they aren't too difficult). They don't waste any time, either, it's the first week of class here and I'm already considerably behind.

Anyway, I decided on my career last year, during Introductory Financial Accounting. I kicked the class in the ass, hard, decided I was good at it and chose to pursue Accounting as my major. Of course, it's gotten a lot harder this year but I'll survive and it'll get me a good job without much fuss.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2003-08-21 10:29pm

Darth Fanboy wrote:because I was working at an aquarium one day, feeding our octopus some small little feeder crabs and I enjoyed it very much so. Late ron I was feeding our sharks and it was also entertaining.

I aspire one day to work with large captive sharks. nothing much larger than a sand tiger can be kept as of right now, one day I hope to change that. So if you hear about the worlds first captive great white eating one of its keepers, chances are its me digesting in its intestinal tract!

Id also like to work with octopus enrichment, those are smart bastards.

You are a marine biologist? We should talk more...

I have wanted tobe a biologist since I was 2. The discipline has changed over the years... From marine biology, to paleobiology... but Herpetology has been stable since age 7.

I am currently well on my way, and am doing well so far in AP biology, and have taken biology courses whenever the opportunity presents itself. Next year, I will be in University, majoring in Biology, minoring in either German or Psychology.

CelesKnight · Post by **CelesKnight** » 2003-08-21 10:35pm

I must disagree, quite fervently. Accounting courses are by no stretch of the imagination slack classes (I do agree with you about marketing and management, they aren't too difficult). They don't waste any time, either, it's the first week of class here and I'm already considerably behind.

Yeah, you're correct that accounting and finance classes aren't easy, and economics courses range from moderate to hard. Courses get harder whenever you add math or real, testable problems. But my recollection is that business majors don't have to take too many of those classes anyway, unless you major in it.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-08-21 11:48pm

SpacedTeddyBear wrote:My interest is in Physics right now at SJSU. Though it is hard to keep interested and stay awake in class when every instructer you've had speaks with a heavy accent. Hopefully if I start pulling my act together and stay the fuck awake in class no matter what, I'll probably go into the nuclear field. There is no greater high than having the power of "god" at your fingertips . I have no idea how I got interested in that particular field. I just gravitated toward it.

Hehe, is the Physics dept still in the old part of the Washingtion Square bldg? I took physics 2A/B , heavy weight algebra only stuff ya know.

SpacedTeddyBear · Post by **SpacedTeddyBear** » 2003-08-22 01:49am

TrailerParkJawa wrote:Hehe, is the Physics dept still in the old part of the Washingtion Square bldg? I took physics 2A/B , heavy weight algebra only stuff ya know.

Yep, its all still there. It'd be great if they move the science departments into the old library someday, now that they relocated everything into the new library. Have you been there recently? It's a pretty nice library. What's kinda cool, whether it was sheer luck in design or mad skill, when you look out over the campus from the upper levels, the campus looks pretty decent. Of course now that they've stopped construction on the library, they've started another construction project on the other side of the campus ( New dorms).