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What career do you want to take up in the future?

Suki

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    Pretty simple question. For me, I'm considering a career in product design (vague) or in accounting (total opposite).

    OH, and if you want, give a short reason to your answer :)

    Sorry if a similar or exact thread has been posted recently; I have looked briefly through the past thread pages.
     
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    Well, I have been in love with the computer for a long time and I love programming, so probably a software engineer. xD
     
    I want to be either a zoologist or a videogame programmer (or both).
     
    I've been wondering this myself for a few months. I'm at a critical stage in my education where I've got to choose my subjects for the Leaving Certificate, which will ultimately determine what third level course I get to learn. Problem is, you can only take seven subjects. Four of them are compulsory (French, English, Irish, mathematics) and you get to pick three others. Which means if you pick economics, business and accounting, you're blocking out the possibility of every doing a science-related course. And vice versa with biology, chemistry and physics; you're saying, 'I don't want to do commerce.' It's quite a narrow line.

    By now I've pretty much decided that I'm going to do biology, chemistry and history. Anyone who hears that asks, 'so you're going for medicine?' and the answer is affirmative. This is where dilemma number two comes into play. Studying medicine is nearly impossible over here. Six of your subjects count towards your ultimate Leaving Cert results. There's a maximum of six hundred points to obtain. So it's one hundred points per subject. You need at least 570 points to study medicine in university. That is an unbelievable amount of points. A very diffcult feat to accomplish.

    So if my dreams of being a doctor die because it's just too hard to enroll in a course, what do I do then?

    Well, I've always had a dream of being an author, but I'd never, ever be able to make a career out of it. I'm not that lucky or skilled. It'd be a nice side-occupation though. Anything involved in the media (acting, directing), I reckon I'd be pretty good at too but those are murky waters to be swimming in.

    Then there's the practical option of working in IT. Despite what I lead people to believe, I'm actually decent at managing computer hardware/software. And getting into that course for third level education over here requires just over half of the points you need for medicine.

    Then again, I'm an indecisive sixteen year old. Ask me this question in a year and I bet my mindset will be on something completely different.
     
    I wish to pursue a career in the psychology field if being an epic ghost hunter doesn't work out. xD because I've always wondered how the human mind thinks and stuff. ^w^
     
    I sewed my seeds in school--I'm going to be a laborer which is actually an alright position. I guess the dream, since I work at Wal-Mart, would be store manager or even--one day--corporate. But aside from that, though I know it's almost impossible to make a stable income with, is that I can be an author. It may have looked like I was slacking off in classes, but I spent nearly all eight of those hours five days a week writing. I'd like to think that I've become quite talented for a simple stock boy from the sticks.

    I sewed my seeds in school--I'm going to be a laborer which is actually an alright position. I guess the dream, since I work at Wal-Mart, would be store manager or even--one day--corporate. But aside from that, though I know it's almost impossible to make a stable income with, is that I can be an author. It may have looked like I was slacking off in classes, but I spent nearly all eight of those hours five days a week writing. I'd like to think that I've become quite talented for a simple stock boy from the sticks.
     
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    Either a Surgeon or an Attorney. If I do better in Chemistry/Biology then I go with the medical field, if not, Law.
     
    Oh man, this question makes me feel old... since I already have a degree in my field.

    Ain't no one can mix chemicals like me. ;)
     
    Adventurer-for-hire. :D

    Failing that, my plan is to graduate from college with a degree in both Civil Engineering and Architecture. I'm good with numbers and I like drawing. I hear there's a few careers one can make with such a skill set and at least one of those two degrees. XD
     
    I want a career in the Medical or Law field. Also, anthropology sounds pretty interesting, and if that was my major or whatever, law would be my minor or whatever. C: Yeah, it would be pretty tough pursuing any of those ideas, but they are really all that actually interest me.

    Aaaand, on the side of any of those jobs, I would want to write books, or at least try to.
     
    Wouldn't it be great to get paid to wander around the world?

    ...but actually I'd love to be a teacher. Coincidentally, that's my boyfriend's optimal career as well. We wouldn't make too much money, but we'd be doing what we want- passing our perspective of the world to the younger generations.
    I'm undecided as whether to teach mathematics, biology, or chemistry (all at high-school level), so I think I'll do it all. :cer_boogie:
     
    Ever since last year my parents have told me I should start planning what I want to do after I graduate collage/ High School.
    Just last week my class had the "Career talk" and I found out pretty much all the class 'cept me doesn't know what they want to do. Sure they do know what kind of career they want they just don't know what path to take.

    So anyway what do I want to do? After winning a National Competiton for Making Video games I've had my Mind set on either a Video Game Graphics Designer and Programmer.

    But of course I have other career choices too.
    I go to an Elite Girls Private Collage/ High School of about 700 Students and out of that 700 I am one of the best Video Editors and Camera Operators at my school despite I'm way younger than the rest ever since I was in Year 9 (Grade 8). I'm in Year 11 (Grade 10) now. Like my Graphics I am never satisfied till the video is the best and like when I compare my GFX to more elite Artists GFX I won't stop practicing till I reach that standard.

    After the age of 10 I got my very first Digital camera and I loved taking Pictures of my friends and scenery and such and got more into last year when I got a new camera with better quality I may have the choice of it but half of my family have photography in their blood so I'm not sure

    My last choice is Acting, I'm already in Grade 7 for the New Zeland Speech and Drama Board and after next year I will be allowed to take a diploma or something for it. Plus I enjoy acting. I love how people think I'm so quite but I can still be dramatic XD

    Anyway that's me pretty much weighing my ideas
     
    Photography / Graphic Design is generally what I'm interested in and the sorts of classes that I take. Of the two, the photography path would be something I would enjoy a lot more, it's a really nice way to kill time and enjoy creating scenes. Graphic design is nice, buuuut it can get rather tedious and I like the idea of being out and about looking for the best subjects and creating the best compositions I can.

    I'm also incredibly interested in writing, the two paths I just mentioned are more along the lines of things I think I could make a stableish living off of, I'd love to be a published author one day and it is something I work towards in my time off from school. I don't think I could ever be that great of a journalist, but it is something I wouldn't mind giving a try, a lot of my favorite journalists seem to enjoy their jobs a lot and love how fast things can change.
     
    Honestly, I'd love to land a traveling Photography job, as unlikely as that'll be. Other options out there are computer programmer [What I'm going after now because it's the most viable] and probably a psychologist or sociologist for the more obscure things [I want to screw with people and get paid for it]
     
    I would like to pursue psychology. Not only could I help people find out about themselves and what they want out of life, but I could also find answers to my own questions about the human psyche.
    If I can't handle that, I'll shoot for either nursing or criminal law.
    Whatever happens may be quite difficult, seeing how I'll be graduating a bit too fresh from high school and the American university I desire to attend may be a bit doubtful about my age and British certifications, but hopefully I'll make it through.
     
    I'm having a really hard time deciding what I want to be suddenly. I thought I wanted to be a graphic designer, but now I'm just not so sure about that. Art, business, culinary, and law are the main career fields that I have interest in. Deciding between them is the hard part.
     
    I'm finishing my final year of school later this year. I'm hoping to complete a Bachelor Degree of Journalism at university over the next three years, and I've got no clue what I'll do after that. I might take another year and get a Diploma of Education so I can teach at secondary schools, I might join the police force, I might get somewhere with a music career. I don't know yet.
     
    I wanna work with music. Not a singer or anything though, couldnt do that. XD Maybe a producer or something. Idk.
     
    Well, I thought I wanted to be in graphic design for most of college (and of course a bit before that since that's why I decided to go in the first place), but only recently I changed majors to animation.

    I'd always planned to learn it after college and I've always had a love for the magic of animation (live action was always more 'boring' to me growing up although not quite as much now), but only a couple quarters ago did I realize I wasn't really meant for design and instead needed to pursue animation in college.

    When I was a kid I wanted to be a paleontologist or some other such scientist :3
     
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