What is/was your major/ career aspirations?
Posted by amymylove on Sep 21, 2009 · Member since Apr 2009 · 5266 posts
I'm curious to know what most of u do for a living (when ur not kicking it here on vegweb) or what u r studying/ studied to be in school?
Me Business Administration major with a concentration in Accounting... 1 semester to go
Please i'm interested :)
I have a BA in Psychology, but getting into grad school for psych is harder than getting into med school right now. Also, I think actually being a counselor would make me very depressed. Curse my interest in the brain!!! I would really like a job where I could still "express" myself outwardly (AKA, dress and look how I please without dealing with the dogmatic standards of stifling social norms), so I am currently working on starting up a jewelry business, but a vegan cafe would be fun too. If anyone knows of any other vocations where it wouldn't matter if I have a piercing or 2 and some color in my hair, let me know.
I wish some more people without amazing college degrees would post cuz I feel like I'm the only college dropout on VW.
I wish some more people without amazing college degrees would post cuz I feel like I'm the only college dropout on VW.
hey, at least you have a job!
I majored in English with a minor in German. I am still fighting my school right now and trying to transfer credits from my semester abroad, so I do not have my diploma yet which really stinks.
I want to one day open up a little used book store with a little bakery in it (don´t we all?). However, for the here and now I really have zero ambition and I doubt I ever will. I have long since resigned myself to the fact that I will never make much money. :)
I just want to travel the world, which I am sure will work out really well with that not making a lot money thing. ;D Right now I am planning on living in China for a while and hopefully getting a job teaching English once I officially get my diploma. I love languages and I am so excited about getting to learn another one.
My sister has a near minimum wage job and goes to Europe every few years. You don't need much money to travel if you're careful with how you spend it in between travel dates.
Graduated with degrees in economics and history and I work in healthcare consulting mostly as an analyst/computer programmer not using my degrees at all. Love my job though!
I aspire though to make my passion project my full time job, which is helping improve the effectiveness of foreign aid. There is for too lax assessment of foreign aid projects, which is a shame because not only are most projects wasted resources, but far too often are not beneficial to the populations they are suppose to serve. So, right now whenever I have a few hours of free time I'm putting together some kind of web service/program/data collection to help target useful aid projects.
Wooo! Member for 3 years and first second post. ???
Since I was little I wanted to be a nuclear engineer (for power plants not bombs!). But then solar showed up and took the fun out of that - but I was going to anyway. And than I went to college and do you know what? Calculus blows. Not just a little, but really really sucks. So I decided to go into Civil Engineering. The devil calculus stayed away, but the equally hated sibling geometry slid into his place... no fun there either. So, I changed programs and went for being a K9 police officer (don't ask how I got there, because to this day 10 years later I still don't know). Yay, big dogs and helicopters - yeah great fun, I love this. Oh wait - I get shot at? I didn't sign up for this. So I changed again and went into Aviation, got a pilots license, and moved across the continent to frozenhellanchoragealaskawhereitisfriggincold. Planes... fun, lots of fun. September 11th! Fuel crunch. Industry isn't quite as solid as it once was. In fact, it makes jello look like granite bedrock. But I was 3 years into it and a whole lot more in school loans, so I decided to finish and go somewhere warmer. Next up: southern Arizona. While waiting for the new term to begin, I stayed with a friend who was studying Linguistics. Linguistics looked like fun, and I took a class with her for the heck of it. And 2 more classes while we were at it. Annnnd a couple more semesters just for kicks. :p Arizona was hot, and I hated it. So I moved back to the city that I started in and am now finishing the Linguistics degree as a Speech and Human Pathology degree to work in the speech therapy field. Next up: Cognitive Science doctorate at the University of Colorado Boulder paired with a programing certificate. Can you say artificial intelligence?
I wish some more people without amazing college degrees would post cuz I feel like I'm the only college dropout on VW.
Hey, I don't. I have been in college since 1998 and I don't have a degree yet. I am just now going back to school after being out for 2+ years and having about 65K in school loan debt. So no, you aren't the only one. :P
My degrees are environmental engineering and biological engineering. They're really valuable degrees, and hard earned, but I think I'll just keep them as fall backs. I'm in my second year of teaching math to middle schoolers, getting a lot of positive feedback, and I don't think I'm going to find any other fulfilling jobs that I think are as important. I am brainstorming now whether I will continue teaching past two years, and if so, how I would going about becoming an administrator, if I decide to take that path. I do value a career with a direction. I love working with kids so much and I can't imagine doing an "adult" job again. It's tiring but I feel I make a huge difference that I can actually experience every day.
There's a lot of other jobs that I would enjoy, but I just can't stand not having a goal or direction! I'm just too Type A. I want to DO things, and FIX things, and accomplish things! And make things better! Or at least try to. Gah, too many actions verbs.
My fantasy career is a vegan nutritionist but I'd rather start some sort of vegan outreach organization later in life if I can. That, or an organization to support teachers and educational reform in high need districts. I'd also like to go to law school but that ain't happening! I got shit to do.
eta: I forgot the part where I'm probably moving to a big city like New York next year. I want to live in a city so bad.
Wow. Personally I would think working with middle schoolers would make you want to rip your hair out, but maybe middle school was just hell for me.
Wow. Personally I would think working with middle schoolers would make you want to rip your hair out, but maybe middle school was just hell for me.
I love them! They're so dear to me. It does make you want to rip your hair out! You just gotta figure out the inner workings of their brains and how to make them shine despite the fact that they don't know how to yet. It's the best age to teach!
I am in awe of your drive. Props to you. I could not do what you do.
Psychology/sociology major, music minor. I had every intent of adding a performance major as a second degree program, but 1) I decided I was interested in too many other things to spend 5 hours a day woodshedding and 2) I got major repetitive stress injury.
I did a special "certificate" program for the sociology major that required me to do an internship. I got a job doing background research and program evaluation for a school reform model (first for credit, then for pay). This is when I fell in love with research. And education. I actually had the application completely filled out for Teach for America before I came to my senses and realized that teaching k-12 didn't fit my personality AT ALL.
So instead I went straight out of undergrad to a Ph.D. in ed. psych, because for my taste sociology didn't spend enough time talking about the individual living, breathing kids in schools (sorry BP!). On my way I got a masters degree in educational research and statistics.
Got a tenure-track job straight out of the Ph.D. I get to do research, which is my first love. But I also get to teach teachers and work with school districts, which is what makes my job "mean" something.
As for music... I play chamber music with friends and I'm in my community orchestra. A far cry from my dreams of being an orchestral musician in late high school. But it just wasn't for me.
Funny how life works...
Another psychology major here, but going for the B.S. rather than the BA. I have about another year and a half left, and I'm hoping follow it up with a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.
I think I'll probably end up teaching and doing research in academia to satisfy my intellectual hunger, but I'd like to be able to have a clinical practice as well. I don't think it's all that useful to study the human mind in books and in a research lab if you can't put what you're studying into practice in real life.
kmk... how the hell do u have 2 degrees already? r u a super genius or something? lol
I have a Bachelor's in Anthropology (focus in archaeology) and a Master's in Geology (focus in invertebrate paleontology). I am a researcher and work as a science expert for an educational testing company. I love my job.
Dream Job: http://www.jpac.pacom.mil/images/index/logo-tmb.jpg
Current Job: environmental protection
so when I left school I initially wanted to become a professional musician (french horn) and so did A levels to suit that. Then I realised that there were 2 main things stopping me from doing this
1. I wasn't good enough
2. I was too lazy to practice enough to become good enough!
So then I bummed around for a year or so and as luck had it my job was in a pharmacy. So then I decided that I wanted to become a pharmacist. However to get into uni I needed science A Levels and not music and sociology which is what I had.
So I gave up full time work and went back to college - much to my parents disgust. They thought I was mad for giving up my full-time job and told me that it was pointless as I'd only end up dropping out. My bf at the time also said it was pointless as I would never make it the whole way and become a pharmacist.
I worked my arse off, working really hard at my A Levels and working virtually full time at my pharmacy / supermarket job, plus had a job in a pub for part of the time.
I got into uni and did my Master of Pharmacy and again did really well. Not wuite well enough to get a 1st at my uni, even though I had the 2nd highest overall mark for my year! I then did my one year pre-registration training - in one of the most prestigious hospitals in the UK - and passed that.
So I am, surprise surprise, working as a pharmacist now.
Anyways, that's quite a long winded post of what I did / am doing and also a chance for me to blow my own trumpet!!
Fixed it:
Anyways, that's quite a long winded post of what I did / am doing and also a chance for me to blow my own french horn!!
tee hee!
kmk... how the hell do u have 2 degrees already? r u a super genius or something? lol
I did a double degree program....environmental engineering and biological engineering. They overlap somewhat. I got them both at once. It was hard, trust me!
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