How did you decide what you wanted to do with your life? (career-wise)

[Snor]

coincidence really... in combination of what I though I was good at which landed me in an international business school after that I noticed I found management very interesting because it relates to sociology and psychology.

 

[Ildecia]

since i'm only 18; i guess i have toe world at my fingertips?

regardless, past 7 months i've had some serious surgery; and without being able to sing, i would have without a doubt gone insane. therefore i want to be a music teacher.

 

[Trivun]

Well, I wanted to be in the RAF as a pilot, since I do enjoy flying (did a gliding scholarship paid for by the RAF when I was 16). However, I also wanted to go to university, and yet the RAF didn't want me to do that first, they wanted me to join them straight out of sixth form. So I decided not to join.

Now, studying Maths at Leeds University, I've decided I'll attempt a career in games development, specifically in level design. I did a module in programming too, and I've always been naturally good with computers, specifically most software, so I'm angling for games design as my main choice with either teaching or anything else in computing as a second choice. If all that goes up the proverbial creek though, I'm also a budding writer, so hopefully I could make a career in writing plays and screenplays. Or I could possibly follow my late uncle into journalism. I guess right now, there's a world of possibilities open to me .

 

[zombiesinc]

Through the years I've lived my life. By being someone who offered support to others, I realized just how satisfying that feeling was. As the years went on, my interest in the human brain, our thought processes, justifications, fears, and such increased. I had thought psychology would be interesting, but I was a bit overwhelmed with the thought of so many years of schooling. In the past year I've realized just how much I would enjoy psychology.

Having a career in which I offer support and professional advice to those in need, that would further my understanding of the human brain, and would offer the finances to support a family is the ultimate for me. Not to mention the fact that it would be a passion. What more could I ask for?

 

[The Aimless One]

It's a while back now.....
But basically I just enrolled for a course a thought I liked.(I.T. related)
Wich I then failed because I never made it "past my instruments/audio-tools and out the door"

So (with a little help from my friends) I decided I should go and study something appropriate.
Like Sounddesign/Composition..... Allmost done now!

I guess the moral of the story is:

Don't try to hard to decide...in other words: "Don't rush it"
Find some shitty job and work it for a year...or two...find out that you hate it...get motivated!

Most importantly: Give yourself time to find out what your "enduring" interests and qualities are.
Most people I know forced themselves to "pick a career" at a certain age because that's when you're asked to do so........
But make sure you know what you want first!

I could be wrong, but my guess is that, if your choice to "become an engineer" (to put it crudely)is based on one week of experience's with the subject, then that decision could easily change if you broaden your horizons a bit.

Well anyway, whatever your choice: Good luck with it!

 

[Shock and Awe]

Well, I have wanted to do a few things since I was a kid, first it was a SWAT officer, because thats what my dad does. I dropped that when I figured out how much unnecessary shit cops deal with. Than radiologist, than I figured out how many BS lawsuits go around these days and that Medical School is expensive as hell. Now though I think I have found my dream job, being a pilot in the US Air Force. The schooling is either incredibly cheaper than usual or completely free, I love airplanes and flight, its a profession that is widely respected, and I can also contribute to my country.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

I don't know ... I wanted to be a doctor in High School. Then I realised I can't stand other people's blood. It's not so much I'm scared of it ... just that I find it disgusting. So when I discovered that fact about myself I naturally came to the conclusion I'd make one shitty doctor if I couldn't stand to be near another person's blood.

So I decided to try to become a self employed market trader whilst working in the civil services. Went to uni. Decided I'd embark on the noble arts of psychology and philosophy. After that decided to go into education.

I think my tale is a tale well told. Another traveler on the road of circumstance. I don't think there is that romance of 'one dream job everybody has'. A job is what you make it. I've met sad poets and writers, and happy postal workers. I've met jaded professors who discover that their love of a subject withers in the face of having to 'teach' it, and I've met idealist lawyers who still shirk in the face of disappointment trying to lock up crooks and failing whilst representing the Crown.

 

[Dahni]

I could be wrong, but my guess is that, if your choice to "become an engineer" (to put it crudely)is based on one week of experience's with the subject, then that decision could easily change if you broaden your horizons a bit.

Well anyway, whatever your choice: Good luck with it!

I've actually been interested in it for ages.

Well, mostly military and naval engineering, since I was 8. So for half my life i've wanted to be involved in the engineering side of the military. It was only this week, however, that I found out the courses that I could do that would allow me to do what i've wanted to for so long. I forgot to mention that it more cemented my desire to be an engineer.

 

[Karlaxx]

Haven't yet, although I am looking at SCIENCE(!), particularly something to do with the Earth. And by that I mean geology, rocks and minerals, volcanoes, dinosaurs! Anything but conservation(as that would be too depressing).

 

[Radzilla]

I really havent decided yet. I became an electrician through collage because i was too lazy to pick anything that would make me study hard and turned out to be something i really liked working with. Then the "depression" decided to strike. All electricians jobs vanished. I then decided to become a Process Engineer but bailed out after the first year when i noticed the total lack of Process Engineering that the course involved. A couple of months ago i moved from home sweet home in Sweden to the Scotland and instantly got a job at a distillery and got myself fired for making "Unfitting Remarks and Jokes" to customers. Now im in limbo. I could continue studying to become a Process Engineer or i could try to find a job as an Electricians apprentice but both of them seem kind of hard to make reality seeing as the closest University doesnt have the course and there arent any apprenticeships to be had.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Haven't yet, although I am looking at SCIENCE(!), particularly something to do with the Earth. And by that I mean geology, rocks and minerals, volcanoes, dinosaurs! Anything but conservation(as that would be too depressing).

Alot of money in geology ... alot-alot of money. Like high 6 figure incomes if you rise through the corporate ranks in mining and oil drilling.

 

[Audio]

For years i tried to avoid working in an office cubical.
I went to a leisure and tourism course, a forestry course and worked in Aviation (airport stuff). Since all of those never really made me happy, i thought i'd just bite the bullet. In all college courses and work places...people always turned to me for computer help. I thought i could take 'computer engineering' fairly easy. Easy to talk to, helpful and a handful of experience.
Just before i enrolled into that i thought...fuck it, if i'm doing computers i'm going towards computer games like i have always wanted. (Dad would probably freak out because he hates me being at the computer).
I got myself on the course and so far i'm doing really well. I'll be making computer games in no time. If it turns out to be a dream come true is yet to be seen but i'm getting there =)

 

[Dahni]

I really havent decided yet. I became an electrician through collage because i was too lazy to pick anything that would make me study hard and turned out to be something i really liked working with. Then the "depression" decided to strike. All electricians jobs vanished. I then decided to become a Process Engineer but bailed out after the first year when i noticed the total lack of Process Engineering that the course involved. A couple of months ago i moved from home sweet home in Sweden to the Scotland and instantly got a job at a distillery and got myself fired for making "Unfitting Remarks and Jokes" to customers. Now im in limbo. I could continue studying to become a Process Engineer or i could try to find a job as an Electricians apprentice but both of them seem kind of hard to make reality seeing as the closest University doesnt have the course and there arent any apprenticeships to be had.

whats the closest university to you?

You can do Chemical & Process Engineering at Strathclyde, I know that.

 

[IsraelRocks]

well i like money, and i like computers
so comp-sci seemed like the natural choice

 

[JoJo]

I've been interested in science since I was five so deciding to do biology at uni was a no-brainer (I like physics and chemistry as well, did both of them as a-levels, but prefer bio overall!)

 

[SpcyhknBC]

Genetics, because of the lost island of Doctor Brain

 

[Radzilla]

I really havent decided yet. I became an electrician through collage because i was too lazy to pick anything that would make me study hard and turned out to be something i really liked working with. Then the "depression" decided to strike. All electricians jobs vanished. I then decided to become a Process Engineer but bailed out after the first year when i noticed the total lack of Process Engineering that the course involved. A couple of months ago i moved from home sweet home in Sweden to the Scotland and instantly got a job at a distillery and got myself fired for making "Unfitting Remarks and Jokes" to customers. Now im in limbo. I could continue studying to become a Process Engineer or i could try to find a job as an Electricians apprentice but both of them seem kind of hard to make reality seeing as the closest University doesnt have the course and there arent any apprenticeships to be had.

whats the closest university to you?

You can do Chemical & Process Engineering at Strathclyde, I know that.

Well that would be Caledonian but Strathclyde isnt too far away from Caledonian now is it?
This is something i really need to look in to. If i end up studying that course i need to know where you live so i can send you flowers. It seems like my research might have been a bit incomplete.

 

[_Cake_]

I haven't. HELP! Dear god what am I going to do... errr or something something a lil more confident >_>