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

[Angerwing]

I'm going to study Psychology at uni next year. Already accepted and everything, I just deferred it. I wanted to do that after studying Psych for 2 years in senior high school, and loving it.

Currently I'm employed as a computer/tech salesman. Which, as a gamer, is fucking awesome.

 

[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.

Now i just need to gather up some money and ill be on my way to becoming a Process Manager again. I sure hope this course teaches you about Process Management unlike the course i took back in Sweden.

 

[ParkourMcGhee]

Yesterday, I just got back from spending a week at a University near me, where I got to experience various types of Engineering and this has made me decide that I want to go to University to study Mechanical Engineering.

What made you decide to study what you did (or are studying) and choose the career path you have?

(OR, if you aren't in the career you want, what inspired you to aspire to be something else.)

Picked up a prospectus and started flicking through - picked one thing because it seemed cool, challenging and most importantly in keeping with sci fi movies and games (Deus Ex).

Biomedical Engineering.

The part time army thing was a complete fluke though - was walking on the highstreet looking for a way to reinforce gas mask lenses on a day they happened to be recruiting.

So far I'm not regretting anything! Actually I'm loving it.

 

[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.

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.

Strathclyde is bang in the centre of Glasgow. The engineering part of campus is beside Buchanan Bus Station, Queen Street Station and a five minute walk from Glasgow Central Station.

I was at an engineering course thing up until Friday and Chemical & Process Engineering is probably something you would like if you want more of the Process part of it. The first year of it is just brushing up on basic skills before you get torn into the Process part. You can choose modules within the course too, so you can specialise more heavily in certain parts of the course.
That course was also something I looked into when I was choosing my Highers!

Weeeeeell, in a year or so I'll be living in the Strathclyde University student halls if all goes to plan and I get to study Mechanical Engineering.

 

[dfphetteplace]

I ask the Chief of the local volunteer fire dept. if he needed anymore guys. They let me one and I fell in love with it. So then I went to become an EMT so that I could be a better firefighter, and I loved it as well. Now I'm going to be a paramedic.

 

[derdeutschmachine]

I'm an electrician because my degree in corperate communications ended up offering lower paying jobs with much worse benefits. Go blue collar!

 

[runnernda]

I was one of those annoying people in high school who was in nearly every club/team/council/organization the school offered. It helped me figure out that I like writing, editing and theatre the best.

 

[Ilyushin88]

I'm going to study Psychology at uni next year. Already accepted and everything, I just deferred it. I wanted to do that after studying Psych for 2 years in senior high school, and loving it.

Currently I'm employed as a computer/tech salesman. Which, as a gamer, is fucking awesome.

I'm so jealous, if your school offered that to you as a official subject. I'm also looking to get into psychology, though not the clinical side of things so much.

Edit: just realised you were a vce student

 

[Atomic Yazzy]

Film maker. Have been interested in movies ever since I was 6 years old mainly due to Terminator 2 and Star Wars, it was mostly all I really cared about besides gaming and any other artistic medium. My interest got especially high when I was 13 due to also A Clockwork Orange and Evil Dead being the main inspirations in that stage, I've seen thousands and thousands of films and my career has been going exceptionally so far. It's all about doing what you love and finding things to inspire you.

I too want to go into the film industry. The fascination of movies started when I was 7. I saw Jurrassic Park and was amazed about how they got DINOSAURS to be in the movie (I thought they were real). So I started watching movies from there until age 14 I'd gotten one of those Flip cameras for christmas and had started making these home movies.

When I became a Freshman in High School, I didn't know what my future career would be. The typical career for my friends was game designer, but I didn't really want to do that. I wouldn't figure this out until I met a friend who was a HUGE movie buff and started introducing me to all these new movies. His dream was to become a film maker also. Now we write scripts together for our amature home movies!

 

[Seagoon]

acting. i was in every school play when i was younger and i just love pretending to be someone your not, whether is funny, serious or anything...

 

[Duck Sandwich]

Originally, I wanted to be a game designer. Then, around the time I turned 13, I wanted to be a voice actor, as I liked reading books out loud whenever my class had the obligatory "have everyone read a novel together with one person reading a few paragraphs out loud while everyone else follows along."

After watching me acting in a class play, a substitute teacher, who was one of the most awesome people I have ever met, told me "you better get into radio broadcasting." A high school guidance councellor suggested the same thing.

So inevitably, I'm in college, studying to become a radio announcer. One of the benefits of my course is that I've learned to use audio editing software, so now I know how to take songs I have on my computer and make them faster/slower, combine songs together, and other fun stuff.

 

[Galad]

I'm a 3rd year student now and I still haven't decided what kind of job I want to do..=\

 

[aruseusx]

Im going to try become a Pharmacist at University as I enjoy Biology and Chemistry and am alright at maths.

 

[Marter]

I'm undecided. I've narrowed it down to two choices.

1) Psychology
2) Something to do with sports broadcasting

I'd prefer the second choice, but I'm more likely to do the first.

 

[DSK-]

I got accepted into doing an online BSc Computer Science one year top up course. I'm doing this so that I can be closer and on hand for my mother who had a stroke in November. I'm a family man at heart.

I'm only doing that course to make my foundation degree worth something but more importantly (and this is true) - I'm doing it so I get some letters after my name.

 

[sentient_afterbirth]

I decided to be a clinical laboratory scientist after spending a summer volunteering in the lab of a local children's hospital. The work seemed fun and challenging, the people were intelligent and dedicated, the time spent there and my love of the microbial world inspired me to pursue this profession.

 

[Trogdor1138]

Film maker. Have been interested in movies ever since I was 6 years old mainly due to Terminator 2 and Star Wars, it was mostly all I really cared about besides gaming and any other artistic medium. My interest got especially high when I was 13 due to also A Clockwork Orange and Evil Dead being the main inspirations in that stage, I've seen thousands and thousands of films and my career has been going exceptionally so far. It's all about doing what you love and finding things to inspire you.

I too want to go into the film industry. The fascination of movies started when I was 7. I saw Jurrassic Park and was amazed about how they got DINOSAURS to be in the movie (I thought they were real). So I started watching movies from there until age 14 I'd gotten one of those Flip cameras for christmas and had started making these home movies.

When I became a Freshman in High School, I didn't know what my future career would be. The typical career for my friends was game designer, but I didn't really want to do that. I wouldn't figure this out until I met a friend who was a HUGE movie buff and started introducing me to all these new movies. His dream was to become a film maker also. Now we write scripts together for our amature home movies!

Good to hear, keep at it

If film wasn't there it would be game design and comic books for me. I've got projects in the pipeline for the latter and will be writing some soon (it's hard to balance it with the film projects and get the time for all these things). I'm still very much wanting to be in gaming as well as it's just as big a part of my life and just as big an inspiration. The main reason I didn't go for gaming growing up was the coding and such, since I like to be an auteur when it comes to my projects as much as I can. But I've got my million and one concepts swimming around in the mind waiting to be picked and used someday.

 

[AmayaOnnaOtaku]

Because I have always been around computers and interested in computers. Why database admin? because when something goes wrong at work I try to figure out what is wrong and how I can make it better. Plus I like data analysis, making up algorithims and searching querys.

 

[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.

Strathclyde is bang in the centre of Glasgow. The engineering part of campus is beside Buchanan Bus Station, Queen Street Station and a five minute walk from Glasgow Central Station.

I was at an engineering course thing up until Friday and Chemical & Process Engineering is probably something you would like if you want more of the Process part of it. The first year of it is just brushing up on basic skills before you get torn into the Process part. You can choose modules within the course too, so you can specialise more heavily in certain parts of the course.
That course was also something I looked into when I was choosing my Highers!

Weeeeeell, in a year or so I'll be living in the Strathclyde University student halls if all goes to plan and I get to study Mechanical Engineering.

So what is Mechanical Engineering all about? Is it machine repair and maintenance or is it more of the production part? More or less building and developing new machinery and technology?