So what career are you aiming for?

[White Lady]

I am a geek. X-D I am aiming for a job in the computer field.Not sure what yet.Though I would love to design games.(drool)

[Kylaran]

Originally Posted by Yakult

I'm currently a Biochemistry & Molecular Biology/Mathematics major at an undergraduate university looking to enter a Ph.D-M.D. program at a medical school in order to become a biomedical scientist. However, I just looked at the salary/year between a neurosurgeon (or even a radiologist) and a biomedical scientist:

Biomedical Scientist: $50,000
Surgeon: $500,000

I was always a believer of passion over money, but I'm beginning to lean towards surgery.

What are the work hours of a surgeon? Can surgeons perform surgeries some days and research medicine other days? I'm not too sure how busy surgeons are. I've always wanted to find cures for diseases rather than applying already known cures on people.

I have a very fantasized future in my mind. Currently I want to become a surgeon who researches medicine in his spare time. Then when I'm in my older days, I plan to become a professor while researching some more and learning a bit more about my own field. Is this kind of lifestyle even possible?

Very lost college student...

This post is from quite a while ago, but I just wanted to add a few things.

First, it's very dangerous to simply look at a job for its salary and educational prerequisites alone. There are occupational hazards that one must be aware of, and surgeons carry a lot of potential stress-related issues. Just watch the show Scrubs and you'll have a watered down version of it. :P You may be paid a lot, but do you really plan to practice holding a scalpel to people's living bodies? I wouldn't be able to handle it, but hey, that's me. XD If you want the pay but not so much the responsibility for the life of a patient, you may want to consider being a pediatrician. That's what I've been told at the least.

I just finished my first year as an undergraduate at university, working toward my double major in psychology and philosophy. I figured I'd study two of the most important things to me: the human mind and the way in which we apply/understand the mind.

What am I going to do with these two degrees? I don't know. My dream would be to write something some day. Something that can teach someone somewhere in the world something about life that they can take and use, whether as food for thought or words to change their lives. This can be a book (most likely a novel), a screenplay, or even the storyline for a video game. Hell, I'm dead set on becoming capable of writing in Japanese one day to achieve this. Maybe publish a light novel or become an influential game creator like Maeda Jun from KEY.

I think it's just far too difficult to try and aim for a specific career somewhere. That doesn't mean you can't set goals to try and find a job related to that field, but you never know what will hit you coming down the read. You may be caught in an accident, or a sudden downturn in the economy may leave you working at McDonalds. I have a list of goals I want to obtain, and how those goals eventually lead me to where I want to go is left up to the future me. I suppose I'll just continue along as I have and enjoy things for now.

[Neat Hedgehog]

Ideal career would be something to do with game design, but that's a long way off if it ever happens. My most realistic goal is to try to get a job doing some kind of menial programming work, probably doing scrap code while the real programmers do the important stuff. After five or ten years I might finally have worked my way up to programming something interesting.

[qwertyuiopz]

job is for noobs

im going to win the lottery

[ArabianLuffy]

I'm a teacher already ^^

[Hs Vi Germania]

Teacher and watching anime - does that match well?
Can hardly imagine it. In which kind of school are you teaching?

I will get to indoor service/ bank clerk ... something like that.

[ArabianLuffy]

Originally Posted by Hs Vi Germania

Teacher and watching anime - does that match well?
Can hardly imagine it. In which kind of school are you teaching?

I will get to indoor service/ bank clerk ... something like that.

Onizuka from the anime GTO.. He watch animes, play videogames and he's a teacher

[Kitsu]

We have a teacher that plays WoW (and other stuff), GTA etc.
I aimed for the teacher career but I've become pretty unsure after teaching for 2 week at an elimentary school. (an wok experience project at our school). I don't really know what I want to become later on.

[Hs Vi Germania]

Originally Posted by Kitsu

We have a teacher that plays WoW (and other stuff), GTA etc.
I aimed for the teacher career but I've become pretty unsure after teaching for 2 week at an elimentary school. (an wok experience project at our school). I don't really know what I want to become later on.

A WoW-addicted teacher. Sounds quite "interesting" to me. xD

[Kitsu]

It's totally funny, especially when it comes to pre-orders or borrowing games lol
he is a teacher for uhm computer science (Informatik)

[Le Zeep]

When I grow up I wanna be THE BATMAN

Naw I want to either be a film maker or an anthropologist, I'm not sure which anthropology field I wan to specialize in yet. Probably physical anth. or maybe cultural.

[Dilla]

Well, I want to be a meteorologist of some form, though I don't really want to be stuck in a studio doing the local weather. But, that's probably what is going to end up happening.

[LeoXiao]

I would like to learn about Chinese/east asian history and language and get some job with that, but it's more likely that I'll be a translator instead.

[NettoSaito]

I'd like to go into the drafting field. I really liked it in high school so I figured why not try it. I used to always like building stuff so yeah....

[masterkitfisto]

i like my job....the hours are long and gets very hot very fast but i like music & people so it kinda fits..(iam Dj by the way and i sometimes do opera then again that not really a job..)

[Explicit]

When I graduate from high school, I'm going to pursue a career in Architecture. I've already taken a few courses on it in my school already.

[otakujohn]

Originally Posted by Vexx

Visual Whatever programmers are a dime a dozen and most departments are always scaling down and making the poor slobs do more with less people.
Java programmers can get work ... but its getting really tough for new programmers entering the field -- everyone wants "five years experience" and no one is willing to hire to train. One company that a few of my friends work at only employs people with at least 10 years of experience in C++/Java - period. They also expect them to be conversant in half a dozen other languages ranging from assembly to bash to perl/python.
The whole system that existed in the 70s, 80s, and early 90s where corporations would hire new programmers (and engineers) and buy into the OTJ training they needed seems to be collapsing in the unsustainable race for short-term profit.

This man speaks the truth.
The company I work for is a really good example of the general rule in terms of requirements. Every now and then we will hire an intern fresh out of school into product development organization, but it's a really rare occurrence. We also demand that all developers know C++, Perl, and Python like the back of their hand because even though our software is written in C++, all of our automated testing for hardware and software is written in Python.

It's worth trying to get into the field though, especially for a cool networking company like F5. The pay is awfully nice too. I'm only a Software Test Engineer II, and I'm just a couple tens away from 100k/yr.


There's only one downside to working in the technology field, and that's the lack of women. We need more attractive young women in the computer sciences! F5's product development and support organizations are 99% men.... It's awfully depressing.

[grylsyjaeger]

ADF Infantry Officer and hopefully advance into the SASR and work my way up to having my own platoon if not part of the command structure.

However I'll be sure to volunteer for any testing of any AS or VF-esque systems in development. ;D

[~Rio~]

I'm gonna join the army when I turn 18.

[Miko Miko]

I want to be an English language teacher in a foreign country, I am going to study hard!