Education and job?

Hum, first. I've tried to read everyone's post but I'm a little tired. However, here's what I have to say: The majority of people just want to go to college. Job? What for? I prefer college. Most people are like that. They go to college because their parents educated them to have that life objective, not to get a fine job.

I'm a 10th grader, going now for 11th grade and the education in Portugal is a little similar to North America's education system. Besides that cheap talk, I'm heading for college because I'd want to become one of the followings: designer, web designer, fashion designer, painter, arts teacher, musician, music teacher, porn star and that's it. It's a quite big list, although I have two more years to decide what I really want to do in life. That's my goal, do something in life.
 
I graduated High school two years ago. What I want to do...I'm not really sure. I've always based my goals on people in my life, not places I want to be. Sure, I want to travel, and live a comfortable life, but my goals were always to help people, or make certain people proud. Given that most of them are dead or gone, life's a little directionless right now, but I'm applying for the military. Get them to put me through school once I finally figure out what I want to do...and in the meantime I can work the reserves, and have a good, stable job. I guess my goal so to speak is to have a family, at some point. But I don't see that happening anytime soon. As far as career, there was one thing that I was really passionate about, that I might pursue further. I wanted to start a group home in Canada dedicated to Aboriginal culture. A place where kids could go that they wouldn't lose their language and heritage, or be made fun of for believing in their own ways. Because right now, from where I sit, it looks like there's a lot of residual issues caused by our government, and noone seems to be standing up for the kids, and the heritage that should be protected and preserved. Not sure how I'd go about doing that just yet though. Want to be financially stable before I start working on that.

That must all seem kind of silly. ><;; Or...complacent. I'm not a terribly ambitious person, anymore.
 
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I graduated High school two years ago. What I want to do...I'm not really sure. I've always based my goals on people in my life, not places I want to be. Sure, I want to travel, and live a comfortable life, but my goals were always to help people, or make certain people proud. Given that most of them are dead or gone, life's a little directionless right now, but I'm applying for the military. Get them to put me through school once I finally figure out what I want to do...and in the meantime I can work the reserves, and have a good, stable job. I guess my goal so to speak is to have a family, at some point. But I don't see that happening anytime soon. As far as career, there was one thing that I was really passionate about, that I might pursue further. I wanted to start a group home in Canada dedicated to Aboriginal culture. A place where kids could go that they wouldn't lose their language and heritage, or be made fun of for believing in their own ways. Because right now, from where I sit, it looks like there's a lot of residual issues caused by our government, and noone seems to be standing up for the kids, and the heritage that should be protected and preserved. Not sure how I'd go about doing that just yet though. Want to be financially stable before I start working on that.

That must all seem kind of silly. ><;; Or...complacent. I'm not a terribly ambitious person, anymore.
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*Crys* I love you.
 
I finished off high-school with a diploma and went off to college. I started in 2009, but I will be starting my third year this fall. I'm not sure what my dream job would be. Right now I am pursuing network and information security and I enjoy it. But if I had a dream job it would be one that didn't exist but still paid me enough money to do whatever I wanted. I guess I am kind of lazy like October. Otherwise I have no idea what I would really love to do.

I'm kind of on the path, but there have been a lot of deviations. First off I started with dental hygiene for a year, then I realized college costs a lot of money so I joined the army. Instead of going for a dental related job, or a information type of job I decided to become a medic. Then I wasn't sure what I wanted to do because dealing with trauma injures was a lot of fun, even if it is scary and stressful. I suppose I am getting closer since I should only have 1 year left after this year.

I haven't really had a job for a while, I got to be on unemployment for a while after being deployed. But then after that ended I didn't get a job because I managed without it fine. Then my money started poofing and well that's never good. So I am looking for whatever type of job I can get. Otherwise I am just in the army, and that really is a crappy job most of the time.
 
Hoboy, this will take a while. I'll be starting my senior year of HS in ten days (and turning seventeen in two; I got so close to being a 16 year old senior... :c). Lots and lots of AP and challenging classes for me this year. Calculus, Biology, Government, Economics, Human Geography, English IV, ROTC IV... and floral design, because I needed one blow-off class to distract me. I'm not in NHS but I did get a higher SAT score than practically everyone in my grade (one of my good friends beat me, barely) but it's only a 2090 so I still might retest if my first choice university has doubts.
That first choice is The University of Chicago. A lot of people don't think I'll be able to make it in the city, and I'll be the first to admit that I'm really just a spoiled little white girl, but if it means such a great education I think I can deal with it. My practical alternative is Texas A&M, the school my parents went to (both dropped out their senior years...). I have guaranteed admittance into A&M thanks to my SAT score, so I don't really need to put forth any effort, which is comforting to know. I'll also be applying to the University of Hawaii at Manoa, since my boyfriend is stationed in Pearl Harbor and I really want to be close to him. I probably won't go there because the school is kinda shitty, but I want to know that I can. Then I'll still have seven fee waivers left over from the CollegeBoard, so I'll pick out seven of the schools that take them and see what they'll give me. Applying everywhere is my goal since I want to have lots and lots of options, not to mention the ability to play colleges like divorced parents. "But Chicagooooo, A&M will give me ten thousand dooooollaaaars because I'm smaaaaaart"

I want to be an anthropologist eventually. The beautiful thing about that is it's a very vague field, so my job description can vary wildly. HR jobs are within my reach, and advertising, counseling... really anything that involves people and doesn't require detailed knowledge of math, computers, or medicine.
What I really want to do is work as an archaeologist. An Anthro-Archae degree would be perfect, but most colleges don't offer such specializations or dual majors. :c
My dream job would be being Indiana Jones. I want to do field work. Digging up artifacts, making new discoveries, piecing together the past... that sounds great. And then, when one dig is finished, I could come back stateside and relax with the money from that job a new job. After I get tired of field work years down the road, I'll hopefully be able to get a job in a museum once my name is on a few exhibits. Museum curator is my dream job, but I want to get my wanderlust out of my system first by being at the actual sites.
The only problem is coordinating everything with my bf. He'll be stuck in Pearl Harbor for three years still, and then his contract is up. I kinda want him to renew since he has zero useful skills (he can play guitar pretty damn awesome, but he graduated with low grades and never bothered to take the SAT in spite of my pressuring him to...) but really it's gonna be up to him. It's going to be difficult to coordinate our lives, but we both want to try. We both have the same goals in life and are child-haters, so we could have the perfect DINK (Double Income; No Kids) lifestyle. That may or may not ever actually work out. :/
 
Personally, I love education. I do not love jobs. Learning is stimulating and exciting. Summer vacation makes me feel like I'm rotting away, and I really can't wait to go back to school in a week.

Currently, I'm a Creative Writing and Asian Studies major. I'm going into my fifth year because I decided to add the Asian Studies major last minute. I also joined the honors college because I WANT to write a thesis (yes, I WANT to do this). Ideally, I go to grad school and become a professor. Then, I can stand on my desk and lecture you all on Romantic poetry! Or China! Or whatever I end up specializing in. If this fails, I'll probably be a barista for the rest of my life because I like making coffee. Or I'll join a humanitarian effort in order to escape the country and avoid my student debt. =)
 
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I finished high school and I work as QA in a media consulting firm (Volt VMC for those who know about them, they tested a lot of games). Honestly, I have no idea what I want to do as a career. Right now I'm the one chasing after the money to get things done - although I would say as far as a job could go, the ONLY way this job could get better is if my wage was higher.

List of things I want to do:

-There's about 5 different games (two of them possibly getting sequels) I would love to make. Still trying to find the time and motivation to code, animate and make the music - considering I already got the sound effect production, modelling and texturing learnt pretty much. I don't want to make this my main source of income, though. Money kills creativity I say. I MAY sell them, but my objective is not to make money out of them - it's to share the universes. One quote I love (which can be attributed to whoever made the text for the Asari in Mass Effect) is this (of course it's out of context, but it's just as beautiful on it's own): "Every idea must touch another mind to live. Every emotion must mark another's spirit.". It's partially why I roleplay also - while it's not as extensive as a game in matters of sharing as it leaves a lot to the imagination of the "players" (which, in itself, is not a bad thing either), it's still a way to share all of the universes I have made up over the year which live on solely in my head.

-Go back to school just for the sake of learning

-Maybe try my hand at making music. Mostly lacking time to reflect on it.

-There's quite a few physical products I would love to get a prototype of made. Unfortunately, the costs of making them range from the hundreds to the thousands.

-Maybe travel, but that's not a priority.

-Go to space?
 
I've been trying to go to college for the past seven years now but there was always that got in the way or the stars just didn't align right for it to happen. With my fiance in the military now and looking to join the K9 unit, it made me realize a childhood dream of mine. I wanted to being a veterinarian when I was a little girl and I still do it appears.
As of now, my plans are to get enrolled in college and get my license or whatever as a Vet Tech that way I will the experience while going after the bigger fish. But until we are assigned to our first base, I won't know where I'll send my application to. Its all in the cards now.
 
I have a high school (A's student) some college (A's in my English, history, psych, and computer science courses, not so good in sociology and economics) education.

I've been a service worker (restaurant, grocery, hobby shop, etc) for five years, trying to go back to school to get my Bachelor of Journalism

It can be rough because when you're working a blue collar job, people often assume its cause you're not smart or skilled enough for other jobs. It gets frustrating :(
 
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