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picking a college course

  • 12-09-2013 06:25PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,227 ✭✭✭✭


    How do you decided what college course would be best for you?
    I would like to go to college but I just don't know what course would suite me.

    How did everyone here know when picking a course would be best for you?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    I decided I would like to live in galway so looked at the courses there. Looked through some computer courses and picked that one


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    Do a course in emigrating.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭lkionm


    Either way you will just end up unemployed


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭Gee Bag


    lkionm wrote: »
    Either way you will just end up unemployed

    Have you ever considered a career as a motivational speaker?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    Always wanted to go into the field I trained in and was lucky enough to get the points. Sorry I realise that's no help to you. Would you not chance a career guidance counsellor?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    I didn't know what I wanted until I had done four years of business. Took me four years to figure out what I actually wanted to do was anything but business.

    Really though, I just felt that at 18 I hadn't a clue what I wanted and experiencing life helped me pursue what I wanted, which is writing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I heard an ad for a degree in the property crash recently.

    Honestly.

    A degree in the property crash?

    What are you going to do with that. Just hang around and wait for another crash so you can step in and say, "Hey - I studied this. Stand back while I write an analytical article about it."?

    So y'know, don't do that sh*tty degree anyway.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    cena wrote: »
    How do you decided what college course would be best for you?
    I would like to go to college but I just don't know what course would suite me.

    How did everyone here know when picking a course would be best for you?
    What interests you? Take no notice of people who say college should be only about getting you a job. Education in and of itself is a fantastic thing to have.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,848 ✭✭✭Andy-Pandy


    If you like the outdoors and nature i would highly recommend horticulture. There are many avenues open to you when you finish and its lovely spending your days with plants.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 148 ✭✭bezerk


    If you want to learn phrases such as "Do you want fries with that", "I'm sick of been unemployed", "What day is signing day?" do an ARTS degree


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Eenie meenie myni mo


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭Gee Bag


    What interests you? Take no notice of people who say college should be only about getting you a job. Education in and of itself is a fantastic thing to have.

    My arse, I'm working at my dream job and it's sh1t.

    Do a course in remote management of third world sweat shops or selling arms to evil distatorships. It'll cost your soul but at least you'll be able to afford stuff.

    Gee Bag BA


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Anything that's BSC or BEng.All you need to do then is find the right course that suits you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Gee Bag wrote: »
    My arse, I'm working at my dream job and it's sh1t.

    That's your fault for having sh*t dreams though isn't it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 915 ✭✭✭hansfrei


    Chef, mechanic, lawyer, doctor or unemployed. Take your pick. Its about that simple.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 774 ✭✭✭stealinhorses


    Maybe a course that stimulates your innermost desire for unraveling the fabric of the universe, such as Arts in UCD?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    • Look through the CAO list of colleges.
    • Look at the courses offered at each college.
    • Look at the prospectus of college (you can get these on-line).
    • Look at the modules covered on the course and see what takes your interest.
    • Look at the career prospectus afterwards- where will the qualifications take you. Do you need further study?
    • Speak to others who have done the course.
    • Speak to those working in the industry.
    • Go to college Open Days and ask lots of questions.
    • Get work/shadow experience in the area if you can.
    Simple enough.

    Edit: If serious about returning to education, check out the mature students forum. There's a thread in there about applying as a mature student (stickied). (Made by me!)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 148 ✭✭bezerk


    Maybe a course that stimulates your innermost desire for unraveling the fabric of the universe, such as Arts in UCD?

    Would you like fries with that?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    bezerk wrote: »
    Would you like fries with that?

    Or would you not?

    Thats Deep man.

    Sure if the worst comes to the worst you could always buy a degree from DBS or griffith college.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭Gee Bag


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    That's your fault for having sh*t dreams though isn't it?

    Sadly, this is true.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 222 ✭✭SmilingLurker


    If you love any subject pick something related to that subject. If you are not certain, pick a general degree (science/arts/engineering) closest to what interests you. A good University allows movement, especially if you are following an interest.

    It is more important to be interested and to love what you do than anything else.

    As for jobs and emigration, take it into account, and I would recommend working abroad even if you intend on staying in this country. Travel broadens the mind and gives you skills and experiences that everyone should have.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭EdCastle


    cena wrote: »
    How do you decided what college course would be best for you?
    I would like to go to college but I just don't know what course would suite me.

    How did everyone here know when picking a course would be best for you?

    You do what interests you in life, its not a decision that should be taken lightly, its takes a fair bit of commitment, time and money. With that in mind, take some time to research your options.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,859 ✭✭✭SureYWouldntYa


    bezerk wrote: »
    If you want to learn phrases such as "Do you want fries with that", "I'm sick of been unemployed", "What day is signing day?" do an ARTS degree

    i don't ever remember this being funny, so why do people still say it as a joke


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    i don't ever remember this being funny, so why do people still say it as a joke

    Because they are usually boring, unfunny and have nothing interesting to say so have to fill the silence somehow.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    How about lift/escalator engineering ? it can be a bit up and down though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭EdCastle


    i don't ever remember this being funny, so why do people still say it as a joke

    I don't think it's funny either.

    It's normally thrown around by unimaginative cretins who have a superiority complex to everyone else. They are normally the same types who can't think their way out of a paper bag and rely on 'mammy & daddy' to bail them out on a regular basis.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,227 ✭✭✭✭cena


    Rasheed wrote: »
    Always wanted to go into the field I trained in and was lucky enough to get the points. Sorry I realise that's no help to you. Would you not chance a career guidance counsellor?

    We had one of the in school. He was a waste of time. Then again he was a former priest


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    cena wrote: »
    We had one of the in school. He was a waste of time. Then again he was a former priest

    Yeah, our school one was dodge too. Let me guess, your fella tried to get you all to join the priesthood?

    Some of the private ones are well worth the price though if you're not sure where to go or what to do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    cena wrote: »
    We had one of the in school. He was a waste of time. Then again he was a former priest

    I've never heard of a competent school guidance counselor.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 148 ✭✭bezerk


    i don't ever remember this being funny, so why do people still say it as a joke

    I wasn't trying to be funny, its one of the least employable course. Teaching is gone to crap and whats the point of learning two subjects that are never going to be used?


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