Career Paths

Mystic Fibrosis

Yesterday, I was having a conversation with this amazing person, and a segment of that was devoted to plans of carrers. Just wondering what everyone's ideal job is?

Meh, I have very far-fetched goals. I have this passion for music, so my first option is musicianship. I may take music in TCD, but its all a bad move, life-upkeep-wise...

Artist, Electronics Engineer(just barely though) are others. But I REALLY want to do summat in the Humanities area, since I got me A(yay) in higher english ive been all yay for english.....

lordsippa

Maths in Trinity. It has no purpose but to let me call myself a Mathematician and mock you fools one and all.

So there.

Barry Aldwell

I might do CAM/CAD.

Nobody knows what CAM/CAD is, do they?

Computer Aided Manufacture/Computer Aided Design. You sit at ultra expensive computers using ultra expensive programs all day.

lordsippa

Originally posted by Barry Aldwell
Nobody knows what CAM/CAD is, do they?

No. I don't know what they are for I am a retard from the planet Reetardeded.

<sigh>

imp

HAHA! RETARD!!

Going back to the topic, I have no idea what the hell I want to do with my life. I need someone to help me make these important decisions.

}:>

SOL

I plan to take over the world, so i guess its science in trinity for the moment, although for some reason i am thinking i'd like to do law again, cause money = lots, or still human genetics, well i dunno, someone give me an answer

ll=llannah

jesus. first, I'm gonna get myself into college. from there i'll decide.
I absolutely love four subjects: English, Psych, history and Political Science. Now I just have to choose.....damn life and its complicated choices.
as to what the hell i want to do......i just need to keep thinking.

Chimaera

I might do CAM/CAD.

Nobody knows what CAM/CAD is, do they?

Computer Aided Manufacture/Computer Aided Design. You sit at ultra expensive computers using ultra expensive programs all day.

On it's own CAD/CAM isn't much fun - you're better off getting a degree in Mechanical Engineering (or summat like that), then you'll have design skills to add to being able to do CAD. At the end of the day, CAD is not at all difficult, and very boring if all you do is take sketches from the engineers and cad them up.

CAD is just a design tool, and is only really useful to you if you are working in a design role, where you can create virtual models of your design and see how all the parts interact on the pc before you spend money making it for real.

As for my ideal career, designer in the motor industry
I nearly got a job with Ford after I finished my degree, but they turned me down but I'll try again once I get my doctorate :cool:

It wasn't me!

I'm going to pay someone to make those crucial decisions for me.

I'm thirteen though so I have loads of time to make up my mind.

lordsippa

heh... my cousin is pretty big in ford. a high up engineer. ... then again, he may have moved to a different company... but don't think so.

But alas, I know thee not so i cannot pass on the good word. Plus he's in england and i don't know him very well... ah well...

D-Generate

If I stay in Cork I will do Electronic Engineering but I really want to do either Aeronautical or Mechanical Engineering but those are only available in Limerick which is a bitch because I would have to leave my friends and family behind and it would be pricey.

shep the malevolent pixie

i want to go to NCAD and do all the happy art stuph, but right now i dunno how i'm gonna get through the leaving cert without going insane...hmm. yep. i had wanted to do english and drama in trinity for ages but i changed my mind because nothing keeps my attention anymore besides art. and guitar sometimes.
ideally, i'd love to be in a band or on stage but art makes me happy so...yeah.

that's my two cents...

sHep :cool:

Sev

Well as regards what I want to do after school, Im completely clueless, I tend not to plan very far ahead. I'd like to go to Trinity for its nice central town location, but Ive no idea exactly what I wanna do, and them guidance councellors are useless.

I must say, for me theres a certain attraction towards courses with high points simply because theyre difficult to get into. That said, I cant see myself doing Law and French.. too waffly. Maybe actuarial and financial studies, but that's in UCD.. and it sounds pretty goddamn boring.

I also have to say a "Degree in Theoretical Physics" would look kinda impressive on a CV. But its 28 hours a week (or more). I have always wondered though, how they deduce those revelations about black holes and quantum theory from big nasty equations on black boards. Theres something pretty cool about abstract and purely theoretical mathematics.

As for the study of "English"... ugh

(I would say much nastier things from a condescending and "narrow-minded" logical viewpoint but it might offend certain people)

Chimaera

d-generate: I did Mech Eng in UL, and would recomend it highly. Also, Limerick is probably the cheapest university town in the country at this stage, certainly from the rent pov - and there's no shortage of excellent houses available now.

Sev: 28 hrs a week is nothing!! At one stage in college, I had 31 hrs a week just going to lectures/labs/tutorials - added to that having to do reports, and prepare stuff for tutorials - me was busy busy in college.

Crash

Architecture in DIT most likely. Dreading having to try and get into it. Other than that, possibly something to do with cinematography and that sort of thing in somewhere.

I would go mental doing an English degree like people i know. I can only bull**** for so many years at a time!!

Hehe, Twix_girl and her Craaaaazy american system. Pfft

alaskagirl

i want to be a doctor of some sort. most likely an anesthesiologist. that way i will have time on my off-call days to have a life and do art or whatever. plus i will have money to travel and have a snazzy life.

Morn

Dukman - make sure you know what you're getting in for before you sign up for music in Trinity - there are some good bits but definitely a lot to be wary of...

joe the coat

God, career choices... I really have not a clue... not a science though, I don't have the patience...

Man U babe

Originally posted by lordsippa
Maths in Trinity. It has no purpose but to let me call myself a Mathematician and mock you fools one and all.

So there.

Hehe maths in college is great. But, hell, don't go to trinity (the bunch of west brit ****), come be like me and do maths science in UCD! My gawd that rhymes...wasnt meant to! And I could still become a theoretical physicist, cos mathphy is compulsory in 1st 2nd and 3rd year...hehe loadsa choice.
In short, y'all wanna be like me.
Just point and laugh at commerce students with their identikit clothes and personalities and their funny mandatory laptops!

Man U babe

One day...the geeks* shall inherit the earth, and when they do........hehehehehe! A better society will be created, with coffee and muffins for all.

*for geeks, read mathematicians.

qwidgybo

Originally posted by Man U babe
In short, y'all wanna be like me.

dear god,NO!!!maths or science?yuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckYUCK

when i grow up,i'm going to be a)a tv producer, b)a journalist, or c)a graphic designer

oh-ho yes

article6

Come on Éadaoin, you could do maths or science and be a maths or science journalist, like that one guy out of the Irish Times... Journalism on its own seems fairly boring, but specialised stuff in it wouldn't be so bad.

What rocks? Economics, like my hero George Lee
Financial and Actuarial Studies @ UCD
Law and Accounting @ UL (go Honours Maths)
Law @ anywhere, almost
Pure mathematics wherever they do pure mathematics, UCD sounds good

nosmo

I have my pathetic geeky heart set on Computer Science in Trinity..
Hardly a huge chance to be creative, but meh..
Edited to remove sock references

Cait

would somebody please choose a career for me? or even just a college course?
i need to know pretty soon...

Laura

i just figured it out a week ago. i'm gonna do the science course in tcd. there's so much in it to chose from so i'll have a much better idea of exactly what i want to do by the end of it.

oq4v3ht0u76kf2

A month or two ago it was Law in Trinity... now I'm thinking either Psychology or Marketing... or maybe a Maths degree 'cos I've also been thinking about being a teacher lately... er, yeah... that's it nice and narrowed down.

alaskagirl

does being a mathematician turn you into a crazy psychotic hermit? or does being a crazy psychotic hermit leave you nothing to do but become a mathematician?


i dont know how those questions really work, but i think they sum up how i would feel about becoming a mathematician. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! maths is my very worst subject. on that thought, how is it that i want to be an anesthesiologist?.... they use lots of maths......hmmmmmmm.......

Man U babe

Originally posted by alaskagirl
does being a mathematician turn you into a crazy psychotic hermit? or does being a crazy psychotic hermit leave you nothing to do but become a mathematician?

Maybe. Although I'd rather be a hermit mathematician than, say, an accountant.

but i think they sum up how i would feel about becoming a mathematician.

Nice pun Clare.

smiles

Firstly.... I'm 1/8th of the way to being a FINANCIAL MATHEMATICIAN!!!! Which should scare all ye little folk

Originally posted by article6
What rocks? Economics, like my hero George Lee
Financial and Actuarial Studies @ UCD
Law and Accounting @ UL (go Honours Maths)
Law @ anywhere, almost
Pure mathematics wherever they do pure mathematics, UCD sounds good

Surprisingly similar to my ideas at the time, just take out the Law (ick).

I'm currently doing "BSc (Denominated) Financial Mathematics and Economics" in G-G-G-G-G-G-GGGGGALWAY! Trust me it was the best (and latest - 2 days before end of change of mind) decision I ever made. The course is damn funky, there's a lot of maths, but it's kinda fun, plus you get to do Economics AND computer programming too! It's kinda like the Financial and Actuarial Course (we do actuarial studies in 2/3rd year) but you dont have to work out the probability of people dying!

Currently I'm doing 6 maths modules and 1 economics one and 1 computer programming one
Fun! Actually it is, it's rather satisfying really in a strange kinda way.....

Anyway have fun chosing whatever.... I dunno, my ideas changed and changed but it always seemed to come back to analytical/scientific stuff.

<< Fio >>

It wasn't me!

[In short, y'all wanna be like me.
QUOTE]
Yeah, except I want to do it with a little touch of class!:p

Bazookatone

For a while I wanted to be a Mechanical Engineer and work in the defence industry, but I relised that making weapons wasnt any fun. It's not like you get to use them yourself.

Some of you may or may not know Cathal from Cork, session 1 this yer, session 2 last year and session 1 the year before that. Anyway, his family have just opened a shop devoted to sci-fi. I think that that is so brilliant. I'd love to work there, wouldn't you. I'm thinking of maybe doing some sort of business course in college and opening a shop that's a cross between forbidden planet and the Gadget shop, and a bit of Smith's toys and Game thrown in too.

Obviously such a place would attract all you CTYI folks, so I'd probably turn it into a sort of internet Café too. I reckon that this sort of thing would do reasonably well, so if I'm lucky and halfway competent, you could see a few of these around the country.

Bazookatone

By the way, has anyone considered the Army. They will feed, clothe and house you for five years, and they will teach you a skill/trade and they will pay for you to go to College(I think) The chances of being killed are not especially high, and you seem to hang around all day and not have to do too much training, plus it would definately impress women.

Happy CTYI guy

Is anyone here seriously considering emigration after college?

Dalamar

I don't know, seriously, a few teachers+ guidaance consuller assure i will succeed in a lot of areas, so they've all been a great help in that area.

qwidgybo

article 6(ed,yes?),i really can't stress this point enough:

Originally posted by qwidgybo
yuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckYUCK

NO amount of money,sex,or biscuits could pay me to do maths or science...

cait,do an arts degree at.....my house.board and meals are free to family(i.e.you)

Mystic Fibrosis

its settled(kinda)

I have my heart set on music.

strawberry

Sev called my degree waffly! Grrr...... When you know I spend all day everyday slaving away in the library...

I'm definitely going to work abroad at some point in my life if only so that my shoes will be dry consistently for a week. In fact, who wants to come to Montpellier this summer cos that's where I'm going.

Mystic Fibrosis

Originally posted by me
its settled(kinda)

I have my heart set on music.

Well, uh no. I was just REALLY inspired after seeing NICKLEBACK IN CONCERT!!!WOO!!!!

stevanavich

im thinking along the lines of engineering/architecture, but after one of the most boring weeks in my life doing it for work experience, i am no longer sure. maybe something to do with photography instead...

Crash

Steven, stop stealing my dreams

My top three atm are 1. Archtitecture and tied for 2. are Something to do with cinematography or photojournalism.

stevanavich

well, they say that everyone who tries/will try to take over the world have something in common...