jobs/school/uni

Animula · 06-21-2009, 12:56 PM

What do you do? Are you at private school, do you work as a research scientist, or shop assistant? I'm curious as to the division of wealth, and just how people spend their weekdays.

Onyx · 06-21-2009, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Animula

What do you do? Are you at private school, do you work as a research scientist, or shop assistant? I'm curious as to the division of wealth, and just how people spend their weekdays.

I work in a call centre doing technical support for HP. Make about 25k a year.

Zabijej · 06-21-2009, 02:11 PM

I'm in my 2nd year of nursing school, going for my masters so I can be a nurse practitioner. I have, counting this one, 3 or 4 years of school left depending on who I listen to.

Currently, I don't have a job, but I'm staying on unemployment as far as I can into the school year.

Ruhiel · 06-21-2009, 02:16 PM

Finished first year of college. Currently working as a clerk at a local Porn store. Decent pay for a 19-year old college student. Going for a music major at the moment but I very seriously doubt I'll end up keeping that.

dabbadmc · 06-21-2009, 02:17 PM

I'm in a grammar school, and have two years left to complete. Next year I'll be studying three science subjects and english, in the hopes of pursuing medicine as a career.

Job wise, I play the harp at all sorts of events. It's really excellent pay. Over the next few months I'll also be working with my mother who's a doctor, and I'm getting paid for helping her with her work, too.

Animula · 06-21-2009, 02:56 PM

Is anyone working/working towards their ideal occupation? Did you attempt to and fail/become disillusioned? Have you settled for a rewarding substitute?

Being a professional musician sounds pretty brilliant.

Arkana · 06-21-2009, 03:25 PM

When I started college my major was fine arts because I painted a lot before college. After seeing the downturn of our economy and how it's affected the job market I started to get worried and rethink my career goals. I switched my major to psychology now. I really do enjoy psych and I think it will be just as rewarding as art to me. I'm still going to finish my art degree because I am only two classes away from my requirements. So now I'm double majoring. I won't be upset if I never get a job with my art degree. I took the classes because I genuinely enjoy the creative process. I really don't care if I don't ever sell a painting or other work either. Just because I switched my major doesn't mean I can't still do art. So I don't think I'm losing out here but only gaining more knowledge and experience.

Onyx · 06-21-2009, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Animula

Is anyone working/working towards their ideal occupation? Did you attempt to and fail/become disillusioned? Have you settled for a rewarding substitute?

Being a professional musician sounds pretty brilliant.

My ideal occupation would be professional student. I'm 28 now and started going to college for Computer Science when I was 17. Disillusionment is what kept me from proceeding. Part of what drew me to computers, other than loving computers, was that I grew up in the glory days of the hacker. A day where you could get a job making really good money with little to no formal education and employers knew enough to give you a free reign on how you worked and what wore while doing it, a big plus to a goth.

Sadly, those days are no more. Now you need years of schooling to get a decent job and computer workers have been folded into the corporate dress code in most places.

The real discouragement though was economic. Around the time I started college was when off shoring and importing foreign labour into the computer market started taking off, that and throwing every unemployable idiot into a network admin job training program.

I am gaining some hope with talks of a public option for health care. If we were to uncouple health care with employment then I'd be able to, at least as a good source of side income, be able to do a lot of the work fixing computers that places like Best Buy do. Then I could get a part time job doing something I didn't hate to keep a steady flow of cash coming in. Best Buy is such a rip, the crap they do is SO easy for the prices they charge. I'd make a killing charging a fraction the price. Also, sticking with the lower income market (students and the like), crap like college and certifications wouldn't mean jack.

Animula · 06-21-2009, 04:39 PM

I hate the idea of slaving to some faceless corporation, most of the adults around me have made their way independently. My Dad wrote his philosophy book and now runs a distance learning course, one aunt is a prominent feminist/lesbian Rabbi, another a pioneering art psychotherapist and my Mum was an artist.
I'm still nursing dreams of playing metal some day, I'm used to being poor.

Godslayer Jillian · 06-21-2009, 04:44 PM

Perfect timing:

I GOT A MOTHERFUCKING JOB ON CAMPUS!!!!

Just found out five minutes ago. I'm going to be a peer leader this coming semester. It's kind of a teaching assistant specifically for freshmen. 7.15 an hour!

Animula · 06-21-2009, 04:50 PM

congrats and good luck

Cicero · 06-21-2009, 08:27 PM

I started studying science at Melbourne uni and hated it. Dropped out last year, and will be starting an Archaeology and Anthropology course at University College London in September. I changed my mind about what I wanted to do so much in the last few years it was ridiculous, but now that I've settled on Arch and Anth I couldn't be happier. I'll probably end up going on to do post-grad all the way to a PhD, specialising in forensic anthropology if my dream stays on track.

As for a job I don't really have one other than running 1334 (only once a month), and making badges and bone jewellery (which I've been extremely lazy about lately).

SiouxsiePernova · 06-21-2009, 10:27 PM

I am currently enrolled in a course which will enable me to attain a Bachelor of Photography.

Still Jack · 06-21-2009, 11:53 PM

Next year I'll be finishing off A/S levels, and then I'll be hoping for a place at a halfway decent university to do Criminology or European History.

Sir Canvas Corpsey · 06-22-2009, 02:34 AM

I'm doing a Bachelor of Theology which will soon become a Bachelor of Arts Theology which will take me... somewhere... to achieve my dream job of.... something....

Needlefeet · 06-22-2009, 03:27 AM

SCC basically pretends to be a past employer and speak very highly of me. Otherwise he is my job.

Sir Canvas Corpsey · 06-22-2009, 04:05 AM

Needlefeet is a very diligent worker!

My Starbucks hazelnut hot choc is always there in the morning and he shows an aptitude for stroking my ego (amongst other things)

I forgot to mention my job, which is non existent, I basically just do volunteer work for a local church and help out the theatre group I used to act with. They're rather eager for me to tech for them.

Needlefeet · 06-22-2009, 04:08 AM

Hahahahahaha.
Man I wish I lived near a Starbucks. Or that there was even one in this town.
Yay for stroking.

Raptor · 06-22-2009, 04:44 AM

Just finished the second year of a physics degree at the University of Bristol. Did well enough to get onto the four year masters course. So I have either one or two years left to go.

Disaffected Shoelaces · 06-30-2009, 09:31 AM

I'm studying for A-levels. I have no idea what to do afterwards - I wouldn't mind being an academic, or maybe a teacher or something. I'd like to get some poetry published as well, and maybe some short stories. Mostly I'd just like to end up doing something reasonably creative which I enjoy, and which allows me to sleep at night.

Noumi · 07-03-2009, 05:36 AM

I study journalism in one of the best schools of my country and I work in a company called Media Monitors. I'm also a blogger so I spend a lot of time on the internet .
I love reality TV and have weird dreams every night ^^.

Pantherlette086 · 07-03-2009, 06:05 PM

I'm going to school to be a teacher. After that, possibly continue on to a School Counselor.

viscus · 07-03-2009, 08:11 PM

I have a bachelors degree in political science from San Francisco State University, and a Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages certificate. I now teach English in Tokushima, Japan. Not my ideal occupation, but I'm in a country that i enjoy. I've been entertaining going to graduate school for urban or transportation planning, but my future plans are always rather fickle.

Still Jack · 07-04-2009, 01:28 AM

I'm probably going to study Criminology and Forensics at Newcastle University, if all goes as planned...

Corpsey · 07-04-2009, 02:08 AM

Funky funky, Jack.

Well, I've got a Diploma in Live Stage & Screen arts, but dislike the acting industry and this has been perpetuated by one of my acting friends who has continued studying. Currently working on my Degree into International Relations and Languages. Buggered if I know what to do afterwards. I'm planning on getting a degree in Spanish/German/French + picking up a little Chinese/Arabic/Japanese/Whatever along the way and then going overseas with a fellow language fanatic and spending 4 months in both Germany, France & Spain with the various contacts I have over there. Once I'm fluent in each language I'll come home and attach all the rest of the strings together.

Until then I wouldn't mind working part time in some sort of food industry absorbing foreign foods or working at a Haunted maze during the summer months. Depends really on which way the wind blows.