Joined: 11/11/2006
Posts: 1235
Location: United Kingdom
I'm at University right now, currently studying for a BSc in Computer Science. Where I go once I finish, I have no idea. Possibly website design, animation or something entirely different. I always pictured myself doing research somewhere or something, but oh well.
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Joined: 8/26/2006
Posts: 1139
Location: United Kingdom
I'm currently studying Law at University and am hoping to go all the way and qualify as a lawyer. With my present grades I am on the way to doing so, but it is very competitive and the success rate is low so it'll be tough. I don't have much of a back-up plan either...
I also work part time in a WHSmith store to put food on the table and all that. It's not the most inspiring job in the world but I have no problem living with it for now.
Joined: 3/25/2006
Posts: 850
Location: stuck in Pandora's box HELLPP!!!
I'm still in secondary school, I seem to have a nack for science, maths and ICT so I'm thinking of becoming an airpilot or airmechanic. In fact, I don't care what I do aslong as it's not medical or get-rich-quick, the highest paying job is the one for me
I work for the Geek Squad. It's service + retail. It's probably the worst job ever, but at least the pay is decent.
I also work part time as a system admin/tech support for a small local company.
Build a man a fire, warm him for a day,
Set a man on fire, warm him for the rest of his life.
Joined: 5/2/2006
Posts: 1020
Location: Boulder, CO
Going to school majoring in applied math and computational physics. Hope to graduate soon, and see if I can get a job working in cryptography.
For money, I have a job doing phone tech support for my university.
Joined: 4/30/2006
Posts: 480
Location: the secret cow level
I have:
bagged groceries
processed insurance claims
operated industrial machinery
done some construction/demolition
and I'm currently going to school for networking.
I work for the Geek Squad. It's service + retail. It's probably the worst job ever, but at least the pay is decent.
Heh, I've seen their commercials on TV.
Only 1 year left before I get a Bachelor's in computer science...ugh. I really don't want to go into the job world yet if I can help it. I don't even know what profession I would want to go into yet. I'm considering going for a Master's after this, although that'll take a freaking miracle because I'm really not a smart person at all.
Working on a Ph.D. in Bioengineering.
Atro city - trust me, you do not need teh smarts to be in academia. Me are has the stupid.
Sage advice from a friend of Jim: So put your tinfoil hat back in the closet, open your eyes to the truth, and realize that the government is in fact causing austismal cancer with it's 9/11 fluoride vaccinations of your water supply.
Finished my master's degree in mechanical engineering a year ago. Since then I have been working as a mechanical designer for a truck manufacturer. My job mostly consists of working out technical solutions and then drawing them up in Catia (which is bleh, since it's a crappy (french) CAD program).
The pay is decent (lower than it would be at a smaller company) but I like the product and think there are more opportunities at a bigger company.
In the past, I have worked part-time as a teacher at university (loved it), and other random stuff during summers.
I work for the Geek Squad. It's service + retail. It's probably the worst job ever, but at least the pay is decent.
Heh, I've seen their commercials on TV.
Yeah, but that makes it seem far better than it actually is. :(
Build a man a fire, warm him for a day,
Set a man on fire, warm him for the rest of his life.
Mmm I'm in high school and I'm studying German, English, French, Economy as principal subjects...
<Neclea>Gavin Ward <Sprint>WHAT? WHERE?
<oldskoolgamer101>What a stupid name!
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Joined: 11/27/2004
Posts: 688
Location: WA State, USA
I'm a junior in high school and have never had a job. If anybody asks me what I want to be when I get old I usual say "computer programmer" despite the fact that my experience is limited to some sloppy ZZT-OOP and my school doesn't offer any programming classes afaict (despite having the largest student population in the state). That's half of the reason I've signed up for the Running Start program at the local community college (the other half being the hope that I can get a decent Japanese teacher).
Nach wrote:
I also used to wake up every morning, open my curtains, and see the twin towers. And then one day, wasn't able to anymore, I'll never forget that.
Joined: 11/18/2006
Posts: 2426
Location: Back where I belong
RT-55J wrote:
I'm a junior in high school and have never had a job. If anybody asks me what I want to be when I get old I usual say "computer programmer" despite the fact that my experience is limited to some sloppy ZZT-OOP and my school doesn't offer any programming classes afaict (despite having the largest student population in the state). That's half of the reason I've signed up for the Running Start program at the local community college (the other half being the hope that I can get a decent Japanese teacher).
So your location says WA state, the largest student population has to be somewhere in the Seattle/Tacoma/Redmond area (I grew up in Kennewick, southeast corner of the state), and as all good technogeeks know, Microsoft calls Redmond home. And you're saying your school doesn't have any programming classes? Someone majorly dropped the ball on that one.
I've just dropped out from my previous job as sysadmin to become a piano teacher.
I've been fed up with IT and dedicating my life to music was somehow a burning wish.
The fact is that piano teacher doesn't pay as well as sysadmin/any IT related jobs.
At least when I wake up in the morning I'm now happy to go to work... and I still manage to feed myself...
At least when I wake up in the morning I'm now happy to go to work... and I still manage to feed myself...
If you can say that much about yourself, then I can say you are succeeding.
I'm still not sure what job I would have to take that I would actually enjoy... I should probably abandon computer science for music or culinary arts or something.
If anybody asks me what I want to be when I get old I usual say "computer programmer" despite the fact that my experience is limited to some sloppy ZZT-OOP and my school doesn't offer any programming classes afaict (despite having the largest student population in the state).
Don't feel bad. My high school had no programming courses at all, and the only computer class they had that wasn't teaching Office to computer-illiterates was a basic hardware class.
Don't feel bad. My high school had no programming courses at all, and the only computer class they had that wasn't teaching Office to computer-illiterates was a basic hardware class.
The only computer course I had in high school was keyboarding, where we were timed by typing up documents in an old DOS version of WordPerfect. Every morning before class started, we did network games of Doom II on the Win95 machines. Good times.
I'm starting to feel old.
