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Yes, this is a question, what should I do while I don't know what to do with my life. I'm in school, will graduate in May. I know I should look for jobs that seem (sort of?) interesting. But surely there must be a more active way for me to figure out what I want to do with my life, and what are things I should be doing as I coast through the uncertainty? I mean I should save and learn to budget yes. But this is kind of vague. Can I get more specific answers to my own vague question? Are there certain opportunities I should check out? Military, Teaching English Abroad? Other cool things that offer some experience?
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Nov 12, 2014 14:57
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It's almost like you should have spent the past four years figuring that poo poo out. Did you actually get a degree in basket weaving or do you have any sorts of skills that people would pay for? Maybe go to your school's career center and ask them for help? also http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
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Nov 12, 2014 16:53
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You could always join the Air Force. I spent a lot of my career with people who didn't know what the hell they were doing while they were in, had no plans to get out. They could ride it for 20 years and leave with full medical and a pension and barely have done any work and still didn't know what the hell they were doing.
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Nov 12, 2014 16:55
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moana posted:It's almost like you should have spent the past four years figuring that poo poo out. Did you actually get a degree in basket weaving or do you have any sorts of skills that people would pay for? Maybe go to your school's career center and ask them for help? But, like, what's the meaning of life man? Like, why are we here? If life is just a show about us dying, why should we bother to live?
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Nov 12, 2014 17:09
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moana posted:It's almost like you should have spent the past four years figuring that poo poo out. Did you actually get a degree in basket weaving or do you have any sorts of skills that people would pay for? Maybe go to your school's career center and ask them for help? I do have a marketable skill. I am receiving a B.A in Computer Science. Which my career center is pretty bad counseling for. I mean, I guess I know things I enjoy. I do enjoy programming, and helping people, and art and politics? I would like to travel (doesn't everyone?) At this point, I'm probably going to get a job I can do for 2 or 3 years and then hop onto something else. But if I'm not dedicated to a particular job title, are there any jobs that a lot of people take when they are unsure of their future, but is also a valuable experience?
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Nov 12, 2014 17:14
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Why a BA and not a BS? Anyway, go apply to a bunch of programming jobs, there's a thread in SHSC about jobs you could check out. Any job is a valuable experience to you since you seem to know shitall about what you want to do. Once you work a job, you'll know much better what you like and don't like about it and when you switch jobs moving forward you will have a better idea about what you want in a job.
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Nov 12, 2014 17:51
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Is programming fun for you? Have you written any code besides school assignments? Are you involved with any free software projects? Since you say you want to do programming, go to Cavern of Cobol and read through some of the threads, especially the newbie programmer one. Since this is your senior year, now would be the time to start doing some real world things that could get you noticed and get you familiar with how things work at real jobs.
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Nov 12, 2014 18:08
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Go into finance work on HFT and make a ton of $$$
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Nov 24, 2014 21:18
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Edgar Allan Pwned posted:I do have a marketable skill. I am receiving a B.A in Computer Science. Which my career center is pretty bad counseling for. I mean, I guess I know things I enjoy. I do enjoy programming, and helping people, and art and politics? I would like to travel (doesn't everyone?) At this point, I'm probably going to get a job I can do for 2 or 3 years and then hop onto something else. But if I'm not dedicated to a particular job title, are there any jobs that a lot of people take when they are unsure of their future, but is also a valuable experience? What most people do is specialise in their job which leads to pretty decent pay. There are plenty of jobs you can get with a computer science degree. You really need to spend a few years working and then it's easier to figure out what direction you would like to take. Working any job will give a lot of valuable experience, corporate jobs allow you to understand how to deal with the issues in those environments. In addition you have a chance to make good money doing programming. Decent income combined with keeping your expenses low so you can save and invest. The best part being is that the skills and knowledge are portable. You can move to and work in other countries. If you really have an issue with taking up a programming job then your choices are limited as you do not have a 1 or 2 year diploma or experience as a tradesman to do anything else. Should you wish to train for another field you would need to spent more time studying. I went onto a post graduate degree as the starting salary for my chemistry degree would have been very poor (if only I'd known I could have moved to Texas). I'm rather confused as to why you wouldn't get a programming job.
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Nov 25, 2014 01:26
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Here's a secret: no one knows what they want to do with their lives. Everyone is just making it up as they go along. People who seem like they have their poo poo together got there 90% by luck and 10% by perseverance. Life is what happens when you're making other plans. The best thing you can do is be flexible and open to new opportunities as they come up. Edit: there's also a career path thread, in case you can swallow your pride and admit you're not actually a special snowflake deserving of your own thread. posh spaz fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Nov 25, 2014 |
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Nov 25, 2014 02:13
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