..what line of work did you want to get into when you were finished? I myself majored in Telecommunications in college, and wanted to be either a Microwave Transmissions specialist/repairman,or an Electrical/Mechanical repairman specializing in Robotics.

Instead..I ended up working for the Phone company in a Transport Analysis center. :hahanot:

When you finished school, did anyone here manage to land the job of their dreams :confused:

I went to school to get my ECE ( Early childhood Educator)
Well when I finished school. The daycare I did my practicum gave me a job after I graduated. Well that was three years ago and now I manage the same government run group Childcare Center. lol
I love going to work every day still.
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I studied criminology in college but now work at a library.

It's loads of fun sending people with overdue books to Old Sparky.

I studied Police Science and now am the Service Manager at a company that makes electric lift-chairs. :@@:

I triple majored in college; elementary education, history, biology.

My ideal job was teaching history but there was an opening in an elementary school. My father had just died and I had to begin work so I could support my mother and five younger siblings so I took the job rather than continuing for a doctorate in Medieval History and eventually landing a college job.

I loved teaching elementary school. It was the most rewarding thing I ever did. When I lost my vocal cords to cancer my history and science degrees came in handy. I became the elementary science administrator for a large, suburban school district. While not as rewarding as standing before a class of young kids it kept me in education, a field I love.

I studied computer engineering with emphasis on software development at college. That's exactly what I am doing right now. But let me tell you a secret: if not for the fact that this is a lucrative type of job that also happens to be just interesting enough, very low stress, with the added bonus of not having to deal with too many annoying strangers, I would have studied any of a number of other things. Say, if my family was rich and I had nothing to worry about, maybe study archaeology, multiple foreign languages, linguistics, film, art history, that sort of thing. I'm into not exactly traditional social sciences/humanity stuff @ school, but more cultural/entertainment study oriented classes. That said though, if I had nothing to worry about moneywise to begin with, I would have made traveling and eating out my full time job. That, and going to shows.

i had no chances of getting into college. i hated school period. bored me to tears. even though i had good grades.
i come from a poor family so they could never foot the bill for a car. no jobs in the area unless you knew the right people. i.e.- family in the door. so, i decided for the military in some form or fashion. or go in the woods and never come back. i knew if i wanted to get laid, or have a woman , i'd need money, and a home. i quit school when i was 16, took the g.e.d. when i turned 17 , and, so off to the military i went. 8 years in there before i realized it sucked dog balls and there has to be something else to do. and here i am running my own business, and no rent or mortgage to pay, 2 kids, and a wife of almost 14 years. go figure.

When you finished school, did anyone here manage to land the job of their dreams :confused:
I have yet to finish high school, when I graduate college I want to be a teacher. My dream job however, is to be a psychologist or psychiatrist, which would take some time to further my education.

Dio, I'm currently majoring in Comp. Sci and although I've heard a bunch of different advice on whether or not to rather persue Comp. Eng., I was curious as to your view as to which would be better for one planning on being a computer programmer, though preferably with the better job of being a developer.

FWIW, my nephew just graduated with a comp eng. degree and he's doing programming.

Well, having done the engineering degree I would say if you are only interested in deadling with software, there is really no need to bother going to engineering school. It takes longer to finish and requires you to take classes that fulfill general "engineering" needs that most likely do not have anything to do with your real interest. In hindsight I can definitely say that it's most important to not have to take classes that you'd just waste time in. Why would a software developer need to know about "Thermal Dynamics", "Statics", "Microprocessor Design", or "Microelectronic Circuits"?

By majoring in com sci, you can really take classes that you are interested in and possbily get to a high level faster. It's easier to do a double major in and simply takes less time to finish. :thumbs:

Well if I were to do it all over again, I would actually "work" in school this time around. But I don't know if I would actually want to change where I have ended up...if fact, no I wouldn't. I had no clue what I wanted to do so long as I could support myself and actually "like" what I was doing. That much I knew.

The rest sort of just happened.

And I do have my dream job in that I am self-supporting by only working three days a week, and I love the people that I work with. The company I work for has been amazing to me over the years and I actually love going into work.

Oops, forgot to mention that I am a retail district manager.

A few years back, an infamous speech made the internet adn radio rounds, it was attributed to Kurt Vonnegut, actually turned out to be a woman. A journalist I think, it was for a commencement (high school I think). In it is a line about . . . there are people that knew what they wanted to do since childhood, there are aslo people who at forty still have no idea.

I fall into the later.

I hated public school. I'm talking Columbine type of hatred. However having no clue what to do with my life and at the time I had no interest in the millitary, I went to a local college. I LOVED IT! I fell in love with just learning what I wanted. I majored in education/history, don't ask me why. Let's just say it didn't work out. They gave me a degree (liberal arts type of thing)basically I went to school for four years and learned a lot of crap! :rolleyes:

So then I buckled down and started working. Retail, selling shoes. (Yes I've heard every Al Bundy joke known, thank you very much.) I reverted to one of my favorite past times, drawing. I then convinced myself I should go to the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Which I did. I graduated with an Associates Degree in Graphic Design, majoring in cartooning.:p

I have been the poster child for bad luck. (Please no one with the old "you make your own luck") Every job I have managed to land, I get rave reviews of my work, only to have the company fold, downsize, or I just get screwed. For about five years I didn't even try, Once I got the bug again, I was sorely out of practice and behind on the technology. In the past three years, I did manage to get two jobs with two different sign companies. One local, one a large chain store, both were very rewarding, both screwed me. So now I answer the phones for an insurance co. Do some freelance stuff and try to keep them from shutting off the gas or electric. I'm still hoping though for some reason I can't quite figure. ;)