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NS: What career interests you?

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Bumblesteeze
Posts: 3092 - Karma: 748
I'm currently studying economics, but I'm still unsure what career I want to obtain.
The reason I decided to pursue economics is because I'm interested in how the world operates and it seems like a pretty versatile degree.

Not knowing what you want to do in the future sure is frustrating, but I'm sure there's loads of you folks in the same boat.

Now I ask NS; what career interests you and how do you plan on reaching your goals?
Oct 17 2011 8:12PM
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NotoriousT.S.E
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Recently its been Finance and Economics. Although iv never taken a core Finance class, but Macro was one of my favorite classes. Also considering urban planning, but it could be difficult to transfer those credits. Fuck I change my mind every other day....
Oct 19 2011 1:11PM
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PacificRimJob
Posts: 24704 - Karma: 29,687
Digital media marketing is where I see myself in the future.
Oct 19 2011 1:15PM
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D-40
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I'm thinking about selling crack. 

Na, I want to start my own company down the road.  I like the competition involved in running a business.  Seems to be a lot like sports almost in the competitive nature of business.  Hopefully something within the ski industry, but that is TBD

Oct 19 2011 1:20PM
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GGreene
Posts: 993 - Karma: 42
BOOM!
Oct 19 2011 1:27PM
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Daph
Posts: 5978 - Karma: 5,005
surgeon
meteorologist
something in the ski industry
or marry rich and just fuck around all the time...
Oct 19 2011 1:29PM
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ImNotARacist
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Im going to start a text messaged based cookie delivery/catering business.
Oct 19 2011 1:33PM
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Erica.
Posts: 327 - Karma: 299
Sports medicine
graphic design or web design
radiologist
or something ski related
Oct 19 2011 1:36PM
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-ROY-
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design
Oct 19 2011 1:38PM
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FBGM
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That's probably your best bet.
Oct 19 2011 1:39PM
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PacificRimJob
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I hope my future wife will be a breadwinner... I'd kick ass as a stay at home husband/dad/lazy bum lol.
Oct 19 2011 1:40PM
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2_fadez
Posts: 7780 - Karma: 4,180
Petroleum Engineer
Oct 19 2011 1:40PM
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JeremyB
Posts: 629 - Karma: 30
Neuropsychology, something related to biology or in economy
Oct 19 2011 1:43PM
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naturday
Posts: 493 - Karma: 238
college professor of English.
Oct 19 2011 1:48PM
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applejuice.
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I want to be the breadwinner because if something ever goes wrong I will financially independent and won't have to worry about relying on a man. Plus, I want to be able to buy the things I want, when I want them.

On the other hand I would love to be a stay at home mom and do things with my kids.
Oct 19 2011 1:52PM
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Wis_Skier_23
Posts: 2263 - Karma: 245
I am a level 1 ski instructor and the way they want you to ski is totally not the way I ski, with my stance balance point etc.  They keep telling me to do certain things that just aren't possible or are not natural with center mounted skis, kinda grinds my gears cuz I ski in a lower athletic stance that is natural for park and what not but they want me all upright with my femur more perpendicular to the snow instead of in an athletic stance....just pisses me off
Oct 19 2011 2:12PM
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Wis_Skier_23
Posts: 2263 - Karma: 245
as for a career, Supply Chain Manager
Oct 19 2011 2:13PM
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KravtZ
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broker, financial advisor, trader, investment banker...something of the sort
Oct 19 2011 2:14PM
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Lord.Quasimoto
Posts: 958 - Karma: 33
professional astro traveler.
Oct 19 2011 2:25PM
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BROSEIDON
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I know a guy who does this. Makes BANK.
Oct 19 2011 2:51PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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same here. i thought I wanted to be a financial adviser, but then I found out that it is basically a glorified sales job. except I have to sell people on basically giving me all of their money. fuck that shit.

so I got a master's in accounting. work corporate accounting and do tax work on the side.

have fun with the CPA, dude. get the Becker study program - it's by far the best. the cpa exam can suck my fucking nuts. that test sucks so bad. be prepared to hate your life.
Oct 19 2011 3:07PM
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PacificRimJob
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I would be such a rad stay at home dad... That, and I also know how to handle bills like a fuckin champ, so wifey could focus on work.

Pipedream though... I'm TOTALLY going to have to roll with a job the whole time - which is probably good because I really like doing work. I get ultra stir-crazy if Im not working on something productive.
Oct 19 2011 3:30PM
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H8CH
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Way to protect your intellectual property there... good work.

Oct 19 2011 3:31PM
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H8CH
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I like your style....

Oct 19 2011 3:31PM
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raymano---0
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Thinking either Theater and Lighting Design, or Production Sound Design. Leaning more towards the former of the two.
Oct 19 2011 3:34PM
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Anathema
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i'd love to work for bauer hockey as a kinesiologist, doing lab shit and working with professional athletes to help develop new equipment. doesn't even have to be hockey, but canada is so hockey crazy that there's a lot of opportunity in that department.

my dream would be to own my own sporting company and i'd specialize in extreme sports, so everything from skiing/boarding to white water kayaking to rock climbing and all that. i'd name it: incite sports. or maybe incite sporting goods. ISG? who knows, but i've always liked the name 'incite' for a company name. incite hockey, incite skis.. nice little ring to it i think.
Oct 19 2011 3:38PM
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.frenchy
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idk yet, something involved with the skiing industry for sure.

Oct 19 2011 3:42PM
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eljusto.
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electrical engineer.
Oct 19 2011 3:43PM
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Bumblesteeze
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My dad's childhood friend has always been obsessed with hockey but was no where near good enough to be a professional hockey player; he was a goalie at the time. Long story short, he ended up working for itech or vaughn can't really remember...
All he does is design new goalie equipement and either tries them out himself, or goes to NHL caliber goalies to try them out to see how they perform.

Oct 19 2011 3:47PM
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wiener
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Metallurgical engineer focusing on hydrometallurgical extraction
Oct 19 2011 3:53PM
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Toasty.
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i was looking into that job.

and you have to do about 10 years of like on the job training till you can start getting paid decently
Oct 19 2011 3:56PM
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blah..
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Engineering.

maybe mechanical, aeronautical, or astronautical.

or on the flip side.

maybe industrial engineering, or operations research.

maybe even management.

something to do with thinking, solving problems, and fixing things because that's the only way our country here is going to survive.
Oct 19 2011 4:05PM
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Dobies.
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The way this economy is going....anything. Bachelors degrees don't mean nearly what they used too. Sad.
Oct 19 2011 4:16PM
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Lick
Posts: 1927 - Karma: 518
Engineer.
Oct 19 2011 4:21PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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Unfortunately this is very true. A baccalaureate degree in today's day and age is about the equivalent of a high school diploma for our parent's generation. Everybody has one. If you want to set yourself above the norm, you almost have to have a master's or greater....or at least some professional accreditation to accompany your degree.
Oct 19 2011 4:22PM
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PhaedeD
Posts: 11498 - Karma: 327
Career fuck a career im just gonna Occupy Wall Street! Fuck work pay for my shit pay for my school billionaires are greedy give me all the moooonnieesssss
Oct 19 2011 4:22PM
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charmander
Posts: 10636 - Karma: 372
forestry and/or teaching science
Oct 19 2011 4:25PM
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PhaedeD
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Props are given.
Oct 19 2011 4:26PM
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Dobies.
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It kinda sucks. most degrees today don't require you to be a thinker, they require you to memorize one hundred terms on flash cards, take the test, then forget it. I see girls who can't find their way out of a paper bag get 100's on tests, scary
Oct 19 2011 4:27PM
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PhaedeD
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Actually not to try and say you are wrong because you arent but I actually just read an article and im sorry I dont remember where but it was like a real magazine or the news paper not some bs website that was talking about how some large companies are starting to shift back to hiring a lot of people with BA's.

I think the one company said that it was Hiring like 80/20 in favor of people with mba's and they have actually cut that back to like 60/40.

Still is better to have the mba and easier to find a job but not much easier as it really doesnt matter right now anyways.
Oct 19 2011 4:32PM
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blah..
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maybe biomedical engineering, or management/industrial engineering in a hospital. Something in medicine. Seems like the most stable thing around these days.
Oct 19 2011 4:35PM
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act.resist
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Respiratory therapy is what I'm interested in, but I may end up doing a different type of therapy along the line or something completely different I'm not sure
Oct 19 2011 4:37PM
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blah..
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Oct 19 2011 4:39PM
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S_Jenk
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I'm currently going for filling my pre-med requirements and a major in economics. Medical school is the goal, but I'm not looking forward to giving up skiing for four years, or at least skiing very little durin that time.

It'll be worth it in the end.
Oct 19 2011 4:45PM
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PJS.
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it will most likely be worth it when your forty and skiing with a great job and one of those attractive women who are into docs.
Oct 19 2011 5:34PM
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Piste.Off
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I could without a doubt be a successful mlb bullpen catcher right now and make bank.

Im at school for natural resources recreation and tourism and my ideal plan right now is either be an outdoors guide during the summers or land a job on a summer cruise ship, and then ski all winter.

Oct 19 2011 5:34PM
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SkiPSU
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I'm majoring in meteo now and I don't really think you have to go to grad school.
Oct 19 2011 5:37PM
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blackoutbill
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I'm not really sure what I want to do. For awhile I wanted to be a dentist and then I was looking at something in the environmental sciences. Now I'm thinking I might go towards something in math or computer science
Oct 19 2011 5:48PM
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Bubba-Snax
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liberal arts bro. study a little bit of everything for a year or two then see what you like from that. also gets most of the basics and gen ed requirements out of the way that can apply to almost any major.
Oct 19 2011 6:14PM
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poptarts4life
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1. Investment banking - would be sick to be apart of helping companies with their mergers & acquisitions.

2. Sales & Trading - I love the stock market and think that trading would be amazing, sadly i'm not a genius at math

3. Private Equity- Would be cool to be in the "underground" stock market with companies like facebook.

4. Hedge fund manager - Would be cool to basically rape the stock market using rich people's money in a small firm, sadly it's pretty impossible to break in.

5. Anything in venture capital - Would be cool to help the next player in silicon valley start up.

6. Air Force Combat Controller - I don't have the mental or phyiscal capability to do this. I have no idea why this job isn't more popular. They are fucking navy seals that are also qualified in ATC.



I'm going to try and get an internship at a boutique i-bank in C-bus or Cincy this summer or try and squeeze my way into one of the small locally hedge funds I found.
Oct 19 2011 6:19PM
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J.M
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It's the best. i already took a year long class my junior year.  Im planning on attending a college that offers a co-op program so i can do an intership while i study. 1. to get experience/possible job post graduate/make some bank during college and 2. to see if thats what i wanna do the rest of my life.  So i will already have some experience and start making 70 to 80 grand after i graduate.
Oct 19 2011 10:11PM
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