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Subject: Not sure what I want to do with life. Help me decide.
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I really don't know what I want to do as a career. I have some ideas, but I also don't have the best grades so that limits me. And I don't want to go to more than 4 years of college.

Here are my interests:

Therapist - I've always been really fascinated in psychology. Especially personality disorder's and people's motivations. I'd love to learn more of it.

Programmer - Just started taking intro computer programming, and it is kind of fun. Pretty confusing, but I enjoy learning it. I know it is going to get very hard though.

Pharmacist - Drugs and their effects fascinate me (lol). I often research drugs because they are so interesting. I'm pretty sure pharmacists need to go to a lot of school though.

So what can you guys tell me about these jobs, such as: salary, work hours, easiness, and requirements? And any other jobs I might find interesting in the same field/specializations or anything.

And lastly, what would you pick?

  • 12.02.2012 9:55 AM PDT
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You should try and become a floodian "celebrity"

  • 12.02.2012 9:57 AM PDT
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Posted by: PROBLEM2342
You should try and become a floodian "celebrity"


Who says I'm not all ready?

  • 12.02.2012 9:58 AM PDT
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Posted by: WitchDocktor
Don't let us decide. Your life will be ruined.


Then help me decide! Maybe I should just go to /b/ and 77 decides

  • 12.02.2012 9:59 AM PDT

in·dif·fer·ence
the fact or state of being indifferent; lack of care or concern and empathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions.


Posted by: WitchDocktor
Don't let us decide. Your life will be ruined.


This could not be more true.

  • 12.02.2012 10:00 AM PDT
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Why So Serious?

"I'm gonna go America all over everybody's asses!"
-Charlie, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

This is something you can only settle on yourself.

  • 12.02.2012 10:01 AM PDT
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Tom
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Basically, it's a blog of mine that focuses on military and policy related issues. Feel free to bookmark it and PM me any ideas you have to improve its quality. I hope you enjoy it!

Join the Navy as either an HM, CTN, or join the Army as a Mental Health Specialist.

HM- Corpsman; There are specialties within the field that allow you to work with pharmacy.

CTN- Cryptological Networker; Basically the same thing as a programmer. You get to work with cyberwarfare and the such.

Mental Health Specialist- Basically an aide to a psychologist, you get to do therapy for various soldiers.

Each one allows you to practice in a field of your choice, without spending all the money on school.

  • 12.02.2012 10:01 AM PDT

Posted by: The Kangol Kid
It was then that I decided he really is like semen(everywhere) and I gave up on life.


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No.

  • 12.02.2012 10:01 AM PDT

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  • 12.02.2012 10:02 AM PDT

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Up to you.

  • 12.02.2012 10:03 AM PDT
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Two movies you should watch: Fight Club and Pineapple Express

"Wait. What do you mean, it's dead?"
"If marijuana is not legal within the next five years I have no faith left in humanity, period. Everyone likes smoking weed. They have for thousands of years. They're not going to stop anytime soon. You know? It makes everything better. Makes food taste better, makes music better. It makes sex feel better for God's sake. It makes -blam!- movies better you know?"

Just think about which one you'd like to get into the most. It doesn't matter if one takes longer to learn than the other, what matters is if you enjoy working in that certain subject as a career.

  • 12.02.2012 10:04 AM PDT

Well, I'm a computer science major, so naturally my answer is going to be a little biased. What drew me into programming was how fun it was to tinker around with code until it worked, and to see my creations come to life, no matter how simple they were.

Either way, take lots of Math when you go to college. Computer Science is more or less pure problem solving, and taking math courses or even basic programming courses will let you know if you have the the Knack.

  • 12.02.2012 10:06 AM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

Since you are considering various paths of interest but aren't certain of a particular one, I would recommend that you try to leverage the variety of your interests while moving in the general direction of any/each of them.

Two steps, which can be combined or attempted separately.

1: Find out what tertiary education that all of those choices have in common and in a full or part-time manner, get those courses/classes that are common under your belt via local college, community college, or online schooling.

2: Look into full or part-time entry level position(s) that while they may not be the final goal of yours, are close enough and related enough to allow you to see, observe and work with the people who perform your various final goals as their own career.

I spent a great deal of my young-adult years "meandering" through various entry level jobs in particular fields where the higher-end positions were of interest to me, but I wasn't certain that I wanted "to be a ______ when I grew up". Taking those entry level positions allowed me to see how those jobs actually were, what sort of people were good at it, what sort of people were miserable and allowed me to avoid getting "locked in" to a particular education/career path that I may have ended up regretting but sticking with since I was committed.

  • 12.02.2012 10:13 AM PDT

Be a garbage man.

  • 12.02.2012 10:50 AM PDT

Per Audacia Ad Astra

Out of the given interests, which do you enjoy doing the most?
I'd pick Programming, definitely. It wins with flying colours.

  • 12.02.2012 10:50 AM PDT

Hi

Someone with the name Paranoid Hipster shouldn't be working in any sort of psychological career.

  • 12.02.2012 10:52 AM PDT

Perpetual Ninja in training.

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

DMH

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Therapist - Hard work, lots of work, and low pay. Unless you can somehow get yourself high end clients, you'll be pretty barren. The best route for this is to get yourself published in a medical journal and become a huge name. So basically, avoid this route.

Programmer - Provides many more opportunities, but you'll be doing a lot of the same stuff. Working for a security company or a software development company, you'll most likely be sifting through code for the rest of your life if you do this.

Pharmacist - The only path of these three that I recommend, because they are paid well and are highly sought after. A pharmacist does have a lot of school to go through, but you will be happy you did it in the end. Quite honestly, this is the best choice.

  • 12.02.2012 10:56 AM PDT