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school vs. what you really want to do (pg. 3)
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| Slylee |
i'm poor right now. i live in a 1300 dollar a month condo on miami beach (i split rent with my bf, but still) and i have a car payment, insurance, and living money (expensive to do anything in miami) and i have to make payments to my school every month.
we're always broke now, but we wanted the nice apt. so oh well.
i was just talking about later on when i'm done with school and in my career. i'm just a legal secretary now at an attorneys office. it's decent money for a job that doesn't require a degree and there's benefits and bonuses and all that. it'll do for now, but i dont really like it.
and i couldn't do that whole $40 dollars a day when travelling. i like to do it up and stay at nice places and eat at nice restaurants and shop. that's just me though. |
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| ZeJayMan |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
i'm poor right now. i live in a 1300 dollar a month condo on miami beach (i split rent with my bf, but still) and i have a car payment, insurance, and living money (expensive to do anything in miami) and i have to make payments to my school every month.
we're always broke now, but we wanted the nice apt. so oh well.
i was just talking about later on when i'm done with school and in my career. i'm just a legal secretary now at an attorneys office. it's decent money for a job that doesn't require a degree and there's benefits and bonuses and all that. it'll do for now, but i dont really like it.
and i couldn't do that whole $40 dollars a day when travelling. i like to do it up and stay at nice places and eat at nice restaurants and shop. that's just me though. |
40 dollars a day!!!! Thats loads!! |
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| klingklang77 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
and i couldn't do that whole $40 dollars a day when travelling. i like to do it up and stay at nice places and eat at nice restaurants and shop. that's just me though. |
i see what you are saying. i like to travel as well, and stay in nice places. when i had money and i travelled, i stayed in nice places and shopped etc. then i wound up running low on cash and travelling around with money wasnt possible. i can say i had some of the best times of my life travelling around on $10-20 a day. |
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| klingklang77 |
to the thread starter:
i think it is really normal to come out of school with a degree and not want to do something in that field. that happened to me the first time, and i just went back to school. i just finished my MA, but i am not quite at the place that i want to be yet. but i coming really close, and in the next year or so i plan on starting my PhD. i think my ultimate goal would be to be a professor in the etymology area (or something similar like linguistics), but there arent many openings in that field (etymology), so i have a few other choices as back up. |
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| Epicurus |
| quote: | Originally posted by adi26
I have been studying engineering about almost 5 years now and about to get done with....
I sorta lost interest in it about an year ago and got more into business/marketing/finance kinda stuff and I am very good at it and will probably study this during grad school...
I din switch majors before bcos it would be a waste of 3 years...
Well, now that I am close to getting done...I have mixed feelings, happy about getting the degree but at the same time confused whether these were a waste of my efforts or not...
Learning is never a useless experience but still, its not been as satisfying for me as I would like it...hopefully when I get done with my MBA which starts this summer, I would see things differently
Has anyone been through a similar situation? And how have you all motivated yourself to work on something you don't care so much about.
Perspectives plzz.... |
I think you'll appreciate my perspective as I'm somewhat in a similar boat. My background is in Chemical Engineering. Finished my bachelor degree 6 years ago. About to finish my PhD in a couple of months. Do I want to work in Engineering? No. Am I passionate about Engineering and love it to death? No. It's much too applied for me. But, I want to eventually end up in finance, doing hardcore quant math for a decade so I can earn enough money for the rest of my life to retire and sit on my ass doing philosophy till I croak.
What's the point of all of this? The point is: with an engineering degree, it's not the knowledge that you acquire that's useful, it's the skill set. In other words, it's the analytical skills and the problem solving skills that you've developed over the course of your 5 years that will stay with you, not the thermodynamics, mechanics, and circuits courses.
You won't appreciate this until you realize how easy it'll be for you to do well in your M.B.A., relative to all the arts/business majors. While they struggle to blindly apply some dumb formula about the time value of money, and swear up and down how much they hate math, you'll breeze right through it and wonder why everyone's complaining. Not to mention the fact that top M.B.A. schools look to recruit engineers specifically because they know they've developed their brains over the course of their studies in a very suitable way for business, especially finance. Believe me, you have nothing at all to regret. You stand only to gain from your engineering degree. Hope this helped. |
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| lex400sc |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
that's why i never went to college. i couldn't decide on one thing that i wanted to do for the rest of my life.
luckily i am naturally skilled at graphic design... and i'll probably do it for the rest of my life. |
college degrees aren't about locking in a lifetime career, it's about securing higher pay and showing employers you're capable of learning and working so you'll be hired in the first place. at least in a competitive job market... people with degrees will still change professions an avg of 7 times before they retire. |
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| Boomer187 |
| jobs, just be a student. |
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| Zenchowdah |
| quote: | Originally posted by adi26
I have been studying engineering about almost 5 years now and about to get done with....
I sorta lost interest in it about an year ago and got more into business/marketing/finance kinda stuff and I am very good at it and will probably study this during grad school...
I din switch majors before bcos it would be a waste of 3 years...
Well, now that I am close to getting done...I have mixed feelings, happy about getting the degree but at the same time confused whether these were a waste of my efforts or not...
Learning is never a useless experience but still, its not been as satisfying for me as I would like it...hopefully when I get done with my MBA which starts this summer, I would see things differently
Has anyone been through a similar situation? And how have you all motivated yourself to work on something you don't care so much about.
Perspectives plzz.... |
man, you think thats bad, try joinin the military :toothless |
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| JohnPaullino |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
jobs, just be a student. |
Exactly :D |
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| Sunflower |
| I am in school, but what i want to do is go fishing |
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| tubularbills |
since my situation is completely different than yours....
..all i can say is just go after what you're really passionate about. whatever you want to work for/at/with....just go for it. |
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| adi26 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Epicurus
I think you'll appreciate my perspective as I'm somewhat in a similar boat. My background is in Chemical Engineering. Finished my bachelor degree 6 years ago. About to finish my PhD in a couple of months. Do I want to work in Engineering? No. Am I passionate about Engineering and love it to death? No. It's much too applied for me. But, I want to eventually end up in finance, doing hardcore quant math for a decade so I can earn enough money for the rest of my life to retire and sit on my ass doing philosophy till I croak.
What's the point of all of this? The point is: with an engineering degree, it's not the knowledge that you acquire that's useful, it's the skill set. In other words, it's the analytical skills and the problem solving skills that you've developed over the course of your 5 years that will stay with you, not the thermodynamics, mechanics, and circuits courses.
You won't appreciate this until you realize how easy it'll be for you to do well in your M.B.A., relative to all the arts/business majors. While they struggle to blindly apply some dumb formula about the time value of money, and swear up and down how much they hate math, you'll breeze right through it and wonder why everyone's complaining. Not to mention the fact that top M.B.A. schools look to recruit engineers specifically because they know they've developed their brains over the course of their studies in a very suitable way for business, especially finance. Believe me, you have nothing at all to regret. You stand only to gain from your engineering degree. Hope this helped. |
Thanks man, that definitely did help. And I am sorry but your situation is kinda worse (or better - depending on the point of views) than me. You're almost through with your Phd and I am only bachelors - holy I am illiterate compared to you :confused:
But well, I think its awesome that you went all the way thru your Phd and now you are changing fields...Versatility.
So like, are you going to do an MBA or learn finance yourself? |
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