Career Majors

[crazydog]

Ive been trying to figure out what i want to major in for a while. I have always thought about being a computer engineer because it was of interest to me but i just recently crossed by a certain article about the career and it pretty much said the average life of a computer engineering career is around 5 years because the company will pretty much hire the newer people that will work for less. and the technology is progressing so much that itll be better for the company to do so. (something like that, i probably mixed it all up); and also they will probably just end up being a web designer, [which many of my friends do now, in high school, as a hobby]

then i thought about being a pharmacist, but im trying to do more research on that since i have a few universities around here that is solely based around engineering, and not health.

TL;DR -> i just want to know, what is your major and just tell me some information about it. or if you're out of school, what is your career and how is it? has it worked out since college or not. what kinds of things do you do

 

[GlassOnion]

Ahh we need more tl;dr's on here sometimes lol. But I read it all anyhow.

Yah computers progress extremely quickly as we all know and I can see the sense in hiring someone fresh out of school over someone who's older. Experience doesn't count for much in the computer field since they all break more or less the same way. It's the knowledge of the newest hardware/programming/etc. that you need and unless you stay on top of things you can fall behind quickly which is probably why they have such a high turn over.

As for pharmacology, what do you want to know about it? I have a friend who took the test to be a pharmacy tech and he just studied a book he bought from Barnes and Nobles and is now employed. I could ask him about it next time I see him.


As for me, I'm majoring in Biomedical Sciences which is like a springboard into a lot of graduate programs at this university. I want to get into vet school (applying next fall) but if that falls through (which it won't ) then I don't know what I'll do. I'd love to go into psychology as my back up but I'd have to change majors and it just wouldn't work.

Essentially I study a lot of sciences. Genetic, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, anatomy, physiology, microbiology, biochemistry, entomology, etc.

 

[Puckstop31]

Computer Engineering does not have to be a career where after 5 years you are obsolete... The key to being successful, IMHO, in IT fields is not focusing simply on technology. The best people in the IT field have solid technical skills, but more than that they know how to actually make the technology DO something practical for their client. The burnout comes from people who just geeks, but have no people or business skills. SO, choose a IT major, but take a business minor or something...

Geeks with super duper techie skills are a dime a dozen. Geeks with technical skills that can produce solutions that are useful are not.

 

[RedHotDobe]

I started in Pre-Vet/Animal Science, with intentions of going in the Vet Med direction. Animals fascinate me still, but I cannot deal with the people who are just there because they "think they're cute." There are some things I don't have a high tolerance for, and I guess that was one of them. I would love to be a surgeon. It's the uneducated owners that would most likely drive me insane.

So, then I went the Graphic Design route. Which is when I found another thing I have little tolerance for. I had been messing with Adobe programs for a few years before taking my first Computer Studio class, and when people could not figure out how the pen tool in Illustrator worked after the professor had just given the most detailed demonstration ever, I was about to slap someone. It's a major that still requires drawing and art history courses, so if you don't really like art, then it's probably not something you want to look into.

Classes have to move at mind-boggling rates for me to hold any interest in them, though. I get bored very easily.

As for what I was to do as a Graphic Design major... I don't know. I honestly may switch majors again. Dogs I like, art I like, but I don't see myself in a career with them.

 

[joce]

I think anything in health care is great to get into right now. I got my RN and am happy with it but there are a ton of other things that are great jobs in the health care field.

Another one thats supposed to be good is getting involved with a funeral home. Of course you'd have to ahve alot of start up for your own but for the same reason health care is doing so good so will funeral homes. I don't know what a mortician makes though-I jsut want to own a funeral home,I think my last name woudl make a good one

I don't think the computers are the best thing to go into jsut absed on all the poeple I know with computer related degrees that work at mcdonalds or the mall. the college used to offer a placement service but they had to quit because they cna't find everyone jobs. But I also have no clue what there degrees actually are.