careers that might have been nice to pursue

[Bob]

(note:i suppose you're all going to scoff at ME for making this thread, since i'm so young and could technically realistically decide to pursue any of these if i really felt like it, but let's try not to do that)

if you were starting all over, what kinds of careers would you guys maybe have considered going after?

for me, i think maybe it would have been cool to be an interpreter. i don't actually speak any other languages (i should know some spanish, but i really don't), but i see no reason why i can't learn a few. i think it would be a safe job to have. it's always in demand, your job is pretty easy (assuming you can in fact speak the language), and you're providing a real honest service to people. that sounds kinda cool.

the other thing is maybe i'd like to be a chef. again, i don't cook, but i could have gone to culinary school or something, or taken an interest when i was younger. and again, it seems like a pretty honest, safe job to have. you're a cook, you make food, that's what you do. yeah, you have to work hard, but if you enjoy cooking, so what? you don't even have to do the dishes, you have peons to do that for you (no offense to anyone who's worked as a dishwasher but you know). and again, it's a nice honest profession; you make food for hungry people who are willing to pay you. what could be nicer?

what would you have liked to have done (is that a sentence? i don't know)?

[b i o n i c]

lotsa law school homework this weekend?

[Kid Presentable]

Ironically Bob, I would have gone to law school. I hate thinking like this, but if I could do it again, that's how it would play out. I'd go through uni from age 18 to whenever so I could be Dr. Normal McRegular at Law.

My biggest regret is that I have regrets.

[Bob]

lotsa law school homework this weekend?


haha yes, but that's not the point

my assignment right now is actually to draft a resume and i'm realizing how badly it sucks. i have what? a BA in political science with a 3.4 GPA (they say not to mention your GPA unless it's a 3.5 or above). i had one semester of volunteer work with a public interest environmentalist group but to be honest i only joined to meet women (which didn't work by the way). i've had one job while in college, that i worked at on semester breaks where i just did bullshit clerical and data entry stuff.

basically i went straight from undergrad to law school without doing anything notable in between. if i didn't have that one job i'd pretty much literally have nothing to put on this resume outside of "college". yuh oh! i didn't realize i'd need to build a resume so soon. i might have felt bad about not doing it if i had!

but seriously that's not the point really. i'm just thinking about other things

[Kid Presentable]

I'd like to be a hotelier/publican in the 60s, if I may.

[abcdefz]

I don't know exactly which career I would've chosen -- making a living off my main interests really would depend in part on what the market would bear -- but I know I would've stuck out college and gotten my coupon.

[b i o n i c]

damn bob

well, to answer your question, no i wouldnt have done anything differently because i've always pursued what i like. and its cost me, but with patience it will work out how i want it to. i would've regretted it if i had just gone for money. mind you i want to go to law school, but im not sure its the best thing for me.

the ONLY other thing i might rather be doing is to be a gardener. i like moving lawns. it could still happen. ive for the olive complexion already

[hpdrifter]

i had one semester of volunteer work with a public interest environmentalist group but to be honest i only joined to meet women (which didn't work by the way).

This made me lol. New signature.

[kate]

i haven't decided on any career path yet, but i think i want to fly planes. or a helicopter. or control the traffic of planes. or maybe be an architect.

[QueenAdrock]

for me, i think maybe it would have been cool to be an interpreter. i don't actually speak any other languages (i should know some spanish, but i really don't), but i see no reason why i can't learn a few. i think it would be a safe job to have. it's always in demand, your job is pretty easy (assuming you can in fact speak the language), and you're providing a real honest service to people. that sounds kinda cool.

I think that's what Brett's going to end up doing, because he's fluent in Spanish and French. Especially if he moves down here, because we're currently implementing Spanish-American schools around here that need people to teach in both. We have a very large Spanish population around here, so it'd always be in demand.

For me...it's cliched to say now, but, forensic chemist. I remember visiting my dad's lab and thinking how badass it was, what he did, and what he showed me. He spent all day piecing together puzzles to catch bad guys! I tried telling my friends what he did when I was little, but they didn't grasp exactly what his job was...it was only till much later that they understood, when CSI came out and explained everything. Then EVERYONE wanted to be a forensic chemist.

You have to be very good at what you do in order to have that job though, and I sucked in chemistry. I like where I am now, no regrets. I'm on the pathway I want to be and I don't see other things I'd rather do now.

[Bob]

This made me lol. New signature.

ironically it's probably the most interesting thing on my resume :(

the way my law school works is that after your first year, you spend half your time working for an employer (called a co-op), and the other half in classes, in 3-month intervals. i figure for my first co-op maybe i'll try to work for some public interest firm or something, someplace desperate enough to want to hire someone who isn't very well qualified. then i'll use my experience there to hopefully get a more impressive resume. so putting down "public interest group" down as an activity would probably look pretty good to them, i'd hope (as long as i leave out the part about meeting women and they don't wonder why i only spent a semester with them)

[Bob]

i haven't decided on any career path yet, but i think i want to fly planes. or a helicopter. or control the traffic of planes. or maybe be an architect.

or a marine biologist?

[kate]

yeah i like dolphins theyre so cool and pretty and smart

[QueenAdrock]

(they say not to mention your GPA unless it's a 3.5 or above).


I've never heard that. I've always heard if it's below a 3.0, keep it off the resume. Because under a 3.0 means B/C average. 3.0 and above is A/B average. A's were hard to get at UMD, so a 3.0 or above looked very good.

[ericlee]

I'm just going to keep on pushing music.

I'll be like the Who and shit. I'll be 70 singing rock and roll and I'll be wearing some extremely short shorts so that when I prop my foot up on the amp and sing, my scrotum will dangle down to the floor.

I'd then probably trip on it which would cause me to fall into the crowd and I'd be crowd surfing. They'd pass me along taking turns touching my scrotum and start crying kinda like how you'd see the young ladies crying back in the 60's when the Beatles arrived at the airport and then brag about, "OMG, I touched ericlee's scrotum and I'm never going to wash my right hand again!!"

[Bob]

well, this particular resume assignment has very strict guidelines. the co-op office has a packet of information about exactly how to draft your resume. which is actually a very good thing, because i wouldn't know what the fuck i was doing without some direction.

[jabumbo]

the way my law school works is that after your first year, you spend half your time working for an employer (called a co-op), and the other half in classes, in 3-month intervals. i figure for my first co-op maybe i'll try to work for some public interest firm or something, someplace desperate enough to want to hire someone who isn't very well qualified. then i'll use my experience there to hopefully get a more impressive resume. so putting down "public interest group" down as an activity would probably look pretty good to them, i'd hope (as long as i leave out the part about meeting women and they don't wonder why i only spent a semester with them)


although i didnt mean too, when i did my co-op i ended up working at 2 different companies on 2 totally different areas and it was nice to see the differences.

the 2nd place i was wasn't the greatest, but it made me realize how boring the old place was.



if i could do anything, it would probably have something to do with architecture

[HEIRESS]

I would have liked to illustrate biology textbooks

I guess I still could