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I'm torn :( And I need opinions
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Or consulting one.
To the OP: You need decide what you want more- Lots of money in a job you don't really want, or a smaller salary on a job you really love. I can't really give you advice, but I can tell what I would do: I would take less money on the job I love.
I think that depends. Most engineers I know are doing all right.
However, this might be a country-by-country thing. Based on the information I can find, US engineering salary ranges are significantly lower than ones in Canada.
I wouldn't say that. Based on what I've seen in the Canadian system, dealing with one government insurance provider seems less onerous than dealing with many private insurers.
Mathematician
Reason, and reason again
If you've ever lost a loved one to cancer radiology probably takes priority to any liberal arts degree. I just returned from my best friend's father's funeral and I can't help but to think how angry I get that science education in this country isn't taken seriously when it's the ONLY means of keeping people alive. [But I've already written a whole lot of scorn towards posters who think people should just learn "whatever they want"]
Look around. You can satisfy your passion and still make money, but you'll always have to make a sacrifice or two unless you want to be a pauper or live in misery. I don't agree with the principle that your interests must take first priority. Too many people are suffering through horrible salaries or unemployment because of that. Find a compromise.
Look around. You can satisfy your passion and still make money, but you'll always have to make a sacrifice or two unless you want to be a pauper or live in misery. I don't agree with the principle that your interests must take first priority. Too many people are suffering through horrible salaries or unemployment because of that. Find a compromise.
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Mathematician
Reason, and reason again
I'm not saying don't pursue your passions, but your first priority should always be to stay afloat. Ergo, published novelists do not give up everything just to write until they first hit success (well, except for Steph Meyer, but unless you're a conservative housewife don't count on that).
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Caladan
Agnostic Pantheist
The passion of a man, has always a productive outcome when it's pursued. it usually means that the person will spend hours of his time expending it for the general welfare of the people. it also means that the man will do what every other man does. cook, pay his taxes and read the news.
Draka
Wonder Woman
Who knows? You may find that while you like one thing now, you might actually come to love another job later.
I went into the Navy with the intent of becoming a HM (Hospital Corpsman). I had taken some biology and anatomy and physiology classes in school and had even taken a CNA college course while I was still in high school. I wanted to be a nurse. When I took my ASVAB however, I scored not only well enough to be a HM, but more than well enough...in fact...more than well enough to be an AT (Avionics Technician). They had an over-abundance of HMs but not near enough ATs as it was a much more intense and difficult a rate. So I was enlisted as an AT. Turns out that I was extremely good at it. Graduated 2nd in my class from my A-school and I found I absolutely loved my job. While I may have left high school with the intent and desire to be a nurse and a HM in the Navy...I couldn't imagine not standing on the flightline having the beat of the rotorwash against me. I LOVED working on helicopters. I was the best in my shop for on the spot flightline diagnosis and repair.
That's just my story, but you may find the same goes for you. If you look into other things and see if you have an aptitude for different things you may find that you love what you never expected you would.
I went into the Navy with the intent of becoming a HM (Hospital Corpsman). I had taken some biology and anatomy and physiology classes in school and had even taken a CNA college course while I was still in high school. I wanted to be a nurse. When I took my ASVAB however, I scored not only well enough to be a HM, but more than well enough...in fact...more than well enough to be an AT (Avionics Technician). They had an over-abundance of HMs but not near enough ATs as it was a much more intense and difficult a rate. So I was enlisted as an AT. Turns out that I was extremely good at it. Graduated 2nd in my class from my A-school and I found I absolutely loved my job. While I may have left high school with the intent and desire to be a nurse and a HM in the Navy...I couldn't imagine not standing on the flightline having the beat of the rotorwash against me. I LOVED working on helicopters. I was the best in my shop for on the spot flightline diagnosis and repair.
That's just my story, but you may find the same goes for you. If you look into other things and see if you have an aptitude for different things you may find that you love what you never expected you would.
Starsoul
Truth
Thank you all for your advice!
I still have one more year of high-school, so I still have some time, but it's getting close haha. I just love learning about ancient Europe and that sort of thing. I absolutely love it more than anything. I'll probably end up going with that anyway, but it doesn't hurt to consider professions with lots o' cash!
What do you think of dentistry, it is a medicine field, but at least a lot less busier than MD, with a good income, that also gives you plenty of time to spend your money in your hobbies too , which MD doctors rarely get, i.e time for themselves. History and anthropology is something you can always learn about on your own (by reading/travelling etc), but a skill based field like medicine is something that teaches you a lot about yourself and the wonderful intricacies of human biology and cures.
But if you don't find that interesting, Psychology /behavioral sciences is also quite interesting if one does their graduation in Neuro-sciences, which is also really interesting.
If you're in US, pharmacist are supposed to be quite well earning too, and thats also a day's job, no emergencies.
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Alceste
Vagabond
Thank you all for your advice!
I still have one more year of high-school, so I still have some time, but it's getting close haha. I just love learning about ancient Europe and that sort of thing. I absolutely love it more than anything. I'll probably end up going with that anyway, but it doesn't hurt to consider professions with lots o' cash!
You`re young, so start by studying what you love. Later in life, when your dreams and hopes are shattered and your pregnant wife is moaning about the heating bills, you can always go back to school and study something boring and profitable.
Just a thought: don't stress too much about the decision.
Thinking back to my own life, in my last several years of high school, I was dead set on a career in theatre technical production. By the September after graduation, my situation had changed to the point where engineering suddenly made the most sense.
And now, in my mid-30s, it's starting to look like another career change makes the most sense... this time to aviation.
One of my high school teachers was fond of saying that in the future, people would change their career path six times over their life, on average.
I guess what I'm trying to get at is that whatever you decide, it doesn't have to be permanent. If you try one course of study out and realize that it's not for you, there are opportunities to change. There'll be a cost associated with this (in your time, at the very least), but it IS possible.
Thinking back to my own life, in my last several years of high school, I was dead set on a career in theatre technical production. By the September after graduation, my situation had changed to the point where engineering suddenly made the most sense.
And now, in my mid-30s, it's starting to look like another career change makes the most sense... this time to aviation.
One of my high school teachers was fond of saying that in the future, people would change their career path six times over their life, on average.
I guess what I'm trying to get at is that whatever you decide, it doesn't have to be permanent. If you try one course of study out and realize that it's not for you, there are opportunities to change. There'll be a cost associated with this (in your time, at the very least), but it IS possible.
otokage007
Well-Known Member
If you are that inteligent, you will only need some luck to gain a lot of money being a historian.
However, I would advice you choose a more better-paid career, but something you like (even if you don't like it as much as history).
Finally, I seriously don't encourage you to do something you don't like. Intelligent people often get bored with ease and you may not even finish your career. Think that working on something that doesn't stimulate you at all, can be very hard and stressful, even if it's well paid.
However, I would advice you choose a more better-paid career, but something you like (even if you don't like it as much as history).
Finally, I seriously don't encourage you to do something you don't like. Intelligent people often get bored with ease and you may not even finish your career. Think that working on something that doesn't stimulate you at all, can be very hard and stressful, even if it's well paid.