after high school

[Lucy]

jgduffin said:

I always wanted to be an astronaut though, and i still plan to go into space one day (if i can afford it)

How much did it cost that guy to go into space, do you know? The one who went in a private rocket last year; up and straight back down again. Seems "space travel" (technically it was!) is slowly becoming more affordable!

Oo Flit - my friend is studying geology. I've never figured out how he doesn't find it boring, but he doesn't!

I've never ever known what I've wanted to do. Not even when I was a little kid; I didn't want to be a ballerina or a nurse or a mummy or anything! When I left college I still didn't hav a clue, so I put off going to uni and got a job. A rather vague non-committal job too, in admin. Then I got really bored with it as there became less and less to do in the job role. I then ended up training as an accountant - it was a really fast move. It was literally one of the first jobs I looked at, went for the interview and was offered the job almost straight away. I wasn't totally sure about it, but everyone kept telling me that I could make a good career out of being an accountant, and it was a challenge for me compared to the monotony of my previous job. I knew from day on that it wasn't right for me. It also made me realise how much I love books and so I applied to uni to do Publishing. Now that I'm here I'm finding the adjustment a bit hard but am enjoying the course. The only thing now is that in almost every seminar the lecturers manage to mention what a tough business it is to get into and how probably only one or two of us will actually get a job in that sector. Eeps SO I don't really think that's what I'll end up doing!!

I think that when you ask most people what their ambitions are they never correlate at all to what they do now. Most people seem to make their way through their careers in a very strange way - not random exactly, but certainly unpredicted and unexpected.

[grunty]

ok, as a little kid, who didn't want to be an astronaut/fireman?

dane cook is awesome

as a little kid i wanted to be a fireman. i really didn't, i just wanted to spray you with a hose. i wanted to be like a spray-man.

[scruffy]

my idea of doing soemthing crazy on my birthday is driving out to michael harvey's place to check it out because his dad is so rich and famous

Okay, now it's my turn to smile!!!

I had a funny turn there for a minute - in a past life I dated a guy named Michael Harvey (no relation), and I when I read that I thought "how the heck did she know that I used to date Michael Harvey???" Then I realised what you meant....

Flit - I know a few Geologists - they are all really weird. Weird in a nice way, not a freaky pyschopath way, but definately a little odd. I think it takes a special kind of person to spend their life interviewing rocks...

The thing is, there are so many really interesting jobs out there. Some days I think I'd like to owna store, or be a chef or maybe an actor. or, I could become a journalist. Or manage a band. Or maybe be IN a band. maybe I could become a professional trombone player.

Sometimes it seems that everyone has an interesting job but me... (course, I don't really have a job right now...)

[Min]

Gah!! lol, why does everyone think geology is boring? I did a load of geol subjects when I was at uni and they were the ones I enjoyed the most - why? Because it's not just about that boring old rock sitting over there - it's about volcanos, earthquakes, tsunamis, asteroid collisions, dinosaurs, ancient plants, about the building blocks of the world.

*gets beaten with the *weird* stick*

Sure, I couldn't do it as a career, but it was interesting. And, it was fun. I think it depends on the lecturer you get. We had this young lecturer and she absolutely loved geology. When you love a subject, you can express it so much better.
A lot of the other geol-type lecturers (the one I had for mineralogy sticks out) were only at uni to publish their own papers, and didn't care about teaching us anything.
*That's* when it got boring.

(The real thing that put my nose out of joint was when they fired Jo, the lecturer who loved teaching us about geol, because she wasn't publishing enough papers. Honestly, we're paying for a degree, shouldn't how well her students are doing MATTER? Grrrrr...)

[catwhisperer]

I really really REALLY wanna be an author when I'm finally out of high school but I'm also considering Diversional Therapy. Anyone know what that is???

[Swallow]

Min, i wasn't saying the subject was boring or the people who do it are (people who work for the Bureau of Statistics... now there's a boring job now i've just offended people who want to be/are statisticians.... awwww... just can't win today) anyway, it was just not my cup of tea. It probably didn't help that my father is a hobby geologist and i have spent many an hour listening to him ramble on about one rock formation or another. By the time i got to studying it, it was same old same old and i just glazed over.
Science isn't really for me anyway. I love picking up random bits of completely useless information and sprouting them off at inappropriate times, but i think i'm more in the arts area, at least when i'm creating, be it writing or painting or sculpting, that's where i'm happiest. So i think that's where i'll stay, even though there's bugger all money in it

[Min]

LOL, I wasn't offended, I was just amused

There were a few friends of mine who did continue on with Geology, and despite the money they make now, they have virtually no lives (one of them was bugging myself and another ex-geol friend to go to Rockhampton to go gastropod hunting or something . "Gee Matt, does the fun ever stop!?").

[grunty]

whats a gastropod? im a freshman in high school

[Min]

In a word, shells.
Google "gastropod" if you're interested. You'll find a whole heap of hits for it.