You don't necessarily need to know what you want in life to know what you want to be. Maybe a leap year is good for you. I'm not sure if "leap year" is the right phrase for it, but it means taking a break for a year before college to really find what's right for you. That could be through internships, travel, etc. Of course, you have to make something out of that year instead of just procrastinating.

i wanna be a lawyer.

^ Lawyer school = Scary.

I think one of the best is Harvard. [Well at least that's what I heard]

I actually want to become a lawyer also. :) Arguing/Debating = Fun fun fun.

It's a gap year.

Leap year is an extra day added in February every 4 years to correspond with the earth's motion around the sun in the u.s. calendar

Oh Loooord! I knew there was another word. I knew what a leap year was (my brother was born on February 29th, the lucky kid), but it was the only thing that made sense to me at the time. Thanks for correcting me.

Anyone know a good place to get an education in business?

Just wondering. I took a career assessment thing at school, and a lot of the recommended jobs involved business schooling.

There's a business and finance high school near my area. But I'm not sure you'd want to move all the way from there to attend.

NYU has a really good business program. Same with CMU and Georgetown.
You could check out this site for more business schools.

I'll post that up for reference.

Wish me luck guys, I'm going in for 2 modeling meet ups with the casting director. Hopefully I can get a job.

Good luck!

Buena suerte!

I'm not sure how it went, I wasn't there for too long, but I'd have to check my email on Monday.

What's your modelling meet up for? Runway or commercial print?

I've decided to declare my major. I'm going to be a music major, and hopefully end up working in the music industry.

^ It was for commericial print.

Music? That's awesome, what do you play?

I play the piano and the clarinet. But I'm not looking into performing.

Ahh, then what are you interested in?

Music education, possibly? Being a music major would be so much fun, and it's less stressful - you work at your own pace, rather. Except, that's kinda the thing with me. Music is really all skill-based rather than memorization. I'm afraid I just won't have the skills. Perhaps a minor wouldn't hurt...

No, not education. Unfortunately, I can't stand teaching. I'm looking into production, music administration, which is a growing field in need of more people who understand both music and business, and other fields like this in the music industry. I know for certain that I'll keep composing though.

I'm kind of stuck between going into modern, popular music, or sticking to classical music.

I always wanted to be a vet. What should I major in?

Veterinarians

Okay, you need to finish an undergrad program to get in, and a couple require a bachelor's degree. After finishing the Undergard or Bachelor's program, then it takes another four years to earn a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at a univeristy accredited by AVMA. Hard work and quite a few years of high-level education, but there's a very high job outlook and very good salary.

I guess now, I just need to work on overcoming blood.

I think I want to be a desktop publisher. Not sure. But they basically design and lay-out brochures, business cards, and stuff like that. They don't make much, but I think I would LOVE it. Hopefully I could do it. :\ I have much much much to learn.

But almost everything involving Digital Media/Communications Technologies sounds interesting and awesome!


Like this, it sounds so cool!

And I still think Nikkie's major does too

You guys should tell me what awesome courses are involved and if you like it :)



I'm supposed to career shadow someone on March 27. Whether my extremely small school/town actually found a desktop publisher or something related in the area, who knows. But i sure do hope so. I'm excited!

^ Career shadowing? I want to be able to do that SOOO bad. Tell me how it goes. I've never really heard of a desktop publisher, but it somehow reminds me of a graphic designer.

web design and programming


not that it matters theres about 395782309 ppl who want to do it

Why not? Just out of curiosity.

i was thinking about becoming a doctor until i heard about how hard it is for international students to get into pre-med in the states (yet alone how hard it is for anybody to get in) :( eh... i really want to, though.

what kind of classes should i plan on taking in high school / what should my average gpa be if i want to become something like a clinical psychologist?

Woah, its only been a few months... and I've already changed my mind. Completely.

Revised plan:
- Nursing (at least a bachelors degree). Possibly a oncology nurse?
- Engineering
- Buisness (more realistic - but seems boring?)

Eeek I need help/ideas/suggestions.

It depends what you wanna do. What would you feel more happier doing? Helping doctors save and help lives, helping the community or have an boring job with good pay?

Yeah, I've thought about going into business as well. Maybe even law.

Photography is just so insecure as a career.

^ As is acting. There's never a guarantee.

Yeah, it is. That's originally what I wanted to do, until I realized how rough the pay can be. It seems almost impossible to make a decent living off it.

Well, something like buisness would definately be the easiest option for me, especially getting through school. I've always been good at math and with computers. But, I know I could never handle sitting behind a desk all day at work. I'd go insane. I think I'd have to have a job that's unpredictable; you know, something that wouldnt be boring.

So that's why I've been considering nursing. It pays REALLY well...and, I think I'm the caring, motherly type by nature. AND, I'd be helping people. That's the best part. I'd love to specialize in something. Maybe Oncology? Seeing people with cancer hits me harder than anything else. I hate to see people suffer, but I would love to be able to brighten up someones day, and help them. I just can't imagine how I'd feel / react when a patient I knew passed away. So because of that, I dont think I could handle oncology, or any other type of nursing.

I'm going into the Air Force and I'm going to be trained in the field of Electronics Avionics. Shweet.

Then eventually I want to become a pilot. So, that's my career choice.

^ Wow, that definately sounds cool.

Pilot, as in commercial airline pilot? Or in the Air Force?

How long till you go in?

I wanted to do that, too. And honestly, if my vision wasn't so poor, there's no doubt I'd be in the Air Force right now. But my lousy vision precludes me from ever obtaining military flight certification.

My friend's brother works in the air force. It's pretty cool. Eh, my father works as a taxi driver, he wants me to take over as well--but I have poor vision just like you Michael.

Aw :( I have poor vision too. haha.


I'm in the process of declaring my major but it'll be incredibly tough to crack into the music industry and classical composing.

carologist<--(bout to go to college for it) or physical therapist <--(im already licensed for this)

Is a carologist a person who studies cars?

^

Dang... I really hope she meant Cardiologist...

I actually hope not, since I prefer cardiologists who can spell "cardiologist"...

Wouldn't she have to be in med school to be a cardiologist?

You're all assuming the poster is a "she", probably because the poster exhibited poor spelling.

and probably because there are more females on cB than there are males.

hi michael. :D

Whoa, totally didn't know you changed your name!

Hi.

I feel like there's no particular reason that I want to go to college. If I were to go, it would be simply because all my friends were doing it and my parents wanted me to. The last thing I want to do is waste my money on that.

But I thought you would need certain certificates from college to be qualified for certain jobs.

It was kind of disappointing, i learned nothing. I went to my local extremely small town newspaper and the guy kind of didn't really know what to do with us. He didn't have anything planned. Once he even said "hmm, what to doo" and he had us sit in a room while he checked his email. :\
I wanted to see all the printing technologies and stuff but they do that in another town, he told me.


And desktop publishing is pretty similar to graphic design

"Certain" being the key word here. There are countless successful people who didn't go to college. Instead, they used their talents/skills and made something out of it by working hard and staying determined. That doesn't always equate to going to college.

I wanna go into graphic design but I also want to like be the people who do the codes for a website but I don't really know like what college has that // the name of the profession. Anyone know? And anyone know what is the best web // graphic deisgn colleges in Cali?