I hope to go to universty to become a doctor.
I have not decided what i want to specialise in yet.
What do you want to be?
Well, I have a job right now but it's just my high school job.
As for after college, I hope to enter the video game industry or the movie industry. I'll probably also write a book or two, but I don't expect to make too much money from them.
If not that, I'll probably become a cop or security guard, because all those "career tests" give me results in security.
I dont get job test with a career counselor until next year being year 10. With my school 10,11 and 12 are on a differant campus to the rest.
When I went to school, they had this computer program that everyone had to use. You answered loads of questions, and it told you which jobs you'd be suited to.
It said that I should be either a florist or a fishmonger, but I never became either of those things.
Perhaps I should have combined the two, and spent a quiet life making pleasing arrangements of haddock.
I think my job placement exam told me I should be in IT or programming. I'm going to school to be an Electrical Engineer, and it's damn hard. Consider years of intense study in Math if you think about being an Engineer.
I just want a good story to tell while on my deathbed.
I see you're planning ahead, DG. :P
One destiny for me - programmer.
The ultimate dream for me is to work in a Shakespearean company- hopefully the Canadian Stratford company. Secondary dream is to also be a writer.
What will I end up doing? Teaching highschool kids grammar and theatre history. Or being a starving artist, whichever works.
I want to be an Engineer, as JackHammer. Though when I entered University I couldn't decide whether I wanted to be an electrical engineer or an informatics engineer. I chose the second, and as far as I've seen I wasn't mistaken. Electric engineering is nice, too, but informatics is a lot more philosophical. ;)
I had a subject related to electric engineering last semester and it was as far on hardware as I ever wanted to be, so I can't complain. :P
Quote from: Barcik on Wed 04/02/2004 14:12:00
I see you're planning ahead, DG. :P
It may seem a little grim, but what I mean is I just want to accomplish something great or be somewhere special.
I don't have any desire to stay in the same place for too long.
Keep on movin' till the day you die. :)
I plan to goto College and UNi and get computing degrees (one in programming one in hardware to cover meh)
about that program its called KUDOS ^_^/
when I did it in year 9 I got loads of comnputer stuff, in year 11 (on Monday in fact) I did it and got jobs like Picture framer :O
I'm studying for teacher at primary school. Though besides that, my biggest goal, is to be a radical follower of Jesus :) Maybe getting into the ministry of healing, or prophetical teachers, or youth leader.... whatever God wants ::)
I hope to write comics and then die young from starvation after making many comic books, TV series and movies...And I want my coffin to be made of cheese...
Okay, that's my ULTIMATE dream. More realistically I'd like to work in character animation/ design and do comics on the side...
And die young... :P
I'd like to have a carreer in music. If that doesn't work, a carreer in writing. If that doesn't work, a carreer in teaching.
Or I could just get a real job :-X
AlecW - I think you should be an English teacher "If you dont got no job ..." ;D
I always wanted to be a Disney animator when I was a kid ... then in '91 I saw a little movie called Terminator 2 which made me start thinking, "animating on a computer?" then in '93 I saw Jurassic Park and it changed my life! I was going to work in special effects in Hollywood.
But I ended up moving to Florida (away from my girlfriend) to sell Macintosh computers through a company that was giving a kick-back to a disloyal Apple employee who was stealing the computers we were selling to the S. American market when they were only supposed to be going to the Easter European market in a scam that reached all the way to Brian Denehhey's son and the great Nephew of Oscar Shindler in Germany. Subsequently I got accepted at the Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale but threw that away to move back to Michigan to be with my girlfriend who I have since broken up with and spent almost 8 years living in Michigan again developing a career in web development/graphic design and database programming.
Now I own my own company and do well.
Ahhh ... well at least I don't 'dont got no job' right?
** takes deep breath **
Do you guys like fiddy cent?
I seem to be studying to reach some sort of traditional profession, however I want to be either a writer or an artist or perhaps a musician. Something creative, and something to tell my grandkids about.
well.... I should have decided long ago... but I am still not sure. I want to be in games designing, but then I also want to open up a chain of resteraunts. Then there is the fact that I wanted to be a writer since I was a small kid. Also, like DGM, I want to accomplish something that would make me reknowned long after death. Maybe I could combine all those into 1 job somehow...
the great chain of Babloyi resteraunts now offer gaming..... first 100 to win get a free meal...
Well at this current time... I AM unemployed. I'm trying to take all free time I can to finish up high school (even though I should have finished about 3 years ago... MOVING ON!...) In high school I had wanted to go to the Joe Satriani guitar school, but then I also hurt my hand, and now my guitar abilities aren't so great anymore (how ironic). >:(
I figger I'll be done with H.S. in about a year, and when I've finished that, I'm going to go to a technical college for a five year degree in computer programming. I think while I'm at it, I'll take some photoshop classes or some CAD/3D design classes.
That's the whole reason I sought out AGS in the first place, I love games and I've always wanted to make my own. I had seen something on TV for some colleges that actually specialize in video game design, I've been reading up on those.
Aside from all that, I had heard somewhere that there will be about a 200% increase in the demand for programmers in the next decade or so. So, that's another good reason to become a programmer. ;)
I plan on double-majoring at college in music and political science. I'd like to have some sort of job in the state department, or in forgien relations. Dream Job? UN Diplomat, Ambassador, or, of course, President of the United States.
Hey, it could happen!
if public service doesnt pan out, I could be a professor in either music (jazz studies, steel drum island music, or percussion preformance) or policital science
Good for Sully ;D
and 200%??? !?!?! w00t
okay Hotshot, that retort about being a picture framer sucks about as much as your attitude. there is alot of factors that go into the feild, such as design, you do know what that is, right? there is also perspective and dimension and just a little old thing called imagination, YOU do know what that is, right? so please, before you go off and piss off some "Al Capone", watch what and who your knocking, might BE yourself in the mirror when ya wake up! I will say my sorries now and take my lumps for picking on junior..... oh well........me thinks and it spills out from x2x/
You mean his ":O" comment? Yeah, that was uncalled for.
It's a real worry to me, because I just don't know exactly what I want to do. I had a panic a few months ago because I've found myself studying English Literature (always my favourite subject at school) at university at 18, and wondering, what am I going to do after this? Should I even be doing this, maybe 3 years would be better spent doing something else? I kind of automatically moved onto university, without much thought, because I didn't know where else to go.
I've sort of decided I want to to tell a story, or help tell a story, in some way, which is a pretty vague ambition. I drew a lot of comic books when I was young, and I enjoy writing too, but where that logically leads me I don't know, because I watch loads of films and want to help make those too. I'm interested in getting into animation in some way too. Basically I want to be creative in some way and not just a jobsworth. To put it another way, I want to enjoy what I do loads.
Ultimately English will either help with that or present decent fallback options, so I suppose I'm sort of doing the right thing. I really feel like I want and need to decide exactly where to go soon though.
I want to be an archeologist!!!
Okay, no, there are a couple things. I was going to be an animator, I swear to god. And then I realized that, well, programming is good too. And in the future, people will need programmers. But then I didn't want to give up my dream of animation. So I came to a conclusion.
I know where I want to end up. I want to end up in San Francisco, working for Double Fine or LucasArts or That Other Place. What I do or how I get there doesn't matter so much. And it's not like I don't have a whole bunch of time before I get there.
So I'm doing the animation course, AND the programming course.
It's a total of six years. So what? And in the end, I'll be well grounded for a career in computer game design, and as well as that I'll be useful as the rare but useful visual effects programmer, so getting into my choice of career should be even easier.
Irish third level education is actually really excellent and widely available for all, so I figure, take advantage of it!!
And maybe I can take night classes in Archeology while doing my computer science degree.
I want to be a gamedeveloper, an artist, or... *bwap* novelist :D
I want to be... a lumberjack!
Leaping from tree to tree, as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia.
The Giant Redwood. The Larch. The Fir! The mighty Scots Pine!
The lofty flowering Cherry! The plucky little Apsen! The limping Roo tree of Nigeria.
The towering Wattle of Aldershot! The Maidenhead Weeping Water Plant!
The naughty Leicestershire Flashing Oak! The flatulent Elm of West Ruislip!
The Quercus Maximus Bamber Gascoigni! The Epigillus! The Barter Hughius Greenus!
With my best buddy by my side, we'd sing! Sing! Sing!
What? Oh, like none of you thought of this the instant you saw this topic. Suck my balls.
I want to play guitar till I die or have a serious, paralyzing stroke.
And if that doesn't work, I will whore my self until I have enough money to buy some shit to break.
Gonzo -> Don't worry about it. I doubt most people know what they want to do when they're 18. Hell, I still don't know, and I'm 25 and have somewhat of a career going. Go figure.
I know what i'm gonna do, i'm going to university to study media, then i'm gonna make films. real good ones.
I already write storys for fun so i can provide my own storylines.
But recently i have a new interest in games, i'd like to do that but i don't think i'm good enough so just a hobby!
I don't think I mentioned it, but don't rely on job placement tests to tell you what to do. Pick something you enjoy that is feasible for income later on when you're out of college. I picked EE because I like computers and electronics, and it's a job that pays much $$$ when you're employed. Computer programming is an uncertain field these days, I think. I'll learn to do that anyways, so maybe if the EE doesn't work out I could do that.
I think my job placement test also told me being a carpenter was a possibility for me.. and I've never worked with wood. (SHUTUP)
Well, I used to hope being in front of this screen forever but this question makes me think. Anyway, this is the trird year I spend studiing computer sciences and I'm afraid I am now in the other side, the side behind the screen, FOREVER.
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This is my first contribution to this comunity and I would like to say that it seems to be a very confortable place. Good work!
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a supermarket free sample stall-keeper. Now that I am one, I just want to be a kid again.
CJ makes mockery of this thread. Being almighty tho he gets away with it - and eats onion ring!
I'd like to be a film-maker. Or a game developer. Or a musician.
WHO KNOWS.
:)
When i was a little kid i always dreamed of being a construction worker. But after finding out that i would have to work way off the ground, i realized this would never work (i have a fear of heights)
I worked at a local Warehouse Club store (BJ's) for over 10 years and then quit.
I have been employed for the last 4 years as an Engraver at a local Trophy and Awards shop which pays really good.
So, things are pretty good.
Shawn