Career and College Major

[TitanClone]

2015 grad in Software Engineering, am now a Software Engineering Manager

 

[NWICY]

Well, if you’re unattractive you are probably unattached also.

But not necessarily at closing time.

 

[Pat]

Im not entirely sure what I’d like to do. I love being around people, don’t mind being on the road or traveling for long periods of time, and catch on quickly. The corporate training opportunities don’t sound half bad and I could definitely do something in sales but I wouldn’t even know where to start in a job search.

Head-hunters can be very helpful. If you don’t have an updated LinkedIn page, you should. Indeed has a lot of garbage, but if you want to dream and go down rabbit-holes, it can be a good jumping off point.

Have you done sales before? It can be lucrative, but also brutal. The stereotypes exist for a reason. I… I miss traveling. If you’re young/lack responsibilities, now is definitely the time to try.

FWIW, I industry-hopped every few years for about a decade after I graduated, and I only found what I’m doing now via dumb luck. As my dad was saying well into his 60’s, “I’m just trying to figure out what I want to do when I grow up.”

 

[Michaelgraham]

The main thing is to be sure that it makes sense for you to study in what you want to work. I can be a real example for you of a person who dreamed of studying design and entered the university but somehow managed to graduate from it due to a large amount of mathematics. And if it wasn't for https://plainmath.net/secondary/calculus-and-analysis/precalculus/composite-functions, I'm not sure I would have done it at all. I did not understand why I needed this subject when I wanted to pay more attention to drawing. Instead, I was looking for free solutions to composite functions and solving difficult problems. As a result, I burned out and decided that the design is not mine. Now I work as a manager, but

 

[DurangoCy]

I majored in about 5 different things in college until I finally settled on one, but that took 8-plus years. When I first started in 1971, we were on the quarter system. I decided I wanted to teach elementary school, then I switched to history, then I switched to liberal arts, then I dropped out after switching majors every quarter for three quarters. After working for a few years, I went back in 1979 and was going to be Darren Stevens, working as an advertising executive, so journalism with an advertising emphasis was my major. Then I wanted to switch to creative writing after taking a writer's workshop course and thought about transferring to the pit of eternal damnation (Iowa). It was either that or Northwestern, but Northwestern was damned expensive. But then I came to my senses and switched for the final time to print journalism.