I've a Master's degree and it's in something substantial, NOT an MBA.
16.0%
I've got a PhD.
8.0%
I've got a PhD, and done post graduate work...
4.0%
I've got a PhD, done post graduate work, and am a professor at a university, and never will leave school... (I don't believe in living in the real world...)
If you don't get a degree, then you're a high school grad, and proud of it! ;) (okay, I admit it, I didn't have a clue how many options to put on the survey...)
--Ray
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I'm not slow; I'm special. (Don't take it personally, everyone finds me offensive. Yet somehow I manage to live with myself.)
What about got the four year degree and then tooled around taking a few extra classes and such because I didn't know what the heck I wanted to do with my life.
Ray's just tryin' to press me buttons... that's alright, I can always do a case study on how to kick his butt in the most efficient way and make it profitable in the process.
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
HISTORY of course... (BTW, I love that history game... I am thinking we need it in a few other places too... cause I love reading the small factoids and looking for the small factoids...)
My DREAM job??? I would love to be a professional genealogist. My problem is I could never bring myself to charge people... This work is simply too important, so I do a lot of "helping". It's so rewarding when you help someone make a link! If I was independently wealthy, or even is I didn't have to depend on insurance, that is the fun task I would do with ALL the time I now work. Oh and whatever the work is that would be comparable to that in heaven is the job I want for eternity...
I would go back and do a combination of english / world literature / theatre / film (and maybe some genealogy as I did have a genealogy class at the Y and it was pretty fun). And my dream job would be that I would never have to worry a day in my life about having to worry about money or hold down a job to earn said money. Not that I would be lazy, just that I would not have to be a slave to being employed. Does that make sense?
I could be kind of like Paris Hilton or others who are independently wealthy... except I'd be a guy, moral and law abiding, not stuck up, not flaunting my wealth or position, and work because I want to and doing what I would like to do rather than work because I have to and do whatever is most readily available...
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
If you could go back to school, all expenses paid, and could study anything that struck your fancy... what would you choose?
Let's just presuppose you'd be garanteed a dream job after you graduated with honors...
What would you study?
--Ray
Oh, I hope this doesn't come across the wrong way.
I am back in school, all expenses (well, at least tuition) paid by the military. And I'm earning a master's degree in exactly what I want--elementary education. After that, I'll be in a Ph.D. program, tuition paid, studying exactly what I want--child development.
And I have my dream job--teaching elementary school.
It took me twenty years and a different first career to get to this point, but I've arrived.
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The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life. - Julie Beck
If you could go back to school, all expenses paid, and could study anything that struck your fancy... what would you choose?
Let's just presuppose you'd be garanteed a dream job after you graduated with honors...
What would you study?
--Ray
Geology. I'm kind of a rock hound. Almost switched majors after I took geology in college. College was a great experience. The only down side was being in a perpetual state of poverty. Prepaired me for having kids though!!!
Jason... Kids are the REAL wealth anyway... That's why we (informally) adopt so many... We like being wealthy in a spiritual sense... Lots'a kids can do that for ya'!
<Looks in mirror> No, I don't look like PollyAnna...hmmm...
If I could take what I want with all expenses paid I would do what PollyAnna said she would do. I've always loved history and would love to be a professional genealogist. My favorite job to date was working at the Family History Lab at BYU-Idaho (what was the Upper Snake River Valley Family History Center at Ricks when I was there). I got to help students and others do their genealogy. Yes, I got paid to do it but it was for a good cause. One of my fantasies is to become independently wealthy and be able to work on my own genealogy full-time and others on the side. I would like to write a book on my family history.
Wow, lots of genealogy nuts on here. Count me in for the History Crowd. Though what I'd want to do instead of research is to educate the public. It's the teacher in me. Though I enjoy crawling through archives trying to decipher old handwriting too....
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I'm not voting for Ron Paul because it's not expressly prescribed in the Constitution.
Well, I have a BS and a JD, did not see a professional degree option in the poll. I always found it humorous in the academic world that a JD, DDS, and MD ranked below a master's degree. I knew a guy that had been a police officer, got his JD but could not get a job teaching criminal justice courses because he did not have a masters, but some punk with no LEO background and a masters in sociology did. What a waste.
Dream job, I always wanted to be a rich bum.
If not that, have my own gun store (and rich so I did not have to worry about money) or rich and have my own archeological foundation studying specific cultures/crypto-archeology and diffusionism.
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Lo, there I see my mother, my sisters, my brothers Lo, there I see the line of my people back to the beginning Lo, they call to me, they bid me take my place among them In the halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live...forever
If I could go back, I think I'd want to study journalism or print magazine/web design. I do like health studies and would want a degree w/kinesiology or possibly nursing.
Also, I sometimes wish I would have continued w/my initial major w/special education. Psychology is a rough major w/which to find a decent job, you really have to go thru the PhD level to do anything.
I do have a bachelor's in psychology. My minor was in sociology. I have a master's in occupational therapy and am generally happy w/this, although I do currently need to increase my experience and knowledge (ie via continuing education,etc). Howver I am presently too drained emotionally to do the things I need to do.
Right now I am reviewing my educational/degree choices from many years ago... and trying to decide if I should go back to school and update, or change fields... I am going to investigate if there is any retraining and/or displaced worker grants available to me for that at the very least. I see where I could take the classes I need online and update through the Y or the other college, where I went my first 2 years.
I think Roper's route of a first career before going into education is great. When I retired from my engineering career at 63 I started substitute teaching, and found my past professional and other related experiences enabled me to add considerably to many of the lessons I had to present. I think Roper will be able to contribute much more to his students than teachers with strictly an academic background.
A funny thing though, as I experienced the various subjects, especially in high school, I was surprised to note that if I were to go into full time teaching, my preferred subjects would be history, German and/or French, or special ed, and not the math, physics, chemistry and all that which I used as an engineer.
At almost 50 I am thinking VERY seriously of returning to college and changing fields completely, not because I think I will teach or whatever, but just because I want to learn... History has always interested me... But it does seem about as far from # crunching as you can get too... I am not sure I could handle subbing, but it's a possibility...
lundbaek wrote:A funny thing though, as I experienced the various subjects, especially in high school, I was surprised to note that if I were to go into full time teaching, my preferred subjects would be history, German and/or French, or special ed, and not the math, physics, chemistry and all that which I used as an engineer.
That's interesting, Lundbaek. Most of my buddies in the military expected me to teach political science or become a principal. Not interested. I'll be moving to Kindergarten in the fall--pretty far removed from what my military experience "prepared" me for.
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The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life. - Julie Beck
Every day of my geometry class in high school was a mixture of happiness and sadness. Happy to learn a new principle. Sad that I would never have the joy of discovering that new principle for the first time ever again.
I put some thought into becoming a high school math teacher, until one day I suddenly remembered the attitudes of most students toward math. That ended that ambition in a hurry.
rayb wrote:If you could go back to school, all expenses paid, and could study anything that struck your fancy... what would you choose?
Let's just presuppose you'd be garanteed a dream job after you graduated with honors...
What would you study?
--Ray
My oldest son was just telling me about a career that I think I would really love, and would probably do it if I had the chance:
Flavorist.
A flavorist is food chemist that specializes in the science and art of flavor. A graduate degree in food chemistry is required, along with an apprentice program much like a chef goes through. Imagine--all the really cool stuff from chemistry combined with culinary artistry. And you get to eat your experiments.
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