Future/current careers

[4g63t]

Graduated from college with my AA for auto mechanics. Even got a few ase certification's also. I laughed at what dealerships and shops wanted to pay me so i decided that was not for me.
Now I work in renewable energy as a technician and I enjoy it. It's crazy where life takes you!
In my experience most people make more from having experience and not college.

 

[Archer Fabrications]

I was an apple certified mac tech at a local business and it paid well, but i decided to go into welding. I. School right now last semester,
Specializing in tig.

 

[triston2469]

So just out of simple curiousity, what is everyone's future or current career?

I'm taking up biology currently, and planning on transferring into a PA program in a few years.

I'm and Electronics Tech for an oil field company called Schlumberger. Before this I was in the Army for 7 1/2 years. I honestly love my job and wouldn't trade it for the world. Only down side is that it doesn't give me much time to work on my car or upgrade.

 

[i3oi3c78]

I want to retire, thats my goal....

 

[DropSomeMoney]

Almost done with 8 years in the Air Force ANG as security. My plan was to become a police officer but after a night of partying with a friend that just got back from an overseas deployment I got a DUI and that ruined my future. Now I work in the local area in manufacturing shops. But I plan on attending UTI of Chicago late this summer to to get back on track. I could never choose exactly what I want to do in life because of the fact that I'm interested in everything! Eventually I am going to own a machine shop, bar and grill, and a mechanic shop.

 

[sp00linbyu]

I have a degree in business management and am currently the sales manager of Xtreme of Cambridge which is a UTV, ATV, motorcycle shop. I've been in sales for over 10 years and I love where I am now. Not many people can say that the love what they do but I honestly can say I do.

 

[TallestHERETIC]

Graduated college with honors in '09 with an Associate Degree in Film Studies. Always loved movies and still do. Easy as pie, too! I don't understand people who say college is hard at all.

Currently working as a commercial manager at a parts store. The job is easy. The pay is ok if your single with no kids, but crappy if anything else. I work with some pretty awesome people so the time flys by. The employee discount is A-ok, too. It's not for everybody, though.

Been thinking about going back to school to get a degree in game development/design after i complete a childhood dream which is get a 3g RX7. I have been playing video games since i was around 4, so why not do it for a living?

 

[n0de]

Graduated college with honors in '09 with an Associate Degree in Film Studies. Always loved movies and still do. Easy as pie, too! I don't understand people who say college is hard at all.

Currently working as a commercial manager at a parts store. The job is easy. The pay is ok if your single with no kids, but crappy if anything else. I work with some pretty awesome people so the time flys by. The employee discount is A-ok, too. It's not for everybody, though.

Been thinking about going back to school to get a degree in game development/design after i complete a childhood dream which is get a 3g RX7. I have been playing video games since i was around 4, so why not do it for a living?

Because:
Playing Games != Programming Games.

Not even close. But if you love challenges, complex design, then you'll be fine.

 

[KuckFatrina]

Graduated college with honors in '09 with an Associate Degree in Film Studies. Always loved movies and still do. Easy as pie, too! I don't understand people who say college is hard at all.

Maybe because you chose a worthless degree.

 

[Trav83]

Truck driver (18 wheeler) for a paper and food company, decent pay and it's the type of job where you don't have a boss breathing down your back, which is nice. Although I do have to say, between my eclipse and the semi truck I do get sick of shifting gears sometimes

 

[ForsakenLash]

currently working Airport Security (not TSA) while finishing my degree in business... when I finish that I plan on going through the Police Academy

 

[Tim_I]

currently a carpenter been in the construction field since i was old enough to work. I'm also going to school full time to get a Associates in applied Science In Welding and Fabrication. last term of my first year....

 

[NosLaser]

Maybe because you chose a worthless degree.

No shit. College is a breeze when the hardest class you take is a humanities course on the romantic era to the present.

I'd love to hear his tune after taking fluid dynamics, or linear algebra.

 

[KuckFatrina]

I'd love to hear his tune after taking fluid dynamics, or linear algebra.

He would probably drop out.

I'm a 5th year senior majoring in Industrial Technology with a focus in Automated Systems. Looking to get a job with Chevron working offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.

 

[clipto]

I work for Microsoft and dropped out school freshman year and played on computers and applied for a job and got hired. Been working for the crappy company for to long. Who need education when work is just like high school, except for the rest of your life. It's like high school is preparing you for the same shit when you graduate . Sad part is I make more then my mom and dad, this economy is fail all you have to do is work the system they don't really care. I hate america wish I was in canada.

 

[Archer Fabrications]

Canada isnt really any better, huge tax rates here. But I'm buying a house soon

 

[n0de]

I work for Microsoft and dropped out school freshman year and played on computers and applied for a job and got hired. Been working for the crappy company for to long. Who need education when work is just like high school, except for the rest of your life. It's like high school is preparing you for the same shit when you graduate . Sad part is I make more then my mom and dad, this economy is fail all you have to do is work the system they don't really care. I hate america wish I was in canada.

Well I wouldn't say "who needs college" because there is definitely a benefit if you plan to go into certain fields. I'm sorry but I'd never hire a doctor, attorney, or engineer that has not obtained a degree in their field of work. Computers are a completely different story when it comes to where your education comes from and how you prove your knowledge.

Also, I believe High School is very important as it helps you develop the general necessary skills that you'll need as an adult. Employers in our field have loosened up by not requiring a college degree in computer science (or some related area), I don't think they'll be dropping requirement for a G.E.D. or High School Diploma anytime soon. If you have a job at Microsoft but want to go somewhere else, good luck with that, the only exception would be a star child prodigy/legend.

 

[g4ebguy90]

Automotive Engineer, best move I made was going from 2-4 year degree. Cause my first semester I got a job with Bosch making twice what I did as a auto tech.

Still got to do gen eds.

I hear people talking about talent vs degree, while this maybe true in some cases,
You will not get hired at a place like Bosch without a 4-year because people will simply not want to work with you or take you serious. It's like a level thing. 4-year degree people will not want to work with someone that has a G.E.D and gets paid the same. Wont happen.

Like GM is the same way, need 4-year and B average or they wont even open the door for corporate jobs.

 

[KBasham03]

Automotive Engineer, best move I made was going from 2-4 year degree. Cause my first semester I got a job with Bosch making twice what I did as a auto tech.

Still got to do gen eds.

I hear people talking about talent vs degree, while this maybe true in some cases,
You will not get hired at a place like Bosch without a 4-year because people will simply not want to work with you or take you serious. It's like a level thing. 4-year degree people will not want to work with someone that has a G.E.D and gets paid the same. Wont happen.

Like GM is the same way, need 4-year and B average or they wont even open the door for corporate jobs.

I don't agree with this. I work for the state that I live, as a pipeline safety analyst. I do not have a degree, but I previously was a mechanic for the gas company. My responsibilities include auditing all gas pipeline operations, performed by either the gas companies or contractors. Everyone that I work with has a 4 year degree in engineering, but have no experience in the field, we all make the same money, and my coworkers appreciate and turn to me and my field experience because the majority of the time they have no clue about the work being performed.

 

[g4ebguy90]

I don't agree with this. I work for the state that I live, as a pipeline safety analyst. I do not have a degree, but I previously was a mechanic for the gas company. My responsibilities include auditing all gas pipeline operations, performed by either the gas companies or contractors. Everyone that I work with has a 4 year degree in engineering, but have no experience in the field, we all make the same money, and my coworkers appreciate and turn to me and my field experience because the majority of the time they have no clue about the work being performed.

Like I stated, in some cases everything will be fine. But from the company reps I have spoke with, this usually isn't the case.

 

[TallestHERETIC]

Because:
Playing Games != Programming Games.

Not even close. But if you love challenges, complex design, then you'll be fine.

Building and programming computers is an easy task for me, at least. Already built 4 so far, including the one im using right now. Did my first one was i was 11. Game development/design should be a breeze.

 

[n0de]

Building and programming computers is an easy task for me, at least. Already built 4 so far, including the one im using right now. Did my first one was i was 11. Game development/design should be a breeze.

Programming != Building computers either.

There is a very big difference between putting together a computer comprised of parts you bought. Building a computer is almost the equivalent of fitting a square block into a square hole.

I wrote my first buffer overflow exploit in C when i was 12, I can tell you that building a computer is nowhere close to learning a programming language, and designing applications using best practices.

Just because you can assemble a machine does not mean that programing applications on that machine will be intuitive to you. For you to claim that its a breeze makes me cringe a little. "Hello world" or other close beginner applications don't make you a developer. Unless you are already familiar with another language then it will take you a while to learn.

One option is that you could become a script kiddie with relative ease. Searching for chunks of already written code and changing around a few small things to fit your applications needs. People like that never usually last long, you surely wouldn't survive employment for more than a month, they'd eventually find out that you don't really know anything.

 

[PrimerPLus]

Currently work at Walmart. Going to school for computer scince. However I am thinking of switching to automotive mechanic. I have my Associates of arts and associates of science. I was really excited about becoming a computer programmer but these teachers just make it not fun. I enjoy twisting wrenches and I have done so ever since I can remember. I would like to own my own shop, and maybe a bar and grill restaurant. I enjoy outdoors (im In alaska duh) so maybe some kind of a fishing camping retreat. I still enjoy computers so maybe ill do some apps in java and sell on market place who knows.

 

[n0de]

Currently work at Walmart. Going to school for computer scince. However I am thinking of switching to automotive mechanic. I have my Associates of arts and associates of science. I was really excited about becoming a computer programmer but these teachers just make it not fun. I enjoy twisting wrenches and I have done so ever since I can remember. I would like to own my own shop, and maybe a bar and grill restaurant. I enjoy outdoors (im In alaska duh) so maybe some kind of a fishing camping retreat. I still enjoy computers so maybe ill do some apps in java and sell on market place who knows.

First, you don't need college to become a programmer. If you really wanted to be a developer you could learn enough on your own, develop your own applications, then use that as a portfolio when applying for jobs. I now have two friends that have a bachelors in CIS and still cannot land a job, frankly they suck at programming because the coursework is old, tired, outdated shit that doesn't really teach you anything. All of their instructors only cared that an application you wrote for homework works, they don't grade it on structure or safe practices.

Put it this way, if all of your classmates had to design a bridge, all of their bridge concepts worked when one person walks over it. Some bridges were shaking, some were solid, and others were flexing a lot. You can see where im going with this, under certain conditions a lot of those bridges might fail, and this is the same issue that writing bad code is susceptible to hence why its important that schools realize they need to grade the structure of their students code.

Whatever you end up doing there will be a time in life where you'll wish you went the other route.

 

[GSXSixteenG]

Graduated college with honors in '09 with an Associate Degree in Film Studies. Always loved movies and still do. Easy as pie, too! I don't understand people who say college is hard at all.

Its all relative to the degree and the teachers.

I work public accounting. I am a CPA. If your into that kind of thing I would recommend it, the future outlook is good. I work hard from January to April 55+ hours a week. Then summers are a breeze of only 30 hours a week. Salaried at 55k and usually bonus is around 5k. You will start out over 40k right out of college. Not bad for 4 years of college, but I know they have changed the requirements for the CPA exam to needing your masters. How much you like it depends on where you work though. You do your 5 years in public accounting and make good contacts, once you have the experience the typical CPA will step into a controller job making six figures.

The only thing I'd change is going to an expensive private college. Student loans are horrible.