What To Do?

[ReppinTheD]

This has been on my mind for a while now, and I can't get it off my mind.what will I do as a career?I'm in college right now, heading into my second year this coming fall; yet I have no idea what I want to do. I am almost blindly picking a major in psychology because I feel that this subject interests me - but still, I have no feeling of satisfaction or fulfillment. I am stuck in another little dilemma, too. My parents who are both native Egyptians want me to become a doctor...not want, but yearn. It is one of their life goals for their son to become a successful doctor. I get into arguments with them almost daily about how there are jobs other than a doctor that will also make you successful - that comes to no avail, because they still believe that a doctor is the only job for me. It's been extremely hard for me to get away from this because my parents have literally brainwashed me to want to become a doctor. I have been fed science book after science book as a young child, I have been living around doctors all of my life, so the only thing I see is doctor. It's the same thing with them - the arab community I live around is filled with rich doctors, so the only thing my parents see as an option is to become a doctor like the rest.I don't want to be like the rest...I am interested in other things...and to me, it almost seems like now I don't want to be a doctor because my parents have made me sick of the damn job. How the hell do you decide what career you want to be part of??

 

[Memphology]

Im sure youve already done this, but I would personaly make a list of my interests, get on the internet and research absolutley everything about them. See what type of jobs there are, what are the probabilities of being successful at it, how much it would pay...and most importantly, is it something your willing to dedicate your life to. I personaly done that and I know right now what type of field I want to be in.As in your parents, what type of doctor do they want you to become? You could become a psychologist for hospital patients, that type of thing.I dont know how much my advice helped cause I havent been in that situation...but thats what I personaly would do.

 

[S_Gurad]

Make sure you choose something u love to do or will love to do.here are some fields I would do if I werent into the stock market and Web design.Audio Post Production- I took a class in this last semester.. very cool-Foley Artists - Sound Designers - Mixers - DJ -U can get some serious paper if you stay focused and do some hot sound mixing.|Vision Care/ or Eye specialist- From what I think, this field will grow due to the fact the People are looking at screens A lot more often.|Video Production-Information Architect- Deals with Site maps mockups and wireframe..kinda like webdesign but... kinda boring if you're not dedicated.|Architect-Those are fields I think some good money would come in, besides the usual I wanna be a Doctor or lawyer crap.|If all ends just go to the army with Balla or become a nurse.|

 

[noballer08]

First things first- don't ever let your parents or anybody else tell you what you want to be. Like S_Guard said, choose something you would love to do and find out what professions are dealing with that interest. I love aircraft and aviation and I want to go to a school that is dominated by it, and I hope to enter a field that deals with those subjects. Find what you like.

 

[the_pestilence]

All I can say is what the great art blakey said - "Do what you love to do and do it well"

 

[Justice]

Become a doctor in Psychology or some sh*t just to spite them.

 

[Pacers fan forever]

Create a list of your interests and research them. Surely in the back of your mind you must have some kind of dream, chase it.If you still have no clue, join the army, it;s a great place to think about life and adds on some extra years to your pre-career life while still getting benefits and payments.

 

[BrewCityBuck]

Like I told you yesterday Reppin, joining Al-Qaeda is still a good option, the chance to travel the world, have multiple wives...etc...<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pacers fan forever @ Jun 20 2007, 06:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>If you still have no clue, join the army, it;s a great place to think about life and adds on some extra years to your pre-career life while still getting benefits and payments.</div> Your kidding right? Did some Army recruiter go to your elementary school and tell you that?

 

[The`Dream]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Justice @ Jun 20 2007, 01:10 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Become a doctor in Psychology or some sh*t just to spite them.</div>If I were you Reppin, I'd get my general medicine sh*t together, then go psychology.Dr. ReppintheD, Psyco(logist) at Large

 

[gentile]

Listen to yourself. If you can't do what you want or don't know what you want, what you're good at will suffice."He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[noballer08]

Why is everybody so damn quotey?

 

[the_pestilence]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (noballer07 @ Jun 20 2007, 10:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Why is everybody so damn quotey?</div>"People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first." - David H. Comins

 

[Opal]

It is mainly just Gentile and Pesty who are quoty.

 

[Memphology]

BCB, I know for a fact coming from a family with several members in the military, you get certain benefits during and after you have served.

 

[the_pestilence]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pacers fan forever @ Jun 20 2007, 04:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>If you still have no clue, join the army, it;s a great place to think about life and adds on some extra years to your pre-career life while still getting benefits and payments.</div>and takes time off of your post career life

 

[noballer08]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (tHe_pEsTiLeNcE @ Jun 20 2007, 12:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>"People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first." - David H. Comins</div>That's deep

So you just look them up on the internet and post them?And, don't join the army, they try to entice you early with their JROTC and benefits etc, but war is not pretty. There's no guarantee that you'd even live to have a post-army life where you can carve up a solid career.

 

[gentile]

"A young man that wishes to remain a sound atheist, cannot be too careful of his reading."-CS Lewis

 

[the_pestilence]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (noballer07 @ Jun 20 2007, 12:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>That's deep

So you just look them up on the internet and post them?</div>Nah, generally I only post quotes off the top of my head. I just looked that last one up because I thought it would be funny to have a quote about quotations in response to him asking why there was so much quoting.

 

[Memphology]

Are you really smart or something pestilence?Are you like the kid from Smart Guy?

 

[noballer08]

I hope you don't go around repeating quotes to people. Kinda makes you sound cocky, IMO.

 

[the_pestilence]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (noballer07 @ Jun 20 2007, 08:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>

I hope you don't go around repeating quotes to people. Kinda makes you sound cocky, IMO.</div>christ, I post two quotes in this thread, one of which was a joke and one of which is on a poster in my room, and suddenly I'm dishing gobits like the history boys? I occassionally repeat a quote if it fits in the conversation and helps illuminate a discussion, but that's about it.

 

[Memphology]

Haha, you remind me of Carlton on Fresh Prince...

 

[DRob-50-Forever]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ReppinTheD @ Jun 19 2007, 02:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>This has been on my mind for a while now, and I can't get it off my mind.what will I do as a career?I'm in college right now, heading into my second year this coming fall; yet I have no idea what I want to do. I am almost blindly picking a major in psychology because I feel that this subject interests me - but still, I have no feeling of satisfaction or fulfillment. I am stuck in another little dilemma, too. My parents who are both native Egyptians want me to become a doctor...not want, but yearn. It is one of their life goals for their son to become a successful doctor. I get into arguments with them almost daily about how there are jobs other than a doctor that will also make you successful - that comes to no avail, because they still believe that a doctor is the only job for me. It's been extremely hard for me to get away from this because my parents have literally brainwashed me to want to become a doctor. I have been fed science book after science book as a young child, I have been living around doctors all of my life, so the only thing I see is doctor. It's the same thing with them - the arab community I live around is filled with rich doctors, so the only thing my parents see as an option is to become a doctor like the rest.I don't want to be like the rest...I am interested in other things...and to me, it almost seems like now I don't want to be a doctor because my parents have made me sick of the damn job. How the hell do you decide what career you want to be part of??</div>Be a pharmacist. Make decent money doing nothing.