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Decided on my Career
kurandoinu:
--- Quote from: molbjerg on December 09, 2009, 03:38:31 PM ---Yeah, a degree from Lincoln isn't worth the toilet paper it's printed on. Did you know that only a few years ago (when I was there) they were actually selling degrees on the internet?
You won't have high level teachers, so no, you don't really benefit other than what you teach yourself. Maybe it's different for your course, but it's not like we were even remotely set up with contacts. It said in the prospectus that it was a sandwich course with a vocational year, but all that actually meant was that: "if you arrange everything yourself, we will allow you to leave university for a year then carry on again".
I got my degree, then spent 2 years unemployed never hearing back from them. I got lucky last year and now I'm a professional animator, but I can honestly say that Lincoln did not help me at all.
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Its pretty different for Graphic Design. Lincoln's pretty highly rated for that. We win a fair few awards for stuff. Plus half of the lecturer's are still out in the industry, and when businesses contact them with jobs going the details get passed straight to us.
And my boyfriend is working on an iphone app for one of the members of Led Zeppelin right now (he has to go down to London on the 17th :) ) which one of his lecturer's helped him to get. So it depends on the course
temuchin:
hey Osmo- your thread caught my interest. i read the first page or 2 then my attention started to drift after reading about the Uk universities et al.
my recommendation is to ignore what the "hot majors are" or "what looks good" and focus on what you, Osmo enjoy. what occupation what you most like to engage in that would make you happy, or more practically speaking; would you like to wake up to and work for. once decided work your ass off and get the best marks you possibly can.
so my point is -- forget the experts and do not what will make you the most money- but simply a job that brings happiness.
Osmo:
--- Quote from: temuchin on December 11, 2009, 03:40:19 AM ---hey Osmo- your thread caught my interest. i read the first page or 2 then my attention started to drift after reading about the Uk universities et al.
my recommendation is to ignore what the "hot majors are" or "what looks good" and focus on what you, Osmo enjoy. what occupation what you most like to engage in that would make you happy, or more practically speaking; would you like to wake up to and work for. once decided work your ass off and get the best marks you possibly can.
so my point is -- forget the experts and do not what will make you the most money- but simply a job that brings happiness.
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That's where it boils down to most peoples motivations, happiness.
I think the word is an illusion.
temuchin:
--- Quote from: Osmo on December 11, 2009, 06:43:16 PM ---That's where it boils down to most peoples motivations, happiness.
I think the word is an illusion.
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happiness? sure it could be considered an allusion in the philosophical sense; but my point is simple
and i have to admit true. speaking from personal experience i had a job until recently that paid good money
but i detested it. hate to wake up, bosses where incompetent women, incredibly tedious & boring work, came home
tired etc. rinse & repeat. no doubt there is no such thing as a "perfect world".
a lot of times people choose what pays the most over what they enjoy. i'm simply pointing out that may be a
strategic error.
Neco:
Hapiness is in the eye of the beholder.
I was very adept with computers from an early age, and even though I was a poor student, I was constantly told how smart I was, how I could do great things and be successful. But in reality it just set me up for my downward spiral even harder. I do enjoy working with hardware and sometimes troubleshooting software issues (but not really my forte), and doing basic web design work.. But I just can't see myself doing it as a profession.
I don't like the idea of being stuck in some companies I.T helpdesk dept. Or working for some bullshit like Best Buy in "Geek Squad" (what self respecting person would work for a company called Geek Squad?). Part of it is I hate the idea of having to deal with people, or customers. The other part is, I just feel like I missed the boat. I have two uncles who worked for NASA (I think one still does as a contractor with Allied Signal or whoever, I never did know who he exactly worked for, but he works long hours during Shuttle missions)
The plan was to follow in their footsteps, have an awesome job and lots of money. So much for that. Never graduated, couldn't afford college if I wanted to go, have so many interests I have no idea what I would want to study (hardware? programming? web design? game design/programming? Music Production/Engineering? Journalism?) I kind of just gave up.
Yet I find myself strangely content with the work I've been doing the past couple of years. I work primarily alone as a Merchandiser for Nabisco, but at J.C Pennies I work with a good group of people and my boss is awesome, not some stickler asshole. Yeah I wish I made more than $1,000 (that's a -good- month) because I have medical expenses, I have severe dental problems and have been putting off having to pay a dentist to tell me what I already know (tooth has to be pulled) and then going somewhere else and paying them to do it..
But, at the same time it doesn't really bother me.. I've mellowed out a lot, or maybe I've just given up I'm not sure. But I have the same normal hopes and dreams that every blue collar American does, I work hard to get by, and I'm pretty happy for it otherwise.
Being happy doesn't have to be an illusion, but finding true happiness is the hard part.
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