How did you get your career?

Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by RoJoHen, Jun 25, 2010.

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How did you start your career?

  1. Got a random job and worked my way up the ladder

    7 vote(s)
    16.7%
  2. Applied for a job in my desired field (without any post-secondary degree))

    7 vote(s)
    16.7%
  3. Applied for a job in my desired field after graduating with a degree in the same field

    21 vote(s)
    50.0%
  4. I don't have a career

    7 vote(s)
    16.7%
  1. TheBrew

    TheBrew Vice Admiral Admiral

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    Played a round of golf with the vice-president.
     
  2. Goliath

    Goliath Vice Admiral Admiral

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    I got my PhD, spent a couple of years teaching on contract, and then got a tenure-track job as a university professor.
     
  3. Zulu Romeo

    Zulu Romeo World Famous Starship Captain Admiral

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    In many respects, my position fulfils all options in the poll. :sigh:
     
  4. MetalPants

    MetalPants Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    I was going to college, and ran out of money. I was down to my last roll of pennies to buy ramen with when I got hired on at Wal-Mart. Stayed there, built up some savings, and continued my education. Got my BA and then my MA. Whoopee-do dah.
    Economy went to shit, and now all the jobs I want/am qualified for are gone, or are going to PhD's, and now I'm lowlevel hourly management still at Wal-Mart.

    But hey, I've got a job and I can pay my bills and sometimes eat.
     
  5. Spot's Meow

    Spot's Meow Vice Admiral Admiral

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    Hotel California
    I've just applied for a career position at the place where I am currently an intern so we'll see how that goes...I have a B.A. and an M.A., just graduated this spring, so the next year or so will probably decide much of my future. Who knows what will happen.
     
  6. iguana_tonante

    iguana_tonante Admiral Admiral

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    Italy, EU
    Bachelor's in Astronomy --> Master's in Astronomy --> PhD in Astronomy --> Astronomer.

    Quite straightforward actually.
     
  7. Finn

    Finn Bad Batch of TrekBBS Admiral

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    I lost my job then I found myself a woman.
     
  8. John Clark

    John Clark Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    Blind luck and good friends?

    Left school and went through the YTS programme getting a BTEC in Business & Finance and RSA in Information Technology. Finished the course but hadn't found a permanent job by then. Less than a week after, the parent company of where I'd been working called me up for a temporary job. I evidentally made enough of an impression to be still there over 15 years later and working my way up.
     
  9. Kestra

    Kestra Admiral Premium Member

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    Your career is ... a woman? :vulcan:
     
  10. Holdfast

    Holdfast Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    Current job - chose my degree due to inertia/laziness, applied for jobs in that field after graduating with a couple of degrees, picked my speciality because I'm naturally nosy but discreet about it and worked my way up, getting the speciality qualifications on the way.

    My future self-employed portfolio career from this autumn - partly grew out of interests developed during within my current job, partly from interests developed outside of work, partly from disatisfaction with being an employee generally and partly from opportunities that just happened to arise. :)
     
  11. kimc

    kimc Coffee Mod Admiral

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    I started my current career doing tech support back before the "Y2K" crisis when they were basically pulling bodies in off the street. I took a few courses then eventually moved into programming. After a few years of experience got into a Master's program in Software Engineering, finished it up then moved to another company.
     
  12. Kira Nerys

    Kira Nerys Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    I don't have a career.I work in retail which,I hate and am trying to obtain more education so that I can HOPEFULLY get out .
     
  13. Alpinemaps

    Alpinemaps Commodore Commodore

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    San Diego, California
    The long story is that I fell in love with maps when I was 3 years old. In college, I ended up in the Geography department, and graduated with a Geography degree. Got a job making maps for a small map company. Eventually, I applied to work for the Marine Corps, and worked my way up in my current position - all within my field.
     
  14. Holdfast

    Holdfast Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    I have a delicious image of giant mechanical grabbers reaching out of windows, pulling random passers-by in, plonking them in front of computer terminals and keeping them there until they learn to code, dammit!
     
  15. Captain Ice

    Captain Ice Cookie Constructor Admiral

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    I've got a similar one of men in black suits grabbing your arm and saying "Come with me"
     
  16. Holdfast

    Holdfast Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    I'm not sure which vision is the more disturbing, or, indeed, the revealing about the thinker... ;)
     
  17. Dr. Horrible

    Dr. Horrible Admiral Admiral

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    London, UK
    ^My main memories of the Y2K thing was a) our project manager was a very loud Irish woman who stomped a lot (she did have great legs though) and b) somebody wrote us a letter asking if the bricks in our building were Y2K compliant. Remember the Y2K compliance thing? Everybody was at it.

    My career? I'm definitely in the random job and worked my way up camp. Degree in Environmental Science/Geography, job in Finance/IT. Got the job in the mid 1990s through an advert in the London Evening Standard. I now waste all my time on European regulatory issues. :wtf:
     
  18. milo bloom

    milo bloom Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    The varied and beautiful Chicagoland suburbs.
    Decided my then current career (McDonald's management) was going to frakking kill me before I hit 25, so the wife and I packed up and moved 400 miles away. I went through a temp agency, first job lasted less than a week, I'm still at the second job 13 years later and an assistant manager.
     
  19. Holdfast

    Holdfast Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    17 Cherry Tree Lane
    Pics or it didn't happen.

    You're not supposed to eat all the product, you know. ;)
     
  20. Captain Ice

    Captain Ice Cookie Constructor Admiral

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    Getting Captain Ice on to the naughty list
    Says the man who's eaten hospital food for how many years? ;)