What College Should I Go To?

yukon

Banned 10 years ago

What about one of those hair colleges in the mall?

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Dan Riffle

10 years ago

I can't tell you where to go or what to do. I can tell you that I recently read an article on professional careers on the decline and one of them was architects. The job prospects, according to the article, over the next 20-30 years are not good. I'd do a little research, if I were you.

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1337Teh

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

I can't tell you where to go or what to do. I can tell you that I recently read an article on professional careers on the decline and one of them was architects. The job prospects, according to the article, over the next 20-30 years are not good. I'd do a little research, if I were you.

Thanks a lot! What about IT? Does it have a good future?

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seasoned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by 1337Teh

Thanks a lot! What about IT? Does it have a good future?

Obviously, to some degree it DOES. But they are destroying the whole idea through micromanaging. I SWEAR, you have something to do and have to wait for someone ELSE to create the tables, and someone ELSE to import the tables and even when it comes time to test, someone ELSE runs whatever. You know what they say about too many cooks! When I started, I did ALL that. For the moment, all are getting paid well, but one wonders where it is going.

As for healthcare, that some say is doing well, I wonder where THAT is going. I wouldn't want to be involved with much of it anyway.

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Dan Riffle 10 years ago

Originally Posted by 1337Teh

Thanks a lot! What about IT? Does it have a good future?

I think you're safe there, but it probably depends on your area of concentration.

Google:

careers on the rise

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You'll get more information than you care to read.
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HeySal

10 years ago

Data techs and system maintenance/repair areas are alway hiring out here in OR - we have google data centers, facebook data centers, etc so on. What it will look like in a few years, I couldn't tell you, but right now the only decent jobs ever listed are in IT.

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MissTerraK

10 years ago

Well, I must say it. I just have to.

You say, I only have 15 days to choose my life profession, and you're asking complete strangers to decide your future? And in the OT section?

You're very brave. I'll give you that. But, may I recommend that you do some soul searching and discover a life's passion or even an area that you are apt in?

It just seems to me that if you get schooling in an area that someone you don't even know selected for you that you will just continue to flounder in life. And that's not to mention how much money you have the potential to waste if what we choose isn't really suited for you.

No one knows you, better than you.

Get to searching yourself pronto, you still have a couple of weeks to discover and decide.

Terra

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Claude Whitacre

10 years ago

Originally Posted by MissTerraK

Well, I must say it. I just have to.

You say, I only have 15 days to choose my life profession, and you're asking complete strangers to decide your future? And in the OT section?

You're very brave. I'll give you that. But, may I recommend that you do some soul searching and discover a life's passion or even an area that you are apt in?

It just seems to me that if you get schooling in an area that someone you don't even know selected for you that you will just continue to flounder in life. And that's not to mention how much money you have the potential to waste if what we choose isn't really suited for you.

No one knows you, better than you.

Get to searching yourself pronto, you still have a couple of weeks to discover and decide.

Terra

You're a smart lady.

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1337Teh

10 years ago

Originally Posted by MissTerraK

Well, I must say it. I just have to.

You say, I only have 15 days to choose my life profession, and you're asking complete strangers to decide your future? And in the OT section?

You're very brave. I'll give you that. But, may I recommend that you do some soul searching and discover a life's passion or even an area that you are apt in?

It just seems to me that if you get schooling in an area that someone you don't even know selected for you that you will just continue to flounder in life. And that's not to mention how much money you have the potential to waste if what we choose isn't really suited for you.

No one knows you, better than you.

Get to searching yourself pronto, you still have a couple of weeks to discover and decide.

Terra

Well to be honest the only thing i LIKE doing is IT, i'd love to learn programming and all that kind of stuff, but i have no idea where i will be emplooyed if i finish this school...

Computer Engineering or IT, i'm more for those two.

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