# How did you pick your career?
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-you-pick-your-career/34229
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [August 21, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-you-pick-your-career/34229 "2007-08-21T21:12:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 7:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-you-pick-your-career/34229/21 "2007-08-22T07:11:47Z")
I am very good at sales, and have a thing for cell phones / wireless tech.
Just kinda fit. Although I’m not opposed to trying something new…
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### Author:  [@Jskrapper](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jskrapper)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 7:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-you-pick-your-career/34229/22 "2007-08-22T07:19:28Z")
In Soviet NAPA, Career pick you!
Seriously though. I knew nothing of cars when I started here at NAPA as a delivery driver 12 years ago. My people skills got me to the counter, then I just had to be a n00b for a few years to learn stuff, now here I am.
Not that I would consider this job a career…but I now have the knowledge and skillz to begin a new career if needed.
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### Author:  [@Silver](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Silver)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 7:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-you-pick-your-career/34229/23 "2007-08-22T07:26:06Z")
Did two years of an astrophysics major, then I took a Rhetoric class and was hooked on how fun it was, so I did my major in that.
I work at a advertising company writing commercials and…well marketing type stuff. I’ve always been a great writer (I write copy via freelance a LOT), so doing commercials and the creative type stuff is just in my blood.
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### Author:  [@Zong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zong)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 7:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-you-pick-your-career/34229/24 "2007-08-22T07:30:25Z")
I am a biotech major with a minor in pharmacology and going to business school because I want to make money.
If it were up to me I’d play music for the rest of my life and be happy.
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 7:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-you-pick-your-career/34229/25 "2007-08-22T07:39:49Z")
[quote=“Zong,post:24,topic:34229"”]
If were **white,** I’d play music for the rest of my life and be happy.
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Fixed
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### Author:  [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 7:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-you-pick-your-career/34229/26 "2007-08-22T07:46:07Z")
i fixed a pc a long time ago and liked it, now here i am
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### Author:  [@LAFENGAS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LAFENGAS)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 7:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-you-pick-your-career/34229/27 "2007-08-22T07:48:56Z")
i was one of the last that picked the career out of a hat in 8th grade. Only a Marine Biologist, Engineer, and Dancer remained. I pulled the fricken engineer…wanted to be a dancer.
Honestly though…i loved building and ripping apart shit when i was very young…it seemed fairly obvious to me.
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### Author:  [@slasky](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slasky)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 7:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-you-pick-your-career/34229/28 "2007-08-22T07:51:22Z")
I am a high school technology teacher. Even though I was going to school for it, I had no plans of teaching when I first went to school. I just wanted to get a 4 year degree and I always was interested in technology. It was not until I student taught that I considered teaching. It was the first job that I ever had that I did not mind going to. The day went by quick and I actually enjoyed being there. There was also a huge need for technology teachers when I graduated.
I need to point out that I went to UB for engineering before I went to Oswego. I hated it and changed my major on a weekly basis. I left UB after a year and took a year off from college. I needed time to decide what I wanted to do.
I am so glad that I became a teacher. My job is easy, I am home by 3:00, the pay and benefits are great, I have summers off, and I only work 184 days a year.
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### Author:  [@Zong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zong)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 8:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-you-pick-your-career/34229/29 "2007-08-22T08:01:36Z")
uh, so…lafengas ISN’T a dancer??
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 8:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-you-pick-your-career/34229/30 "2007-08-22T08:25:59Z")
i thought lafengas was a dentist???
who knew
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### Author:  [@LAFENGAS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LAFENGAS)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 8:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-you-pick-your-career/34229/31 "2007-08-22T08:31:26Z")
[quote=“boardjnky4,post:30,topic:34229"”]
i thought lafengas was a dentist???
who knew
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one of my many freelancing hats. I didn’t realize i could do dentistry until i purchased a dremel. It’s not my career…but i do it on the side… that goes the same for dancing Zong.
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### Author:  [@L8APEX1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/L8APEX1)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 9:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-you-pick-your-career/34229/32 "2007-08-22T09:23:06Z")
[quote=“LAFENGAS,post:31,topic:34229"”]
I didn’t realize i could do dentistry until i purchased a dremel.
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all i can think of is steve martin in little shop of horrors
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 9:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-you-pick-your-career/34229/33 "2007-08-22T09:41:13Z")
[quote=“POOPRA,post:8,topic:34229"”]
I used contacts to get in the door, and my career just developed from there. I dont exactly like what I do, but fun jobs dont exactly pay the bills.
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same here pretty much. Had a bunch of schooling and experience… just so happened to get an opportunity to take a little time off of college and work full time. Here I am, 7 years later the lead designer at an engineering firm.
go figure
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 9:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-you-pick-your-career/34229/34 "2007-08-22T09:44:08Z")
[quote=“LAFENGAS,post:27,topic:34229"”]
Honestly though…i loved building and ripping apart shit when i was very young…it seemed fairly obvious to me.
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lol I did the same shit as a kid. My parents would get mad at me when they’d buy me a transformer… only to have it dis-assembled within an hour
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### Author:  [@ryanmcell](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ryanmcell)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 9:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-you-pick-your-career/34229/35 "2007-08-22T09:46:00Z")
Edit: NVM jskrapper beat me to it.
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### Author:  [@MikeRi24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MikeRi24)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 10:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-you-pick-your-career/34229/36 "2007-08-22T10:06:21Z")
ideally, id like to play music professionally, however i dont see that happening.
first, i thought of going with my first true passion, which was music. then i decided that music is what de-stresses me and what i do for fun, so making that the main aspect of my life and depend on it for money prob would not be the best idea and i would eventually lose the desire to make music.
then, after 2 years of college, taking classes in everything from law to science, i still had no clue what interested me.
finally, i decided that, well, i like helping people, i like a job that involves new situations all the time, and something thats rewarding. i thought about being a cop, but i hate cops. then i realized that i find myself watching medical shows all the time on TV and have kind of had a ‘secret’ interest in that kind of stuff, so that is why in January, i will start my certification to be an EMT-B and then eventually become a certified paramedic. and i couldnt be more excited about it.
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### Author:  [@chino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/chino)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 11:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-you-pick-your-career/34229/37 "2007-08-22T11:05:33Z")
[quote=“boxxa,post:18,topic:34229"”]
I love network engineering/administration 🙂
Never will be outsourced
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ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, ask the network engineers at praxair.
oh wait, they are all outsourced.
Crazy amounts of network engineering and administration is outsourced.
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### Author:  [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 11:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-you-pick-your-career/34229/38 "2007-08-22T11:12:22Z")
yeah they are, all of them.
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-you-pick-your-career/34229/39 "2007-08-22T11:52:02Z")
[quote=“chino,post:37,topic:34229"”]
ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, ask the network engineers at praxair.
oh wait, they are all outsourced.
Crazy amounts of network engineering and administration is outsourced.
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By outsourced im talking like, jobs sent to India that programmers and CS majors compete against. Not like hiring a company to manage your network.
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### Author:  [@chino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/chino)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 1:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-you-pick-your-career/34229/40 "2007-08-22T13:15:31Z")
oh ok - that is true, but is only a matter of time before it goes over seas too 😛
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