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…
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.
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.
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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If were white, I’d play music for the rest of my life and be happy.
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Fixed
i fixed a pc a long time ago and liked it, now here i am
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.
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.
uh, so…lafengas ISN’T a dancer??
i thought lafengas was a dentist???
who knew
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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.
oh ok - that is true, but is only a matter of time before it goes over seas too 