Career Advice

[Troxx]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Arguably the most interesting facet of the online game Everquest is its homogeneous community of diverse socioeconomic classes and backgrounds.

You mean heterogeneous?

[Cecily]

Originally Posted by Troxx [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You mean heterogeneous?

I don't have you're quarter million of colledge debt nor did I have the privillege of life going well for over a century so bare with me if I mispell things.

[Troxx]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If you're doing OK in life and you're comfortable sharing how you got there, please do.

I went to school for 12 years. After that I went to school for 4 more years. After that I went to school for 4 more years. At the ripe old age of 26, I finally had a full time job that required 3 more years of intense training.

Lots of school and hard work pays off.

[Cecily]

Thanks for the replies everyone! Keep those dad paid for my doctorate stories coming in.

[Troxx]

Paid my own way. I'll have the last loan paid off by January.

[Cecily]

Word. Congrats!

I need to decide IT or nursing very soon cause picking out fall classes. Is a "cybersecurity" degree worth anything or do I want a straight up CS path? Nursing is more my calling, I think, but I do have some serious issues with authority and that job puts in a subordinate position, likely forever. Everyone has to deal with a boss though and I'm willing to suck it up. As far as IT goes... I'd love to be autonomous but logic, math, and non-verbal intelligence aren't my strong points. I'm not weak in them, but I wouldn't be a prodigy. I'm stupid good in verbal.. Need input, halp!

[khanable]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Word. Congrats!

I need to decide IT or nursing very soon cause picking out fall classes. Is a "cybersecurity" degree worth anything or do I want a straight up CS path? Nursing is more my calling, I think, but I do have some serious issues with authority and that job puts in a subordinate position, likely forever. Everyone has to deal with a boss though and I'm willing to suck it up. As far as IT goes... I'd love to be autonomous but logic, math, and non-verbal intelligence aren't my strong points. I'm not weak in them, but I wouldn't be a prodigy. I'm stupid good in verbal.. Need input, halp!

I watched a lot of people go through CS with not much interest in it (as a math person that had to do some CS, I had a genuine interest in it and literally shit on all the pure CS nerds that were just looking for a fat paycheck someday). They couldn't land jobs because CS just never clicked for them. You'll get some bullshit low-tier programming job in this market, but probably ain't worth it if you're not going to actually enjoy it.

What do you like to do on the daily? What drives you? What can you spend hours doing and not think twice about it? Write them down. Think of what they tap into inside you (creative energy, problem solving, etc). Use that as a basis for what you want to look into.

[Danth]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I need to decide IT or nursing very soon cause picking out fall classes. Is a "cybersecurity" degree worth anything or do I want a straight up CS path? Nursing is more my calling, I think, but I do have some serious issues with authority and that job puts in a subordinate position, likely forever. Everyone has to deal with a boss though and I'm willing to suck it up. As far as IT goes... I'd love to be autonomous but logic, math, and non-verbal intelligence aren't my strong points. I'm not weak in them, but I wouldn't be a prodigy. I'm stupid good in verbal.. Need input, halp!

Why is this in RNF? You seem sincere. Well...I ain't going to rant or flame.

Nursing: Do this if you want back problems later in life. Also do it if you like wallowing in blood, urine, vomit, or feces, any of which might quite often be infested with various highly contagious diseases. Added bonus, you're liable in a civil and potentially a criminal sense if something goes wrong (including easily-made mistakes like getting a med count wrong). Oh, and in some fields your charges might abuse you or beat you up and you have basically no recourse.

Think that sounds negative nancy, just wait till you run into a patient who defecates all over you then laughs, or an MRDD patient who starts gut-punching you because he doesn't know any better. If you work a nursing home and you're a woman, wear a thick padded bra because those old dudes sometimes get pinchy. Even if you don't plan to work in such facilities as a career, you might wind up in them during clinicals and may not have much of a choice.

Not telling you not to go that route--it truly is some folks' calling. But it takes a certain type of person, and you had best know what you're getting yourself in to. I know a lot of folks who do that for a living. Some of them are content with it. Some aren't.



Danth

[Aeaolena]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Word. Congrats!

I need to decide IT or nursing very soon cause picking out fall classes. Is a "cybersecurity" degree worth anything or do I want a straight up CS path? Nursing is more my calling, I think, but I do have some serious issues with authority and that job puts in a subordinate position, likely forever. Everyone has to deal with a boss though and I'm willing to suck it up. As far as IT goes... I'd love to be autonomous but logic, math, and non-verbal intelligence aren't my strong points. I'm not weak in them, but I wouldn't be a prodigy. I'm stupid good in verbal.. Need input, halp!

A couple thoughts -

1. CS is in high demand. Very high demand. My husband is a senior software engineer and they can't fill jobs fast enough where he works. It's a problem.

2. For Software, math and logic are indeed key. His company does interview a lot of CS people, but they have an entry "homework question" they want people to solve before they get an interview. You have to solve it and explain your logic behind solving it. They also, during the interview, have a white-board part of the in-person process where they have someone write out their code to a few simple problems. Often times he said a candidate will have a fantastic resume and seem like a great fit/personality.. but then they get to the technical part, and do a hard pass on the guy. I once asked him if maybe it was just nerves or the math was too hard. He said the interview white-board questions involved 5th grade math, so when CS people bomb it it's a huge red flag. It's really just there to test how fast someone can solve it.

3. However, strong verbal skills are very important in government contract work. Often times the tech companies have problems interfacing with potential customers because some (not all) software teams have very introverted people who cannot communicate well. But often, the 'managerial' types that would be good interfacing with customers don't interface well with the software engineers. They don't jive well together because their personal interests don't line up. As a gamer, you'd have an advantage here. I have yet to meet a single software engineer that wasn't a gamer in some sort of way. If you can have both the trust of the software developers, and create the trust between clients and the company -you'd be invaluable. Now, what degree you need to land that sort of position? I unfortunately have no idea.

[Troxx]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Nursing is more my calling, I think, but I do have some serious issues with authority and that job puts in a subordinate position, likely forever.

I've never viewed or treated my nurses as subordinates. We're all a team. Everyone who isn't self employed has a boss or someone they are responsible to.