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 Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:43 pm
Outsider 101 I'm currently going through the motions to apply for a course in Pharmacology at University, which I'm hoping to get a degree in so I can get a license and begin to do research on pharmeceuticals and potential medicines. As well as pursuing my own chemnerdy interests, of course. I'm a sucker for anything interesting in a biological/chemical field, heh.
I might double it up with Psychology if there's a place available, it'd be very useful to have both if I go on to do any work with antipsychotics or enactogenic substances, the latter of which will be difficult to get the appropriate permissions for but which I fully intend to try to research. God only knows there's potential there for use in therapy and psychiatry, we just need to show it. You sound smart.
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:02 pm
I'm gonna do something medical related that requires years of training that I'm almost done with.
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:24 am
Well I suppose my career desire is to be a teacher, to pursue getting those credentials in college and whilst doing so get involved in a church ministry as a youth leader or a sunday school teacher; with hopes to one day be a teacher in a Christian School. Or to become a stay at home mom.
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:27 pm
Pixie Saylor WOW. What the ******** hell luna. THOSE are your 'impossible career moves' WHY? How are those insane? Singing opera might be hard, but why will you be mute? Why is it hard to dub movies or translate books or be a historian or learn mayan to decipher whatsits? ESPECIALLY book translators and historians are VERY POSSIBLE jobs to get. Like I dont even get WHY OR HOW you put them under impossible. :/ I want to be happy. everything else depends on too much to strive for at this point.
About being mute. Had I ever told you I've had problems with my throat for the past three years? Because I have.
The doctors that checked my throat said there is a chance I'll lose my voice if I don't take care of my throat, and I DO, but I somehow keep getting sick, and the periods of time in which I can sing before my voice gets hoarse (even if I'm in perfect health at the moment) have definitely gotten shorter, especially this year.
Also, my mom refuses to take me to doctors again and goes with self-medication, which has helped in nothing but messing up my immune system.
On dubbing - only place I could go to do that is Mexico City, and I'd need money and a place to stay, and I don't have relatives there, and my parents wouldn't pay for it. Not allowed to get a job either until I finish a career, so I can't pay for that either.
On opera or anything music-related - my parents don't even let me study music anymore because they said they wanted me to finish a "real career" first.
On translating, history, geography, archaeology, and several other fields - my mom says that's completely boring and not useful whatsoever, even though I've shown her articles saying THAT'S PRECISELY WHAT THE COUNTRY NEEDS RIGHT NOW. Again, parents won't pay for it, not allowed to get job so I can't, and such.
The college I'm going to doesn't even offer courses in music or such as far as I know, which is what I would like. And I already have a scholarship there, so I'm not going anywhere else (because I'm not allowed to).
Apparently, I'm going to study a medical career, because that's the only thing my mother wants me to do, but I can't even stand the sight of blood. :/
Yeah, so the problem here is my parents, especifically, my mother. Actually, my dad says he'd really love to see me do most of the things I like, but he's the kind of person who will never state his opinions out loud. And he shares the opinion that my mother is kind of a tyrant.
She also says "she'd let me do anything I like as long as I become famous for it". But that can't happen if I'm not allowed to even START. I really don't understand her.
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:38 pm
I worked hard for my dream career, and I'm happy to say that I have it. :]
I work as a computer software engineer. Generally, I do work like expand, create, and maintain computer systems. Companies come to me (and my buddies; we work from the home we all pitch to share) and they tell us specifications of a program they would like to have, and we design it, make it, and send it to them. I generally use COBOL, Prolog, Java, and C++, and on unlucky occasions Fortran (I hate Fortran -.-). Quite a bit of money, and it's fun as hell because I love coding. Only negative side effect is that I'ev had carpal tunnel in both my wrists for like, 8 years.
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:06 pm
sadistic`Ninja I worked hard for my dream career, and I'm happy to say that I have it. :] I work as a computer software engineer. Generally, I do work like expand, create, and maintain computer systems. Companies come to me (and my buddies; we work from the home we all pitch to share) and they tell us specifications of a program they would like to have, and we design it, make it, and send it to them. I generally use COBOL, Prolog, Java, and C++, and on unlucky occasions Fortran (I hate Fortran -.-). Quite a bit of money, and it's fun as hell because I love coding. Only negative side effect is that I'ev had carpal tunnel in both my wrists for like, 8 years. I read your name as sadistic n****e and got really excited, but it turns out you are just a ninja. sad
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:47 pm
Luna Amatista Pixie Saylor WOW. What the ******** hell luna. THOSE are your 'impossible career moves' WHY? How are those insane? Singing opera might be hard, but why will you be mute? Why is it hard to dub movies or translate books or be a historian or learn mayan to decipher whatsits? ESPECIALLY book translators and historians are VERY POSSIBLE jobs to get. Like I dont even get WHY OR HOW you put them under impossible. :/ I want to be happy. everything else depends on too much to strive for at this point.
About being mute. Had I ever told you I've had problems with my throat for the past three years? Because I have.
The doctors that checked my throat said there is a chance I'll lose my voice if I don't take care of my throat, and I DO, but I somehow keep getting sick, and the periods of time in which I can sing before my voice gets hoarse (even if I'm in perfect health at the moment) have definitely gotten shorter, especially this year.
Also, my mom refuses to take me to doctors again and goes with self-medication, which has helped in nothing but messing up my immune system.
On dubbing - only place I could go to do that is Mexico City, and I'd need money and a place to stay, and I don't have relatives there, and my parents wouldn't pay for it. Not allowed to get a job either until I finish a career, so I can't pay for that either.
On opera or anything music-related - my parents don't even let me study music anymore because they said they wanted me to finish a "real career" first.
On translating, history, geography, archaeology, and several other fields - my mom says that's completely boring and not useful whatsoever, even though I've shown her articles saying THAT'S PRECISELY WHAT THE COUNTRY NEEDS RIGHT NOW. Again, parents won't pay for it, not allowed to get job so I can't, and such.
The college I'm going to doesn't even offer courses in music or such as far as I know, which is what I would like. And I already have a scholarship there, so I'm not going anywhere else (because I'm not allowed to).
Apparently, I'm going to study a medical career, because that's the only thing my mother wants me to do, but I can't even stand the sight of blood. :/
Yeah, so the problem here is my parents, especifically, my mother. Actually, my dad says he'd really love to see me do most of the things I like, but he's the kind of person who will never state his opinions out loud. And he shares the opinion that my mother is kind of a tyrant.
She also says "she'd let me do anything I like as long as I become famous for it". But that can't happen if I'm not allowed to even START. I really don't understand her.Wow Luna that sucks D: But you know those careers are still possible. It will just take longer and be harder to get them. Once you finish your degree a career your mom wants you to have you can get a job, save up money, and go back to a school for a career you actually want. It'll suck because you have to work really hard, go to work and go to school at the same time, and you wont have your mom's support, but its still not impossible. Plus a few years of really hard work would be so worth it compared to spending your life doing a job you dont love. @Sadistic biggrin Way to go achieving your dream! Thats hardcore skills.
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:32 pm
IMO Luna you are letting your parents control your life. I dont know anything about how things work in mexico but if there's no way for you to do what you want without your rich parents paying for it it doesn't sound like you will ever be happy.
If you can get any sort of financial aid or scholarships which you should be able to do in any country with progressive education you can do whatever the hell you want and just say ******** your parents. It's difficult but you can't be unhappy just because your parents make you do stuff. o.O
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:31 am
IMO Pixie, you're right about that, but at the moment I can't work unless my parents let me do it (or until I'm not underage, which is in two years), and that won't seem to happen any time soon. neutral
Even then, I'd need someone to take me to my workplace, but I might be able to work that out.
I already have a scholarship, which I might be able to increase next semester, and if I keep it during high school, it'll still be available for college. But if I don't enter college immediately after high school I'll lose it, so I have to find a career I like first. >>
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:55 pm
I don't know what I want to do anymore...
I wanted to be a programmer. But I had an internship that turned out really lame. I hated it - all I ever did was waste time slacking off on the internet because I didn't understand my work, and I had to do it all alone, and even though it was GREAT that I could do so much non-work related stuff there, I felt really bad about it, because besides the tasks, and the sitting in silence all day parts, everything was great. I also didn't really like working with just men. Thought that I would, but they weren't that cool. Or maybe that's cause they were Germans. I don't know. But that internship affected my decision to quit my Computer Engineering major (well money affected it mostly) and now I have no clue what to do with my life. I'm thinking maybe teaching... but I don't know.
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 2:08 pm
 I'd still like to be a video editor or cameraman. Preferably cameraman. But it's interesting to be "school" again. ... And be paid for it. I'm in the US Navy right now, technically my job is to repair chipsets in airplanes but I haven't been trained/schooled in how to do this. I hear rumors I'm going to be on hold for a longass time before my classes even start. Blargh. I'm going to attempt to cross-train to be an MC though, which is basically like a photojournalist. That's the closest thing I'm going to get to being cameraman, it looks like. If not, I'm sure the GI Bill will cover another degree in digital video production. Because I'm sure that by the time I get through with the Navy (If I decide to not re-enlist) the technology will have changed enough that I'll have to re-learn all of it. Though I suppose I technically get free classes at my old college as an alumni... But ******** that. =P ....ALTHOUGH If I have enough money saved up to retire early, I've decided that I'll do that OR open/run my own haunted house. Depends on my moodset when that time comes.
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