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So I don't know if we have ever had a thread about this so let's just pretend we never have... I've often wondered what kind of ambition CM'ers have and what they plan on doing with their lives, and what they're interested in doing in the future.

Basically, what do you want to do for a career? What are your plans/goals? I guess for some of you who are over the hill and already starting careers, what are you doing and what do you plan on doing with that career in the future?

i've wanted to be a writer ever since i was 4. but that's kinda been crushed, i guess.
the only other things im good at would be art and music, but i dropped art, and there's way too much competition in my school for music.

so...i really really don't know.

here's my list of things to do:

finish associates at CBC(Spring)
go to Houston(Summer), get bachelors in Accounting
work under CPA while working on masters in finance
Start political career and small business
Masters in Business law
Then if all goes well and i'm not ruined by political adversaries...a restraunt called 'Reno-Rico's'

I want to become a counselling pychologist. After highschool I hope to go to Western or Trent get my BA, then get my masters.

I find it funny that you say career for your future. I suppose I'l be shot down for my ambitions, but I don't care, at all.

I really really want to get into this radiology program. Then I'll be an x ray technician. My ambition in life is to raise a family. So, I suppose that means getting married and having kids. Working really only as needed while raising kids. Depending on when this happens, I may go for my bachelors in radiology. If I don't even get in...then uh...I'll find a different bachelors. Probably hostpital administration. I really don't care. A job's a job, as long as there is decent money, benefits, and a good environment.

well, i'm going to take political science at york next year. then i'll study international law, and then i want to be a diplomat, perhaps, or get into federal politics.

conversely, i want to be a writer and a performer. i have a flair for performance art and a passion for the written word which my parents...uhhh...vehelmently discouraged. but next year, when i'm away from them, a lot of things might change for me.

i don't know. i have a real knack for politics, or i could make an excellent lawyer; but at the same time, i love my art. i wish i knew which route to take.

perhaps i'll do it all. perhaps i'll do none of it and spend the rest of my life being bitter and resentful. at the rate i'm declining at now, that seems most likely.

I actually consider homebuilder or housewife a career choice so that's why i said career.

afealicious wrote:i've wanted to be a writer ever since i was 4. but that's kinda been crushed, i guess.
the only other things im good at would be art and music, but i dropped art, and there's way too much competition in my school for music.

so...i really really don't know.

hahaha jen

holy shitfuck i hate course planning at school
i want to do what i want
but its really hard
i want to be a writer so badly
or journalist

environmental engineer

preferably in third-world countries, and lots of them.

afealicious wrote:i've wanted to be a writer ever since i was 4. but that's kinda been crushed, i guess.
the only other things im good at would be art and music, but i dropped art, and there's way too much competition in my school for music.

so...i really really don't know.

You are 13. You will change your mind hundreds of times before you even get through with university.

I guess I fall in Jim's over the hill crowd. I have been doing retail for almost 9 years, and that is where I plan on staying. I am currently store assistant manager, but someday my goal is to have my own store or even my own district. I want to retire early. When I'm 41 I should hopefully have 25 years with Wal-Mart and at that point I will evaluate where I am in my professional and personal life, and decide if I want to retire then or continue working. In my personal life, I do want to get married and have a couple of children. I have also thought of teaching on a college level after I retire.

Matt I was only kidding about the over the hill stuff, so hopefully you didn't take that as an insult.


Me, I'm right now a psych and politics double major but I plan on focusing on the politics side when I'm done my four years here at Trent. I'm hoping to get an internship with the government after graduating, and if I don't get one right away I'm going to go for my masters in politics or public policy and administration. After that I'll reapply for the internship program, which will get my foot in the door for a job as a bureaucrat within the government. If I don't get the internship because competition is fierce, I will try to simply apply for a job in the government and hope I get one, but I think the internship is the best way to get myself in there, and decide if it is something I want to do for the next 25 years.

If that fails, I've also looked into the possibility of being a real estate agent, but that has only been recently.

I hope to get married when I'm around 25 to my current girlfriend. If we did have kids we would probably only have one.

None taken. I know what age group I belong to on here

I might be a mathematics professor, but that would mean graduate school so I'm not sure.

Professor Josh has a nice ring to it. Do it!!!!!

As another over the hill person .... I've been working in IT for the past 5 1/2 years - for a company that makes credit card software for large banks. I kind of fell into the job cos I couldn't think of anything I particularly wanted to do when I left uni.

My life plan was to work for a little while then meet a man, get married and stop work totally to have children (2 or 3). Then once the children were all at school I'd get a part time job, probably with a charity, using the skills I'd learnt in my previous working career.

However .... I still haven't found a man, so that kind of ruins things. I've been thinking recently about moving into working for a charity anyway. Spending most of my time basically helping big banks to make money off people doesn't seem right, even though I enjoy my work most of the time and the people I work with are (almost) all lovely. The thing is the IT skills I have aren't really relevant for charities and lots of the other jobs on offer seem to be in fundraising or management, neither of which I really want to do. Also I'd probably end up earning about half of what I do now, if not less, so I'd have to work things out to make sure I could still pay my mortgage and bills and stuff. I shall keep investigating though.

I'd say but I'd probably get flamed or something

i was thinking the circus.

I currently stand at the edge of the present. The future before me is so wide open that I'm can only stare blankly into the dark void of possibilities, unable to see beyond the abyss to what lies in store for me.






oooh, how delightfully existential!

I don't really know what I want to do with my future, probably because I'm only fourteen. Right now I'm having enough trouble choosing my high-school.
However, I am involved in music (piano since I was five, private vocal lessons since I was 9, Award Winning choir since age 9) and would love a career in it, if possible. I also fairly enjoy writing. When I was in grade five I tried to write a fantasy book. I got to chapter nine.

People's futures aren't predetermined.

You could die tomorrow.