What do you want to do?

I've been thinking a lot lately about what I'm going to do for a career, so I can focus my classes on getting to that point, instead of just taking classes that look interesting, but you know, all I can really think of that I want to do is travel, just drive around working when I need money, but living on the road. But I can't find classes on being a successful transient, so I think I'll have to think of something else.
Here's my question. What do you want to do? What are you doing? Do you like it? and why?

I teach math. I love it. I'm a nerd.

I think we're all nerds. I am, and I like to think that other people are like me. :P

hmmmm well i want to be a spokes- person...or a "sexologist" i want to go study at Kinsey! i think that would be great. but i will prolly be doing something representing someone or a company. i'm a talker and i do it well :)

You're such a cool nerd, though.

I'm gonna need you when I go back to school. *sigh* I've failed high school math twice now... :(

What -am- I doing? Part time music librarian for a provincial radio network. Surrounded by cool people and amazing music, I love it. *nods*

I aspire to be on-air someday, or in management, but very likely still here at CKUA.

I also want to do freelance graphic design, be an interior designer/architect, and be a famous jazz singer. So, yeah. Whichever one is more important to be varies from day to day... or hour to hour... ah weel.

See, I'd honestly suggest not focusing anything until you know what you want to do.
Just to share my experience...

I started school as a generic art major. That's what I'd been planing on since highschool. My first semester, I decided to go into Computer Art, because I liked all the neat computer animated stuff. Because it looked like fun, I also took a class titled "imaginative writing" my freshman year. When I began to get disillusioned with the computer art program (to make a long story short, there was too much computer, and not enough art) I decided I needed a break, and went over to Creative Writing. When I started out there, I thought I was going into fiction. It made sense, that was all I really read. Then as I kept writing, it became more apparent that poetry was where most of my writing skills lay. Now, that's where I am right now. I'm about to graduate with a BFA in Creative Writing, with focus in poetry.

Of course, that leads me to grad school. I was looking around for MFA programs, but there were also some people (*cough*jaci*cough* ;) who exposed me to the idea of library science. The more I noticed just how much politics there were involved within the accademic system, I began to have second thoughts on the MFA. So now I'm taking a year of to fully decide (well, I think I've settled into libraries, but the dedline has passed).

I think the moral of the story (other than "Talcott likes to write about himself") is "just look around for something you like, and go with it as long as you want to". Personaly, I think that the arts are perfect for this, but that might be my own thing. The one thing that I'm learning (well, teaching myself) is not to worry about the future. Take all the classes you can, and eventually something good will come of it.

I'm a software engineer specializing in embedded real-time systems development for cellular infrastructure. Currently, I'm a field support engineer, which means I get paged when things go wrong and I have to fix them. I love my job. Some of my bosses I could do without, but all in all I ain't complaining.

Um, other than that, law is a hobby of mine (yes, just adding insult to injury there). I'm sort of self-educated in that subject.

I'm also starting on being what euphemistically could be referred to as a political activist. Annoying our city council right now by showing what despots they are and how they lie about things like the tax rate and stuff.

i'd like to be a parrot behavioral consultant. when i started working at petco in 2001 i was fascinated by the parrots. i stayed in the bird room as much as possible, which was never enough. i would follow two of the managers or the animal care specialist around and ask them all sorts of questions. when i moved to boston, the petco i transferred to had an adorable blue and gold macaw, a goffins cockatoo, and an umbrella cockatoo. i immediately fell in love with the g2 and seriously considered buying him. the day after i met him he was bought. i then proceeded to fall in love with the u2. he too, was purchased within my first week. then i made friends with the macaw, and we became good buddies. he'd let me take him out (on the rare occasion i could get into the bird room), and he loved when i scritched his head. even though i quit in october, i went in two weeks ago and perked up when he saw me. cuteness. he let me scritch, and he even started begging for food from me, which he'd never done to me before.

there are a few things holding me back right now:
- i don't have any parrots, and won't be able to get any for at least another eight months
- there isn't any certification or program for would-be behaviorists like myself
- the only credentials are experience, and i have none

i think i'd be a good behaviorist. i read all the time about people who buy birds and don't know what to do with them so they throw them away or end up abusing them out of ignorance (or, unfortunately, hatred). i'd also love to donate time to a rescue organization (there's a local one i'd love to work with, but it's far outside of public transportation's reach www.fosterparrots.com).

there's a desperate need for information regarding companion parrots, and i want to help alleviate that need.

if anybody has any questions about anything, feel free to email me and [email protected]

Maggie

Maybe you could figure out why my Aunt's conyer hates me. Every time I go within 10 feet of that thing it hisses and raises it's wings in attack mode. My Aunt insisted I held it once and the thing bit me. I normally love animals but this bird drives me crazy. The only person it seems to get along with is my Aunt. But it also attacks her at times. She has another one though that is so cute. It gives me kisses. He rides my cousin's toy cars around. Cute little bird.

Sarah

When I was little I wanted to be a vet. Then after I learned that sometimes vets have to put animals down I didn't want to be one anymore. Then I wanted to be a journalist then for some reason gave that idea up. In high school I wanted to get into computer programming. I had a great teacher who got me into computers, saw some potential in me and really worked with me for close to 3 years on learning everything I could about computers, robotics and electronics. He also got me into graphic design. After spending a year as a computer science major and deciding I didn't like it at all I realized I wanted to get into graphic design and web design. I'm more creative than I am logical. Now I'm actually working with the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital and Children's Miracle Network doing graphic design of promotional brochures and posters as part of my senior project. I love it. I realized that I really want to get into promotional graphic and web work. I'm also doing a website for them and I'm really enjoying it. Another thing I wanted to be at one point was a nurse but I know I would get too depressed. But, I get to see the kids at the hospital sometimes and see them when they get presents. It's great.
Sarah

heh!
I echo all the people who say "follow your heart"
I have been a musician my whole life, and I love it!
I've also had the "pay the bills" jobs.
right now I'm working on a "career", (sign language interpreter) something I love, but it will also turn into a job that will let me continue to follow my music dreams, and fit with the wife and mother that I want to be.
Thing is..your dreams, and desires may change as you get older..so if you can't put your finger on any "one" thing..don't worry, you're normal!
~J~

well ... this is kind of hard for me to answere... cause I want to be an artist but I already am an artist... I gues you could say I want to be a better artist... broaden my pliable mediums and all that. why do I like it. I don't. I LOVE it... and there is no telling why. I just do. art is my apple jacks.

Well. I did want to be a violinist but I was too bollocks at it to be anything more than a badly-paid orchestral player. Which would've been fine, except that the one orchestra course i did left me in agony (slouchers: try sitting up straight on the edge of your chair for 3 straight days). and then i started getting really good at singing and thought, what the hell, i'll become an opera singer instead. :D

so, i'm going to go to uni and do a music degree with a specialisation in singing performance, and then i'll do my masters at the royal academy or the royal college or somewhere. (or maybe juillard. ooooooooh, now that would be cool.) and then i'll be a famous opera singer (yup, because it'll just happen like that, y'know. whatever.) :D

Ooh, I wish I was good enough at singing or violin to do those. I was going to be a teacher, but decided this year against it. Now I'm just a history major, music minor with no friggin' clue what I am going to do when I graduate. Ah well, 1.5 years left to not think about it. :-\