What do you do with....
Raf:
Write to or call Exxon and ask them who they are hiring.
Tell 'em ya want to work for 'em.
Oil is going to be here, in one way or another for the rest of your life.
Or, study money, world economics and civics then go to law school and finish at the top of your class...opportunities will magically appear....or marry your law studies to the oil business and by golly, one day, you may become the CEO of EXXON!
Dream big baby!
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QwarkYeah that's how you do it
Go to a conference (those companies often have things like a "business lunch", "career opportunity meeting", "career conference" etc. at good universities, then speak with someone of their HR-Management and they'll tell you what they need most Then start low and well if you're good at it you'll be in a greater position at no time
It really depends most on what you like to do not what you should do based on the opinion of others.
So do you have any favorite companies you would like to work for ?omg - lol - it's the big dreaming that got me here in the first place!
what I'm trying to do is find a way to narrow down the dreams, lol, how does anyone know what career will make them happy? with a science degree? lolRaf:
I'm just guessing.
You are young?
I took the same college path you are on. Jr. college, then on to a 4 yr college.
Every college has counselors.
If you are young, and are confused, I'd like to make a suggestion.
It is extreme, but I did it and I wouldn't have changed my decision.
With much thought and consideration, at 18, I joined the USAF!
I didn't want to join a combat facet of the military i.e. the Army or Marines.
The USAF sent me to school, taught me a trade I could fall back on in civilian life and offered me 4 yrs of college with tuition fully paid! I also spent 3 yrs in Europe working under wonderful conditions and eating the best foods.
When I was discharged
at 23, I began college college work and ended up with a couple Masters Degrees.
During that time, hopefully, you'll be able to figure out what you'd really like to do in your life.
Just a suggestion!
Qwark:not young enough, lol. thanks for the suggestion, tho - I almost took that path when I was young, but life had other ideas for me.
it's just crazy, ya know? I'm no longer young enough to go for everything I'm interested in...and it's such a large variety that I don't see how I can intermix them. lol I hafta choose! (when I was young, and saw this coming, I chose writing as my career but never got to it until I found HubPages.)Haha I nearly did the same but I joined the Army after my bachelor of science - and due to my good marks was promoted Corporal pretty fast. I was then responsible for WMD-weapons and their detection (which sounds quite exciting but basically is just sitting in a lab all day long, 10 stories under the surface, joined by dangerous bacteria, viruses and chemicals - how nice is that xD) and after 1 and a half years of active-duty I continued my studies. But I have to say I learned a lot during that time, also how barbarous humans can be, and how fragile the human body is (therefore I can also recommend you Forensics like Julie2 mentioned, however you'll have to have a strong stomach and you'll never forget the smell of Formol your whole life
).
Well basically you can do anything in the fields of science, and it's hard to decide what to specialize in, because there are so many great subjects but as long as you do something that you're interested in, I think you can achieve anything.I guess it's just too early to decide...can't decide before I take the science classes!
from what i see in your replies i think you should definitely go for astrophysics.
How life works ? that will be study of biological evolution/abiogenesis which you may or may not like after some time due to faith reasons. Behavioral science is good but it's part of psychology degree and if you're into science then you should go for neuroscience instead of social psychology.Haha Biology xD. Either you're born for it or you hate it
Oh and well you can do a PhD in nearly every subject you want
If you want to study Astrophysics you first have to study "ordinary" Physics, at least at my University only the Masters degree is where you can branch off to Astrophysics. I have to say I love Physics but it's really a lot of mathematics!! Chemistry is a bit less math based
Oh and labs rock! Once you've in a higher class, you can synthesize nearly everything you can imagine it's also cool to handle dangerous chemicals that could blow the whole place or are poisonous as hell xD It's somehow thrilling I'm worried about Chemistry - I don't have the best memory for things that aren't logical.
Chemical symbols aren't always logical - I've never understood the periodic table from looking at it, whereas the multiplication table is completely logical.
On the flip side, I think I'd enjoy Chemistry for the very reasons you mention.
First, get registered at a 4-year school for your bachelors degree. You want to do this so that you can tell prospective employers that you are doing this. This will result in the company perceiving you as a long-term investment; that is a good thing.
Then start applying for lab tech jobs at every R&D place you can find.
Frankly, your odds are about 1 in a 100.
If you wear that hat, 1 in 50.Interesting. Apply for lab tech jobs at all R & D places in order to figure it out? Makes sense, lol.
Haha check this
http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
and then this
http://periodicvideos.com/
check some vids on both pages and tell me which page is more interestinghey, cool.
I could only get one video to work - a chemistry video, boring. (I can't even remember which element! I think it was something with an N)
I thought the sixty symbols was more interesting, some were even familiar (I've self-studied a little astrology, even created my own birth chart which matched a computer generated one a few years later)
Some of the sixty symbols seemed to make sense while others made no sense (a bird drinking from a bucket?? lol)
I'm curious what the unfamiliar symbols are used for.Haha check the molecules
here http://periodicvideos.com/molecularvideos.htm
or the extra videos (also somewhere on the page), those are a bit different
Well and the drinking bird is also a very famous experiment (I bet you have seen it elsewhere before) check the details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_Bird it's only a small articleWe'll you're not likely to invent a perpetual motion machine, the laws of Thermodynamics would be pretty peed off if you did
No, cranks, loonies and crackpots. No physics involved.
- china manposted 13 years ago
0I kinda thought that's what I've been doing, with interests added, and I ended up with a couple classes this year that I'm quite disappointed in having chosen them.
History of pop/rock music and music appreciation - although, I am challenged by the MA class and like it so far. I'm also unhappy with my Anthropology class, but that may have more to do with the instructor - it's her first year teaching and all she does is repeat what's in the textbook,, and it seems she doesn't come prepared to answer questions outside her specialty.
Ah well so I know what we're talking about! anyway thanks for the clarification
I always knew that I want to study general Physics AND general Chemistry at the University, but before that I never had to decide wether to take science classes or not since they all were mandatory till University. That's we're I had to decide what to studywhat?!
the post is kinda helpful.
Hey! RDSPhD - do you know anything about Meta Physics? It sounds like it'd be kinda like Philosophy... (well, that's where I heard it, anyway, was in my Philosophy class)Hey Rafini!
Haha sorry about the post
Well metaphysics actually belongs to the fields of Philosophy, as far as I know it has more in common with Philosophy than with actual Physics, but it's an interesting field because it deals with the same questions than most physicists ask themselves (why are we here? Is there a god? If yes why doesn't he show his presence? If not where are we from? etc.) but makes a more philosophical approach in answering these questions (e.g. not based on measuring background radiation in space but rather trying to answer these questions with a logical approach and more terrestrial proofs).
It certainly is a good subject since you won't get to these fascinating questions, when studying physics at the university, before the 5th or 6th semester (although you'll be answering other quite exciting questions in basic physics studies to get some sort of groundwork done before approaching Astro-Physics and the questions connected with it )okay, thanks! looks like I may have solved my dilemma
(with a little, or a little more than a little, help from my friends )
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