Heya all,

Just wondering what sort of education and/or work you are doing? Such as what you do at school/college or do at work etc.

I myself am at a University, just about to enter my second year of Film Studies.

Discuss. =]

I go to MTSU, but nothing interesting has ever happened there.

MasterLagger wrote:
I go to MTSU, but nothing interesting has ever happened there.

Can I ask what you study there?

BS that I don't care about. I'm one of those people that hate college.

MasterLagger wrote:
BS that I don't care about. I'm one of those people that hate college.

Wait...so you're at university...but you don't care about what you are studying?

Does the uni in the states differ from that of the UK? As we just do specific courses at degree level.

I'm in high school studying Computer Science and work at an office.

We'll just say that I'm not into my college years yet. Therefore, also, I of course have no job.

Lostprophetpunk wrote:
MasterLagger wrote:

BS that I don't care about. I'm one of those people that hate college.

Wait...so you're at university...but you don't care about what you are studying?

Does the uni in the states differ from that of the UK? As we just do specific courses at degree level.

I never wanted to go to college in the first place, my parents made me go. I don't know what the hell I want to do for a degree. And even if I did, I have to study BS to fill "General Requirements" credits. It's a pain in the ass. Be glad you don't go to college in the USA.

Ah I see now, it's a lot different here in the UK.

We have a lot of greedy bastards in the college industry in the USA. With all the pointless learning and such, a lot of people are too depressed to think of a career to study. Judging by your posts it seems college in the UK is better.

Forever unemployed because there are no jobs in Seattle, no matter what anyone tells you.

As for school ... I'm starting at DigiPen Institute of Technology in a couple months. Should be good, even though their registration process has been a navigational nightmare.

Will T. wrote:
Forever unemployed because there are no jobs in Seattle, no matter what anyone tells you.

As for school ... I'm starting at DigiPen Institute of Technology in a couple months. Should be good, even though their registration process has been a navigational nightmare.

That sounds cool. Wish you luck on it.

I'm studying at College level (16-18 years old in the UK) and therefore don't have a fulltime job, well... any job really. Doing Classical Civilisation, Philosophy, English Literature and 20th Century History. I'm more of an essay guy as opposed to maths, sciences or foreign languages, all of which I horribly fail at.

The Irate Pirate wrote:
I'm studying at College level (16-18 years old in the UK) and therefore don't have a fulltime job, well... any job really. Doing Classical Civilisation, Philosophy, English Literature and 20th Century History. I'm more of an essay guy as opposed to maths, sciences or foreign languages, all of which I horribly fail at.

That would be AS/A2 wouldn't it...or is it actually at college?

Also for foreign languages...Anata wak bakadesu. =P (means you are a fool)

I completed four years of university, four years of medical school, and three years of pediatric residency.

I am a full-time pediatrician specializing in AD/HD. I am also a pediatric hospitalist.

I wrote two books, one on general pediatric medicine and the other on immunization.

MasterLagger wrote:
We have a lot of greedy bastards in the college industry in the USA. With all the pointless learning and such, a lot of people are too depressed to think of a career to study. Judging by your posts it seems college in the UK is better.

Most educations are unfair. I was talking to someone in the UK and they were telling me that if you didn't get education from one of the high-end universities like Cambridge or Oxford you will get nowhere in life.

Here all education is the same (as in you get the same degrees) no matter what university you go to. Though there is special universities that people would rather go to for certain things. For example Canberra university has all the arty-technology aspects and Wollongong has Engineering and sciences.

What I don't like about Universities is that it costs so much! I would have to spend my whole life savings just for a 4 year course in the career I want.

Will T. wrote:
Forever unemployed because there are no jobs in Seattle, no matter what anyone tells you.

Depends on your profession. I moved to Seattle and now have a full time position as a software developer for amazon.com. They are still looking to fill a ton of open positions.

Mevious wrote:
Depends on your profession. I moved to Seattle and now have a full time position as a software developer for amazon.com. They are still looking to fill a ton of open positions.

That's a position that requires experience in the field though. I'm still relatively new in the market, having only finished high school a year ago and my two-year degree last month (got to take college courses during HS for dual credit). No one wants to hire me because I don't have experience. I don't have experience because no one wants to hire me. It's kind of a lethal cycle.

In the meantime I'm just continuing with school. DigiPen has an estimated employment-after-graduation rate of 70-80% for the program I'm taking, so things ought to change once I have that done.

I have heard that Amazon has some sort of temp-agency thing for shelf-stocking and the like. I only heard about it earlier this week though, haven't had time to look into it yet, but I will. I'm pretty burnt out on job-hunting after two solid years of 0% success, so I've decided to focus 100% on school and stop smashing my self-esteem with repeated employment rejections for a while.

Actually I do have some small income, mowing the lawn at my church and my neighbor's house, but I don't consider those "real" jobs since they're just one-hour-a-week-during-the-summer things. My parents will let me live at home as long as I'm in school, so I have a house at least until DigiPen is finished.

Just thinking about college is depressing.

Dude, we get it. You don't want to go to college.

Also, just because this is the off-topic section, let's keep it fairly ordinary. This isn't the anything-goes section. Political debates are pretty much a fast ticket to the trash bin.