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General: What kind of career do you want?

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      CommentAuthorJabrosky
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2009
     

    I’m thinking about becoming either a paleontologist, an evolutionary biologist, or a journalist.

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      CommentAuthorVirgil
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2009
     

    An artist.

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    A writer. But a teacher until I can support myself with that, which may never happen.

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    An editor.

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    And editor, translator, or a teacher (piano or Irish Step Dance)
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      CommentAuthorJeni
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2009
     

    Corporate Bitch.

    Or politics.

    Or government.

    Eh.

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    A job where you can speak your opinions, be yourself and get away with it.

    A programmer, a college lecturer, a scientist a writer…a game designer perhaps? Politics, even?

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      CommentAuthorMoldorm
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2009
     

    I have no idea.
    Maybe something fun, like a game designer or a job at Wizards.

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    It’s top secret.

    I can’t tell you.

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    Bio-chemist. Researching DNA, helping mankind, that sort of thing. ;)

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      CommentAuthorDem
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2009
     
    Something in graphic design. Or editing. Teaching sounds good, too.
    • CommentAuthorWiseWillow
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2009
     

    Lawyer. Maybe politics if my moral indignation gets the best of me.

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    I feel kind of selfish because a bunch of you are listing jobs that help people, but I want to act.
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    Giving someone a moment of escapism is a great service.

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    I guess that's true.
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    Stage or film?

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    Film.
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      CommentAuthorJeni
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2009
     

    A job where you can speak your opinions, be yourself and get away with it.

    Self-employed, then? ;)

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    A famous blogger?

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      CommentAuthorDiamonte
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2009
     

    I’m going for an English major, and I’ll see where that leads me. I’d love to be an editor at a publishing house, but living in/around New York City would not appeal to me. I might go for a job as a magazine editor, or as a teacher. Or I am considering becoming a lawyer. We’ll see.

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    I have no idea. Definitely not math or computers, though! (Unfortunately for my dad…)

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    Scientist or editor. I want to be a writer, so I’m majoring in English, but you can do more with a science degree, so I’m also majoring in science (geology or astronomy, I think. I like science). Since I hate teaching, I am left with editor as my career path with an English degree- and I’m a grammar Nazi and a fanfic beta, so that would work for me. After I become world famous like J.K. Rowling, I will have more time to devote to writing and not bother about such a silly thing as a day job.

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      CommentAuthorPuppet
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2009
     

    Writer or Journalist, because I doubt I’d make it as a pro soccer player. :P

    • CommentAuthorFenix
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2009
     

    I’d like to be a scientist and do research and use my spare time to write books, articles or perhaps music.
    Realisticly speaking, I know I suck at writing so I won’t get rich quick this way, but the idea is nice non the less

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      CommentAuthorZombie Devin
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2009 edited
     

    The President of the United States of America. If I find that too boring, I will look into a career switch to full-time novelist, James Bond, and/or rock star.

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      CommentAuthorVirgil
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2009
     

    Yeah, get a Masters in James Bond. At the university of Kick Ass, founded by Chuck Norris. Run by Google.

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    I’ll be the first Indian heavy-metal vocalist/awesome author/philanthropist.

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      CommentAuthorJabrosky
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2009
     

    ^ Can you actually get away with that? I honestly don’t want to see that.

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    It’s a bot, he got hacked.

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      CommentAuthorElanor
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2009
     

    Sorry, Brandon, he’s being taken care of.

    I want to be a biological anthropologist, maybe palaeoanthropology.

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    For a second, I thought you were referring to my post. XP

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    Actually, so did I. Can you be a Indian heavy-metal vocalist/awesome author/philanthropist? I don’t think Brandon would like that.

    • CommentAuthorkaikaikat
    • CommentTimeJul 31st 2009
     
    Civil rights lawyer. Preferably with the ACLU.

    Though I hope to get published, I highly doubt my writing will support me.
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      CommentAuthorVirgil
    • CommentTimeJul 31st 2009
     

    What is that website, there are several, that is just a database of small publishers / magazines, it has a unique name that I will know or if I see the website. Its a free service, but I can’t remember the name.

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      CommentAuthorSpanman
    • CommentTimeJul 31st 2009
     

    Torn between writing novels and teaching language. Maybe both. Realistically, I’ll probably end up an artistically inclined housewife. Hmm.

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      CommentAuthorDiamonte
    • CommentTimeJul 31st 2009 edited
     

    @ Virgil: Is it Ralan? http://www.ralan.com/

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      CommentAuthorVirgil
    • CommentTimeJul 31st 2009
     

    No, but that’s a good place, I will check it out. It has another name.

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    @kaikaikat

    Ah, yes. The ACLU, which sues people who build temporary creches on public property, yet defends child molesters and promotes child pornography.

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    @ SMARTALIEN: What, do you doubt me? huffs

    • CommentAuthorkaikaikat
    • CommentTimeAug 1st 2009
     
    @ Dan Locke

    Ah, the Florida "sex offender shantytown?" You're right. Those sex offenders who've been released from prison because they've finished their sentences do deserve to be homeless because of laws stating that they can't be within a thousand feet of anywhere where children congregate. Which, as the results have shown, rules out anywhere near people at all. Truly, immoral to defend them.

    The ACLU is also terrible enough to defend a 13 year-old who was strip-searched based on a rumor that she had ibuprofen, defend a girl who was forced to give an oral report on Harvey Milk to an empty classroom because the teacher thought there could be "sexual content," sue for the torture memos to be made public, and even defended Rush Limbaugh's first amendment rights.
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    Realistic goal (aka the one I’m actually setting myself up for): an editor.

    A little further out of reach: a writer or composer.

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      CommentAuthorMoldorm
    • CommentTimeAug 1st 2009
     

    Editor would be nice. It would be satisfying to be able to cut down on the atrociously high number of grammatical errors in national newspapers.

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    Being an editor at a newspaper looks pretty cool. My dad’s an editor-in-chief, so I get to see it done whenever I’m at his workplace (which used to be a lot of the time). He’s all “No, you can’t write that, that’s too biased” and all “Ok, one of our reporters is an idiot, we need to make sure he doesn’t include a hundred racist slurs on his next article” and all “Ok, remove that sentence and replace it with what I’m about to dictate”.

    It’s kind of cool until the editting bizniz carries over outside of the workplace. Like at the park. Or in the middle of a movie at the cinema.

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    @kaikaikat

    I suggest that you read The ACLU vs. America. It’s a very detailed history of the organization which showcases some of their most horrible deeds. I say that with no hyperbole or exaggeration.

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      CommentAuthorJeni
    • CommentTimeAug 2nd 2009
     

    I tried reading the sample chapter, it bored me with it’s scaremongering of Baldwin being a SOCIALIST! COMMUNIST! ATHEIST! ABORTIONIST (and therefore Nazi)! POLYGAMIST!

    I gave up by page 9.

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      CommentAuthorVirgil
    • CommentTimeAug 2nd 2009
     

    and therefore Nazi)

    Hahaha.

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    “The authors also wish to thank Bill O’Reilly…” That’s about where I stopped reading.

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      CommentAuthorVirgil
    • CommentTimeAug 2nd 2009
     

    “The authors also wish to thank Bill O’Reilly…” That’s about where I stopped reading.

    This is ACLU v America?

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    http://books.google.com/books?id=lNG_uRwbYKkC&dq=the+aclu+vs.+america&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=H2gNIVNZ_t&sig=PjvBSm6ZI-F5Xezv9RxnylKYMIQ&hl=en&ei=etV1Sr_pPI2SsgPeprzZCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v=onepage&q=&f=false

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      CommentAuthorVirgil
    • CommentTimeAug 2nd 2009
     

    Wow.

    ‘Finally, we give thanks to Almighty God..’

    That’s as far as I got, then I saw O’Reilly a few lines down and closed the tab.

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      CommentAuthorArtimaeus
    • CommentTimeAug 2nd 2009 edited
     

    Oh dear… We’re expected to take seriously a book that puts talk radio personalities in its acknowledgments? Reading a few pages in:

    We now live in a country where our traditional Christian and Jewish faith and religion- civilizing forces in any society- are openly mocked and increasingly pushed to the margins. We live in a country where Parental authority is undermined and children have less protection from pornography, violent crime, and the promotion of dangerous and selfish sexual behaviors. We live in a country where the value of human life has been cheapened- from the moment and manner of conception to natural or unnatural death.

    Really?

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    I’m not talking about that stuff. I’m talking about their advocacy of NAMBLA, vehement opposition against the Boy Scouts, and insistence that children should be able to look at porn on public computers without parental knowledge.

    For the record, I think that Bill O’Reilly is an airhead.

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      CommentAuthorVirgil
    • CommentTimeAug 2nd 2009
     

    That last one sounds more like internet censorship but they are all ‘Five year olds can watch XXX pornography with their parents egging them on!’ kind of hyperbole and fear-mongering.

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    Internet censorship? The relevant case involved a library that had – horror of horrors – porn filters on the computers! How Puritan! How repressive!

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      CommentAuthorVirgil
    • CommentTimeAug 2nd 2009
     

    Yeah, I’m already bored with this. I usually only debate about religion. And I’m not even doing that anymore.

    And this is a career thread.

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    All right, then. Back on topic.

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    After I become world famous like J.K. Rowling, I will have more time to devote to writing and not bother about such a silly thing as a day job.

    That is my plan as well. =) It’d be so nice if it came true.

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      CommentAuthorswenson
    • CommentTimeAug 4th 2009
     

    Something computer-science-related. Unfortunately I was born a generation too late to do what I really want to do, which is write text adventures commercially, so I’ll settle for some other form of programming.

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      CommentAuthorArtimaeus
    • CommentTimeAug 4th 2009
     

    That is my plan as well. =) It’d be so nice if it came true.

    Amen brother!

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      CommentAuthorCGilga
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2009
     

    My goal is to be a theatre teacher.

    • CommentAuthorIsabel
    • CommentTimeAug 13th 2009 edited
     
    I'm thinking Pharmacy. My aunt's neighbor is one, so I might go job-shadow him.

    I used to really want to be a history teacher. Then all the talk of how ridiculously hard it is to get a job in that subject got to me and I switched to thinking of starting into a Chem major and seeing where it takes me.
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      CommentAuthorVirgil
    • CommentTimeAug 13th 2009
     

    If I was a teacher I’d want to do Art or History, in high school.

    • CommentAuthorWiseWillow
    • CommentTimeAug 13th 2009
     

    Hey, Isabel- me too! And it’s dead depressing how many of the ones who do get a job suck.

    • CommentAuthorIsabel
    • CommentTimeAug 13th 2009
     
    That's unfortunate. :/ At my school, it seems to be a rule that you must be cool in order to be hired as a history teacher.
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    I want to be primarilly a writer, then have a minor in psychology and reading body language, technology, and have multipul transferable skills so I can jump to any other job through basically knowing how people think and act, adjusting my body language to friendly but professional, having a basis of good education, technology, and being bilingual which I’m not at least yet

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