What is your actual career/career goal?

The 'certifications test' thread got me wondering; there are a lot of people here doing some cool or weird stuff. I'm wondering if we could actually get an idea of who's all trying to go where in the next few years once school's done, or if you're out of school, what you're doing and what your next moves are?

Edited by brihard - 20 March 2010 at 2:43pm

I'm Getting ready to start my senior year of college.
 -I'm a double major in International Relations & Comparative Politcs and Pre-Law

But, after school, I just can't see myself just jumping right back into school for 3 more years, especially grad school. 

So for now, I'm going to probably join the military.  Probably Air Force, and go Pararescue. Though I haven't completely decided against the other branches.


*Alternative* A couple of senior citizens that are long time members of the city council have told me I should legitimately consider putting my name on the ballot for Mayor in 2012.  My last name has a pretty strong recognition factor in my town because of my dad, and everyone hates our current mayor.

Starting my senior year of college next semester as well.  Graduating in May '11 with a BS in criminology and criminal justice.  I'll be getting my 2nd lieutenant bar at that time as well.  I will find out this fall sometime what branch I'll be in, my first choice is MP, second is Ordnance, third is MI.  After my 8 years are up I will either finish out my career in the Army or do federal LE.

What's a police officer get paid down your way?

Eventually, I plan on getting into law school. But for now I'm a full time student and on the lookout for a better job that will work around my schedule. Sucks working 8 days a month.

Im graduating in may with a BS in Electrical/Mechanical engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology. Got a job offer in florida working for a company called Arthrex which is a privately owned manufacturing firm in Naples that makes Orthopedic Surgical Tools and Implants. Ill be working as a manufacturing engineer down there starting in July.

Being privately owned, we can do things that publicly traded companies cant. Whatever the owner says to work on, you get done and you get it done fast and you get rewarded for the extra effort. I had product go from a print handed to me that was 5 years old, to final prototypes being machined in 3 days. That is just not possible to do in most companies, its amazing.

Option 1: Fly for the Marines.  If I can't fly, do something else for the Marines, possibly get a graduate degree and become an aerospace engineer for the Marines.

Option 2: Build planes somewhere in the civilian world.  Buy my own B-2, and never look back.

I just graduated from college with a degrees in biology and chemistry.  I have 1 year in which I'm teaching microbiology at the community college, as well as teaching an intro biology course at Kent State.  This is only temporary before I venture on into veterinary school. 

got one year left in my electrical engineering. I am specializing in power and distribution.

Strangely enough I fell in to EMS and being a paramedic... I didn't even know the different between EMTs and Paramedics 2 years ago when I first started. I'm 1 short test away from having my certification, and 1 semester from having my degree in paramedicine.


Once I get my degree in Paramedicine, I'll be going back to finish my degree in criminal justice. I've always wanted to be a cop and now being a paramedic has opened a unique door to me: Department of Public Safety. A few cities around the US have a DPS style agency where their employees are tri-trained to be cops/firefighters/Paramedics, and you do all 3 in one shift, and make pretty good money doing it.





tl;dr-- Tri-trained cop/firefighter/paramedic at a DPS agency.