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04 Mar 2009, 4:54 am

Oops, I guess for some reason when I was reading your post, ruennsheng, i thought you said "geology" instead of "geography".



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04 Mar 2009, 11:32 am

ruennsheng wrote:
"Geology is a science though. I only took geology 110 though and it was pretty easy. I have no idea what advanced geology is like, but if I could have gone back I would have considered this. It would be good if you want to work in the oilpatch."

If I can find oil and 'retire' at a ripe old age of 40, I will consider geology :P Other than that, I will still try to avoid sciences but I will take a step at a time.

"what do people in your family do? do you have a relative working a job you can see yourself doing?"

I have two retired parents (but they ain't rich, man) and two married sisters. No $$$, sigh. So I will just wait and see.


do not fool yourself into thinking you should be making a lot $$ in life. you should expect to work very hard for very little money with little job security. that's just reality for you my friend. the middle class is getting screwed all over the world. and working people's wages are going down.



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05 Mar 2009, 5:25 am

In this case... What I feared might just happen --- I may end up being a janitor in the gaming arcade nearest to my home. Haha. I will see though.



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18 Mar 2009, 5:19 am

I'm responding because this thread appealed to me. I feel much the same way about college and it's also my last semester. Owing to various emotional problems and resulting time off on leave, it's taken me 8 years to get this far. Each semester it seems I get more burnt out. My GPA isn't that good (only 2.6) because I've been focusing on the bare minimum to get by. I have two majors in computer science and music and, although I care about the subjects, the classes I'm taking are incredibly boring.

I wish you luck and lots of motivation. I hope that you can do the same for me.



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18 Mar 2009, 6:42 am

It's alright. College will at least give an experience and opportunity in life, to explore our interests and further refine them... If we don't try how do we even know what lies ahead of us?