What career field are you in/ going to school for?

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Currently in the last year of a animal behaviour and welfare degree, so i'll get a job with animals. I also plan on writing some books as well.

I'm currently working as a volunteer assisting in mixed ed, normal and special education.

I may go into the field of special ed.

But I try hard to get into musical!

I may go into biology too, if I just had the grades for it.

Or the medical field. I'd love to become a doctor! But they demand full points/best grades too.

I'm also interested in philosophy and Anglistics but really... what kind of job to do with such subjects?

Anyway, I'm set for university. I really want to go to university.

At college and hoping to work in film & make movies etc.

Right now, I'm not in college, but I'll be going back soon and I hope to become a Meteorologist.

veternary medicine

I work in the accounting field but I still feel tremendously pulled toward the science field.

Currently a Teacher. elementary and middle grades. I do have a love for education, but I often have problems with social interaction because of the AS. It affects me professionally. Not good.

Had I been more self-aware during high school, I would have pursued what I am actually good at; indeed, what I am fundamentally driven to do... Music and Plants.

I am a self-taught multi-instrumentalist, and playing music just brings me total joy and peace. I would go utterly insane if I couldn't play music.

I also have a bottomless love and fascination for plants. Botanical taxonomy interests the hell out of me. I have an eclectic garden that fairly reeks of intellectual snobbery. I could tell you the history, uses, scientific and common names, cultural characteristics, and other dry encyclopedic information about the hundreds of plants I keep. Somehow I need to make a career out of it.

Until then, still teaching.

Very long story here...sorry about it. In summary, my jobs are accounting, drafting and surveying, marketing, and I'm thinking about going into psychology (mainly research and theory).

Got outta highschool and wanted to be in the creative part of marketing. But, my dad got cancer, so my academics suffered because the parental units kept pushing me into staying in school to stay on their health insurance even though I didn't want to. While my dad was alive, I helped him a lot, begging and pleading to help, because he did marketing for small town scale. He actually sold advertising for radio, but he did a lot of promotions on his own through a small ad agency he created. After he died, I closed up the ad agency because he got all the deals. I just wanted to do the creative stuff, and there wasn't anything for me with that. I ended up working a bunch of stupid jobs while going to school. I'd either quit for something better or get fired because of my award winning personality. In school, I kept changing majors from marketing to business to teaching back to business then to art then I got a job in accounting, so i switched again to accounting. My first real job. I was Assistant Comptroller by the time I left there. I was awesome at the job. But, I sided with the Comptroller in the middle of political warfare, and even though I had the Board of Directors having my back, I got trumped when the Executive Director started to pull in funding sources. So, instead of getting fired, they laid me off which was great for unemployment. Being in love with my Comptroller's son, a doctor, I chased him volunteering in his clinic he had just bought. He fired me around the same time he dumped me, for an ugly blonde who was superficial and ignorant. I say ignorant because she has a germ phobia but was studying to be a gynecologist.

Anyway, I was sick of all that world. I took my father's advice from when he was alive and joined the Air Force. I should have went Marine Corps, but I hated to run. They had me doing drafting and surveying. Tech School was easy for me...lots of trig, easy. I got to my first duty station, and somewhere along the way, my award winning personality striked a Tech Sgt's fancy, and after a vicious lying email he wrote to my shirt, my life became very miserable. The only thing that got me through it was my boyfriend at the time that I met there, and he became my husband. Fortunately for me, the Air Force was force shaping, so I volunteered to get out early and got honorably discharged, but of course, I picked a date that gave me time to really stick it to the man (or the First Shirt in this case). Then, I got married, and I worked in bookkeeping. I got fired in a month from that job because I was trying to repair the guy's books. He was depreciating expenses and not all his assets and it was a mess, and some assets were expensed, and he didn't even know what was in his checking account. After I fixed most of it outside of all the property, he fired me. He has no idea that fixing that would improve his net worth and save him money in the long run. I love when someone who knows absolutely nothing about accounting wants to tell me how to do my job with accounting. Then, I found a job managing a tax office. I hated having to deal with employees and all the HR outside of creating manuals (they did not have a sexual harrassment policy or any training manuals). I did some bookkeeping for him, which again, he wanted to tell me how to do something he didn't know how to do. We argued a lot. But, I also did all his marketing, and in the one year I worked there, I changed his 30,000 dollar a year loss (for 6 years running) to about a 1,000 loss (he redecorated the offices which costed over 10 grand, so I actually turned a profit if you don't count that). He still felt compelled to fire me when I was nine months pregnant because I was pregnant. Illegal yes, but could i prove it, no.

So, now I'm a stay at home mom with two kids. Hubby got out the air force and he has a good job. I plan on going back to school, and I took some psychology courses and have a serious interest in research. I don't know yet, but I'm just giving myself some time to think about it. The four year degree will be an Arts degree just because it will take all my credits from before. I figure I have until graduate work to really make a decision. Until then, I also have a little internet business I'm nursing. I'd like to see how that goes. If I could equivilate one of my husband's pay checks, that would be awesome. I like it because I get to use all my strengths, but my biggest weakness is staying on top of it. I keep getting distracted with life like the kids, the housework, internet forums, etc. I seem to also have a lot of charity type projects I want to do as well, and I feel like those should come first.

My major is neuroscience and I'm hoping to become a researcher in either biopsychology or behavioral neuroscience after I get my Ph.D. I thought about medicine (gotta love those doctor salaries) but I'm at a point where I really do need to make a decision, and medicine just looks to be more trouble than it's worth.