now. But I plan to be a Pharmacist, School Isn't really doing to good for me. I messed up the past 2 years by hanging out with the wrong group. I'm doing fine in everything except for math.
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Yes, what hunz said. You get paid COIN to be a phramacist. Like, senior developer (65k ish and up?) type of coin. Also, all the baby boomers are goin into the goldenyears == lots of ppl needed drugs.
preferably also involving me being someone's admin. (although i'd die to to beta work for konami or rockstar ... /me keeps on dreaming)
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Nothing wrong with being QA for a gaming company, just keep in mind it can be really tedious, you work hell hours, and youdon't get paid a whole lot.
i'm a freshman in college and right now my major is listed as MIS (management information systems). however i am looking into political science and/or history...
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What do you wanna do with MIS? Most of the folks i've seen in the industry with MIS are QA or BAs.
...replacing broken "coffee cup holders", wondering how the HELL they managed to plug the mouse into the printer port and so on...
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That is what I do. I am employed here (http://www.4gdata.com/) and they have stationed me here (http://www.citigroup.com/).
And the only thing I admin is the in-office print server, but that will hopefully change with promotions.
Yes, what hunz said. You get paid COIN to be a phramacist. Like, senior developer (65k ish and up?) type of coin. Also, all the baby boomers are goin into the goldenyears == lots of ppl needed drugs.
So what you are saying is that. Pharamcists is a good job am going for and I would get payed alot of cold hard cash?
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Yeah, sure, that's what I'm saying. keep in mind that almost every single one of my pharmacists friends doesn't like their job. perhaps because the degree is quite challenging to get (tons of memorization etc) but the job, not so much.
I'm a shipper/reciever for a sporting goods company. Starting wage was only $10 an hour and it's not the most glorious of titles but I couldn't have asked for more. I basically walk around the warehouse getting items for mail order customers. Things ranging from guns to tents to fish hooks. It's pretty nice because you're always looking for new things and every day you are rewarded with at least one "holy grail" of items that noone else could find but you. Pay isn't great but it's a pretty down to earth job.
If you plan on attending post secondary I would highly advise against going to university. In Canada you pay about $30 for each one hour lecture to hear some jackass tell you how is research is going. It's mostly theory with no practicality and jobs don't hire based on education.
Experience > Education
Ramble ramble ramble....
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Arse professors abound everywhere.
Post secondary, however, allows you to get a degree to get better experience, with a solid chunk of credit hours for free.
I'm taking 35 this year at OSU, add in the stuff I get from AP tests, and I'll finish HS with about 45 credit hours at college under my belt, so I can jump right into 200 level Aerotech next year, not have to deal with crap english and arts classes.
Also that's many years of expensive school, so you'll have a good deal of debt to offset the pay. But the pay will be nice.
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I speak from the canadian perspective. Relatively, school is hella cheaper. like, 4-7k per year. Hell, when i was in school, it was 2k/year. Not exactly a bank breaker.
And take AO's suggestions about education with a grain of salt. Education is important, in many places, an undergrad degree is needed to get your foot in the door. But experience with education is the best. Co-op whatever you are doing, if you're not sure if you'll get a job when you grad.
I work for the government after 7 years studying Molecular Biology/Genetics (with a final year and thesis focusing on virology/parasitology).
Doesn't that look good on paper eh?
In my spare time I do the Alien v models pack and various other bits and pieces, as well as debug a buggy mod for Star Trek Armada II and work on my e-novel, The Art of Warhammer.
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what do you do for the government? work at the CDC?
I'm willing to go through alot of schooling to be a pharmacists. I dont know what else I would be if I wasn't going to be a phramacists. Thanks everyone for telling me more about pharmacists. But one more thing. How many years of university is it? and should I start going to university right after high school or rest for a year.
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In canada, it's a 5 year undergrad degree, IIRC.
I'm willing to go through alot of schooling to be a pharmacists. I dont know what else I would be if I wasn't going to be a phramacists. Thanks everyone for telling me more about pharmacists. But one more thing. How many years of university is it? and should I start going to university right after high school or rest for a year.
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In canada, it's a 5 year undergrad degree, IIRC.
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Which equates to 3 American years. :)
Seriously though, take as much chemistry as you can before you get there, especially organic chemistry. You probably need to develop a working knowledge of functional groups and molecular structure, so you can screen for interactions in your head as you write out perscriptions.
I'm willing to go through alot of schooling to be a pharmacists. I dont know what else I would be if I wasn't going to be a phramacists. Thanks everyone for telling me more about pharmacists. But one more thing. How many years of university is it? and should I start going to university right after high school or rest for a year.
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In canada, it's a 5 year undergrad degree, IIRC.
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Which equates to 3 American years. :)
Seriously though, take as much chemistry as you can before you get there, especially organic chemistry. You probably need to develop a working knowledge of functional groups and molecular structure, so you can screen for interactions in your head as you write out perscriptions.
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huh? surely you're not suggesting that american education is better than canadian education? :o
And the whole 'thinking' part, isn't really that great, the prescriptions are written by doctors. So at best you are just doing a secondary check on the conflicts. On second thought, you are probably doing the most important double check on conflicts as I'm sure most GPs aren't up to the latest and greatest in drugs.
Planning on becoming a history teacher grades 6-12, also gonna get my masters in History and a degree in special education to make me more valuable to schools. Work my ass off the first 10-25 years, MABYE work my way up to administration OR retire in my early 40's and get back into gaming ;) for the rest of my life and be "the cool grandpa who plays video games seriously with his grandkids"
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retire in your early 40's?! you live in another reality than mine.
Of course not, I'm simply applying the often over-eggagerated fact that USD is worth more than CDN to all aspects of my country's relationship to yours.
All in good fun, nitey :). You're more than welcome to tell me to put down the beer and drop my 50 billion guns, get in my pickup truck, and drive to the nearest NASCAR race.
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Oh, alrighty then :)
you've activated some Owleh Trivia! didja know nascar, or 'stock car' racing was born from the bootleggers of moonshine back in the early 1900's? It was sort of an informal test of who's jalopy could outrun the fuzz (yes, I know, the slang is anarchonistic, but I can only go so far back).
Ah yes, the USD/CAD division. Apparently, it's not so large anymore. Not that anything I notice on a day to day basis is affected by that (besides the often invisble and far reaching macro-economic impact).
And no, I'd never say that, for fear that your 143rd BoyScout troop would take their .22's and take over our great and cold land!
Working on my chemical engineering degree at University of Delaware, probably work awhile afterwards and go to law school and be a patent attorney.
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Chemistry! That was the other thing I was considering.
This man is going to be loaded some day. Lawyers with chem degrees make craptons of money.
Working on my chemical engineering degree at University of Delaware, probably work awhile afterwards and go to law school and be a patent attorney.
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Chemistry! That was the other thing I was considering.
This man is going to be loaded some day. Lawyers with chem degrees make craptons of money.
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They do? Maby I'm just ignorant, but it seems to me that chemistry and law are two of the potentially least related fields you could possibly study.
Working on my chemical engineering degree at University of Delaware, probably work awhile afterwards and go to law school and be a patent attorney.
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Chemistry! That was the other thing I was considering.
This man is going to be loaded some day. Lawyers with chem degrees make craptons of money.
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Chemical Engineering, IIRC, is slightly different from chemistry.
Working on my chemical engineering degree at University of Delaware, probably work awhile afterwards and go to law school and be a patent attorney.
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Chemistry! That was the other thing I was considering.
This man is going to be loaded some day. Lawyers with chem degrees make craptons of money.
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Chemical Engineering, IIRC, is slightly different from chemistry.
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Quite. At least at my school it's the hardest undergrad engineering degree program, and by consequence one of the hardest degree programs period. Props to Keyser.
And yes, mixing a law degree or MBA and an engineering or high science degree is a great way to make a lot of money.
Planning on becoming a history teacher grades 6-12, also gonna get my masters in History and a degree in special education to make me more valuable to schools. Work my ass off the first 10-25 years, MABYE work my way up to administration OR retire in my early 40's and get back into gaming ;) for the rest of my life and be "the cool grandpa who plays video games seriously with his grandkids"
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retire in your early 40's?! you live in another reality than mine.
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Actually my dads good friend is a spanish teacher, hes 43 and retiring. My retired neibor also was a physics teacher and retired in his early 40's as well. Commack School District is one of the top paying schools in NY state, he'll its prob in the top in the USA if anything.
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That's pretty nifty! Do you have your MSc. or PhD?
All this talk of chemistry...... yeah what niteowl and keyser (Some of) says is right, chemical engineering is all about flowrates and reactors and such like, while chemistry isn`t all titrations but more the makepu of things like polymerisations etc. :D I actually am a chemist working in research for a home and personal care company. Coming up with ideas for products to make your home lifes better. The actual work is quite interesting but try explaining what I do and generally I get laughed at :D I wouldn`t say I`m a whizz at chemistry though, unlike some of the big brians here. But I can come up with some different twists on things.
Its amazing how much presenting you have to do though. Nowadays you have to sell your work and say why your results will be useful. Can be annoying.
Patent Law is very hard to get into, an ex work mate here tried taking a course to get into it from being a wizz at chemistry, he still hasn`t got in yet.
But good luck if you can keyser.
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Heh, I was overgeneralizing a bit. In all my chem classes we just performed titration after titration.
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That's pretty nifty! Do you have your MSc. or PhD?
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No pHD but I had a MChem. 3 years degree with 1 in industry. (not a good grade though :( )
Keyser, its funny how much of that you do but then end up using none of it in industry. I`ve found myself relearning most stuff but finding it useful because I`m using it practically not just theoretically.