Reasons for your chosen course.

• Othello_Red

  11 Sep 07, 21:57

  Just wondering, for those of you in uni or even poly, are you doing your course because of the potentially lucrative career it allows you to enter?
  
  Or is it because you feel you can make a difference in that chosen field?
  
  And if you don't mind, could you just let us know your course as well.
• Darkness_hacker99

  11 Sep 07, 21:57

  Interest/ Passion/ Dream.
• GHoST_18

  11 Sep 07, 21:58

  was a bad mistake..
  
  
• CoolMyth

  11 Sep 07, 21:58

  Originally posted by GHoST_18:

  was a bad mistake..
  
  

• Othello_Red

  11 Sep 07, 21:59

  Originally posted by GHoST_18:

  was a bad mistake..
  
  

  hmm...what course are you in?
• LazerLordz

  11 Sep 07, 22:03

  Originally posted by Othello_Red:

  Just wondering, for those of you in uni or even poly, are you doing your course because of the potentially lucrative career it allows you to enter?
  
  Or is it because you feel you can make a difference in that chosen field?
  
  And if you don't mind, could you just let us know your course as well.

  A mix of pragmatism, interest in one component of the field and I felt I could really make a difference one day..but I'm getting cynical.
• Othello_Red

  11 Sep 07, 22:06

  Originally posted by LazerLordz:

  A mix of pragmatism, interest in one component of the field and I felt I could really make a difference one day..but I'm getting cynical.

  i guess the pragmatism component is something most of us take into account, interest drops a grade, but making a difference, that's good i guess.
• Jezmeister

  11 Sep 07, 22:07

  cos i love it... 'contemporary music performance' - basically rock (no idea if you have an equivalent in singapore)
• GHoST_18

  11 Sep 07, 22:08

  i thought i love it..
  
  but now im a little confused...
  
  i thought i can make a diff...
  
  but now im not too sure...
  
• <guest>

  11 Sep 07, 22:09

  Parental choice.
• omgukilledkenny

  11 Sep 07, 22:11

  Personal interest.
  
  Aerospace ftw!
• Othello_Red

  11 Sep 07, 22:12

  Originally posted by GHoST_18:

  i thought i love it..
  
  but now im a little confused...
  
  i thought i can make a diff...
  
  but now im not too sure...
  

  i'm sorta like you, not exactly about making a difference though.
  
  but it's just that, at the start of the semester, when my prof was telling us the reasons why he chose to go into this field, it seemed so noble and pure in a way, at least in contrast to my reason of because i have some interest and it's a chance into a lucrative career.
• darkensun

  11 Sep 07, 22:13

  electrical & electronic engineering...SP
  
  interest...alway like to fix and break things...
• MooKu

  11 Sep 07, 22:14

  Yup.
  
  It's not what I ultimately want to study, but it's what I do second-best, and the working environment of the industry is quite comfortable for me. The remuneration package can be very good too... and opportunities abound.
• Othello_Red

  11 Sep 07, 22:14

  Originally posted by :

  Parental choice.

  what course would you be doing?
  
  i once heard of a guy who mugged like mad and went thru med school because his parents wanted it. after he graduated, he went straight to become a missionary. not too sure if he ever practiced medicine.
• LazerLordz

  11 Sep 07, 22:28

  Originally posted by Othello_Red:

  i guess the pragmatism component is something most of us take into account, interest drops a grade, but making a difference, that's good i guess.

  Guess so..
  
  The other alternative was law, and I managed to sneak away from that. The family pressure was quite strong..
  
  so what I'm doing now is really a compromise too... but hey, at least I love a part of it.
• mistyblue

  11 Sep 07, 22:35

  it was the dumping ground because the govt was going into IT era
• ifish

  11 Sep 07, 22:39

  cause i wan to be a nurse..
• Othello_Red

  11 Sep 07, 22:50

  Originally posted by ifish:

  cause i wan to be a nurse..

  i've worked with nurses before and i take my hat off to you. it's not an easy job and nurses are largely overlooked. nurses should really get more recognition.
• lageihsif

  11 Sep 07, 22:55

  because i dun have any special interest in anything
  
  so i choose 1 that my fren wans to go. but he has alot of interest though
• binarynwitz

  11 Sep 07, 23:03

  Design course.
  
  'Cause there's nothing better than seeing your advertisement or poster or whatever getting publicly displayed.
  
  "HEY I DID THAT!" beats $10k per month.
• Othello_Red

  11 Sep 07, 23:10

  Originally posted by binarynwitz:

  Design course.
  
  'Cause there's nothing better than seeing your advertisement or poster or whatever getting publicly displayed.
  
  "HEY I DID THAT!" beats $10k per month.

  Designers are normally like that isn't it? My friend who's doing a design course is willing to go through hell and high water for his course. He has to wake up at about 6 or so every morning and take a bus, train then bus to his design school.
• Othello_Red

  11 Sep 07, 23:15

  Originally posted by binarynwitz:

  Design course.
  
  'Cause there's nothing better than seeing your advertisement or poster or whatever getting publicly displayed.
  
  "HEY I DID THAT!" beats $10k per month.

  Designers are normally like that isn't it? My friend who's doing a design course is willing to go through hell and high water for his course. He has to wake up at about 6 or so every morning and take a bus, train then bus to his design school.
• <guest>

  11 Sep 07, 23:19

  Originally posted by Othello_Red:

  what course would you be doing?
  
  i once heard of a guy who mugged like mad and went thru med school because his parents wanted it. after he graduated, he went straight to become a missionary. not too sure if he ever practiced medicine.

  Surgery.
  
  Hopefully, after I finish I can go and study law instead.
• Othello_Red

  11 Sep 07, 23:22

  Originally posted by :

  Surgery.
  
  Hopefully, after I finish I can go and study law instead.

  Haha
  
  I'm doing law now.
  
  I wish I could do surgery.
  
  We really should switch places.