What got you interested in your career choice?

[BigDGeek]

A friend of my ex-husband's called me up one day and asked me if I knew how to migrate data. I didn't, but I figured it couldn't be that hard.

Still doing database development, architecting, and optimization over ten years later.

[aliwalas]

Originally Posted by Anika783

I second Google. I discovered my job which I never knew existed by searching with google.

Originally Posted by jade408

Fell into my niche. I had very different ideas up till even college graduation. But I picked marketing because other people told me I would be good at it (because I am social). And the niche I am in puts me full circle using my analytical and technical skills.

I am still sure I'd be an excellent talks how host, but that is less probable. Maybe in my second life I can have a YouTube channel.

How exactly did you guys use google?

This might sound silly, but seriously, how did you put in keywords that led you to a job title to go for?


As for myself, I took Social Science. I took it because I didn't know what I wanted to do and it had no math or science. I was gunning for PR, but when I transferred school, I got screwed over and I didn't want to do more schooling.

If I had known then what I know now, I will only do 2 yrs college diploma and earn my years of experience. I say this because now I have a better idea of what I want to do in life and it requires experience than educational background.

I say better idea, but I still haven't pinpointed it yet lol.

[NewYorkiforniainHouston]

I'm embarassed to say it - but it was a cute guy

We used to have this IT guy that would come by and clickety-click our problems would be fixed (this was back in the 90's). I used to have the biggest crush on him.

Anyway, I was looking to change my career (admin, collections, skip tracing) and thought about how "cool" I thought that guy was (hiding in the shadows all day and magically appearing when we needed him) and started my career in IT in 2000

16 years later and i'm doing well in this field, thanks IT guy!!

[Serious Conversation]

I've just kind of bumbled around from job to job, making more money as I went along. I was an economics major and began reading more on the economics side when I was a political science major. I took a semester off and came back into the economics program. I completed the major requirements like nine months before graduation. A lot of my thinking was colored by being in college during the 2008 crisis, and I wanted to be able to understand that more thoroughly.

[jackmccullough]

When I was an antiwar activist in high school I was inspired by reading about the trial of the Chicago Eight and the way they had Bill Kunstler to stand up to a judge who was against them every step of the way.


I never got to meet Bill Kunstler, but I did get to defend David Dellinger along with a large group of other protesters here in Vermont in the early 1980's. I still think of that case as one of the highlights of my legal career.