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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Rman on February 12, 2009, 09:24:22 PM

Title: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Rman on February 12, 2009, 09:24:22 PM
Meaning if you had both the of time and money available what field would you like to study?  I was originally an art major and thought that teaching art was something I wanted to do.  I was wrong.  I have no regrets as I had fun in college and secured a decent job afterward. 

But, if I could do it again I'd probably choose Biology, Astronomy, or Physics. 

How about you?  Again these choices are more about intellectual curiosity than practically.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Eric P on February 12, 2009, 09:26:54 PM
i'd love to take a computer science degree but i fear my brain doesn't quite work properly with programming.  i make intuitive leaps of logic which tend to be correct while skipping all the messy steps which demonstrate how i got there
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Mr. Gundam on February 12, 2009, 09:27:37 PM
I'd go back and get an Economics degree.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Kestastrophe on February 12, 2009, 09:29:06 PM
I have accounting degrees and am halfway into an economics masters, but if I could pick another it would be PhD in Finance or Financial Engineering
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Diunx on February 12, 2009, 09:29:45 PM
Film school.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Boogie on February 12, 2009, 09:29:49 PM
I'm happy with my history degree, more out of the inherent satisfaction of the learning than any practical outcome.

I'd like to get my Master's in history someday.

Wouldn't mind a Masters in War Studies, Military and Strategic studies, International Relations, or Intelligence studies.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Bildi on February 12, 2009, 09:35:36 PM
The only way I'd do another degree is if the ass fell out of my current profession.  In which case I'd probably do something in physics/astronomy.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: CurseoftheGods on February 12, 2009, 09:36:51 PM
Psychology.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Mr. Gundam on February 12, 2009, 09:37:00 PM
I'm really lucky with my recession-proof job. There are federal laws that require districts to have school psychologists, and there are never enough of us to fill all the positions.

Only problem is that if I ever want to get out of the profession, I don't know how helpful my Masters will be in getting another job.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Rman on February 12, 2009, 09:39:25 PM
I'm really lucky with my recession-proof job. There are federal laws that require districts to have school psychologists, and there are never enough of us to fill all the positions.

Only problem is that if I ever want to get out of the profession, I don't know how helpful my Masters will be in getting another job.
You have nice gig, distant.  You get summers off too, right?
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Flannel Boy on February 12, 2009, 09:40:39 PM
Anything but law.  :'( :'( :'(

1. English
2. psych
3. bio
4. history
5. economics
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Mr. Gundam on February 12, 2009, 09:43:19 PM
I'm really lucky with my recession-proof job. There are federal laws that require districts to have school psychologists, and there are never enough of us to fill all the positions.

Only problem is that if I ever want to get out of the profession, I don't know how helpful my Masters will be in getting another job.
You have nice gig, distant.  You get summers off too, right?

I work a longer year than teachers, but yeah, I get two months off in the summer.

Unfortunately, I always sign up for summer Birth to Three preschool evaluations for the extra pay.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Akala on February 12, 2009, 09:44:16 PM
I think I'd be down for law school. Specializing in international business.  :lol
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Rman on February 12, 2009, 09:45:16 PM
I'm really lucky with my recession-proof job. There are federal laws that require districts to have school psychologists, and there are never enough of us to fill all the positions.

Only problem is that if I ever want to get out of the profession, I don't know how helpful my Masters will be in getting another job.
You have nice gig, distant.  You get summers off too, right?

I work a longer year than teachers, but yeah, I get two months off in the summer.

Unfortunately, I always sign up for summer Birth to Three preschool evaluations for the extra pay.
Most of my friends who teach do the same thing--teaching summer school.  
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Flannel Boy on February 12, 2009, 09:49:04 PM
Truth is eventually I'd hate whatever I was studying. I'm an unpleasant individual.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Boogie on February 12, 2009, 09:50:20 PM
I'm really lucky with my recession-proof job.

Recession-proof jobs!

High Five!
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: ToxicAdam on February 12, 2009, 09:58:13 PM
Psychology.

^^


Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: archie4208 on February 12, 2009, 10:00:38 PM
Music.  Accounting sucks ass.  >:(
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on February 12, 2009, 10:06:05 PM
Math
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on February 12, 2009, 10:08:21 PM
America needs more Engineers.  If this recession ends with China and India pulling ahead and the subsequent brain drain from the states that will entail, we're fucked for a long time.

Nah, we can always bail our selves out of it.

I take my choice back. I want to be a bail-out engineer.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Flannel Boy on February 12, 2009, 10:09:06 PM
America needs more Engineers.  If this recession ends with China and India pulling ahead and the subsequent brain drain from the states that will entail, we're fucked for a long time.

Nah, we can always bail our selves out of it.  :smug

I take my choice back. I want to be a bail-out engineer.  :smug
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on February 12, 2009, 10:10:22 PM
 :lol Where did this new emote come from?
spoiler (click to show/hide)
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Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on February 12, 2009, 10:10:47 PM
Do you conciously start arguements with everybody, or are you just that stupid?  :smug
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Flannel Boy on February 12, 2009, 10:13:15 PM
Crushed made it from a Sean Hannity picture.

Crushed for Icon

Let's not go nuts!
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Kestastrophe on February 12, 2009, 10:17:20 PM
Yeah, Crushed is underappreciated here due to his GAF baggage
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Oblivion on February 12, 2009, 10:17:54 PM
Keeping in mind, I don't have my first degree yet...I dunno, maybe physics?
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Human Snorenado on February 12, 2009, 10:18:13 PM
I'd have to get my FIRST degree.  If I got two, though, I'd go for an economics/poli-sci double major.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: tiesto on February 12, 2009, 10:51:10 PM
Yeah, I graduated with Comp Sci (plus an art minor), have a Master's in Systems Engineering, but I'd probably go for something like Urban Planning, subject always interested me.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Brehvolution on February 12, 2009, 10:52:28 PM
lol I"d have to get a first degree before I thought about a second one.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: TVC15 on February 13, 2009, 12:52:40 AM
Truth is eventually I'd hate whatever I was studying. I'm an unpleasant individual.

I used to think this as well, but I've been finding psychology rewarding and very satisfying to learn.  I've had to dig through like 4 fields to find something that clicks, but this is working out well, and it's the first thing I've studied that I can see myself studying for the rest of my life.  What's kind of a bummer is that if I had realized this a decade ago, when I was 18, I could have looked into neurology or psychiatry, but going into those fields now, I probably wouldn't be done school until I was like 40, and that's if I figured out a way to go full time.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 13, 2009, 01:35:50 AM
Did you get the link I sent you whiteman?


also I was listening to some history majors studying today in the library.

"what is social darwinism?'  "Darwin was like that science guy right?" 
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: TVC15 on February 13, 2009, 01:41:15 AM
Yes I did.  Apologies for not replying.  I acquired the material.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: CrystalGemini on February 13, 2009, 01:47:10 AM
Architecture.  Well see if this actually happens after I get my license in Interior Design in two years.   :)
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: G The Resurrected on February 13, 2009, 01:51:29 AM
I've gotta get my first, but i'm studying up on tax law to become an IRS auditor. Its hell on earth but its a government job which means placement for life. My mother did it and my grandmother before her. Its not my first choice. I wanted to do behavioral studies and go into teaching emotional development and behavioral health science. I've not had time to get into anything full-time but I'm still going to school.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Loki on February 13, 2009, 01:55:45 AM
Chemistry (especially organic, but all chem, really) or philosophy.  Minored in each of them and have toyed with the idea of grad school for both.  Realized I don't have the discipline.  Still do a lot of reading on each topic just for fun.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on February 13, 2009, 01:59:40 AM
philosophy
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Robo on February 13, 2009, 02:01:34 AM
If I were to get a second degree, I would get something complementary to my current CompSci degree, like a degree in headbutting distinguished mentally-challenged motherfuckers.  If I were to do it all over again, I would go English or Bio, away from the numbers.

Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich on February 13, 2009, 02:14:34 AM
Film school, although it'd be more practical to just get a masters from my degree (Management Information Systems) or maybe an MBA lol.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: etiolate on February 13, 2009, 02:30:58 AM
anthropology or geology
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: brawndolicious on February 13, 2009, 03:16:07 AM
I'd just read the books if this was only for personal interest.  Classes are for preparing you for a career and will cover a lot of content that you don't have any personal interest in.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Fragamemnon on February 13, 2009, 07:14:05 AM
probably would go get a masters in actuarial science, which is something that I'd like to do through work anyway but it's just an inch too far from a career change. maybe after 2g2d passes I'll give it a go.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: CajoleJuice on February 13, 2009, 07:16:28 AM
probably would go get a masters in actuarial science, which is something that I'd like to do through work anyway but it's just an inch too far from a career change. maybe after 2g2d passes I'll give it a go.

You can just take the professional exams. Actually, that's what you SHOULD do, if you're really serious.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Kestastrophe on February 13, 2009, 08:38:44 AM
Bite the bullet and finish your undergrad degree, then get a grad degree in a field that you actually want to work in. don't bother with double-majoring (even though that's what I did :'(), grad degrees are worth more
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Kestastrophe on February 13, 2009, 09:18:05 AM
I like the idea of studying economics but I feel like I'd never find a job if I took that approach.
:'(
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123431516742770969.html (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123431516742770969.html)
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: tehjaybo on February 13, 2009, 09:50:20 AM
If I had the time to get a second degree, first I'd go back and get my first degree.  I dropped out of college after three years of it and no two-year degree.  School really isn't for me.   :-\
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: tehjaybo on February 13, 2009, 11:22:35 AM
I'm in a career, but I really like it, so I didn't care that I stopped school.  If a degree isn't required for me to get this job, then sweet.  I made bad grades in school, but it was mainly because I didn't care about school.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: CajoleJuice on February 13, 2009, 11:23:18 AM
If I had the time to get a second degree, first I'd go back and get my first degree.  I dropped out of college after three years of it and no two-year degree.  School really isn't for me.   :-\

I won't lie - the job I have has sorta desensitized me on the whole graduate and get a job thing.  I feel more like I'm getting a degree as a backup plan than as something for the future.  I wish I had that sense of urgency and that thirst for career-building knowledge.  I get good grades, but I never feel motivated.  My favorite classes thus far have been political, philosophical, and economic.  Unfortunately, that's like going to school for art.  I'm too paranoid about obtaining a useless degree that I instead pursue a passionless career.  I tell myself it'll be better once I'm in the field, but I don't know if that's true.

But if I quit school, I'd feel like I was doomed to be stuck here forever.  So I go, and I go through the motions.
^^
That was me.

It won't get better.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: drozmight on February 13, 2009, 02:56:16 PM
I'm getting two right now.
LOL.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on February 13, 2009, 07:29:28 PM
Electrical Engineering

In fact, I sent in forms to do just that!

Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: ch1nchilla on February 13, 2009, 07:40:13 PM
I'm in school right now, and it's looking like advertising. Unless I decide to go film. And if I get my Japan on it's going to be international econ or something.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 13, 2009, 07:57:09 PM
Anything would be better than accounting

Hm, psychiatry
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: xnikki118x on February 14, 2009, 02:42:45 AM
Secondary education science.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Reb on February 14, 2009, 05:34:38 AM
Anything would be better than accounting

Hm, psychiatry

I like how the most fucked up people always choose psychiatry.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: TVC15 on February 14, 2009, 05:44:14 AM
Anything would be better than accounting

Hm, psychiatry

I like how the most fucked up people always choose psychiatry.

I'll gladly admit that my own incongruity and general fucked-upedness is one of the things that drew me to psychology.
Title: Re: If you could get a second degree, what field would you choose?
Post by: Reb on February 14, 2009, 06:06:02 AM
I'm still undecided whether it's a good or a bad thing.

Are the deaf leading the blind? Or does the internal struggle count as experience?