nwr - How did you know

vegasgroom

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[QUOTE]What you wanted to do careerwise?
Posted by shellydiane820[/QUOTE]

I was into computers from about 4 years old on thanks to my dad, and had a sales/business mentality instilled into me by my mom, so I guess the two influences resulted in my starting a computer-related company.  I hate dealing with customers but I only have to do that until we get big enough that I have enough staff to do that for me lol.

jasmineh7777

Remember that episode of the Simpsons where Lisa gets told she will be a homemaker and Bart will be a cop. Classic.

LesPaul

I didn't, and ended up where I am without a direct path.  I'm a CPA, but didn't have a burning desire to be here until my late 20s.  I changed majors a couple of times during the first two years of college, and moved to another state, so undergrad took a while.  I hit a point about halfway through where I needed direction, so I started taking business classes to see if it would click.  It did, and I finished with a BBA in accounting.  Then I fell into an internship that a professor offered to me - his friend was a partner in the CPA firm where I ended up working for 9 years.  From there I was offered a position in the company where I still work (and plan on staying until retirement).  The MBA came later, more as a 'why not' since there's a good program at the local university and my employer paid my tuition.  It's been a great career, but I can't say I planned it.

raynes

I was one of those freakish people that knew what they wanted to do since they were 10.  I had an article taped up to my bedroom wall about women in Engineering.  I did go through a breif phase when I wanted to be an astronomer, but came back to engineering.

Ironically, I when I was picking programs to apply to I was debating between Computer and Chemical Engineering.  I decided that I didn't want to be stuck in front of a computer screen for 8 hours a day for the rest of my life, so I went Chemical.  Joke's on me I guess, because the job I ended up in is doing Computer Aided Engineering and I'm on the computer 8 hours a day!  I'm glad I picked Chem though, because had I gone into Comp, I would have been 1 of 3 girls in a class of over 100, whereas Chem was known as "fem-eng" since we had a 40/60 split of girls/guys.

ricksang

I have always felt I needed to help people in some way. I told myself if I every recovered from my eating disorder I would help girls and women like me. I have also always loved food and nutrition, so this is why I am getting my masters in nutrition and I will hopefully be an RD one day soon!

HobokensFury

I went to school to be a doctor.  I pretty much hated it from day one.  I then changed my major to chemical biology and stuck with that for 3 years.  My senior year of college I took a job as a substitute teacher to make extra cash and I fell in love.  So when I graduated it was off to grad school for teaching.  It took 5 years of college to figure out what I wanted to do and another 2 years of grad school to accomplish it.

aprovencher21

It took me quite awhile to figure out what I was doing with my life.  Through the first three years of college I was set on being a pediatric neurosurgeon.  I was majoring in cellular neuroscience and was all set.....until I ended up doing a few things in hospitals and also rat labs.  I soon realized I didn't have the constitution to deal with life and death all of the time.  I was devastated and felt lost.  I decided that I liked the idea of studying poisons and toxins and entered into a Pharmacology/toxicology PhD program.  I spent a year in the program and was miserable.  I hated every minute of my day.  I randomly audited a class in business and pharmacy. I then fell in love.  I started with my MBA and last summer I really decided that I should also pursue a JD. 

I think it just takes time and some luck and you'll find what you love and what makes you happy.