I work for "nationalgrid", a UK based power company. I'm in the gas services department. I'm only at $20/hour right now, I don't make top step for another 2 years.
If you want a career in China, and if you make less than $80,000 US a year converted abroad (very likely after college), then you don't pay any US tax. No social security, no medicare, nothing. And, you don't even have to pay for similar taxes in China, since you won't be able to draw from them later in life. I only pay a few piddly taxes every month, meaning I keep about 95% of every paycheck.
I'm sober this time too as I try to recruit, I'm actually at work right now. Get a job here. Live in between tax laws.
I was looking up undergrad programs for UT last night, and wrote down a bunch of classes I would need for being a math major. They even have a plan for Math majors that prepares for a teaching certification, with educational psych and classes like that. I think thats what I'm going to aim for...
I do like psychology, but I like math more. I'm a math nerd, haha. Calculus BC was my favorite class last year, Psychology was my 2nd. Since I've gotten the advice to sort of plan out my general ed classes, I'm not so worried about it, so thanks! Now I can start planning more and actually do something about what I'm worried about.
I've noticed a lot of you guys are English majors; sorry for the bad grammar I'm only slightly aware of having, I figure English majors are extremely irritated by it. Just how many of you have majored/are majoring in english? Is it a common occurrence in the forums? What is everyone ELSE majoring in?
Well, if you like math, then that might not be too bad. It could evolve into something along the lines of engineering, which can be quite profitable. Math can be applicable in some areas, if you let it evolve into a more specified field. Math departments tend to be sausagefests, though, so be warned.
In college, there are two different mindsets you can take: you can pick a major because you're interested and it's fun, or you can pick a major because you want to have a job. Sometimes these mindsets are mutually exclusive, and sometimes they exist simultaneously. I'll explain.
I had two majors, International Business and Chinese/Japanese Studies. In the business department, a large percentage of the students there were involved in business because their parents told them to, or because they want job security when they graduate. Many of them will study finance or accounting. Granted, there are people who genuinely like accounting, but I can't wrap my mind around that idea, it just hurts too much. My department of business, international business, had more people interested in their majors, myself included, mostly because these students had interest in foreign languages or traveling. But there were still plenty of people who studied it just because they felt like they had to in order to find a good job. And their grades and attitude towards their classwork reflected their mindset.
In the Chinese/Japanese Studies department, it was different than this. Most people who study Chinese or Japanese do it because they WANT to study it, because it's interesting for them. Andrew can attest to this in the English department, it's probably a much better example. It is harder to find jobs in some of these arts departments, but the quality of people you will work with will be higher, because most of them will be passionate about what they do.
You can always double major or take a minor in something. Study something you like, and then throw in a secondary major or minor in business or something else as a fallback. If you plan it early enough, you should be fine.
Plan ahead, so you don't go to college for over four years like I did, or over what, nine years, like Adam did.
Well look who's laughing, now. HAHAHAHAHA. I only spent 5 years in college. I lost .75 semesters transfering and then only got one semester of useful credit from the year in Japan. And yet, the only way to squeeze out a business or Education minor would have been with at least another year after that (if the classes were offered every semester).
Yeah, if you enjoy math, go for it, especially if you want to teach. Teaching rocks. And I think there's only two official English majors on here.. Bruce isn't technically an English major (I'm pretty sure), he's British, and thus innately knows as much about literature as an English-major American.
EDIT: Oh, and I don't think I've ever taken note of any grammar errors on your part, Mish, so you're clean. The people on this board are generally pretty good, the only thing that happens is some there/their/they're and your/you're stuff now and then. Not a big deal, really.
The people on this board are generally pretty good, the only thing that happens is some there/their/they're and your/you're stuff now and then. Not a big deal, really.
Also cruel: Elliott had a robots.txt file preventing the Internet Archive's crawlers from indexing his site, so I can't put up snippets from the comic as pertinent replies.
I know I'm late to the game, but let me just advise that if you're thinking of majoring in any of the Humanities, make sure you're awesome at what you do and could stomach a life teaching and researching at a University. Otherwise your diploma in Religious Studies is just a fancy piece of paper that sits on your desk, silently mocking you.
I think that's what my dad is afraid would happen, that I'd go all the way through with it and then figure out that I don't actually like teaching. Which would suck! But I really don't think I would hate teaching... every time I've been in front of a class I've just felt good about it, surely that must be SOME indicator. I like tutoring people one on one even more, and I would like to think that I'm actually good at that!
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Plus I don't drink coffee, so the break count means little to me. This is sounding like a better and better career move.
I'm sober this time too as I try to recruit, I'm actually at work right now. Get a job here. Live in between tax laws.
I do like psychology, but I like math more. I'm a math nerd, haha. Calculus BC was my favorite class last year, Psychology was my 2nd. Since I've gotten the advice to sort of plan out my general ed classes, I'm not so worried about it, so thanks! Now I can start planning more and actually do something about what I'm worried about.
I've noticed a lot of you guys are English majors; sorry for the bad grammar I'm only slightly aware of having, I figure English majors are extremely irritated by it. Just how many of you have majored/are majoring in english? Is it a common occurrence in the forums? What is everyone ELSE majoring in?
In college, there are two different mindsets you can take: you can pick a major because you're interested and it's fun, or you can pick a major because you want to have a job. Sometimes these mindsets are mutually exclusive, and sometimes they exist simultaneously. I'll explain.
I had two majors, International Business and Chinese/Japanese Studies. In the business department, a large percentage of the students there were involved in business because their parents told them to, or because they want job security when they graduate. Many of them will study finance or accounting. Granted, there are people who genuinely like accounting, but I can't wrap my mind around that idea, it just hurts too much. My department of business, international business, had more people interested in their majors, myself included, mostly because these students had interest in foreign languages or traveling. But there were still plenty of people who studied it just because they felt like they had to in order to find a good job. And their grades and attitude towards their classwork reflected their mindset.
In the Chinese/Japanese Studies department, it was different than this. Most people who study Chinese or Japanese do it because they WANT to study it, because it's interesting for them. Andrew can attest to this in the English department, it's probably a much better example. It is harder to find jobs in some of these arts departments, but the quality of people you will work with will be higher, because most of them will be passionate about what they do.
You can always double major or take a minor in something. Study something you like, and then throw in a secondary major or minor in business or something else as a fallback. If you plan it early enough, you should be fine.
Plan ahead, so you don't go to college for over four years like I did, or over what, nine years, like Adam did.
EDIT: Oh, and I don't think I've ever taken note of any grammar errors on your part, Mish, so you're clean. The people on this board are generally pretty good, the only thing that happens is some there/their/they're and your/you're stuff now and then. Not a big deal, really.
Isn't it? ISN'T IT?!? :hulk:
Also cruel: Elliott had a robots.txt file preventing the Internet Archive's crawlers from indexing his site, so I can't put up snippets from the comic as pertinent replies.