Law, J.D. equivalent + Bar Exam (in Germany, our university system is somewhat different) Political Science, Bachelor equivalent LLM (Master of Laws), University of Houston (I got sent to Houston, originally it was not my choice, but now I am a ROCKETS fan!) MBA, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Also spent some time at the following universities with courses in law/business: Cambridge/UK, Strasbourg/F, Insead/F I now work for a strategy consulting firm, but plan to either get back into the media business at some point or to work in Private Equity/M&A.
Word up. When people ask me "so, what do you do?", I usually just say "It doesn't matter". My jobs since college: Manager- Enterprise Rent A Car Accounting Headhunter IT Headhunter Ass Manager Bank One (until we got robbed) Chase Bank CitiBank Now I'm working at Initech putting coversheets on TPS reports..er, AIG.
I do get a kick out of the fact that when someone will ask where I work, I can reply "work?" (Either that, or I say I'm a professional whitewater rafter).
I liked everything about it...except the 70 hour work weeks. It was fun because most people there were fresh out of college. Even upper management guys were in their 30's. Company parties were always off the hook and there were lot's of them. did I really just say "off the hook"?
I'm majoring in history at the University of Central Arkansas right now and minoring in honors interdisciplinary studies and starting the GIS minor program next semester.
I graduated from UH in the summer of 2003, majored in Finance and minored in African Studies. I work as a financial analyst for an IT company here in Houston.
When I was in grad school, I thought about trying to eventually settle at a small school, run a small lab, and mainly teach classes. I eventually decided that I would prefer to focus on research (although this could change, depending on how my postdoc goes). But while I prefer doing research, I think that if you run a lab, there are plenty of opportunities for teaching- it's just teaching of a different kind. I like the idea of being able to teach graduate students how to be scientists. It's a little more abstract, I guess, but seems cool to me. I felt like I learned a lot more about how to be a scientist in grad school than about any particular topic. Of course, the idea of me actually being responsible for the careers of 'young' scientists (funny concept, since I'm 27) is a little nerve racking right now. I hope so! Moving from Houston to New York while not having a corresponding pay increase didn't feel too good.
I got a B.S. in Computer Sciences from U.T. What I do now is financial consulting. Absolutely NOTHING to do with C.S. (except that b/c of my degree, I also work as the makeshift Desktop support, network admin, systems analyst guy all wrapped in one! Not good times)
BA in History and MA in European History from the University of Houston. Teaching diploma, University of Auckland. While I was working on my MA I worked at several soul destroying corporate jobs like PrimeCo mobile phones and as a road rescue dispatcher. There were opportunities to make those kinds of a jobs a career, but I decided against that. "Office Space" made quite an impression on me. ; ). The plan was to get a doctorate and teach history at any university that would take me, but I spent to much time and money getting my MA and then I moved to a country where there just aren't that many universities, so now I am a high school teacher and doing just fine. I have an embarassingly nerdy love of history, so I am very thankful that I chose the history route.
Journalism/Political Science Work for the Gwinnett Daily Post and the Associated Press- I cover the Falcons, the SEC and some high school sports I also work on a radio show syndicated on seven stations in N GA , SC, TN and one station in AL. We discuss SEC sports mostly. I've worked in Journalism since graduating from the U of Alabama.
What was my major? Bachelor of Science in Advertising, UT-Austin, 2003. Where did it take me? Nowhere. i'm looking for jobs right now, but I still dont know what i want to do.
You could always just try something and see if you like it or go back to school JB. Electrical Engineering, co-oped five semesters at IBM and AMD and ending up working on software, now in game industry.
B.S. in Chemistry. M.S. in Inorganic Chemistry. Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry (expected in next year). Isabel, do you teach in a college? One of my labmates is joining a college near Houston as a faculty member this summer. I've already talked with him about visitting him and watching Houston games.
It is interesting that such a small percentage of the nation's population have PhD's, yet there are already quite a few on this bbs. Most seem to be in the sciences, though...don't you guys get through fairly quickly? I am not trying to belittle, it just seems that sciences are generally shorter and more concentrated/intense than humanities where so many people take ten years or more to finish.
