What life-path did you take?

[7thNavigator]

I finished college and tried university for about a year (astronomy) when I decided I was to become an artist instead. For a few years I drifted from private school to private school, only to find myself at an architects office making architectural drawings. After 7 years I quit and changed job, and am now happily employed at a logistics and removals company doing very varied kinds of work.

[Guest]

Finished school this year, I'm going to university starting this fall, and I'm planning on graduating from there. For (computer) science!

[test account]

I chose School -- Religious Ministry

But its more like this:

School -- Job and Unpaid Religious Ministry -- College -- University

Im hoping to add graduate career to that.

[vici]

School - college - undergraduate - postgrad study masters - postgrad study Phd - lecturing.

Yep, that's about it. Oh, and get rich somehow.

[kitrhap]

Finished HS, worked food service for 4 years, got fired. :I Went on Unemployment benefits for a few months, dragged those benefits out as long as possible (as in stretched the initial 4k they gave me, never received an extension.)

As of March of this year I've been babysitting my nephew a few days a week.

[Samael]

There are some rather interesting life paths present here. The majority of my time has been spent in uni. I've also had quite a few employers, since when I was younger I used to try different kinds of work. Warehouse work and logistics was physical, but repetative and simple. Retail was interesting enough, but I couldn't see myself as a salesman in the future. I also worked as a librarian for a private scientific library at one point. Currently I'm working for two employers at once, as a quality assurance specialist at CERN and as a liaisons officer for an associated multinational physics institute, both of which operate in the field of high energy particle research. The current employers offer by far the best possibilities to build a decent career, I think.

So what life path did I take? However you'd classify it, it will include a lot of work. I suppose when you don't have the usual aspirations, such as finding a lifepartner or starting a family, you have more time for other productive aspects of life.

[COFF33]

I went school > university > related employment > service (fire). Spent a lot of money on a degree to realize I happiest riding on a big red truck.

[Blood Angel]

I'm an alternative lifestyle dropout.

[red_brick_dream]

I voted "Other" - I went to school, went to university for a course I didn't really believe in because of societal and parental pressure dictating that all hands-on work was for the dirty and unintelligent, and then went to college for culinary arts, and I now work for the college.

[PiF]

uk..normally

entry level school..normally called infants..roughly 5-7

junior school..roughly 7-11

senior school..roughly 11-16 and basic exams

college..normally local and 16-18 to the next level

universities 18- till your parents realise your freeloading :lol: uni's are where you get your degree's and masters etc

me i took school, college then employment

[Member33070]

School -> University -> Graduate Career

I think that's what I'm doing. I'm in university for undergrad in civil engineering right now (2 years left of 5). Then I'm going to get my master's and move on to a career.