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The Secrets of Success - REVEALED!!!
Kontiki gets it, or at least his friend does.
The more important thing than your major is your career path. Do you want to work for a large company your entire life? If so, are you executive material or do you want to stay in middle level positions your entire career? Do you want to be an entreprenuer somewhere down the road? Do you want to work for government, academia, or non-profit organizations?
The above are the real questions you need to think about in determining your career path.
But the real secret to success is to find something that you will want to spend 50-80 hours a week doing it, a task or a question so fascinating that you don't mind thinking about it even while off the job. One thing about successful people is that they never really turn it off... even in relaxing moments, you can always tell that there's something going on, that they are thinking about the job. If you can get into this sort of zone, and keep it for 20-40 years, you've got it made.
So my advice is this: throw away that stupid income chart and major in something that will enable you to get paid for doing stuff you love to do, even if the chart says that you are making a financially wrong choice.
Then, you ever have the opportunity to work and socialize with people in your chosen field, do so. If the history department has a dinner for people with history majors, go. If you have a chance to grab a beer with one of your departments TA, then by all means grab it. Why not apply at EA for a games tester?
In short: DON'T BE AFRAID TO TALK TO PEOPLE!!!!!
Originally posted by Kontiki
A huge amount depends on your personality/drive/etc.. One of my best friends from high school - who was incredibly bright, BTW - decided to totally slack off his senior year and barely graduated (again, if he applied himself even to half his ability, he could have gotten into university no problem). He was a compu-geek, but not in the programming kind of way. He got some crap job testing games at Electronic Arts, and within a few years became a producer and even designed/created/launched a top-selling game himself (well, with the help of his team at EA). He then went on to co-found a tech company, left to do some free-lance consulting work, and is now a producer at one of the top electronic ad agencies in Canada, handling Microsoft's accounts. All of this without ANY post-secondary education, but alot of drive and determination.
A huge amount depends on your personality/drive/etc.. One of my best friends from high school - who was incredibly bright, BTW - decided to totally slack off his senior year and barely graduated (again, if he applied himself even to half his ability, he could have gotten into university no problem). He was a compu-geek, but not in the programming kind of way. He got some crap job testing games at Electronic Arts, and within a few years became a producer and even designed/created/launched a top-selling game himself (well, with the help of his team at EA). He then went on to co-found a tech company, left to do some free-lance consulting work, and is now a producer at one of the top electronic ad agencies in Canada, handling Microsoft's accounts. All of this without ANY post-secondary education, but alot of drive and determination.
The more important thing than your major is your career path. Do you want to work for a large company your entire life? If so, are you executive material or do you want to stay in middle level positions your entire career? Do you want to be an entreprenuer somewhere down the road? Do you want to work for government, academia, or non-profit organizations?
The above are the real questions you need to think about in determining your career path.
But the real secret to success is to find something that you will want to spend 50-80 hours a week doing it, a task or a question so fascinating that you don't mind thinking about it even while off the job. One thing about successful people is that they never really turn it off... even in relaxing moments, you can always tell that there's something going on, that they are thinking about the job. If you can get into this sort of zone, and keep it for 20-40 years, you've got it made.
So my advice is this: throw away that stupid income chart and major in something that will enable you to get paid for doing stuff you love to do, even if the chart says that you are making a financially wrong choice.
Then, you ever have the opportunity to work and socialize with people in your chosen field, do so. If the history department has a dinner for people with history majors, go. If you have a chance to grab a beer with one of your departments TA, then by all means grab it. Why not apply at EA for a games tester?
In short: DON'T BE AFRAID TO TALK TO PEOPLE!!!!!
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