got anything to say about your career?

[chinggay]

I'm writing a comprehensive career guide for Seventeen magazine—it's supposed to give college girls a bird's eye view of the different avenues they can work in when they graduate from college.

The article's supposed to tackle different areas... Creative (advertising, design, print, etc.), Medicine (physical therapy, hardcore medicine, dentistry, etc.), NGOs, and the corporate world (banks, big international companies, etc.). Also doing a write-up on call centers and nursing, probably, since they're so popular today.

If you work in any of the aforementioned fields or if you feel like you want to share something about your career (even if I didn't mention it), u2u me please!

Thanks!

[hypersomniac]

Isnt the I.T. or I.C.T. field included ? It would help if they see opportunities in this field as well. I got a sister about to graduate computer science in DLSU and I hope she doesnt work as a call center agent. Not to look down on the job, pero mas magagamit sana yung degree in an IT job. Every major companies has an IT dept and companies like Accenture hire a lot of female graduates for offshore/outsourcing work. Software and web development jobs could also be interesting to female grads.

[freelancer]

I'm a super proponent of education as a career. Particularly early childhood development. It's fulfilling, exciting and fun. Young people are ideal for it, but you have got to have a level head on your shoulders, an inherent passion and love for children, a lot of patience, and a heart for teaching. Leave your inner diva at home, let your hair down and prepare not only to teach, but to be taught.

[subtleclarity]

i am a philosopher...

[NoisyCricket]

Family Business... I'd rather be out doing something else on my own. Determine my own destiny, be my own person, live my own life.. oh well. Family Business = Family Responsibility.

Has its perks, (lots of perks), but its rather boring

[Tantantiniiin]

Why is it that Agriculture is a field that's always left out as a career option?
Anyway, just ask them to try out working for an agricultural multinational companies, not as glamorous as the makati 9-5pm jobs (working visits to farms), but its much easier, and more fun. The pay is (*confidential*), and you can really travel as much as you want all over the country - for free.

[elbert]

Originally posted by subtleclarity
i am a philosopher...

Interesting, subtleclarity, but I don't see how your reply helps chinggay and her article.

[Edited on 11-10-2004 by elbertc]

[daxdagr8t]

I am a nurising major, but that will be my second career for I will be a career student hehehehe.I want to ear decent money while I continue my academics.I'm almost done with my industrial arts degree specializing in automotive highperformance, waiting to be accepted in the nursing program, continue till I get a masters then jumpship to another major, maybe math or physics.

[chinggay]

thanks so much for your replies, everyone!

i'm still piecing everything together, so once I have something concrete (and when my deadline draws nearer hehe), I'll post something again and message everyone.

Good idea about IT, the editors seemed to have forgotten about that field. I'll definitely be including it!

[chocnut]

i left law school for one year, thinking that i could hack it in the real world.

i worked at a sugar trading firm (i.e. "corporate world/jungle&quot for two days. i started on a monday, and resigned on a beautiful wednesday morning. it was interesting. but one thing i can say about working in the "corporate world," it's the kind of thing that you know you'll be in for the long haul. that's also why i left. i couldn't begin to imagine that that would be it for me. mind you, it was a very good job. the President of the company gave me very simple instructions. he just asked me to learn, observe, and absorb everything that i can. apparently, i imbibed too much in two days that i left.

i, then, proceeded to work at an ad agency. i was there for one month. third week into the job, i was getting suicidal. besides, the pay just wasn't appealing at all. i was spending more than i was earning. the prospects of a "good" future was very dim, and so when enlightenment came, i left.

(i've been writing for "the reviewer," but that's really more like gratis et amore. i haven't picked up my checks in months. i'm just in it for the free CDs, and the fact that it's a good respite from law school.)

nowadays, i spend my days in law school, and my nights in the movie houses. i no longer inhabit plato's cave. ayala cinemas have better sights and sounds. :P (oh, and here's something that i learned, being a Philo major in the "real world" doesn't mean that you're doomed to become a "teacher." there is a market for "Philosophers": in the corporate world, in advertising, and before i decided to resume my studies, in media--there was a pending offer to be a segment producer for the terrible tabloid news program, "the insider.&quot