Your career path

[GobBluth]

Some day I wonder what ever lured me to I.T. All I really wanted to be was a band director...

What was your career choice/path and where did you end up? Mine went something like this:

High School --> Music School --> Pharmacy School --> Military --> I.T.

 

[child of wonder]

High School --> College with Computer Science Major --> Dropped out of college due to bad attendance --> Bounced around crappy customer service jobs --> Future wife got pregnant --> Technical School, graduated with AAS in Network Admin --> Jobs as Linux Admin or Windows Admin --> Focused on VMware, got certified --> IT Consultant

 

[Saint Nick]

You went from pharmacy school to IT?

I'm personally trying to make a switch from IT to physical therapy (DPT).

 

[Deeko]

high school -> college (BS in CS) -> job as software engineer

 

[Atomic Playboy]

My entire career can be traced back to a single day in third grade when I decided learning to juggle was taking too much damn effort and went back to playing Montezuma's Revenge on my mother's Apple IIe. Everything else just naturally fell in line.

 

[Linflas]

High School->Navy->College(Geology)->computer operations->computer programming->corporate PC/network/IT support.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Thumb in ass->prison->Shitty blue collar job->thumb in ass->somewhat shitty blue collar job.

 

[Tweak155]

High School -> ECE focus degree -> Change majors to CIS after I excelled at required programming courses -> naturally land IT jobs -> now stay here due to $$ and the fact I'm clearly technically minded (and annoyingly so)

 

[rcpratt]

High School --> College (Nuclear Engineering) --> Job as nuclear engineer/licensing engineer/PM

I guess I am boring.

 

[bignateyk]

Highschool -> School for EE -> EE

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

HS->year working crappy retail job and realizing I don't want to be like the 40 year old coworkers that hated their lives->enrolled in Civil Engineering at college->realized the math teachers suck and I didn't want to self-teach myself advanced math->IT

 

[DaveSimmons]

Game programming (actually got paid a little for it) -> BS in comp sci -> grad school (never finished Ph.D) -> software development jobs

 

[GobBluth]

You went from pharmacy school to IT?

I'm personally trying to make a switch from IT to physical therapy (DPT).

Yeah I was a bad chemistry student. Music school was the goal, dropped out due to college-level alcoholism, re-enrolled as a pharmacy student because I wanted a lucrative career, sucked at that, dropped out, joined the service.

 

[skyking]

will be tl;dr

 

[GobBluth]

Thumb in ass->prison->Shitty blue collar job->thumb in ass->somewhat shitty blue collar job.

That had to suck...

 

[Wyndru]

HS -> College (BS in CS) -> Network and Systems Tech/Admin

 

[purbeast0]

growing up i loved video games so i wanted to make them.

quickly in school i learned that game programming was a much more niche software avenue that was much harder to break into, so i never made it into game programming nor do i have any desire to. but i went from...

highschool -> bs comp sci -> software developer

and that is where i'm at now. really glad i took this path as financially i'm making a lot more than most of my friends and most others that are my age in their careers, unless they are doctors or business owners.

and i actually enjoy what i do and don't mind coming to work, whereas i know quite a bit of my friends dread it daily, and they don't have relaxed hours like i do. some of them are shocked that i can leave/come as i please as long as i hit 40 hours a week.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

high school -> CS degree -> sw engr job

got a master's in the middle there. still working my first job, 7 years now

 

[GobBluth]

I guess I should elaborate..

...Military --> IT --> Network Admin for Power Co. --> Hospital IT Supervisor

 

[Ns1]

It wasn't then, but sure feels like it now

HS -> Comp Sci -> Comp Sci Dropout -> Business -> Accounting -> Accounting Info Sys -> First job as an accountant -> Second job as a financial analyst -> Third job as a Business Analyst doing software development

 

[Dr. Detroit]

HS>US Army>University - Accounting Degree>Big 4>Top 15>CPA>Director IA

Id rather be doing:
Brewmaster at micro-brewery
Dolphin Trainer - SeaWorld
Cultural Anthropologist living with some tribe taking notes

 

[xeemzor]

HS>US Army>University - Accounting Degree>Big 4>Top 15>CPA>Director IA

Id rather be doing:
Brewmaster at micro-brewery
Dolphin Trainer - SeaWorld
Cultural Anthropologist living with some tribe taking notes

I'm pretty close at HS>University - Accounting Degree>Big Accounting Firm currently. Overall, have you been pretty happy with your accounting background?

 

[vshah]

high school > BS in ECE w/ focus in embedded devices > realized I was better at cs stuff than i was at embedded > Software Engineer

 

[dbk]

HS, BS Econ, MS Accounting, FedGov.. I'll go private in few years.

 

[SandEagle]

HS --> English major --> BSBA, IT --> MBA --> MS, IT --> Ed.S/PhD dropped out --> IT consulting

switched out from English to MIS after seeing all of my friends making money. always wanted to become a teacher. soon as kids are older i may go back to school.