<p>Hello,
I'm senior in high school this year and have been contemplating like crazy about what to major in college and what my future career I will be lead to. </p>
<p>I'm good with math (pre-calc now), sciences, and social sciences at school. I love using a computer for school, video editing, web editing, etc (I would love to have a career that uses technology as a part of everyday work). I've been suggested to become an accountant but got scared off from the ridiculous hours of work. </p>
<p>Do you have any career suggestions for me? I would want to work in a promising field, with a fairly good salary and work satisfaction but yet not one that gives no time for family.</p>
<p>With the globalization of the economy, your best choices are those positions which require you to 'touch' your customer: Retailing, hospitality, teaching, medical care, construction, etc.. If your job can be done in front of a computer screen or over the phone, it will be done elsewhere long before you retire. Remember too that the population is aging-jobs that involve providing services to a growing elderly population will expand. </p>
<p>This isn't meant to frighten you-new jobs will be created that we can't foresee (think dot com boom). But be smart about global economic trends and demographic data. You can be a brilliant computer programmer, web site designer, radiologist...but the number of really good jobs for these folks is shrinking. Does that mean no one will get a good job in these fields? Of course not-it just means that it will be harder than in fields that are growing and expanding. Talk to your professors and professionals in the fields you might be interested in. They know the trends.</p>
<p><quote>"With the globalization of the economy, your best choices are those positions which require you to 'touch' your customer: Retailing, hospitality, teaching, medical care, construction, etc.. If your job can be done in front of a computer screen or over the phone, it will be done elsewhere long before you retire. Remember too that the population is aging-jobs that involve providing services to a growing elderly population will expand."</quote></p>
<p>I definitely agree that the environmental, natural resource fields are a great choice. Students from out two year programs at MSU-Bottineau are entering the workplace making twice what the instructors with MS's are getting to teach them. Each has 4-6 job offers, providing they take the effort to send out the applications. I am getting 2-3 calls a week from golf courses, tree and turf care companies and municipal governments. Some work a few years in the field and then go on for advanced degrees paid for by their employers. The older population wants to keep their grounds looking good and they are not able to do it themselves. They are hiring young folks or moving to condos where services do the work.</p>
<p>Pharmacy is a great field . Start at 90k. Clean, not like medicine.
Accounting is also good. Long hours are usually around tax season, but the rest of the year is ok.</p>
<p>Have had 4 golf courses and 2 landscape companies call within the past 2 days looking for interns, summer help and superintendents. Every student has at least 2 offers for the summer. Some as many as 5. It gets a little depressing sometimes to turn down so many offers. I try to make sure they will try again next year. We have an excellent reputation among employers and I want to keep it that way. If you know of anyone interested in going into the tree, turf or golf course care fields, let me know. </p>
<p>Pharmacy, nursing, dentistry, software engineering (computer science), biotech, bioengineering, biomedical engineering should all have good futures.</p>
<p>EDIT: Also accounting and engineering in general :)</p>
<p>Navy Seal =P seriously in my opinion, I wanna do it but i rly cant physically, mentally, and medically. although i dont know how much they get paid to do it..... otherwise, i would have to go with Pharmacy but its tough as well, im aiming for Pharmacy as my major but i hope its not too late....</p>