<p>Because I am very interested in the planet and helping people and seeing new places.</p>
<p>I want to travel, so I don't want to take a job that forces me to spend so much time working in one place unless it is field work. At the same time, I don't want a job that forces me to travel all the time and prevents me from creating some kind of social life or love life wherever I decide to live.</p>
<p>Not even sure what a “geography job” is, making this hard to answer. There certainly are jobs with a lot of travel involved. But sometimes the travel is repetitive (to the same field office or location on a regular basis). Like I work for a company now where it is not uncommon to go to Toronto or Miami a few times a year. But if I wanted to go to LA or London? That would be my vacation time… </p>
<p>My D1’s boyfriend works for a large consulting company. He travels for projects, often gone for 6 months or so to another city. Flies home most weekends. Works a lot of hours while he is in the project city. He is heartily sick of being on the road after two years with the company. But is out of town so much it is hard to search for a new job in his home base city. And he has made few work connections in his home city, since he is out on projects all the time. He is getting valuable work experience, but sure wouldn’t say that travel was a “benefit” of his job.</p>
<p>You might be interested in working for a non-profit that does international work of some kind. May not pay too well, but you might get a combo of travel vs. not. But sometimes you just have to quit your job and move to get a new experience, too. Which gets more and more challenging as you get older. if you marry, your spouse may not be happy if you are traveling too much for work. And once you have kids it is a whole different ballgame…</p>
<p>Do all office jobs require you to be in a cubicle 24/7? </p>
<p>Well, they are called ‘office jobs’ for a reason. I know a few people who do work from home in what would traditionally be considered ‘office jobs’. But the ones I know all worked for their companies for a while before being allowed to do that. Honestly, working from home is not always the greatest. There are a lot of distractions, and you lose some traction in your job by not having face-to-face contact with your co-workers sometimes. It can be harder to be efficient, and communication can be harder. And when stuff goes wrong, your relationships aren’t necessarily strong enough to help buffer you from getting blamed…</p>
<p>I honestly didn’t think to consider that. Really, it’s not so much being able to work from home that I am interested in, but basically just having the freedom to work from several locations, and not just out of an office.</p>
<p>I don’t mind the idea of working in some office all day. I’m pretty sure that the money I would hopefully make and freedom I would have on my own with a good job, and the comfort of where I work, would be better than spending the rest of my days at home with my parents or working at a fast food restaurant.</p>
<p>Like I said in another post, it seems like I need to decide on whether or not if I want to travel to different places and work a lot in different places, or stick to one place, and work and live there.</p>
<p>Would you say that Geography and/or Computer Science jobs would allow for me to work in one place? I’m a bit conflicted on what I want right now, and I used the broad phrase “Geography jobs” because I am not entirely sure what most Geography jobs involve. I kind of have a basic idea of what I would do with a degree in CS; Software design, website design, data base management, and the likes, but what do most Geographers do?</p>
<p>computer science mostly would be working in 1 place, since you will be sitting at the computer most of the time. geography might have a more adventurous role. Are you doing geography just, because you can travel?</p>
<p>I’m still having a hard time understanding what a geography major is…</p>
<p>My friends son roomed with a geography major and we as engineer/ science types couldn’t figure out what that was. He went to work for a major network traveling ahead of the Olympics setting up satellite and communication networks. So he would travel to the host country two years in advance and work until the event. I don’t know what his minor was or anything else but it sounded like a very cool job</p>
<p>Oh, sorry. I assumed that this job was abandoned. I chose Geography because I am interested in travel, and I am also interested in different aspects of nature, and the movement and behavior patterns of Humans, but it’s a bit difficult to figure out just what I would be DOING as a Geographer, and as much as I want to travel and explore, it sounds like something I’d rather do on my own time with my own money, and I don’t mind living and working in a city for the rest of my life if it means funding my other passions like song-writing, story-writing, and possibly getting into game development.</p>
<p>Honestly, I’m just passionate about getting out of the U.S. Tennessee, or at least my parents’ house, and seeing new places and meeting new people. I really don’t care to live in Tennessee except for Memphis or Nashville, which may be overrated. I also really don’t care to date in the U.S., ESPECIALLY in Tennessee.</p>
<p>I’d much rather work a sustainable and well-paying job with good job security and fund my desire to do something like play sports, or travel, or help people in other countries, or do song-writing, or play instruments, or do story writing, or develop games, or get into some sort of fighting sport.</p>
<p>As cool as it sounds, and as interested as I am in technology and robotics and space, I don’t aspire to become an engineer, or scientist, or astronaut, and I’m not even sure if I am mentally (not good at math, may have ADHD) or emotionally (not good under pressure and strict time limits with math, may have depression) capable of handing something of such high difficulty.</p>
<p>Not only that, but I learned that I am not really interested in the type of work that I do in Engineering Technology, and I am not sure how hard it is to get a job as a scientist or engineer of any kind. I’m much more interested in seeing new places, helping people, and just living life, and I don’t really have faith that Humanity will ever truly go anywhere beyond earth, which was what I was interested in as a child, and still am interested in.</p>
<p>It’s a bit difficult to describe how I feel about this. In short, if I was confident that I was capable enough and had the mind and personality to go into Engineering Technology or Computer Science, and that I was interested in it enough, I would. </p>
<p>I’m interested in what Geography SEEMS to be about, but I’m not perfectly sure if it is what I want to do for money reasons, and job searching reasons.</p>
<p>There are some other jobs out there I am interested in doing that may cater better to my speaking and communication skills and ability to remember a lot of details and words accurately, but they all seem to either involve being set up in a foreign country as a complete alien and observer (Anthropology), they involve big business, they involve working for the government (like social work), or they involve a lot of politics and law (like being a lawyer). I’d rather not get involved with any of those things. I don’t like nor trust our government and people who work for them, and I am not interested in getting into big business. I want to go to another country and meet new people, but I don’t want to have to be a complete alien like with Anthropology.</p>
<p>Of course, surely not all of these choices are entirely bad, and even so, it’s a bad world. I just don’t want to do a job that involves something that I absolutely despise and don’t want to even get close to, I don’t want a job that will force me to be some kind of bad guy, and I don’t want a career where it is hard to find a job.</p>
<p>Based on my interests and passions and skills, I vaguely narrowed down my choices to CS and Geog. The truth is, I need to do more research, but every time I try to take the time to do research, either I get interrupted, easily distracted, easily get discouraged as the information I find hardly tells me ANYTHING about what to expect, or just trying to search for all this information makes me feel drained and nauseous. I’ve been meaning to see a psychiatrist and a doctor, and I even saw a psychiatrist when I was at college, but now that I am at home, it’s difficult to try and get mom and dad to take me to the doctor without telling them something that will make them worry, or worse, refuse to take me. I don’t have money of my own to go see one. I don’t even have a vehicle or driver’s license, and I live out in the middle of the country.</p>
<p>I need to go out and live more to discover what I am truly good at and what I truly have a passion for. According to many people, I never got a chance to even begin this phase, let alone develop some realistic mindsets and social skills, because I’ve been homeschooled most of my life, and locked up in the house all of my life. I’ve even been told by a few other people online before graduating from High school that I should wait a few years before going to college, but I ignored them because I just wanted to get out of the house and experience THINGS and PEOPLE for once, and I didn’t want to wait another year.</p>
<p>Of course, every time I try to explain my problems to someone who’s not a professional, they just nag me and try to make me feel guilty about not being happy with where I am now in life and having a family and being in my parents’ home, which I find offensive because 1, it doesn’t even begin to help, and the fact remains that I have issues and I want to change my life. ,but what was I expecting them to be able to do?. 2, how dare they say I don’t love and appreciate my family? If anything, after finally being in college and seeing how greedy, manipulative, judgmental, selfish and uncaring most people are, I appreciate my family more now than ever before, and am thoroughly convinced that my family might be the only people in the entire world who would ever care about me and love me for me. Friends are expendable and go away over time but are still important and great to have, and I’d be LUCKY to find a woman who would actually love me, ESPECIALLY at my age and in this culture and in this economy.</p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t regret jumping right into college, but it kind of sucks that I don’t even know enough about myself and the world to begin making a firm decision on what I want to do for the rest of my life.</p>
<p>I’ve been looking into this WWOOF program, but I don’t have confidence in it. If it works, though, I wouldn’t mind going to a different country and helping someone with a farm. At the most, I would be a nice change in scenery, a great way to meet new people, a good way to experience some kind of work, and a good way to make the summer fly by. Even if it ends up being a bad experience, at least it will make me appreciate being at home with my parents and baby sister even more!</p>
<p>Sorry for the rant and triple-post. I just really felt like getting that out, and the forum started to act picky about how I posted things. Most likely due to the length of the post.</p>
<p>I know what a geography major IS. I took a couple of geography classes in college and loved them. If you want ot find out more about careers for geography majors, when you get to college go see your college career office and talk to them. You should be looking to get some work experience in the summers during college if you can. They can help you find resources on what jobs geography majors are qualified for, maybe help you by telling you were past geography majors from you school have gone on to work or to grad school, and maybe have suggestions for internships or summer job opportunities that might be a fit for you.</p>
<p>You can also do some internet research on geography careers. You can just Google and start following links. You might want to start a Word document or spreadsheet to paste links into and copy interesting text you find. Then it is easy to go back to them later if you want to.</p>
<p>You should probably pick a college where Geography and CS are offered majors. Take a couple of classes in each freshman year and visit with the career office. Apply for internships (you may or may not get one after freshman year, though). But it is a way to explore options.</p>
<p>Do all people from Stanford make a million dollars a year?</p>