<p>@TinnyT obviously started watching House of Cards.</p>
<p>I think I’ve found my ideal career/job progression. It may be a bit unhealthy to think this far into the future though.</p>
<p>18 years old: get into elite college
22 years old: graduate/get management consulting job
26 years old: get into stanford business school (yes, stanford in specific)
28 years old: graduate/get job in venture capital (this is why I need stanford)
35 years old: get corporate job with tech company (google, apple, etc)</p>
<p>Probably going to be on the stock market and/or run my own business at the same time </p>
<p>@Repede obviously saw my post about that in the HS 2014 thread.</p>
<p>economist
back up: cosmetic chemist
dream: famous fashion designer</p>
<p>I thought about being a veterinarian when I was a little kid because, I saw a pigeon cut in half and still alive. Later I thought I wanted to be a businessman because, of the benefits and how I can help the community. After that, I wanted to be a pediatrician because, I love kids and teaching a kid to be nice can go a long way. Now I am still thinking of pediatrician.</p>
<p>TL;DR: I want to help people. :D</p>
<p>My godson started out as a Trauma Surgeon who did a lot of neurological surgery. When he went to work for the US Government, his job required him to get a further doctorate to specialize in Psychiatry. So he is a Neuropsychiatric Surgeon, but not a researcher. But one can be a researcher in any area of medicine, so if he transfers to a “research organization”, he could research what he does now.</p>
<p>Being a venture capitalist or an angel investor would be kick-ass. </p>
<p>Working at Disney world as an imagineer would be pretty awesome too. </p>
<p>For a while, I considered majoring in music/being a musician. Every member of my family is a musician, and a successful one at that (professional orchestra jobs, renowned faculty members at top conservatories, etc), so I figured I’d just follow in the family trade. I do love music; I’ve played piano for 8 years and I also am in orchestra. However, I’ve really changed this past year (my sophomore year).</p>
<p>Although I’ve always been above average in school and in academics, I’ve never really been passionate about it; never studying always allowed me to scrape by with low As. I’ve toyed around with different career ideas, but nothing has truly felt like the right fit. This year, I took my first chemistry and calculus courses, and discovered my love for math and science. </p>
<p>In chemistry, my success in the class was completely based on my own initiative. My lab partner had no idea what she was doing and I had to do many of the labs by myself. Most of my classmates did not want to be there. At first it was frustrating, but after a while I found chemistry to be fascinating, and actually fun. I loved the mathematical applications in our labs and lectures, problem-solving, and drawing conclusions in lab reports - things I had never done before.</p>
<p>Calculus was an enlightening experience also. I realized, more than in any other math classes (I don’t know why!) the concepts came very naturally and quickly to me. Other students came to me for help many times during the course, and I truly enjoyed applying formulas and concepts to different situations. It probably also helped that I absolutely loved my teacher (I’m taking AP Stat from her this year, at the same time as AP Calc!)</p>
<p>Because of my experience in these two classes, and my love for music, I am strongly considering majoring in engineering. The creative aspect from music (problem solving) combined with the beauty of mathematics and science is something I feel could be a perfect match for me. I’m taking my first physics class this year and could not be more excited!</p>
<p>I wanted to share my story of discovering a new passion in hopes that it would encourage others to persevere through difficult classroom situations, and not decide to be locked into what everyone else in their family does. The world definitely needs a lot more female engineers. :)</p>
<p>A neurosurgeon xD</p>
<p>A cardiothoracic surgeon, urologist, or similar medical profession.</p>
<p>Retired. :)</p>
<p>I kinda want to be some sort of Museum Curator, but I know that’s a long shot…</p>
<p>Musical theatre performer is the dream, but I am also quite interested in the marketing side of it.</p>
<p>Librarian (drama librarian or rare books librarian preferably)
Curator of rare books
Archivist
Conservator (books/documents)
Fiction editor at major publishing company</p>
<p>…I like books</p>
<p>Ideally a want to be a Biochemist/ Molecular bioligogist and create cures/medicines/ good stuff :-j </p>
<p>I’d love to become a psychiatrist. But if that doesn’t work out for me, being a professor sounds pretty cool too. :)</p>
<p>businessman and philanthropist. </p>
<p>I’ve always wanted to be a high school math teacher, but I’d like to be a psychiatrist more. I’ve always wanted to work in the medical field, but I definitely can’t handle being a surgeon not because of all the blood, but because I can’t handle cutting skin and organs. I’m also really interested in the film industry, but the chances of not making it really scares me. So I’m 99.99% positive I’m going to end up as a psychiatrist. I’ve known from a very young age that I either want to teach or go into medicine. I have a bunch of medical classes in my high school schedule, so I don’t want to steer off that path. But idk, maybe I’m just scared of change or taking huge risks :p</p>
<p>For some reason last year I thought of being a math teacher as an option… But now I know if I did that, I’d only be able to teacher honors high school students. I think it would he cool the be a young professor, though :)</p>
<p>My family is pretty involved in the medical field, so that’s always been my main priority. But now I know that I like math a lot more, but I don’t really know any jobs I could use graduate-level math in :/</p>
<p>I used to want to be a physician because everyone in my family is one but I want to be a veterinarian because I love animals and hate dealing with people.</p>