<p>I've seen a lot of posts about "life goals" lately, and I'd like to hear your reasons for choosing your future careers. How did you get interested in them, and what makes you sure this is the career for you? Just replace "neurosurgeon" with "politician," "physicist," "stripper," or whatever you might want to be in the future.</p>
<p>I have a few career ambitions, and they include:
-Bestselling author
-Screenwriter
-Middle school English teacher
and
-Literary agent</p>
<p>Bestselling author:
Pretty self-explanatory. I’ve been losing myself (and loving it) in writing manuscripts since 7th grade. It truly is my passion, and no matter what happens, I will continue to write. Querying is like throwing yourself in the dungeons of hell while also rolling around in soggy trenches, but I know from the few nibbling requests that my writing has SOME merit in the eyes of some people.</p>
<p>Screenwriter:
I’m not exactly sure this is the right career for me, but given my zest for writing and constant imagining my book scenes turned tv scenes in my head, it feels like a natural ambition. I love the initial excitement of creating a film and unleashing it to the world. I’ve experienced some of this in the film club I’m in, and though my first film was a terrible experience overall, there is something to admire in the production of movies and tv shows.</p>
<p>Middle school English teacher:
This one completely derives from inspiration. My 8th grade language arts teacher inspired me. I love English, and watching the way he impacted all of his students and genuinely loved his job made me so intrigued. I love the way this job is so rewarding (if you’re actually meant to be a teacher and not just looking for an easy job, which it isn’t at all). I love the way it’s never boring (except for those tedious tasks that my old LA teacher made me do when I volunteered for him). I just love how noble this occupation is too. And honestly, that English teacher I had made it look so freaking glamorous (but that’s probably because he’s gorgeous and likes me and listens to me and is always there for me).</p>
<p>Literary agent:
Since delving into the query trenches, this is a job I’ve been introduced to. There’s multitudes of reading (which if you haven’t noticed, I enjoy) and also multitudes of making dreams come true. It seems like a job that would suit me well.</p>
<p>Time will tell which occupation is my true calling. Cool thread!</p>
<p>Well I either want to be a neurosurgeon, an astrophysicist, an investment banker, a flight attendant, or a physics teacher. Here’s why:
Neurosurgeon:
I cannot get over the fact that we will probably NEVER know everything about the human brain. In all honesty, this terrifying fact keeps me up at night. That’s why I try to relax myself with Sex and the City at times; the uncertainty encountered in NYC alone allows me to come to terms with everything. For God’s sake, who doesn’t enjoy NYC? So why can’t I enjoy learning about this complex part of the human body? It’s the place from where everything springs forth. God damn it, the brain is just so beautiful 
I just feel lucky to have one and to be able to use it. Just seeing with it and living with it…oh the idea excites me!!! I want to make an impact before I leave, not fully understanding what is inside of me. I want to take care of this organ, I want to salvage it. I don’t want this opportunity to learn and to live to be taken away from most everybody. To have the ability to save someone and allow them to have even a day to think for themselves is just incredible to think about. At least I will help someone understand their surroundings somewhat. </p>
<p>Astrophysicist:
When I know that a few beautiful formulas that I have scribbled onto a piece of paper can amount to knowing just a little bit about why the darn nebulaes shimmer, I go crazy! Space is just so incredible and I’m a curious cat, if you would (usually I wouldn’t word it that way…but yeah). I really want to not only understand the way that world around me works, but a tidbit about the world beyond me would suffice. </p>
<p>Investment Banker:
The movement of money has ways fascinated me. There’s just something I love about Walk Street. Perhaps it is the fact that numbers can make man do anything. The fact that a life has been built from and revolves around numbers. Seeing something go up or down exponentially gives me a rush. Manipulating numbers ( and people 
) is something that I can have fun with. </p>
<p>Flight Attendant:
Who wouldn’t love to travel the world? I understand that my life will be and incessant collage of airports, airplane, and ending meetings of the mile high club, but something tells me that I wouldn’t mind that life, especially with the adventure. The adventure is mainly the chance to experience different peoples and different places only to eventually realize that we are all the same. I am teaching myself multiple languages and I really want to use them all! Just thinking of this is exciting. And the knowledge about how the plane works and the physics of it all …damn! That’s just a beautiful experience. </p>
<p>Physics teacher:
I think everyone should know how their world works. I mainly want to teach in third world countries. As crazy as it sounds, I guess I could live without the surplus income. I think that physics can awaken the soul…I know, it sounds insane. But so many people have gone out of their way to make sure that I was less likely to end up…well not in certain places at certain times. I just think everyone deserves a chance and physics gave me a second chance. With physics come many revelations. You can go over a scenario or a problem set over and over again and discover a new way to approach it. That ultimately means a different world. Now if you did something differently, the effects are bound to be different. Ultimately, your approach can change the world in a negative or positive way…</p>
<p>Well I should stop now before I bore you all. But if you asked me this question out of the blue in person, you’d get a dreadful mishmash of what’s above. Thanks for reading this and good luck with your lives everyone! </p>
<p>Electrical Engineer
I get to design systems / circuits / do a lot of calculations
Testing, troubleshooting, and making improvements – yay, I actually get to play with the toys I make!
If you’ve ever wanted to tinker to your heart’s desire this is something to really enjoy.</p>
<p>I want to be either an attorney (environmental or civil liberties), author, English professor, investment banker, or psychiatrist. Here’s why: </p>
<p>Attorney (civil liberties)
I have always had a knack for rhetoric and debate, being highly skilled in logic and critical thinking. These skills are integral to being a decent lawyer. I have great passion for the law and our country’s legal system, as well as protecting the downtrodden (minorities, the poor, etc.) Being an attorney is a lot of tedious work and many attorneys do not see the inside of a court room often. However, being a legal professional that helps the disadvantaged get an equal shot at representation is something I would very much enjoy doing with my life. </p>
<p>Attorney (environmental)
Helping the environment is something that is necessary for the sustainability of our nation. Combining science interest with legal rhetoric would make this a profession that would not only be lucrative, but be vital with the upcoming environmental challenges that our nation faces. Keeping a tight leash on big business and going after the worst of offenders in regards to pollution are tasks that I would love to undertake. </p>
<p>Author
Writing is my number one passion in life, it has been since I was a child. Writing stories and characters based off my life and interests while entertaining or imparting wisdom to audiences is the most fulfilling thing I can think of in the context of my life. To inspire a person in the way that Dostoevsky or Shakespeare or Vonnegut did to me would be an honor and a beautiful way to live my life. </p>
<p>English professor
Being a literary scholar and spending my life dedicated to understanding the human condition through the lens of literature is something that I think I could potentially be very good at. Imparting wisdom unto students would also be an honor and incredibly stimulating. </p>
<p>Investment banker
Though my mathematical skills aren’t exactly refined just yet, money has always been extremely fascinating to me. Our economy and livelihoods are based on the transfer of goods and money. Assisting businesses and individuals in raising capital and keeping the wheels of our economy turning sounds highly stimulating as well. In addition, I would also hope to use sound banking practices to help prevent the disaster of our last financial crisis (and hopefully use tactics that don’t solely benefit and favor the tippy-top earning corporations). </p>
<p>Psychiatrist
While my science skills still need some tuning (I recently got a 2 on the AP Biology exam LOL), studying psychology/biology for my undergrad and attending medical school to become a psychiatrist is a thought I’ve had for awhile. As you can see, I really want to help people. Mental illnesses are still highly stigmatized in our society and I want to help ensure that the mentally ill have an equal shot at success and can healthily balance their lives. While psychologists and therapists do great work, I think I could really help people through a combination of medicine and psychotherapy. I am a person who is a great listener and can hone in easily on people’s problems.</p>
<p>I probably just trivialized and simplified some of the world’s most respected professions. Oh well. A boy can dream. </p>
<p>$$$</p>
<p>lol “why do you want to be a stripper?”</p>
<p>^ See the post above you</p>
<p>In the second semester of Freshman Physics Honors, we started learning classical mechanics, with topics such as projectiles and forces. These topics were the first truly intuitive concepts that we learned, and over time it just became really awesome that I could design theoretically possible situations in the universe just by manipulating some equations. I wanted to learn more and more and soon my Physics notebook was filled with experimental stuff instead of just the usual class notes and work. However, at that point I was more interested in engineering, like automotive engineering or maybe aerospace. </p>
<p>I think I owe it to my freshman Physics teacher for being a pretty terrible teacher, lol, because I stared making up my own kinematics equations that worked as I just didn’t want to deal with the methods taught for solving problems. I have had 2 different Physics teachers already, and while one of them taught really well and another really didn’t, both inspired me to explore my interests, answering my questions after school and stuff like that.</p>
<p>It wasn’t until later on that I started really getting interested in Physics. I found MIT Opencourseware Classical Mechanics on iTunes U and just played them on my desktop while going to sleep. I didn’t understand a lot of the mathematics but the experiments sometimes blew my mind (Balloons inside enclosed spaces go forwards when accelerated!). Summer that I discovered many of the educational YouTube channels relating to science, like MinutePhysics, Vsauce, Sixty Symbols, Sci Show, and many others that I realized that there is even more exciting Physics out there, answering the deepest questions every day. After that I gravitated to watching some of Leonard Susskind’s Stanford lectures on Physics, even though I was still a bit behind in the mathematics. I had always liked space, but once I started learning the actual mathematics of these systems, I couldn’t find anything more interesting. I soon started watching the shows that Brian Greene and Neil deGrasse Tyson produce, and that showed me the newest questions that are being attempted today. I soon started to gain a whole “cosmic perspective” thing where I felt really connected with everyone else because of Physics and things like gravitational interactions or the signals that we send out through electromagnetic waves (Lol, I once asked a friend what his address is on Facebook so I could calculate the gravitational pull between us).</p>
<p>I started attempting (But never really finished) MOOCs in Physics. I was doing pretty well in Duke’s Astronomy course on Coursera and Cornell’s Astrophysics and Relativity course on EdX, but my attention span eventually gave out to other things, lol. I couldn’t really keep up with all of it with everything else at the same time.</p>
<p>I attended a research based course at the Museum of Natural History in the science of stars, and that was pretty cool. Never before had I been in a community of people who all really loved Physics. Of course, there were a couple of computer science kids, but everyone there was extremely smart. I had never really had conversations with people my age before who also really liked Physics, and I liked the idea of continuing that later on in life. I plan to keep on taking courses there and do an internship in the fall.</p>
<p>I’m currently subscribed to Scientific American magazine and while I haven’t been keeping up so much lately, I do learn a lot about modern physics topics like neutrinos and black holes from it.</p>
<p>My main interests right now are dark energy, dark matter, particle physics, nuclear fusion, and inflationary theory.</p>
<p>And also Physics pays really well, but you don’t do science for the money.</p>
<p>I’d be a stripper because of the hours. And potential to marry rich. Tax cuts.</p>
<p>@Yakisoba @HeisAidanD </p>
<p>lololol</p>
<p>and it doesn’t require an Ivy League degree, let alone any college</p>
<p>I want to be a Neurologist. I find the brain, especially all of its mysteries, incredibly fascinating. I have also spent the last two summers doing a research internship working with mouse models of Huntington’s disease. Neurodegenerative diseases fascinate me, and I want to spend my life working to help the growing population which suffers from these disorders. </p>
<p>Psychotherapist - To save the world, essentially</p>
<p>Programmer - The flexibility of such a profession, seeing as though computing is everywhere, and the sheer potential of applications the general technology can live up to. I also really like logic and maths. </p>
<p>good news guys I finally became a stripper neurosurgeon!</p>
<p>My future is already not going to be a career. Imagine what Kanye does. He’s a producer, but he still is incredibly successful as a designer (A.P.C collab was dope), rapper, husband and more. </p>
<p>In the future, I’ll be a lot of things. Part of that is networking; I live vicariously through the achievements of others, and my role in my network is really encouraging the success of others. Most likely, I’ll be successful on Wall Street and then occupy a really high level government position. I’ll be friends with great people and do cool things.</p>
<p>In fact, forget everything I said. I’ll quote Kanye about what future me would say about his career. He’d say, “My life is dope, and I dope things”. That’s me. Not defined. Infinite. In all directions. In all pursuits. In all manners of conceivable ambition</p>