What should I do?

anksta said:
I picked engineering in the first place ... *snip*
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It seems that you have your reasons for the conversion.

A career in Science is something which I have recently dismissed. I find lab work far too frustrating as it is let alone doing it for 3/4 years to obtain a PHD, with low pay and low career prsopects.

I'm currently converting from Biology to Law. Shall be an interesting change :)
 
Nullvoid said:
Amazing fact: Writers do occasionally type the wrong word, spell a word wrong or structure a sentence in a grammatically incorrect way! Hence the need for proof-readers and editors and suchlike.
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I understand mistyping and the odd error. But using the word "know" instead of "no"? That's one hell of a mistake to make. Surely thats basic primary school English, know? ;)
 
neoduder said:
I understand mistyping and the odd error. But using the word "know" instead of "no"? That's one hell of a mistake to make. Surely thats basic primary school English, know? ;)
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Not really I can't even remember how many times I write words backwards, or the wrong order. Education doesn't stop you making silly mistakes.
 
This probably won't help much at all but here's my experience.

I did a degree which I enjoyed - Computing Mathematics. I did an MSc also in Mathematics, and then came out of university looking forward to working hard, for lots of money. Of course now I'm stuck in a job which is interesting, and pays very well, but every day I realise it's not what I want to be doing.

When I was a lad (eg back in 't'day) I was at a specialist music school, training to be a pianist and was a chorister. I had an accident which ended my piano playing, and naturally my testicles left their warm snug place between my legs by a few inches, so I stopped singing treble. It's taken me literally 10 years to get back into singing, and I've been so so lucky that I've fallen straight on my feet at a highly renowned choir at a world famous university, having been a professional musician for 5 years (as a chorister), I would have hated any level of it that wasn't absolutely of the best quality.

If you don't enjoy what you're doing: change it. Hope that helps in some sort of fashion.
 
platypus said:
This probably won't help much at all but here's my experience.

I did a degree which I enjoyed - Computing Mathematics. I did an MSc also in Mathematics, and then came out of university looking forward to working hard, for lots of money. Of course now I'm stuck in a job which is interesting, and pays very well, but every day I realise it's not what I want to be doing.

When I was a lad (eg back in 't'day) I was at a specialist music school, training to be a pianist and was a chorister. I had an accident which ended my piano playing, and naturally my testicles left their warm snug place between my legs by a few inches, so I stopped singing treble. It's taken me literally 10 years to get back into singing, and I've been so so lucky that I've fallen straight on my feet at a highly renowned choir at a world famous university, having been a professional musician for 5 years (as a chorister), I would have hated any level of it that wasn't absolutely of the best quality.

If you don't enjoy what you're doing: change it. Hope that helps in some sort of fashion.
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I thought you were gonna say stick with science or somethin, you're bang on right and what you've done is bang on what I wanna do except a different art. Well done on not settlin for what will bring you a nice pay cheque but no personal fulfillment. More people should think about what they wanted to do when they were 15 or 16 and compare that to where they are now.
 
anksta said:
I dont like engineering, I am not interested in turbulent flow in pipes and theres only so long you can read a question that begins 2 infinite plates...
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man if thats the stuff u learn in engineering im so glad i didnt go into study that:eek: Über boring...
 
uknowist said:
man if thats the stuff u learn in engineering im so glad i didnt go into study that:eek: Über boring...
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that might be the most excitin thing they do as well. "We've got this 10 inch thick steel girder, how much is it gonna bend if we put this bag of sugar on it, yes thats right, not at all"

I envy you that you considered and then decided against it. I wish I'd done that, I could have been on this course 3 years ago and actually enjoyed uni.
 
at least you will have a neat degree at the end of it, even if you dont do anything engineering related it will always look good on CV's:)
 
uknowist said:
at least you will have a neat degree at the end of it, even if you dont do anything engineering related it will always look good on CV's:)
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yeah thats what I'm thinkin and convincin myself of as well, only reason why I've stuck it out really, thing is though I'm nearly at the end of my tether and I'm on by the skin of my teeth.
 
a reply!

I've never put more than one ! exclamation mark, however, I'm so excited that lets just reiterate;

A REPLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Head of my new MINT course said:
>Hi
>
> I am now back at work normally, and happy to rearrange our meeting. I
> could meet tommorow (Friday) if it's any good to you (after 11 a.m.).
> If not, can I suggest 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb 6?
>
> Get back and let me know which you'd prefer.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Garry
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Get in, although I'm PROPER brickin it now, any tips on what to say?
 
miracleboy said:
Something creative?
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I was thinkin about goin in and tellin him I know how to calculate how far a ball will travel given any applied force.

ha, na still though I dont think he'll want to hear somethin creative if you get me, more like why I want to be creative, where my passion lies and what I want to achieve, that sort of thing. I quite like the idea of being able to be honest for once in an interview.

Wish me luck though, I'll definitely post what happens. Any other advice will be greatly appreciated though.
 
ok, meetings at 1 so gonna set off in about 15 20 minutes make sure I can find the damn thing I only saw the buildin yesterday for the first time.

I'll wish myself luck then.

anksta said:
Good luck anksta!
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