Your career path

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DAVEM

DAVEM

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Hi all,

Would you like to share your proposed career path. Where are you now, and where do you want to be, and what are the steps in between.

I'm trying to put together a career plan for myself, and wondered how you lot go about planning your career.

Cheers

David :)
 
Im at University -in my 1st of 4years doing Computer Forensics.

After i finish i hope to work for the MoD or a private company investigating digital crime, something along them lines, possibly Police as well just to gain experience

However i ultimately would like to be working for myself in a comapny i set up, with partners obviously. It would be awesome if i could work in Australia, but whether thats demanded or not we will see. This is where i see myself in 20yrs time at least....

thats the BIG plan anyways.

If not, rockstar because ive missed the boat to be a pro footballer :)
 
THE PRESENT

Education

Working with people (disabled and disadvantaged)

Working in public sector

THE FUTURE

Further education (just been accepted onto a practical skills course that will allow me to apply for my Masters straight after)

Fining a job during the last year of my Masters, most likely with a charity. Hopefully also maintaining a placement on the NHS.

Completing Masters and getting job on the NHS.

Working as a private Psychotherapist and making a contribution to professional Psychology, whilst completing a doctorate perhaps...
 
Well

Mine went GNVQ advanced IT
BS/c Computers and Network Engineering degree
Did the usual crappy job for a few months after i left then started at Siemens
Moved up to better job in Siemens (one i just left)
Should be starting at BT as an oracle database admin in a month or so :)
This jobs the real break, its well paid, decent role and more training than can shake a stick at so be fully oracle DBA qualified in a year and the likes of 35/40k salaries comes into range :)
 
The past,
Had a good career with excellent prospects

The present,
Messed right up, stuck in a crap job with no prospects :o

Learn from our mistakes I guess, currently trying to sort stuff out :)
 
Mercutio said:
Well

Mine went GNVQ advanced IT
BS/c Computers and Network Engineering degree
Did the usual crappy job for a few months after i left then started at Siemens
Moved up to better job in Siemens (one i just left)
Should be starting at BT as an oracle database admin in a month or so :)
This jobs the real break, its well paid, decent role and more training than can shake a stick at so be fully oracle DBA qualified in a year and the likes of 35/40k salaries comes into range :)
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Thanks for that. At the moment I'm trying to decide whether to temperarily (sp?) leave my job and do my PhD or climb up the tree with my employer.

David
 
Path? I think of it more as a bit of overgrown garden, it does what it likes.


Past: Mphs Physics at Umist (RIP), got bored and left, then drove a forklift for a bit. Followed by CIMA accountany, leading into systems accountancy, and then just sticking with the systems and dropping the accounting. Now a NOC engineer.

However present thinking (subject to change on a whim) is to finish my CCNP and CCSP next year (providing I can stay awake for longer than 10 minutes when trying to study). Probably won't change jobs unless necessary. After that thinking about a degree in Politics and Economics at the OU, but may do something else that interests me.

Which I suppose translates as, I've got enough money for a nice flat, nice food, can go out. I don't need anymore, so I study things that I enjoy. Wish someone had told me to do that when I was doing A levels, life for the next 10 years would have been easier.
 
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Career goal: Find a rewarding job in IT that pays enough that I can live comfortably.

Career path:
- Did ComSci degree
- Joined a large multinational IT company on a graduate scheme.
- Spent the last year grateful for a job and experience, but bemoaning getting screwed on pay and training.
- Working up to those two magical years experience so I can get a better job closer to home
- Move into senior tech role, possibly TDA or similar.
- Move out of tech into management etc.
 
I'm currently doing a comp sci degree. When I graduate I'm going to try and get a job in computer games programming. I may do a masters in games programming if I find it difficult getting a job. From there I'll just see how it goes.
 
Finished my MSc, now working my first proper job earning a fantastic amount of cash, but in what I see as a non-career job.

The plan for me is to just work for 2-3 or possibly 5 years, and then to quit my job and do my PhD at Cambridge :)
 
Have a GCSE in Chemistry and DT

I want to become an extremist.........i know all the chemical formulas etc to make a fun and big explosions :o :D ;)

Seriously - im going to run a buisiness
 
Finished my 4 year BSc Joint Honours Artificial intelligence and Psychology at Edinburgh this suummer.

In october I started a PhD at The Ecole Polytechnqiue Federal de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. This is a 4 year PhD.

I then hope to move to the US, hopefull Stanford or Berkley to do PostDoc work.
 
D.P. said:
Finished my 4 year BSc Joint Honours Artificial intelligence and Psychology at Edinburgh this suummer.

In october I started a PhD at The Ecole Polytechnqiue Federal de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. This is a 4 year PhD.

I then hope to move to the US, hopefull Stanford or Berkley to do PostDoc work.
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Awesome, is your PhD funded or do you fund yourself?
 
I am now:

3rd year Mechanical Engineering student and highly active in the University of Birmingham Formula Student team.

Next year, and beyond

4th year Mech Eng, likely/hopefully Team leader for our Formula Student Team, which could give me a little bit more of an edge trying to get into a motorsport career, however, it really depends on how my degree goes and how my interests in motorsport continue. I'd like to travel a lot while I'm still young, so motorsport could be a good path for me providing I find the right job, I think I'll find myself in more of a management/leader role after that, or during that time.

I may be tempted into staying on to do postgraduate PhD stuff depending on what kind of jobs / money I could get out of that.
 
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Past:
Technical call logger
2nd line technical support
Trainee consultant
Consultant
Senior Consultant

Current:

Technical account manager / Senior Consultant
Moving in to Business Development Manager

Future:

Once I've built the team up I'm working on.....
Business Development Practice Manager

TBH that's as far as I want to go. Further up the tree than that will mean more stress and less free time.
 
Past:

4yr BSc Honors Degree Biology
9 months unrelated job at the University
1yr Police Forensic Laboratory - general scientist
1yr Research Technician (potato molecular biology)- Scottish Crop Research Institute

Present:

3 year PhD - Determining The Genetic Control of Carotenoids in Potato Tubers (Molecular genetics) - S.C.R.I

Future:

Post Doc not necessarily in related topic (Transferable lab skills)
 
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