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Gabriel
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How does one limit the amount of things that they want to study?
I am a junior and I am interested in many different things. I am having a hard time choosing which ones I would truly be interested in doing as a career. So I was wondering how were people able to choose which ones they wanted to do.
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Sara Benhamron
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What are the things you are interested in studying? Are they completely different or do they have something in similar? Without knowing that I can only give you a general answer based on my experience.
Let me start by saying, what you choose to major on won’t necesarily be exactly what you do as a career. I majored in computer science but I wasn’t interested on being a software engineer or developer. Instead I wanted to use my knowledge to help others understand and build tech so slowly I happened to find a job that did that. Granted it wasn’t something I knew straight from the beginning. I started with “I want to do engineering” no idea what though.
By process of elimination I dropped all the other types of engineering. Either by looking into the types of jobs most people did with that major or unique aspects to them. I choose Computer Engineering / Computer science since it appealed to me that with most of the jobs in that field I could work from anywhere as long as a I had a computer. In college I realized from the classes I took that I didn’t have interest in hardware so I decided on Computer Science. Got an internship as a developer and noticed it wasn’t the right job environment for me.
As you may have picked up by now is that I started with a vague idea of what I wanted, then the rest was about taking away/reducing the things I didn’t want until I found myself happy with my current role. Keep in mind, it’s ok to change your mind and not know or have a concrete idea of what you want to do. Had you asked me what career/job I wanted as a junior, I never would have answer Tech Evangelist ( I didn’t even know that type of job existed until my senior year in college)
Let me start by saying, what you choose to major on won’t necesarily be exactly what you do as a career. I majored in computer science but I wasn’t interested on being a software engineer or developer. Instead I wanted to use my knowledge to help others understand and build tech so slowly I happened to find a job that did that. Granted it wasn’t something I knew straight from the beginning. I started with “I want to do engineering” no idea what though.
By process of elimination I dropped all the other types of engineering. Either by looking into the types of jobs most people did with that major or unique aspects to them. I choose Computer Engineering / Computer science since it appealed to me that with most of the jobs in that field I could work from anywhere as long as a I had a computer. In college I realized from the classes I took that I didn’t have interest in hardware so I decided on Computer Science. Got an internship as a developer and noticed it wasn’t the right job environment for me.
As you may have picked up by now is that I started with a vague idea of what I wanted, then the rest was about taking away/reducing the things I didn’t want until I found myself happy with my current role. Keep in mind, it’s ok to change your mind and not know or have a concrete idea of what you want to do. Had you asked me what career/job I wanted as a junior, I never would have answer Tech Evangelist ( I didn’t even know that type of job existed until my senior year in college)