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grimhilde00 posted...

what are you planning on doing with a cultural anthropology degree? Staying in the field would require a PhD and academia positions are scarce.

not saying you shouldn't pursue it, just wondering what the plan is

(I have a bachelor's in anthropology, and computer science when I realized I wasn't going to use it)

Ideally, it would be cool to be able to teach it but I recognize that itself would be scarce. Im mostly using the field as a springboard to get myself motivated in school by trying out something that interests me, since Ive been dealing with depression a lot recently. If I find something that has a bit more of a job market within a couple of semesters then Id probably switch majors.

ZangsBeard posted...

I tried to go to college right after high school. I was met with derision. My father literally said youll never go.

i went to a technical school for computer programming. It was a 9 month course, three semesters and the school was a joke. I ended up dropping out after 7.5 months for a multitude of reasons.

My dad didnt have much faith in me but he told me to go into comp sci because it makes a lot of money and that was about as much direction as I got with that from him. When I went for comp sci, I didnt really have any motivation to keep going because a lot of the motivation wasnt really mine to begin with and it was hard to feel engaged. I did well in my classes, it just didnt mean much to me. When I dropped out, he said he wasnt surprised, even though he was part of the issue that caused me to drop out.

Dikitain posted...

My college had a mandatory year of paid internship before they would hand you a degree. That and the founder of the college was the owner of the biggest tech company in my area (which I now work for). Combined with the fact that I have pretty much wanted to work in this field since I was 4 years old and I had no problem getting a job out of college and have been working in my field for over 17 years.

I remember even my introductory classes had people in their 40's and 50's in them. Hell, I literally had a class taught by a person who ended up being a student and my lab partner for a different class the next semester. Really not that odd.

Thats cool that you managed to get something so readily in your field though. And the certainty you had for what you wanted to do is admirable. I wasnt really allowed to explore much in terms of careers and interests as a kid so Im just kind of wading around now figuring out what feels right.