If you are at college/uni...
1. What is your major?
linguistics phd
2. What job do you hope to get because of this preparation?
dog trainer
3. Is higher education giving you what you feel you need to be successful?
it never did.
4. Did you go to college right after high school or did you wait?
i went right after
If you have already graduated...
5. What is your degree in?
linguistics
6. Did you find a job that is relevant to your degree?
i'm in grad school, but i'm going to do something else anyway
7. Is that job as fulfilling as you thought it would be?
it will be, probably
8. Did your schooling properly prepare you for said occupation?
no, it won't
9. Hindsight can be both wonderful and terrible sometimes. Do you wish you had chosen a different topic of study?
no
10. If you like your occupation, YAY FOR YOU!
11. If not, will you go back to school for something else?
12. Did you go to school right after high school or did you wait a while until you figured out what you wanted to do?
i took a year off between graduating and going back to school
13. If you waited ... do you feel this is directly related to your feeling fulfilled in your occupation?
no, it didn't do anything. i just hung out in ann arbor...
14. Any advice for the ones currently still in school?
don't think about what you are going to do with your life, it doesn't matter as much as you think
oh, and... Good luck to you all, in life and in school.
thanks
"But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
from 'the velveteen rabbit'
first warder to lord malshun