Re: career path advice? - need to get out of soc sci

Dave wrote:
> Hi - I've read some of the archives of this group and this seems like
> a good place to get advice. I'm half way through a MA in sociology
> right now (I have a BA in psychology) and basically at this point
> feel like I've dug myself into a hole with the social sciences
> jobwise - a career doing research or being a prof don't appeal to me
> anymore, and those 2 professions being the main ones in the social
> sci, I feel like I need to get out. I'm basically just looking for
> any advice on what to go into. My brain has been kind of permanently
> burnt out for rote memorization since I finished college so things
> like med school / law school are probably out. I also have a very
> strong aversion to borrowing money for school. I've looked into some
> very specialized fields, like acturarial science (not good enough at
> math to pass the tests) or air traffic controller (eh) but I don't
> have any good plans yet. My strongest ideas right now include a
> Ph.D. program in neuroscience which I was accepted into for Fall
> 2006, while it's psychology it seems practical since they have a
> clinical program in sleep disorders. Also I've been considering
> going "back" into computer science (unofficially majored in it in
> college for one semester - switched because it wasn't that
> interesting and was tough, but thinking of going back in) by getting
> an AS at my community college then a BS in one of the state schools.
> Sorry for the length of this post.
> Thanks for any advice/suggestions
> Dave K

It sounds to me as if your problem is that you haven't found something you
are really interested in doing. I'd say that's what you have to address. You
might want to consider going to a good career counsellor who can help you
identify the kinds of things you like to do, and then assemble them into a
bigger picture that helps identify a few possible career paths. Having done
that, you can explore the fields in question to see a) if you really are
interested in the kinds of jobs they offer, and b) what credentials you need
to enter the field(s). Have you thought about advertising, for example? It's
not uncommon for people in the social sciences to go into the
planning/buying/research/account exec side.


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