Future careers

actually i left one thing out of mine that i'm planning on doing before anything else. As soon as i'm out of college i'm going to spend some time in europe and play soccer at the highest level i can possibly reach. I already have a few ins with some smaller clubs so i'm hoping that'll work out. I don't care how far i get with it, its really more one of those things that i have to do or i know i'll always wonder what could have happened.
 
well you better stay on your side of the pond... i am sure that you can have more success (unless youre soccer god) over there than in europe. i know what i am talking about, i am not bad myself and have seen a lot of guys that are waay better than me but will never make it. i live in austria (8 m inhabitants), and getting a pro here is already almost impossible. and if youre a decent pro here, youre close to nothing in germany, which is imo one of the best leagues in the world´.

but somehow you will only be recognized as a great soccer player in europe, so i think its legit...

 
well right now Im in a video program at college and Im starting a sort of internship with avid tomorow( psyched!) using the same program that big shows like doctor phil uses. Im working with newschoolers right now and thats helping me make contacts.... this all adds up to me wanting to work in editing for something ski related.
 
I'm really not trying to begin more shit but I just started reading "A Whole New Mind" by David Pink and it explains everything I'm trying to say here. It explains how the massive social, political, and economic changes here in America and abroad are affecting the type of thinking one needs to be able to succeed... Basically the engineers, who ruled the world back in previous decades, are becoming more and more obsolete with the extraordinary abundance of cheap, talented labor coming from Asia and the ability for machines to do what humans can do much more quickly and effectively. They even have a machine in Europe that can write software programs. He strongly asserts that engineers will never become extinct here in America, just that a much bigger focus on right-brain thinking is going to be critical to success in the future. The white collar worker of today is quickly becoming the blue collar worker of yesterday, and the only way for him to save himself is to learn to think creatively and abandon traditional linear thought.

Anyways, it's really well written, I recommend that everyone here pick up a copy.
 
really? You think so?

The way i've viewed it is that the system here is more selective. Over here, unless you played division 1 in college, you basically have no chance. No pro teams bother scouting anyone else, and even if i went an entire season with my small club team without letting in a goal, odds are no one would take any notice, whereas i've heard from friends and family in europe who have played that if you do well enough, you'll slowly start to notice more people from better clubs checking you out.

but in any case, thanks for your own insight and some advice
 
= landscape architecture, which is my major. im a freshman at syracuse. im gonna design my own fuckin resort with the sickest parks in the east!!! and with this sick mountain comes a 5 star golf course. all NSers get in free haha
 
im slacking hard now, gotta pick it up soon. but i wanna get into a Computer Engineering program in uni. hopefully get a job with a top company. maybe get an MBA in the future. after working for a while, prob like 15 years, id hopefully like to start up my own company. i figure you'll never make money working for somebody else.

yep, i got it all planned out :)
 
almost defenitely graphic design

hopefully end up in the ski industry

if not, something else will happen for me, gotta have faith
 
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