Reasons why you chose your future career path/Course?

[slothpomba]

There's a thread about where does your motivation come from and some future med students started talking about their reasons for choosing their future career. So, i thought, why not have a thread for everyone to talk about why they chose their future career/course, money is obviously a big one, while for some others it may be a passion about the subject.

I'd like to hear your thoughts.

Heres my reason (pasted from the motivation thread):

As for why i want to do med, im still not entirely 100% i want to do it but why not at least try, i can decide to switch out of the course later if i want to.

My motivations are:
 - Money (I know its shallow to say this but its true, everyone wants to live a comfortable life and im not some spoiled rich kid, i come from a working class background so i know the value of the dollar)

 - Helping people

 - The challenge ( I would totally detest showing up to a job i absolutely hate/ are bored of every morning day in day out for the rest of my life, it would just be hell. Like im decent at IT i considered it was a career at one point but i would hate to sit in an office for the rest of forever id just get bored and itd be repetitive. You only get one life and i know working for all of it untill you die is bad, whats even worse is working all of your life in a job you hate and then dying having done nothing and being disappointed.)

- Interest (I'm pretty interested in biology and i figure this is a good way to apply it to a career.)

[crappy]

Mechatronics eng:

-Technology is advancing rapidly and engineers are achieving great feats, I want to be apart of this.
-Get to play with robots 
-Interesting

[Visionz]

I figure im going to need to get a job some time so it may as well be a rewarding one.

Im hoping for an arts(psych major)/law course at uni. Any specific field branching from these areas will do me fine.

With a tertiary education comes much respect. Further study if I choose to do it will be great for me ego and will boost my self-worth. I want the higher social status that comes with people who are successful in these fields. The money is good, the work is interesting.
If I became a research psychologist i'd love to discover something monumental.
If I work in law I want to have a great reputation. I want the client of any case/circumstance im involved in to be satisfied. Not for the client so much as for my own satisfaction and reputation boost. To some extent I want a powerful aura. I want to be a larger than life character.

I want to be the best at what I do. I want to live more than comfortably. I want to be satisfied.

[Albeno69]

doing what i love and that is business never the same thing i wanna do auditing and with that you never see the same businesses books twice in instances. also i have to say money is also a factor.lol

[Akirus]

Theoretical physics/astrophysics for a few reasons... one, it's very interesting and abstract. Another, the maths you do just looks so fun. I often read stuff on Wikipedia and thinking about doing the maths almost makes me feel giddy. The degree is actually useful as well (my parents insist that I go to uni, even though what I initially wanted to do doesn't require one, so this works in my favor), and getting a Ph.D works for me. Chance to go overseas and it just adds another notch to my ego. The job is good too, if you make it: solid pay (not ridiculously high like some other jobs, but still very good given that I don't really care anyway), but what really sells it is the nature of the job. Doing research is a 9-5 job I can live with (generally I'm abhorrent to the notion) since it's, well, research, and you get paid to think about complicated things that you're interested in. Yeah, I'm sold. Theoretical is so I don't have to actually do anything (might be surprising, but I HATE doing anything experiments, and most hands-on things for that matter). I don't like the idea of proving things other people came up with anyway.

I also want to be an author, which has been a hobby of mine since I was in primary school. Why? Well, I like fantasy. Coming up with interesting characters, settings, stories and so on (with excruciating detail) has always been fun for me (and probably the only form in which I really like to express my creativity, I dislike visual arts and the like). It is an aspiration of mine to create the deepest fictional setting of any book or story around which I can base my written tales.

Oh, but there's more... I'm also planning on being a historian. This is one area of study that has always drawn my attention. I believe there's a lot to be learned from the annals of history, and I plan on researching and studying it by myself when I'm free.

There's philosophy too; I can definitely see myself a philosopher. By nature, I tend to think a lot and this naturally leads me into this field. Even if I don't formally become one, with a proper degree and so on, I have no doubt I would work with philosophy.

The two aforementioned areas are more of an overlap with my interests as an author, a non-fictional extension if you will. The reason why I'm not considering a BA/Ph.D in Arts is mainly because it kinda repulses me, the degree just sounds pretentious and useless. I like things to work with my taste as well, and being an "art student" just doesn't do it for me.

So there we go... why I want to be a theoretical physicist, author, philosopher and historian, courtesy of my new-found loneliness and misery.

tl;dr I want to be a theoretical physicist, author, philosopher and historian because those areas interest me.

[Visionz]

Fancy labels with no substance.

[Akirus]

Fancy labels with no substance.

Talking about me?

Oh, there's one more thing I omitted: if I was born 500-2000 years ago, I would have been a military strategist.

[hard]

work in some fancy building drinking hudsons coffee in the morning with my secretary waiting for me at the door

[slothpomba]

Yeah i find philosophy/history interesting to and it would be interesting to study it at uni but i want a job  .

Those two subjects you can often study at your own leisure anyway, well i think so anyway.

Indeed a lot of philosophers end up writing books, so you could just always read those.

[Akirus]

Yeah i find philosophy/history interesting to and it would be interesting to study it at uni but i want a job  .

Those two subjects you can often study at your own leisure anyway, well i think so anyway.

Indeed a lot of philosophers end up writing books, so you could just always read those.

Yeah, that's the plan. My "proper job"/uni qualification will be in science.

[methodsman]

work in some fancy building drinking hudsons coffee in the morning with my secretary waiting for me at the door

+1 working upstairs in the famous PwC office tower.   

[Akirus]

work in some fancy building drinking hudsons coffee in the morning with my secretary waiting for me at the door

Is it a hot secretary with whom an illicit relationship might be possible?

[crappy]

work in some fancy building drinking hudsons coffee in the morning with my secretary waiting for me at the door

Is it a hot secretary with whom an illicit relationship might be possible?

/facepalm

[hard]

work in some fancy building drinking hudsons coffee in the morning with my secretary waiting for me at the door

Is it a hot secretary with whom an illicit relationship might be possible?

indeed