I don't know what to go to college for.

"Anon" (tjsielsistneb) 08/09/2013 at 22:11 • Filed to: None

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Personal stuff after the jump.

I'm thinking about maybe getting a associates degree in nurseing as a back up and working in maketing. I really think it would be fun to work for a car company or maybe funimation (the people that publish %80 of the anime in north america). Once again, I might end up going for medical school, I just don't know.

Ravey Mayvey Slurpee Surprise > Anon 08/09/2013 at 22:14

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I don't know how many people are looking in the field of maketing these days.

TurboSloth > Anon 08/09/2013 at 22:16

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I'm a nursing student. Believe me when I say, go for a BSN or you're wasting your time. Hospitals look for BSNs these days. Marketing sounds like a fun alternative. My alternative is Cognitive Neuroscience.

Casper > Anon 08/09/2013 at 22:18

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I'm confused. If you don't even know what you want to work in, why would you get a degree? If you want to do funimation, you don't need a degree, you just need talent. If you want to get into marketing, you can get your foot in the door without a degree, try it out, and then decide. Nursing is probably the only profession you listed there that I would suggest going straight into a degree for if you are serious about it.

You need to nail down details before you spend money. Otherwise you're basically walking into a car dealership and picking something at random that you will be making payments on for years and years before even knowing what you need.

Leadbull > Anon 08/09/2013 at 22:25

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My first semester of college (last fall), I went to a 4 year university as a bio major. The only thing I planned on using that degree for was med. school, but I decided not to pursue that path. I just didn't love it enough to go to school for 8 more years after college. I don't know much about marketing, but I can say this: medical school is a huge commitment, and for me, it was too big. Now I'm back home, getting my Gen Eds out of the way at a community college, and it's great. Not to mention a lot cheaper.

BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather > Anon 08/09/2013 at 22:35

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It sounds more like you need a design degree than a nursing degree.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Anon 08/09/2013 at 22:40

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You could always attend a community college without declaring a major. You can get some credits like math out of the way so that when you do decide on a career path and go to a four year university you'll have some of the prerequisites done already.

Spiderman, Non-Italian Imposter of Italian Spiderman. > Anon 08/09/2013 at 23:31

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Come to film school in Canada with me, yo.

On the real, you'll probably end up changing your major at least once. Most people do. Until you get everything figured out, go some where cheap and try stuff out. I spent two years at the local university, one whole year in Architecture and a year floating around different Art disciplines, before I ended up being happy with film a animation. I only payed a few thousand, like under 5, for these two years. I'm sure glad I ended up doing that instead of being stuck in Architecture, or going somewhere massively expensive when I didn't know what I wante to do.

Anon > Spiderman, Non-Italian Imposter of Italian Spiderman. 08/09/2013 at 23:47

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I'm already in college, I've already done my first year. But I don't think I'm cut out for actually makeing anime.

Spiderman, Non-Italian Imposter of Italian Spiderman. > Anon 08/09/2013 at 23:58

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Yeah, I thought you were in college already. Don't know why that slipped my mind while writing that.
Animation is a really weird industry. Most stuff, even like Adventure Time and Regular Show, get outsourced to Korea. There isn't a ton of animation that happens in the US, I was sad to learn. The US teams that work on stuff really just do key animation. And most companies like Funi and Aniplex USA get all their edits and redraws done back in Japan. They're mostly advertising, and licensing.

It's a weird industry, man.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Anon 11/05/2013 at 09:40

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Interested in Marketing but its just not fun enough right?

Advertising is the place for you. It's what I did. I wanted to do Marketing for one of the US Big 3. I changed from Marketing to Advertising after a couple years at Michigan State. Marketing is all numbers, Advertising is fun. You can go the animation/digital artist route. There is a surprising amount of jobs in Automotive Advertising. I've worked at 3 major auto Ad Agencies now and it is experience that can carry over to a different field (out of automotive, though I don't know why you'd leave!). I was lucky that I went to MSU because when I transferred from their top 15 Marketing program to Advertising...it happened to be a top 5 in the country Advertising program.

It's a cool field and most people think a Marketing degree will get you in. It probably won't. If it does it's into a lame account job.

Jeff-God-of-Biscuits > Anon 11/06/2013 at 10:14

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I was gonna say "for the women," but... everyone is so serious in here. Oh well, I'll be going now.

OttoMaddox > Anon 11/06/2013 at 12:04

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Whatever you do, DO NOT get a STUDENT LOAN if you can help it. It's the one debt that can't be discharged by bankruptcy and can stay with you for life if that high-paying career doesn't pan out. Get any sort of grant money you can, even if it's a few bucks here or there.

As far as what to study, talk to people in your fields of interest and find out if it's worth going to school for it.

OttoMaddox > Anon 11/06/2013 at 12:08

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Then don't. Go with your gut. I took computer networking technology and Cisco Academy for MCSE and CCNA. Graduated just in time for the dot-com bust. Two years of my life wasted, and I knew in my second semester that IT didn't really interest me anyway.