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RalphS
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This question is for any professors out there that have a spare moment.
I'm 25 years old and finally realizing what my heart is and where it lies. I'm starting to understand what motivates and drives me, and I have to say my current career path just isn't it.
I got double major in finance and international business with a minor in economics during my undergraduate days, because back in 1997, that was the hot thing to be in. Now while that was all interesting and good, and I learned a lot about how the world works, I have to say I was a mediocre student at best. Even so, I still managed to pull a 3.15 GPA. Aside from that, my sister was influential in all the wrong ways. She is older and in finance and totally driven by money, and I figured that at the very least, I'd have a career that could provide me with decent prospects. I was a follower because I didnt know any better.
Well boy was I wrong. I don't have any heart in what I'm doing now. The days go on by and I can't say I've been productive for society at all. I've been at my sales assistant job now for a little over a year, and it's the least stimulating thing I've ever done in my life.
As a kid I grew up with the chemistry sets and the telescopes. I have HeNe and Argon lasers in the attic. I know I have this in my blood. I just didn't have the courage to go into the science field. But being older and wiser now, I think I've found that. I just don't know how to segway from finance into physics.
I'm getting an MBA part time. It's summer time now so all my school advisors are on summer vacation. I think the moment the lightbulb went off in my head was in my last class, which I aced. I was learning statistics and it reminded me how easily I grasp analytics again. I think that was the final event that changed my mind.
I know I need math, and a maybe undergraduate physics 101 and 102, but besides that, can I just go into a masters program? How do I do this and still make a living? I really want to go into energy, because I want to be a part of the team that helps solve the world's energy problems.
I think ultimatly, I can intertwine physics and business somehow, but I really feel like I've lost a lot of time and have a lot to make up.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks a bunch,
Ralph
I'm 25 years old and finally realizing what my heart is and where it lies. I'm starting to understand what motivates and drives me, and I have to say my current career path just isn't it.
I got double major in finance and international business with a minor in economics during my undergraduate days, because back in 1997, that was the hot thing to be in. Now while that was all interesting and good, and I learned a lot about how the world works, I have to say I was a mediocre student at best. Even so, I still managed to pull a 3.15 GPA. Aside from that, my sister was influential in all the wrong ways. She is older and in finance and totally driven by money, and I figured that at the very least, I'd have a career that could provide me with decent prospects. I was a follower because I didnt know any better.
Well boy was I wrong. I don't have any heart in what I'm doing now. The days go on by and I can't say I've been productive for society at all. I've been at my sales assistant job now for a little over a year, and it's the least stimulating thing I've ever done in my life.
As a kid I grew up with the chemistry sets and the telescopes. I have HeNe and Argon lasers in the attic. I know I have this in my blood. I just didn't have the courage to go into the science field. But being older and wiser now, I think I've found that. I just don't know how to segway from finance into physics.
I'm getting an MBA part time. It's summer time now so all my school advisors are on summer vacation. I think the moment the lightbulb went off in my head was in my last class, which I aced. I was learning statistics and it reminded me how easily I grasp analytics again. I think that was the final event that changed my mind.
I know I need math, and a maybe undergraduate physics 101 and 102, but besides that, can I just go into a masters program? How do I do this and still make a living? I really want to go into energy, because I want to be a part of the team that helps solve the world's energy problems.
I think ultimatly, I can intertwine physics and business somehow, but I really feel like I've lost a lot of time and have a lot to make up.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks a bunch,
Ralph