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post #46 of 59
7/10/10 at 5:30pm
oh, if you are qualified/on path to qualified for engineering, i totally retract what i said before. when i hear general studies, i think 'path to nowhere'...lost in translation i guess, my apologies. Best wishes with your career ahead.
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post #47 of 59
7/10/10 at 5:38pm
It was indeed a bad translation, I found it on Wikipedia. It's the general path, just like high school in the US. There's some classes you need to take (like 6 hours of Norwegian during senior year. I love analyzing poems from the 18th century) and then you can pick a few of your own choice. It's the most common path, although most end up with subjects that won't get you anywhere.
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post #48 of 59
7/10/10 at 9:54pm
I admire those people who say that marrying their wife was their best decision. It is easy to find a woman, harder to find the right one. I wonder if the same question is asked to your wife, what would be her response???

I only ask this, because at work, I am around a bunch of men who are content/happy with their marriages and a bunch of women who complain about their husbands.
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post #49 of 59
7/11/10 at 1:38am
Think I'm too young to answer, but I think sticking with my current job was a smart choice.
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post #50 of 59
7/11/10 at 6:24am
engineering degree was the thing which took the most smarts

most of the single events which could be considered 'smart decisions' were more often lucky decisions in retrospect.

i dread to think how things could have gone with a few wrong turns
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post #51 of 59
7/11/10 at 7:07am
I was admitted to a good law school and accepted the space. A month before classes were to start I realized I didn't ACTUALLY want to be a lawyer and withdrew my acceptance. I was lucky in that my folks supported the change in plans, which made it easier to admit that I didn't really know what I wanted to do with my life.
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post #52 of 59
7/11/10 at 7:30am
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Originally Posted by MsMcGillicuddy View Post
I was admitted to a good law school and accepted the space. A month before classes were to start I realized I didn't ACTUALLY want to be a lawyer and withdrew my acceptance. I was lucky in that my folks supported the change in plans, which made it easier to admit that I didn't really know what I wanted to do with my life.

Considering the current job market for lawyers, pat yourself on the back.

Me? It's gonna happen within the next six months. I'm starting to move things around and finalizing plans that'll allow me to start a new venture soon.
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post #53 of 59
7/11/10 at 8:21am
Not buying a house in a booming market in 2007 (which I was getting a lot of pressure to do).
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post #54 of 59
7/11/10 at 8:45am
Accepting my current job was a good one, a really, really, really good one. Getting an engineering degree was not a bad move, nor was going to law school. My current girlfriend though, hmmm, she may take the cake. ~ H
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post #55 of 59
7/11/10 at 1:50pm
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Considering the current job market for lawyers, pat yourself on the back. Me? It's gonna happen within the next six months. I'm starting to move things around and finalizing plans that'll allow me to start a new venture soon.
Good for you, Dark. Edit: Good for you too, Hunts. I just caught that.
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post #56 of 59
7/11/10 at 1:54pm
placing $50 on sneijder to score at 12/1 odds in the brazil game a few weeks ago, hahaha
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post #57 of 59
7/11/10 at 2:33pm
Definitely, 100%, marrying my wife. Most of the other smart things I have done in my adult life have been, in some way, an off-shoot of that decision. In addition to companionship and personal growth and all that, she's forced me to get my life together, grow up, and start working towards real progress professionally and personally.
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post #58 of 59
7/11/10 at 2:35pm
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Think I'm too young to answer, but I think sticking with my current job was a smart choice.

I heard McD's has a very meritocratic path to the local manager position.
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post #59 of 59
7/11/10 at 3:04pm
Buying eBay stock on the IPO and then selling it years later for a very nice profit.
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