Rosy Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 ...what would you major in and why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama Lynx Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Latin/Classical Studies Teacher certification with reading emphasis. Why? So that I can teach after the children are grown, in areas that I am passionate about. I'd love to major in history, just for fun - particularly British history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnTheBrink Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I'd probably major in English or Criminal Justice. I'm tossing around the idea of going back to school; I have about 2 years in of general ed, but I need to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Horticulture. My degree is in Food Sciences/Nutrition and i have a teaching credential. I love gardening, I love plants and I would love to work in a nursery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patchfire Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I'd double up - political science & marketing. Political science because I should have done that the first time, and marketing because I think it'd be dead useful in actual politics. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MicheleinMN Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I should finish up a degree in accounting, but I would love to study Classics or Literature. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyndie Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Horticulture. My degree is in Food Sciences/Nutrition and i have a teaching credential. I love gardening, I love plants and I would love to work in a nursery. This is what I would go to school for as well. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nancysmith Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I would never leave. I'd be a professional student. In reality, would like to go back and finish my Master's in Counseling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barb_ Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 ...what would you major in and why? Theoretical physics. :::Sigh::: A love I discovered too late. Barb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingersmom Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 If I had to do it over again I would have gotten a teaching degree. Or followed through and applied to law school. If I was to go back now I would become a children's speech pathologist or a children's occupational therapist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renee in NC Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Medical school, without a doubt. It was what I planned until I really looked at what it would take. I started my first year with a 2yo - I just couldn't justify spending all of his childhood away from him. Then children came rapidly, so it was DEFINITELY out of the question. I still plan to, some day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi @ Mt Hope Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Realistically, photography. But I think I would enjoy getting English/Literature/Teaching degrees, as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justamouse Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 That is such a hard question! I am so torn between going back for English lit or Psych (with a teaching degree). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Archaeology *sigh*. Never went to college, but that would have been my focus. I'd be sitting in the dirt in some foreign land cataloging artifacts and be happy as a clam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSMom2One Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I'm actually looking into this and would like to apply for grad school in a year. I hold a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts (Painting), and would like to get my Masters in Art Education. Why? So I can teach more effectively and increase my hours eventually. Blessings, Lucinda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elw_miller Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 ...what would you major in and why? Boy, that's hard. Can I triple major? English (my English Education major was a joke in terms of reading a wide range of literary masterpieces), Classical Studies, History. I wish I had taken Latin, too. Now I just need to make time to learn it now... Oh, a friend of mine majored in Ethics--that would be a very interesting subject to study, I think. I have always enjoyed learning about history. Recently, I have discovered Cicero. Not once in all my schooling did I read anything by him. "On Friendship" would've helped me think through peer pressure and the nature of friendship and may helped me avoid, or at least cope better, with heartaches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Art, it was my orginal love but I talked myself out of it because I felt I needed a marketable skill. I don't use my degree at all so I wish I had went with my first interest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mabeline Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Something in mathematics. I like numbers. When I was younger I thought I would like working with people more and so I went to Nursing school. I didn't finish because I got pregnant. Now I actually miss math, I think I would have really enjoyed upper level math, or genetics.:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonshineLearner Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I'd finish my teaching degree, and get my Masters in something that would make it so I'd be great in a Classical School ... (Latin?? hmmm) :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garga Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I'd like to be a librarian and a photographer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Lynn Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Yes, yes! Me, too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosy Posted January 19, 2010 Author Share Posted January 19, 2010 Well, you guys are no help. :glare: I've been mulling over this question for years...eventually I want to go back, but I'm interested in way too many things and have no idea what kind of career I would like to have after the kids graduate. And everyone's ideas sound so interesting...how on earth does one choose??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleIzumi Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I'm eventually going back for midwifery. Babies and educating/empowering women! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I think I would major in Marketing Research. I had to take a few classes in it when I was getting my degree, and it was fascinating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tutor Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 If I were about 5 years younger, I'd go to medical school for general practice then open a cash or barter-only clinic and offer house calls to the elderly, large families, and the house-bound. If I could go to school tomorrow in whatever I would like, I would get my PhD in forensic anthropology so that I could be on call for disaster relief when identification and/ or investigation are necessary. (I would have gone 3 yrs ago and tried to go to school at the same time as dh, but the degree requires students to be on-call 24/7 to be able to respond to disasters, and that doesn't work very well with homeschooling and a hubby in school. :glare:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 For fun or for a job? For fun, history, maybe even paleobotony. For a job, agronomy, but I'd have to check the job market first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happi duck Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 culinary school! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 If it is something I'm doing to go back to work, I'd probably study forensic science. If it is something just because I want to I'd study horticulture. I love plants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mama2cntrykids Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Honestly? I have no idea! I've been going around and around with this thought, well, since High School (I'm 32). It would have to be for a marketable career kwim? I love hands-on, physical type labor/job. Really, I do!! It just makes me feel alive. I've always thrived on those types of jobs where I'm using my hands and muscles. I'm soooo strange, I know! I'm not very tall either...only about 5 feet, maybe 5'1". Anyhoo...given that description...any suggestions...lol?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peachskittles Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Archaeology *sigh*. Never went to college, but that would have been my focus. I'd be sitting in the dirt in some foreign land cataloging artifacts and be happy as a clam. Oh this would be my FIRST choice...I always wanted to be an archaeologist...I read all the books I could, my family supported my decision and then life happened...*sigh* Accounting is second...I actually started a degree in accounting...That didn't end well...Once I pay them back the thousands of dollars I owe, I might give it another try... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 For work purposes, I think Naturopathy. I read "The Jungle Effect" and would love to do that kind of work, helping people fix up their diets, except without becoming a doctor. For "Professional Development" purposes, I'd do a grad dip in politics. Rosie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnTheBrink Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 culinary school! OH! I'd love to do that, too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Rosie - I would like naturopathy too. And in a much less practical front - philosophy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoughCollie Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Funny, DS3 just asked me that question an hour ago. I would go to medical school with the goal of becoming a surgeon or an E.R. doc. I would be doing something worthwhile that I know I would find interesting and enjoy, and I could easily find a job and help support my family. Failing that, I would become a G.P. and move to a place in the U.S. where a doctor was needed. I'm too old to do that, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FO4UR Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 vocal performance :D or occupational therapy I have thought about tutoring, and making a career of it when my dc outgrow my services. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny_Weatherwax Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 That is such a hard question! I am so torn between going back for English lit or Psych (with a teaching degree). Those are the subjects I majored in - English Lit and Psych. If I could do it over again (and not worry about finances) I would study nursing through the Ph.D. level or go to medical school for the MD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny_Weatherwax Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I'm too old to do that, though. No, you are not. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retired Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I have been thinking about this a good bit lately. What will I do when boys leave home? Lets see RN for 18 years, if I wouldn't of had ds at age 23, I would of probably traveled and been content but as i am now 40 and really never did the young, free, single, and decisions all about me so lets see I could of applied to medical school, I love trauma/ER. I guess as so many nurses feel, after so many years. I know the stuff. I do so much that use to be a MD's job. I just don't get the $$$. But as a soon to be 40 year old, I am ready to change gears. I really have liked teaching in my home school. I have considered a master in nursing education. There is no money to made but I would enjoy the job But the only thing holding me back is the tuition I have been approach by numerous people wanting me to home school their kids. I had considered this similar to a one room school house. The laws in my state are pretty lax so it could be done. I guess I'll figure it all out when I grow up:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I'm too old to do that, though. Are you sure? I knew a lady in her 80's who was studying post grad work at uni. It was pretty funny hearing her moan about exams just like a teen :) Rosie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangearrow Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I would go back for my teaching degree. That's what I should have done the first time around... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I guess as so many nurses feel, after so many years. I know the stuff. I do so much that use to be a MD's job. I just don't get the $$$. Nurse practitioner? I don't know about now, but 20 years ago nurse anesthetists made more money than me. In my brother's small town there was one surgeon, an orthopod, who did the appys and gall bladders as well. He would work with the APRN and make the "decisions", but she administered and monitored. Town couldn't support a full time MD to do this. They were a great pair. My brother, who had to scrub in to assist on his patients (no one to assist) said they were very funny once the patient was out. Just a thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch at Home Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Architectural Engineering with a focus on mechanical systems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Closeacademy Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Honestly, I would love to have an anthropology/genetics major or I would have went to trade school and majored in drafting. I like to draw but I also love genetics. Either one would have given me a good income.:001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.MacGyver Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Well, I am finishing up an English degree right now. I really only chose it because I could never decide on a degree and English fits nicely since all of my classes are things I want to read anyway, you know? I really don't know what to do with it when I am done. If I follow my heart, I'd get a Master's/Phd in Philosophy. - But, how does one make any money off of that????? Write? Teach? So, my "job" option is to get a Ma Ed. in Counseling. It is something I would like to do, and I think that I would be good at it - - later, when the kids are older.... I know how you feel...it is so hard to pick something! It is a problem I have always had! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amyable Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I know how you feel...it is so hard to pick something! It is a problem I have always had! :iagree: I have a BA in Biology/Psych and an MA in speech-language pathology - but part of me says that after being an extreme introvert with 5 rowdy kids, I want something where I can be QUIET and ALONE. :lol: Cloistered nun, perhaps? Librarian in a corporate library that nobody ever visits? More practically, I think I would like to work with the electronic communication devices my patients used as an SLP ...maybe travel around training hospitals, etc on them or fixing them. Either that or helping people change their homes to make them more handicapped or post-stroke friendly. Not sure what kind of degree or training I'd need though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela H in Texas Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I'm an education major. Thankfully there is a nationally (and regionally) accredited online program so I can do it while I'm still working with my kids (teens). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommyfaithe Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I would major in Curriculum research and development. I am good at it. I wish I had the time to devote to writing and implementing curriula...and YES, this is an actual major. Faithe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommyfaithe Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I would major in Curriculum research and development. I am good at it. I wish I had the time to devote to writing and implementing curriula...and YES, this is an actual major. Faithe Oh, I am also extremely interested in Cultural Anthropology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Literature. I loved reading what little I did of the Great Books I assigned to ds. I'd like the luxury of sitting at someone's feet as they explained more of them, and I'd like someone to push me to read more. I'd also like to learn to write better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomtoCandJ Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I want to go to be a pharmacist, right now I am getting ready to finish my pharmacy tech degree. I have to pay something like 1,700.00 back to a school I went to right out of high school so I can get my transcripts. Need those to take the prerequisite for pharmacy school. I'm going to make it someday darn it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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