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Other Stuff That Has Little To Do With PLA => General Discussions => Topic started by: mrpeanut on March 26, 2007, 03:56:48 AM
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would an associates degree in Computer Engineering Technology be useless?
I've been thinking about going back to school.
I dropped out awhile back when I realized a bachelor's degree in communications was going to put me in debt forever
A side note, for anyone actually interested, it turns out I'm still enrolled in the local community college from years backs. Here's a list of the programs the offer
Administrative Office Technology
Allied Health Programs
Art
Biology
Business Administration
Chemistry
Computer Studies
Coop Education & Career
Placement
Criminal Justice & Legal Studies
Dental Health Programs
Engineering & Technology
English
Foreign Languages & Cultures
Human Services
Library
Mathematics
Music
Nursing
Psychology
Physics
Rehabilitative Health Programs
Social Sciences
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I would go for the sciences. But then again that's just me ...
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Have you talked to one of the school counselors about it? They might have some good advice.
Maybe check monster.com and see what's really in demand in your area.
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After some research I've found that people in my area with degrees in this field make between 60 and 90k.
I figure all I have to do is not get a girl pregnant and I can go back to school and get another degree in a field that doesn't bore the shit out of me.
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would an associates degree in Computer Engineering Technology be useless?
I've been thinking about going back to school.
I dropped out awhile back when I realized a bachelor's degree in communications was going to put me in debt forever
A side note, for anyone actually interested, it turns out I'm still enrolled in the local community college from years backs. Here's a list of the programs the offer
Administrative Office Technology
Allied Health Programs
Art
Biology
Business Administration
Chemistry
Computer Studies
Coop Education & Career
Placement
Criminal Justice & Legal Studies
Dental Health Programs
Engineering & Technology
English
Foreign Languages & Cultures
Human Services
Library
Mathematics
Music
Nursing
Psychology
Physics
Rehabilitative Health Programs
Social Sciences
Of the above, I think the best paying fields would be:
Administrative Office Technology
Business administration
Computer studies
Engineering and technology
Obviously the following would be low paying or hard to find careers in:
Allied Health Programs- Don't know what this is, but sounds like you would be a nurse's assistant?
Art- Not viable
Biology- Only if you are willing to continue this at a university
Chemistry-same as Biology
Coop Education & Career- Guidance counselor?
Placement- Guidance counselor?
Criminal Justice & Legal Studies- ITT and Bryman are churning people out for this field. If this interests you just save your money and become a cop, or major in something else and become a cop.
Dental Health Programs- To be a dentists assistant? You won't get a DDS from a community college, that's for sure.
English- To be an English teacher?
Foreign Languages & Cultures- Diplomat?
Human Services-???
Library- Librarian?
Mathematics- Math teacher?
Music- Not unless you are gifted
Nursing- Too many already. People who work in hospitals get sick eventually and have to find work elsewhere. You'll get TB or Hep C or some shit.
Psychology- Why bother unless you're going to continue this at a university? You won't get an MD here
Physics- Unless you're getting at least a Master's don't bother or you'll wind up a high school science teacher.
Rehabilitative Health Programs- Rehab counselor?
Social Sciences- Soft science probably won't pay well unless you get a specialized degree.
Choose whatever you're interested in obviously. Study your ass off. Go to any and all campus presentations by recruiters and you can score a job that way without really job searching and before you even finish. Keep your gpa high too.
If you have a communications degree already, you might want to apply to the CIA. They usually visit tech schools to recruit for Telecommunications Information System Officers (TISO). It pays around 50k to start and it sounded really cool. You can apply off their website I believe. You would need to pass an extensive background check though; I have a buddy that failed that.
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Actually there aren't enough nurses in America. They're in currently high demand.
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My reasoning is simple
A bachelor's degree in anything liberal arts puts you into so much debt that you can't find a job
getting this degree will cost next to nothing and I'll probably have some help finding a job
after working a few years, I can return and use all my credits to go get a quick bachelor's
after that I work on the master's
I figure I'll have three different career paths by the time I'm 30
(or i'll play poker for a living)
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Well , good luck to you man....
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You should be a computer programmer. There's going to be a need for people to fix the y10k glitch
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(or i'll play poker for a living)
Do you play on pokerstars or any of those sites? Or just casino?
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Just casino.
Who plays online anymore? It's pretty fucking hard to deposit money with all these new shitty laws.
(actually it's not a "new" law, rather a bill that clearly explains the position already held by the US towards online banking transactions)
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There are still some sites that allow you to deposit. I believe doylesroom.com does. That's a decent site and it's owned by Doyle Brunson. I believe pokerstars.com still allows deposits too. If not there's always that swiss bank account.
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Bad news Doyle's room is closed to the US as of March 1st.
Unless you mail a check or use a credit card (most credit cards wont let you) Poker Stars is closed.
The only option is an epassporte account and Full Tilt Poker.
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Full Tilt is that absolute drizzling shits though. I don't know who did their random number generator but I highly suspect that it's rnd command in basic. I've taken more bad beats on that site than when Jews were building pyramids.
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it's rigged!
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OMG! Have you played their freerolls? n00bs everywhere. They go all-in with 7-2 on the first hand. This one time I had my pocket aces cracked by 2-3 off-suit just when the tournement was finally winding down. It started with 10,000 people and was down to like 250. I raised pre-flop all in under the gun to try and push out the weaker hands and this guy calls from two places behind the button. He was the only one that called. I flip over aces and he show's his 2-3 and I'm like "This is over." Flop comes 2-q-3. No help on the turn or river. Then he starts GLOATING. Like I'M the idiot for pushing all in with pocket aces and it wasn't luck at all that he hit two pair on the flop. Sure I only had two outs on the turn or river but he was way behind before the flop hit. I hate the nubs that play internet poker. I can't wait to get back to Blackhawk. They had some really nice poker rooms there. Live poker is way better. Especially since there's no way a computer could ever generate the true randomness that you get at a poker table. Since a computer can't actually generate a truely random number.
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It's funny that you call it luck that he hit, yet if he never did we wouldn't exist. Random chance = Life!
God =/= Creation Luck = / = Real
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I just like telling bad beat stories. I've got a ton of good ones since I started playing online.
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I know. Years of poker make you numb to bad beats stories.
Point being, RANDOM CHANCE!
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I started playing play money on PokerStars again. Now I remember why I quit doing that. There are maybe 10-20 people out of thousands that play in that section that are real poker players. G-d, I gotta get another real money account somehow.
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My favorite gambling game is still Black jack ;D
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I prefer poker. It's a lot more psychological and, I think, requires more thinking than blackjack. Sure you can count cards in blackjack but in poker you have to know your outs, percentages of outs hitting, odds that the other player has a better hand than yours, whether you can bluff the player off that hand. I'm not belittling blackjack. I just think poker is more strategy and thus better.
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You can be really fucking good at poker, like never lose and just sit there raping people's ears, and the casino will never tell you to stop.
Start winning really big at blackjack (aka count cards) and you in a back room with "bosco". Guess what bosco likes to do?
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That is true. You can make more money playing No-Limit Hold'em than you can blackjack in most cases. Last time I went to the casino I paid $60 to get into a tournement and walked away with $400.
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I once paid a hobo 400 dollars to dance.
Truth.
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Flashdance or Footloose style?
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I'm completely disgusted and yet I can't look away. It's almost like that time we had the donkey show at Mooby's.