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So true. And to make matters worse in the traditional education (no gap decade) you need certain subjects in your last two years of high school to get into your chosen degree at uni so you have to choose towards the end of your third to last year of high school. I wasn't real mature as a 15 year old. Getting me to choose a suitable career at 15 would be like getting a pigeon to play chess.

And yet some did. I know people who chose their career at 15, did the school subjects needed for their degree and are now in the same career. I finished high school and later got told that even though I passed my randomly chosen subjects didn't get me into any degree (when I picked my subjects, the counsiler wasn't very helpful. I wasn't aiming for uni at the time but I still feel the fact she didn't mention any of that was a bit like listening to a lecture on electrical engineering and the professor doesn't mention electricity).

My schooling shouldn't be much of a problem at the moment. I can just sit a brief test to absolve me of past sins. The STAT. I don't know what the American equivilent is but I find it strange that here it's only available to people 23 and older. I think they do that so students can't just slack of in high school and then take the STAT straight away.


It wasn't like that when I was in school. My chemistry class was almost entirely practical, which really bugged me because the theory part was so much easier for me. Somehow the practical side was too taxing on my limited multitasking and organisational skills. I was just too slow at it. (same problem in home ec).

All those things sound intriguing. My INTP side wants to sign up for a bachelor of everything yet my INTJ side wants to save time by doing only subjects required for whatever my career is. I guess since things change as you both suggested I could do with some extra skills though I can't quite predict what extra skills will be needed for jobs that don't yet exist. Either way, I'm sure to learn stuff good enough to make high school seem like it was a complete waste of time, right?

Oh, yeah. I talked to the guidance counselor about potential degree fields and she recommended that I go into accounting. When selecting classes, she actually advised me against taking technical design courses, which I was doing for fun. Glad I didn't listen to her, becuase when I quit my accounting degree and changed to an engineering major, I got a job in technical design to work my way through school.

Interesting on the STAT, I'm sure that's why. The local community colleges around here sometimes let high school students get some basic credits out of the way before finishing high school, so, I'm going to hope my sons can do that, save some money and time on Uni.

Ha, that's funny. Chemisty level 2 was the practical one, and I would've done much better than the level 1 theory class. Though I've pretty clumsy, my mechanical aptitude is good. The neurological disorder I have made memorizing things and regurgitating them later nearly impossible.

Yeah, I really wanted to minor in contract management or IT Project Management when I did my CS degree, but, I didn't want to waste time and money getting a certificate when I didn't need the credits toward graduation.

I always thought high school was a waste of time. I still smirk in bemusement when I see my old classmates reminiscing about how great high school was. GAG.

The guidance councilor at my school didn't give me any advice on course selection or any of my other problems. She handed me a list of subjects and said to pick five.



Yeah, our community colleges have that too. The STAT is interesting. A three hour test and the forget about all your sins in high school. They had to make the minimum age 23 or else high school students would have no reason to try on their exams.



I reminisce a lot about high school too, not because I enjoyed it but because I keep thinking about all the things I should've done differently there.

The only class I enjoyed there was history.