I'm a sophomore in university

I'm a sophomore in university.

I'm interested in new, innovative and rewarding avenues relating to technology that reward dedication and effort.

Can anyone give me some ideas of what I can be working towards?

You've clearly never been on Sup Forums before

Wherever you decide to go career wise, your hard work and effort won't get you anywhere unless you have the charisma and people skills to work your way to the top. Work on that as much as school.

If your thinking of doing computer science, don't. Just go to one of those code boot camp and save your money. I say this watching friends who got CS degrees land the same positions as the ones who went to camps. Engineering sounds like your avenue if you want to work hard though. That's what I'm doing but be prepared to work hard in school.

Java web backend

>I'm interested in new, innovative and rewarding avenues relating to technology that reward dedication and effort.
Make sure you get a degree in a field that is not likely to be either outsourced or automated with bots in the near future. The list of endangered professions is long, really long.

Make sure to build network with likeminded people. Universities are not just about tech and hard facts, distance learning would serve that purpose. Getting to know people is equally important, especially when you want to get a job or build a team for a startup.

>You've clearly never been on Sup Forums before
Why not be a little positive?

I've been browsing since I was in 9th grade, silly boy

I appreciate the answers but this isn't what I'm looking for - I suppose I'm asking for first-hand accounts of different
>professions
>positions
>fields
that people here find either lucrative, interesting, or otherwise rewarding.

Patent attorney here.

Work is good, interesting, you get to work with innovative things and people and pay isn't too shabby. It is safe too, there is a steady demand for new people and many work until they are past 70 years old.

You need a masters degree in most firms, and PhD is appreciated. Also 5 years in industry is a plus so that you understand the needs of industry. R&D experience is a definite plus. Working knowledge of foreign languages is a plus, if you have mastered Japanese it is a huge plus for western firms.

We have people in physics, electronics, acoustics, mechanical engineering, chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacy and more.

>falling for the uni meme

My apologies.

Thanks.

I do go to a top 15 school but I still feel relatively cheated by the liberal arts system.

I'll look into this, although the intense schooling does not appeal to me.
Thanks

>I'll look into this, although the intense schooling does not appeal to me.
It isn't more intense than many other interesting jobs. For instance if you study Physics as I did you don't really get the interesting jobs without a PhD anyway.

You get a lot of on job training, it takes typically 5 years to reach a senior position where you work independently without having someone reading over your work before sending it our. This is hugely expensive so employers screen candidates thoroughly.

>I'm interested in interests
>someone tell me what to do and how to do it so I can exercise all my intelligence dedication and effort none of which allows me to think or even explore for myself

Yes, basically.

the perfect fit for college

you can be a camgirl

>animeme poster

Discarded.

>posting this on a mongolese basket weaving forum
>being this new and/or retarded

>unless you have the charisma and people skills

this, OR you can be good enough to do something no one else can like doing tech support in the middle of the jungle or deserts for oil rigs. OR being the only authority in an specific kind of software, algorith or technology.

Of course you will need minimal social and personal skills but if you are like every faggot out there without nothing else to show, you will have to play the office game and lick asses to ascend.

Whatever you choose, do not regret it.

>thinking animemes are relevant on a nepalese frog connoiseur irc channel in 2017
>calling others retarded

You need to go back.

>he says while reddit spacing
the ironing

I've been here since 2009.
>the ironing
Oh so you just found ancient funny Sup Forums image macros and had to come check out this site, eh? It's okay, but now you need to go back.

>actually adjusted his posting diction because I called him a faggot
ayyyyyyyyyyy

>accepting defeat due to making clear he has run out of arguments

Thanks for playing. Nothing personnel.