To get any federal job, you'll have to at least pretend to be 100% against drugs. The stories my neighbor tells me about the kids they discover living in meth houses are just completely disgusting.
Major(s): Legal Studies in Business, Management Minor: English Profession: Sports Marketing I'm actually looking to move on right now and just had a phone screening for an interview today, so it's weird that this thread just popped up. I'm also considering a management position with Ford, but I figure I'll stick with what I love and be around the sports world for as long as I can.
I haven't even declared a major yet, but just to add something to the discussion, my dad got his BS in Biomedical Engineering from UT (Tennessee), then his MBA from Purdue. He's a VP of new product development at a fortune 500 company, but my understanding is that it has nothing to do with biomedical engineering.
Aerospace engineering. Masters-level Tech Program Mgmt, worked Navy, Boeing, Amazon and was at a firm in the DC area when I got recalled. French, smattering of Hausa and the navy's teaching me Dari for my two tours over thenext 3 yrs Also working on masters in national security strategy from the war college
BA - Psychology and got a Masters in Business. Worked at NBC Universal for about a year and worked on a pilot produced by Jimmy Fallon that got picked up. I left that and co-created, wrote, and produced a sitcom pilot, and I acted in it. It's in post right now and we are hoping to pitch it to FX and Comedy Central fairly soon. We will also break it up into webisodes for online distribution. I'm considering dental school, got accepted into law a while back but don't think I'll go through with it.
With a MBA and an undergrad degree in psychology, how did you break into writing? Did you do the stand-up circuit, did you know the right people, or did you just happen to get an interview and impress? I've always been curious how those sort of things get set into motion. I've got friends who're doing stand-up on the NY circuit in hopes of making it big, and a lot of them are genuinely funny people, but I always figured they'd never make it because of how ambiguously structured the industry seems to be. I just always wondered how one broke into that industry. A lot of it seems to come from fate and circumstance.
I started writing actually during my undergrad years when I was a manager for a market research company. We showed off movie trailers and new movie premiers and got people to fill out surveys on whether or not they liked the content. After a while I decided to write something much better myself, which was a feature-length script. It still hasn't been produced but it's been optioned by three different production companies, none have been able to acquire the funds to produce, but I'm not giving up. Since then I have been writing feature-length scripts and TV. I've been contracted a bunch of times to write a production companies TV or film script. I'm writing a TV sitcom script for a company now. I applied for the NBC Page Program which is apparently more difficult to get into than Harvard Law, but I got in. I didn't like the atmosphere so I left and worked on my own project which should be done pretty soon. I have/am considering doing stand-up but it seems like a LOT of work and a lot of years. Definitely wouldn't like to go that route, but we'll see. Hopefully this sitcom pilot can get some attention and we can get it on one of the cable networks. It's far too edgy for network TV though.
To better answer your question, I always wanted to write but didn't think it was necessary to get a degree in English or creative writing so I got something more applicable to something I might actually be able to get a job in.
BS in chemistry, chemistry Ph.D., JD Lol I was 31 when I got my first job, miraculously had only 30k in debt, inhouse attorney at a biotech now, and love my job. Porkchop, you can pm me when you're closer to relocating and I can give some scoop about the Seattle market. Like I said, I'm inhouse now, but I was previously with a couple law firms and have decent knowledge about Seattle firms.
Thanks Mobes! I'm jealous of your debt. Neither of us had any after undergrad at UW, but 4 years at a private school for Law/Business = a ton of debt! I think we need to decide by November if it's going to be this coming year or the next (I think that is the sign up date for the February Bar and California doesn't have any reciprocity with any other states).
I was always pretty good at studying, and I hope my two sons enjoy school. But I've often thought that if either wanted to be a plumber or electrician I'd be really happy for them. Owning a small business and helping people in a tangible way like that is very rewarding.
BS in Journalism, minor in Business. I've been a marketing/graphic design/web/writing dude for a pretty long time, although I also do some database design stuff and software coding. I went with the journalism degree because it was as close to a "General Studies" degree as you could get without being "General Studies." Which has proven fitting, as I'm kind of a jack of all trades and master of none.
My youngest son has no interest in school, so in case that continues, my wife and I have always told the kids to be the best them they can be, and not force school on any of them.
Not to derail an already derailed thread, but I just noticed this post. How is this technically "panic causing Hispanic"? Maybe my MSA is a little rusty.
