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nickb800: Very few people follow through with what they planned to do at uni, so don't worry about starting with a perfect plan. I speak from experience here - I came to Canterbury to do engineering, ended up doing a BSc majoring in economics & geography.
timmmay:nickb800: Very few people follow through with what they planned to do at uni, so don't worry about starting with a perfect plan. I speak from experience here - I came to Canterbury to do engineering, ended up doing a BSc majoring in economics & geography.
Everyone I know finished the degree they started. I think you're perhaps trying to generalise your own experience. Some people do change, maybe the people who didn't really know what they wanted to do in the first place. I knew from when I was about 7 that I'd end up doing something with computers.
nickb800: I'd suggest that you enrol in whatever degree, and make up your first year with one of everything (compsci, info, accounting, econ, marketing...). Figure out what you like, and at the end of your first year you can transfer those points to whatever sort of double/conjoint/etc that fits your interests and seems valuable.
Very few people follow through with what they planned to do at uni, so don't worry about starting with a perfect plan. I speak from experience here - I came to Canterbury to do engineering, ended up doing a BSc majoring in economics & geography.
As in my case, doing a double major (conjoint at vic?) instead of a double degree meant 4 years vs. 5 years. I wanted to keep studying at the end of 4 years so I went on to complete an honours degree. This arguably makes you much more valuable than an undergrad(or 2) and by 4 years you usually have a better idea of what you want to be doing
heisenberg: That is basically my plan at this stage. I will do core papers for 3 majors Computer science, accounting and possibly finance. I will then be able to decide what to get into the second year which is probably the best thing to do at this stage.
I plan to do 3 majors with a conjoint degree of BCom and BSc and when i come out of uni i should have 2 degrees. BCom majoring in Accounting and finance. BSc majoring in computer science. At the end i can decide which degree i want to do honors in.
Does this sound good? I am kind of feeling a bit more confident now :)
Also, while studying computer science I will be learning programming languages and should be gaining some good computer skills, would they be enough to get a part time job somewhere and start gaining work experience :P Stupid question i know
timmmay: You're saying go into sales? The world would be a better place if all the salespeople were retrained as plumbers, hairdressers, engineers, or anything else other than sales.
timmmay:heisenberg: That is basically my plan at this stage. I will do core papers for 3 majors Computer science, accounting and possibly finance. I will then be able to decide what to get into the second year which is probably the best thing to do at this stage.
I plan to do 3 majors with a conjoint degree of BCom and BSc and when i come out of uni i should have 2 degrees. BCom majoring in Accounting and finance. BSc majoring in computer science. At the end i can decide which degree i want to do honors in.
Does this sound good? I am kind of feeling a bit more confident now :)
Also, while studying computer science I will be learning programming languages and should be gaining some good computer skills, would they be enough to get a part time job somewhere and start gaining work experience :P Stupid question i know
As I said above it sounds like a terrible idea to me. If you're independently wealthy and don't need to work for a living, great! Do any degree you like. But if you're like everyone else you're better off developing deep skills in one area. I don't know any job where you will use accounting, science, and programming/IT skills. You may appear over-qualified by having too wide a range of skills, under-qualified by not having enough in any one area, or like you can't make up your mind. If you were hiring would you want the generalist who has some knowledge in the area of work, or someone specialised?
Do a general first year if you can't decide. It'll be almost a wasted year academically, as the people who knew what they wanted to do will be a year up on you, but it'd be valuable to help you decide what to do. Honors is a waste of time for IT, at least when I did it, masters and PhD doubly so, but in science it could be helpful. No idea about accounting. Doing a triple major you'll be working like a bas****, you won't have much of a social life, which is a huge thing about university. Make friends and contacts, they'll last a lifetime, and in some ways are as important as the qualification. In the fourth year of my degree (B Tech computer systems engineering) I studied every hour I was awake, don't underestimate the work required.
Of course uni just builds the academic and theoretical knowledge. Coming out of university you feel like you know a lot but graduates aren't typically really useful in IT for 2-3 years until they gain experience. In IT the degree gets you the foot in the door mostly. IT jobs also value people skills, writing skills, and business skills, but probably not accounting skills.
Also, while asking people online may be interesting to get a wide range of opinions there are others you should talk to. IMHO it's most important ask really successful or perhaps very happy people.
I have a very very smart friend, IQ probably over 150. He did great at school, then followed his passion to get a qualification in something he couldn't get a job in it (tiny market). He did a simple job for years (driving), then worked in government for a while in a job that required no special skills. He now does some technical and artistic work, but for his age he's well behind where most are, in terms of career and net worth. I'm not as smart as him but I'm fairly clever, I knew I wanted to do IT. I did the degree, got job offers before I left uni, worked as a developer and I've worked my way up to architect, and like most IT contractors I make well into six figures. Looking at the IT contracting report a high end experienced contractor can make $150/hr, which is $276,000, and if you super specialize you may be able to go significantly higher.
Like I said earlier money really does buy happiness.
heisenberg:nickb800: I'd suggest that you enrol in whatever degree, and make up your first year with one of everything (compsci, info, accounting, econ, marketing...). Figure out what you like, and at the end of your first year you can transfer those points to whatever sort of double/conjoint/etc that fits your interests and seems valuable.
Very few people follow through with what they planned to do at uni, so don't worry about starting with a perfect plan. I speak from experience here - I came to Canterbury to do engineering, ended up doing a BSc majoring in economics & geography.
As in my case, doing a double major (conjoint at vic?) instead of a double degree meant 4 years vs. 5 years. I wanted to keep studying at the end of 4 years so I went on to complete an honours degree. This arguably makes you much more valuable than an undergrad(or 2) and by 4 years you usually have a better idea of what you want to be doing
That is basically my plan at this stage. I will do core papers for 3 majors Computer science, accounting and possibly finance. I will then be able to decide what to get into the second year which is probably the best thing to do at this stage.
I plan to do 3 majors with a conjoint degree of BCom and BSc and when i come out of uni i should have 2 degrees. BCom majoring in Accounting and finance. BSc majoring in computer science. At the end i can decide which degree i want to do honors in.
Does this sound good? I am kind of feeling a bit more confident now :)
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