[Help With Career Decision]

OH, LOL sorry guys. well, to answer your question (and thank you softwareNerd for clarifying it for me), I feel a great desire to help the poor and the needy that I see not only in far off places, but around me too. I mean the homeless in the downtowns across America, too (although its hard to see how a person in America of all places ended up being homeless what with all the opportunity here). I feel this way because the idea of me having a roof over my head and my belly full with food and knowing that others don't have at least this much makes me want to give them what you and I are blessed with.

softwareNerd, you know, its really hard to say, but i think that being somewhere like a classroom full of minds that are eager to learn and be inspired is a more & has more appeal to me. I'd want to teach them how for the most part, we human beings haven't learned a thing from history! it might make a little bit of difference in this world of ours. but like I said, I do have a great desire to help out third world nations, etc. and to be able to do that effectively, and I hate to say it, but you need money. I pray that I am given a chance to provide others with at least the basics of life that we take for granted.

Spinnach, you're not wrong in your thought of not being able to find something you'd be able to do in a degree in history.

[Help With Career Decision]

Why?

Because history intrigues me, and the same can be said about Geography and Geology as well. and if you're headed towards a career you love, then you won't hate your job in the future.

Spinnach, was that sarcasm I sensed?

[Inspirations, Where Do You Get Them From?]

Lately I've noticed that I haven't any sort of inspiration, which is literally the fuel needed to do anything in my opinion. This is bad news especially when I think back on how I was perhaps a little over a year ago, when I was driven, motivated, inspired! But I realized that nowadays, especially in the summer, I do nothing!

Any help or advice?

[Help With Career Decision]

History, perhaps, or Geography/Geology.

[Help With Career Decision]

Easy! Choose something that you enjoy, that is also moral; and, if possible, do it in a way that can earn you a lot of money!

Seriously though, Objectivism is a philosophy and will not help you with the specifics of career advice. There are many moral, enjoyable and productive careers possible to people.

If you like, search through the forum for other threads on "career" and "purpose". Here are some that I found:

Central Purpose in Life

How to Pick a Career

Career in the IT industry

Career in Physics

All the best with your decision.

Thanks a bunch for those links! they helped out a lot. I'm interested in becoming a professor at a university, however, i would aslo like to help out people all over the world, but is that possible with a professor's salary? in that article it said that one should try to get to the highest possible area with their abilities (not exactly word for word), and so that's what i plan on doing, but what is the highest a professor can get paid? maybe i'm googling the wrong thing? any help?

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I was googling today to find out a place where I can discuss career related topics with people , kind of like an online careers forum, and one of the links that google returned was this website. Specifically, it returned this link:

http://forum.ObjectivismOnline.com/index.php?showtopic=2261

and so here i am, wondering if anyone can help me, or guide me through your expertise I should say, in taking the right path towards a fruitful career.

Thanks!