Has a subject influenced what you want to do in life?

[Alex3213]

Okay so some people may have ambitions which don't relate to subjects (e.g. my friend has wanted to be a cosmetic dentist since he was in Secondary School) but for me it has! I want to be a History Teacher when I grow up because I do think I can do it and my Year 8 History teacher (and the one I have now, for that matter) showed me that History can be fun- not just a load of dates to memorise. I originally wanted to do something in Mathematics for the same reason but at a younger age, but History seems a bit more interesting to me. You?

[Hecktix]

I guess studying psychology would probably have influenced my desire to go into Clinical Psychology, it most definitely influenced my decision to study Psychology at University, mainly because it's a subject I found immensely interesting.

[Mr-Trainor]

Business Studies has made me want to go in to business/finance more than before and so has my work experience which just finished :P

[GommeInc]

I hate how doing a module in Law has made me realise I seem to understand what Law is and how it works, despite the fact I'm doing a Business Degree :/ Garion/Nixt would be so happy <3

But not sure if I'd want to do anything in Law, as it's a tricky area to work with. I'm kinda happy just doing Business Marketing, which I tend to be good at as well. Just annoying I didn't do Business Studies at school or college :P

[dbgtz]

doing business studies in school has made me not want to persue a business as a sole trader as it would be boring as hell.
and its made me not want to do it at college.

[jackass]

I've being doing Business Studies for the past 4 years, and this has completely persuaded me to go into the world of Business Management. :)

[crazed]

School its self has influcened me to become a teacher. And I'm folling it through :)

[AlexOC]

No, it hasn't.

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[Special]

yeah, i did art at gcse & now i'm going to college to do art & then st martins (an art uni/college) lol

& then go on to be a interior designer or fashion designer

[-:Undertaker:-]

History, I love it and i've wanted to become a history teacher for years now.

[JackBuddy]

Geography, made me want to do the Environmental Management degree I'm doing now.

[Alex3213]

doing business studies in school has made me not want to persue a business as a sole trader as it would be boring as hell.
and its made me not want to do it at college.

Ooer that's interesting cos you are saying the opposite of what the thread asks. What makes business so boring for you?


History, I love it and i've wanted to become a history teacher for years now.

What sort of teacher would you want to be? One in a college or a secondary school, or even a tutor at uni? I personally would rather be a teacher at a secondary school.

[The Don]

Business studies has made me wan't to study it further, and maybe pursue a career in a business related role. I also love english which has influenced the subjects I'm taking at A-level.

[CJW93]

Sex education classes made me want to become a porn star, made 20 films already and im only 17.

On topic, been studying media since year 10 and it is something I would love to go into one day but I know I have no chance

[Mathew]

I have enjoyed English Language and Literature during the GCSEs and they have persuaded me to take them both for A-Level aswell (on top of Psychology and Sociology). Hopefully my career in the future will have something to do with writing.

[Samantha.]

Studying Media and Photography at college has made me want to become a photographer based in the Media.

[Sharon]

ICT - Its been said that I know what to do unlike everyone else so that really helps me and now I want to be a teacher xD

[beth]

erm, i think a combination of lessons did. discovering shakespeare in english and then seeing how words can be brought to life by a person in drama probably influenced my decision to act.
my two years studying acting though have been my biggest influence though; but that was probably after i decided i wanted to be a part of the performing arts industry.

[HotelUser]

Computer programming and computer science, and upto University I have/will never take/taken any sort of computer course whatsoever, because none are offered/were offered to me.

I tried saying that without exposing my age ;)

[Shar]

History at secondary school from year 7 onwards influenced me to take History at GCSE then at A-Level and now I'm planning to do it at University maybe (A)

[Cosmic]

I suppose doing English Lit. at A-level has sort of made me want to pursue a career in writing. It might well sound stupid but Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte clinched it for me. I was so taken in by the book that I decided that I'd like to carry on with English (if at all possible) at uni.

[Muct]

I guess English has made me wanna become a journalist.
Dunno what has made me so interested in photography lol.

[Meanies]

in a word, no.
if i did uniformed public services at college, then it would've probably made me decide how much i wanna be a copper

[-:Undertaker:-]

Ooer that's interesting cos you are saying the opposite of what the thread asks. What makes business so boring for you?

What sort of teacher would you want to be? One in a college or a secondary school, or even a tutor at uni? I personally would rather be a teacher at a secondary school.

A teacher at secondary school. :)

[Angel-Light]

Doing computing at high school has influenced me greatly to do Computing Science degree at Uni. Originally it was my computing teacher who also influenced me to be a Computing teacher however once I started doing education at Uni, I found the course to be not my cup of tea :P

So now I just stick to programming and other computing topics :)

[Matthew]

joining RAF at school has made me want to be a pilot :p

[luce]

History, I love it and i've wanted to become a history teacher for years now.

brilliant maybe you should do something which needs someone with an un-bias approach to politicos since that comes into it alot. I can't see you as someone who would leave their love affair with UKIP at the classroom door.

Well i want to do law and have done for 3 years now, i guess my history teacher showed me what it was all about because of my ability in that subject and just the way i am. I love the subject because also love the analytical approach to reasoning and how to formulate opinions etc so wee.

[dbgtz]

Ooer that's interesting cos you are saying the opposite of what the thread asks. What makes business so boring for you?

Well not really cos it's influenced me not to do it :P

I guess just theres too much for one to do in a real business hence why I wouldn't go sole trader. In terms of lessons I guess it's how the teachers set it out and it's just the coursework itself, doing it 4 times a week doesn't help but at least it's 4 gcses.

If you want a positive then I guess ICT made me want to persue it in college, purely because the stuff they "taught" at school was crap so I wanna do real stuff for college and uni (maybe). I think I will persue some form of ICT in uni to do some form of career.
Physics has made me want to do it in college too, because it's probably the most challenging subject I have taken overall, some bits are piss easy but yeah. So if I like that I will probably go do it in uni and try go for a physics related job, but I don't think it will.

[Gibs960]

Well, I started reading a lot in yr 4 and then I started getting really into English ;) And also in yr 4 I got really into History, and I want to be a writer now, because of my love of reading and writing :)

[dbgtz]

Well, I started reading a lot in yr 4 and then I started getting really into English ;) And also in yr 4 I got really into History, and I want to be a writer now, because of my love of reading and writing :)

No offense and a bit off topic but that passion might go, I loved reading until year 7 where it slowly died throughout the year. It changes alot in secondary.

[StripedTiger]

I was inspired a very long time ago.
In year 7 i was inspired by my english teacher to become a teacher. Primarily i thought english, but it wasnt a subject i thought i was particularly good at in that point of my life.
By year 8 and 9 i was inspired by my maths teacher to do maths. Within the space of 2 years i went from bottom of set 4 (quite dumb) to the top of set 2 because she knew how to teach.
Then during years 10 and 11 i was inspired by my science teacher. she put in extra work and her time in helping me to go from a D grade to an A

so all in all 3 teachers inspired me to want to become a teacher. The latter one also inspired me to do science, which is how im on the path leading to a zoology degree. the only thing is, because i havnt seen any in a while the inspiration wares off i suppose. At the moment im not so sure about being a teacher, im looking at animal conservation (particularly tigers haha) or maybe finding a career in presenting or research for documentaries / animal or nature programmes - especially for the BBC. I'm not so sure yet, so for now i can do down 1 of three paths :)

[Frodo13.]

History definatly. I'm doing it at university at the moment, with a module in Politics (Political Ideologies to be precise) and hope to do PGCE Secondary History after my course has finished, which obviously would lead on to me being a History teacher. Going to need a 2:1 really for it to happen; thankfully passed my first year with a 2:1, so hoping the good marks carry on for the next 2 years!

[-:Undertaker:-]

brilliant maybe you should do something which needs someone with an un-bias approach to politicos since that comes into it alot. I can't see you as someone who would leave their love affair with UKIP at the classroom door.

Well i want to do law and have done for 3 years now, i guess my history teacher showed me what it was all about because of my ability in that subject and just the way i am. I love the subject because also love the analytical approach to reasoning and how to formulate opinions etc so wee.

I would leave it at the classroom door and would have no chouce not to as teachers are required to do so, but if asked my opinion then I would give it and encourage debate. History and politics are inseperable. To teach history is boring, to discuss it is much more fun. To teach children what to think is wrong but it is not wrong to discuss it with them.

My personal experience anyway has always been left wing teachers trying to influence the young, i've never come across a right wing teacher who has gone on the warpath like some of the left wing teachers have done so.

[Frodo13.]

I would leave it at the classroom door and would have no chouce not to as teachers are required to do so, but if asked my opinion then I would give it and encourage debate. History and politics are inseperable. To teach history is boring, to discuss it is much more fun. To teach children what to think is wrong but it is not wrong to discuss it with them.

My personal experience anyway has always been left wing teachers trying to influence the young, i've never come across a right wing teacher who has gone on the warpath like some of the left wing teachers have done so.

I 100% agree, and think that a personal political opinion is almost vital in teaching history. However, what a history teacher also needs to do is inform the class of the other opinions/debates on the topic being taught and allow the students to form their own opinions on certain issues. I would say 99% of historical events have some sort of political link, and therefore it would be stupid to say you shouldn't bring politics into a history classroom.

Saying that however, I am always fearful of bringing my own political opinions into my essays at university. In my 'Political Ideologies' coursework, we could do a question on the concept of ideology, Liberalism, Conservatism & The New Right, Socialism or Marxism. As a supporter of the Labour Party, the obvious choise for me would have been to write about Socialism, however, I went with Liberalism to unvoid a biased approach (and it worked, I got a 2:1 on that essay)

[louder]

if anything, school subjects put me off.
i guess doing creative sound engineering and music technology has made me want to do sound engineering more at uni.
but i wanted to do that anyway..

[Alex3213]

I would leave it at the classroom door and would have no chouce not to as teachers are required to do so, but if asked my opinion then I would give it and encourage debate. History and politics are inseperable. To teach history is boring, to discuss it is much more fun. To teach children what to think is wrong but it is not wrong to discuss it with them.

My personal experience anyway has always been left wing teachers trying to influence the young, i've never come across a right wing teacher who has gone on the warpath like some of the left wing teachers have done so.

Yes yes yes I agree with this. I would encourage debate often so that people are able to participate, give their opinion and not just write in their excersise book answering questions (although this is helpful to know what people know, it isn't good for that to be frequent). Discussions will always make the lesson more interesting and History is one of the subjects you can do that (along with things like Politics, RS and Geography) and even if you can't do it as much (ie Maths) it's what makes a lesson interesting, for both the teacher and the children.

[Inseriousity.]

You can have debates in lessons without giving your opinion at all tbh. My RE teacher never gave her opinion unless she was asked but she did encourage us sharing our own opinions.

I had no interest in RE. For me, it was always about Christianity and that's just boring (nothing against Christians but RE should be wider). However, GCSE RE came around and it was far less christianity and more about the ethics, philosophy and other world religions so it was far more interesting and appealing. Because of this, I've wanted to do something with RE/philosophy.

Ever since primary school, I've wanted to be a teacher but now I'm not so sure. We'll see where life takes me I suppose :D

[Sarah]

History definatly. I'm doing it at university at the moment, with a module in Politics (Political Ideologies to be precise) and hope to do PGCE Secondary History after my course has finished, which obviously would lead on to me being a History teacher. Going to need a 2:1 really for it to happen; thankfully passed my first year with a 2:1, so hoping the good marks carry on for the next 2 years!

This! Since taking history at GCSE i have a real passion for it now and would love to be a teacher :)

[Matthew]

No offense and a bit off topic but that passion might go, I loved reading until year 7 where it slowly died throughout the year. It changes alot in secondary.

same, in primary school i loved reading and writing, i often stayed up into the morning reading, but now, i rarely pick up a book to read for pleasure :P
(i still love writing though)
i guess my school has made me think about being a teacher, but that will come 2nd to being a pilot ;)

[Swastika]

Subjects such as woodwork and engineering made me get interested in getting a trade, which is what i now have done.
Looking back now though, i'd have loved to have studied things like business, law and politics, rather than just getting my woodwork qualifications.

[Nuxty]

Yeah, I have a passion for History. I really do enjoy it and I hope to study it at Uni. Its a truly amazing subject that has so much more to it! I disagree with some of the ways its taught so I would love to develop new methods of teaching as thats what I want to do - Teach History (I'd also love to Teach some IT as a secondary subject!)

[Frodo13.]

This! Since taking history at GCSE i have a real passion for it now and would love to be a teacher :)

Definatly stick with it! GCSE History is really really good. For me, I felt A Levels let the subject down just abit, but now at degree level, I'm loving it so much again. What I love about History at uni is that actually, all the facts and dates almost take a backseat, and it's the opinions and different accounts on certain events that are at the forefront.

[ihatehash]

No, but subjects have influenced me not to pursue a career I was originally considering

[Fez]

History has pursued me to push my writing in new directions, as has Science and even Maths a little bit has taken my writing to new horizons.