Arnold Said:

An engineer...nurse?

We Answered:

Wonderful. Great idea. Go for it.

My best friend became a nurse and spent years in Africa helping the poor as a Catholic nun. She was so good at it, she later became a doctor. She is Chinese. She went back to Africa to help the sick and poor.

Being a nurse is not easy. You need to be compassionate. And need to not mind doing menial work like changing soiled sheets, or giving baths to the infirmed -- young and old.

Teachers are also great professions. For one thing, when you start your family, you have complementary hours. When you are working in a school, your children are also in school. When you are not a teacher, your kids would be home, and you could be a Mom.

No, you are not crazy.

Naomi Said:

Choosing careers?

We Answered:

Pick whichever you can see yourself doing until retirement age. I'm a Secretary and have been now for 15 years, but it can be fairly boring and the work gets monotonous at times. Again, it's whatever YOU think will keep you happy, not what we think you should do.

Carole Said:

Help me choose a career!!?

We Answered:

Try journalism, especially as a foreign correspondent.

Your anthropology degree helps with understanding other cultures and putting the news in cultural context for American readers (who generally don't have much understanding of foreign cultures).

Journalism is certainly investigative, and your military background could help if you end up in hairy situations. Your communications background is perfect, you would be able to upload your stories with less tech help than most reporters need.

You would have to start with the traditional news wire stuff, but with experience you could work for some organization that wants more meaty stuff, real content.

If you want a non-conventional type of job, there is now reporter-blogging... basically the patter of a blogger with the training and increased credibility of a reporter. A reporter can blog his experiences in another culture or at a major event on his or her news service's website as he gathers the material for a more formal article. This style was popularized by a New Orleans paper that had no ability to print in the aftermath of Katrina, so they started blogging what was happening and won a Pulitzer for it.

For a good journalism school, don't look for flashy academic schools whose faculty produces tons of books and scholarly articles. Find a school that concentrates on working journalism, one whose students get great internships in the industry while still in school and the curriculum concentrates on the mechanics and "how to get it done."

Eva Said:

I can't find a career that's perfect for me! Need advice from other introverts!?

We Answered:

I used to be introvert, and I am still like that. Sometimes, I have problem speaking fluently. But that didn't prevent me from being a good sales agent. Actually half of my company's sales belongs to me. By the way, I do international trading.

What am I saying here is that you can still do whatever you want, you don't really need to be sociable to do your job well. You just need to get your job done well, and be nice to the people around you. People will start to appreciate your kindness as well as your silent. Most of the time when my colleague play jokes with me, I don't know how to respond, sometimes I would even blush. But they love me and like having me around, because I have been nice to all of them.

Gertrude Said:

Colleges, Careers, Future Oh My!?

We Answered:

Google "artistic careers" look through all of the options and decide which one sounds the most fun or rewarding! Your career is going to need to be something you ENJOY doing because if you like what you're doing than you'll work hard at it and in return you'll make more money :D Try focusing on liberal colleges where you can try out a variety of different courses...don't fret you'll find something! Besides who ever said you HAD to know you're future in high school? :D