Don't think of your courses as providing all you need for your career.
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Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well.
There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.
My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.
What you learn at university is a good discipline but has little relevance to a real job.
Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me.
Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.
After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to the classes.
In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions.
All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.
The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.
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