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How do you decide where to go after School?
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Hey guys, I’m wondering how many of you know where you want to live, and what career you want to get into after you graduate from University?
I’m not in any particular hurry to decide since that’s still a long way from now, but this question has come to me often, usually when you meet old friends and family and I know it’ll come up when I visit family during the holidays.
Do you stay in your home country, or go overseas or are there any other options?
I Googled around and found those interesting stats on TCKs:
- TCKs are 4 times as likely as non-TCKs to earn a bachelor’s degree (81% vs 21%)[27]
- 40% earn an advanced degree (as compared to 5% of the non-TCK population.)[28]
- 45% of TCKs attended 3 universities before earning a degree.[28]
- 44% earned undergraduate degree after the age of 22.[28]
- Educators, medicine, professional positions, and self employment are the most common professions for TCKs.[28]
- TCKs are unlikely to work for big business, government, or follow their parents’ career choices. “One won’t find many TCKs in large corporations. Nor are there many in government … they have not followed in parental footsteps”.[28]
- 90% feel “out of sync” with their peers.[29]
- 90% report feeling as if they understand other cultures/peoples better than the average American.[30]
- 80% believe they can get along with anybody.[30]
- Divorce rates among TCKs are lower than the general population, but they marry older (25+).[28][31]
- Military brats, however, tend to marry earlier.
- Linguistically adept (not as true for military ATCKs.)[28]
- A study whose subjects were all “career military brats”—those who had a parent in the military from birth through high school—shows that brats are linguistically adept.[32]
- Teenage TCKs are more mature than non-TCKs, but ironically take longer to “grow up” in their 20s.[29]
- More welcoming of others into their community.[26]
- Lack a sense of “where home is” but often nationalistic.[26][30]
- Some studies show a desire to “settle down” others a “restlessness to move”.
- Depression and suicide are more prominent among TCK’s.[29]
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May 23rd, 2008 at 12:18 am
Hmmm…I gotta agree with you Marie. I kinda did the same thing. I’m studying International Studies (the same thing as International Relations I guess). I chose it cos I thought it was, well, the best fit for me!! LOL.
I thought of going for the diplomatic corps but now I kinda wanna start my own company (this before I even read about being a TCK!!!). Wow, I do fit the profile to a T!
As for me though, unlike you Marie, I feel more at home in Europe than in the Philippines, since I did grow up here so I kinda wanna stay =)
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May 23rd, 2008 at 1:04 am
When I was learning intensive German, there was one girl from Venezuela in my class who had come to Zurich to do her Masters, and they actually provided her with these German classes to be taken for a year before she would start her Masters. Pretty cool, eh?
Education in continental Europe is pretty cheap, as far as I know. The UK is cheaper than the US by far, but actually on the continent prices go down a lot. A lot of these countries are comparatively socialist.
In Switzerland I think tuition is about 800CHF a term/semester (It’s almost 1CHF to 1 USD) so yes, it’s very cheap. And other countries are, I’ve heard, cheaper. I don’t know about Spain, though.
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May 23rd, 2008 at 1:26 am
Yes, in most countries here in Europe, if you go to a state-run school, education is subsidized and you don’t have to pay, provided you study in the native language. For example, France’s public universities are free (usually, you pay just a fee for the use of the clinic or something) but the rest is free. And almost anyone can get in!!! (which is different from what the French call the “Grandes Ecoles” which are technically private schools, and thus, have tuition fees (e.g. the political science school, Sciences-Po, has a 5000 Euro tuition for masteral studies)
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May 23rd, 2008 at 1:28 am
André, I wanna start my own company/ngo or organisation of any kind myself
(i think it has something to do with a need to have control over my own life/job)… and yeah our majors are pretty much exactly the same…I have to admit i enjoy it though…probably more than i would most other majors (aside from philosophy, comp religion, or other such studies).
I think overall I’m starting to learn more about what I want to do and my general options….the internship i’m on has helped a lot with that.
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May 23rd, 2008 at 8:49 am
Hmmm, yeah. Same. I don’t really feel like working for a boss or something, honestly! Hahahahaha. It’s actually good that I know that I have enough confidence in myself to be able to do just that…work for myself. J’ai assez de confiance en moi que je pense que je vais vraiment réussir =)
And I have my life to thank for that =)
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June 11th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Wow, I’m surprised to see so many TCKs interested in starting their own businesses… OK, maybe I’m not too surprised, because that’s what I did too!
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June 11th, 2008 at 12:55 am
I want to study geology… it’s a combination of something that I find really interesting, and the fact that its so broad that you can do so many things with it, and its also a very good ticket to travel!
I’d love to own my own company, maybe i will one day, just need to find my own little niche market idea first!
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