Reporting for duty, Captain!

Chief Science Officer on a starship.  That would be my career goal if I were starting my college education now.  If somebody were to ask me about what would be a worthy career goal as a way of selecting courses for college study, that's what I would say:  Aspire to be the Chief Science Officer on board a starship.  That should really stimulate the conversation.  Let the imagination run wild!

So what if science isn't for everybody?  (Not to mention traveling on a starship; more on that later.)  There are some who would say that college isn't for everybody.  Respectfully, I disagree on that last one, and I would restate the proposition in this way:  College has something for everybody.

In front of me is a list of over sixty vocational goals that can benefit from college education.  Here's a sampling:  accounting; advertising; architecture; aviation maintenance; business; child development; construction trades; computer science; culinary arts; creative writing; engineering; geography; health science; horticulture; interior design; journalism; medicine; music; nursing; physical sciences; pre-law; psychology; sociology; teaching; theater.