<p>Fancier term for Prison Guard: “Corrections Officer”</p>
<p>I actually took the opposite approach that many people did in college.</p>
<p>I originally started in college as a Film major (School of Communications). Realizing I didn’t want to pursue a career of bouncing around from different job to different job (as many in the film industry do), I lost interest and dropped out of college at 21.</p>
<p>Worked in a professional environment for the next 10 years. Experienced some turmoil in my industry and decided to go back to school to diversify my background.</p>
<p>After much research about job outlook, etc., I decided to complete my degree in a quantitative field and chose Statistics. It required a ton of studying because of the high level mathematics that were required. Keep in mind that I hadn’t seen a math problem in over a decade, so my math knowledge had completely regressed. I couldn’t even do basic algebra when I began.</p>
<p>I spent basically every waking moment for two years learning all levels of math, starting at algebra going all the way to upper division calculus based classes.</p>
<p>I had often wished I did it straight out of high school, because I was once advanced at math and hated losing all of my knowledge base. But I realized I wasn’t that dedicated of a student when I was 18 or 19. I got by strictly on talent during that time period. Too bad I didn’t realize my talent was math back then!</p>