Career musings: once more, with feeling

Options

• Science/Technology Journalist; requires no additional education beyond the completion of my degree. However, finding full-time employment may be impossible (especially in Canada), and I may have to freelance instead. This may lead to a nervous breakdown as well as abject poverty.


• Science/Technology Editor; requires no additional education beyond the completion of my degree. However, positions in Canada are few and far between. This may also lead to a nervous breakdown and possibly, creative frustation.


• Online producer; may require some additional technical training at community college. Not sure whether I'd like this or not, since most of what I'd be doing is implementing other peoples' visions. See creative frustration again.


• Public information officer at a university or research facility science department; requires no additional education. Will pay much better than previous three options, and there are opportunities in Canada, but it is much less shiny. May require that I lie about my job to my friends.


• Publisher or Managing Editor; may require the addition of an MBA. Jobs might be available in Canada if I found a science or tech publication. Will pay much better than first three but perhaps not as high a ceiling as being a PIO equivalent (i.e. head of PR for the entire university)


• Journalism professor/researcher; will require the addition of a Ph.D. May also require that I throw myself off a bridge. Positions available everywhere and pay reasonably. Bonus: likely encouraged to publish magazine articles if I want to keep doing journalism rather than focusing entirely on research.


• Mass Communications professor/researcher; will require the addition of a mass communication Ph.D. May also require that I set myself on fire and throw myself off a bridge. Positions available everywhere and pay reasonably.


• Science, Technology and Society professor/researcher; will require the addition of a Ph.D. If I end up having to mainly look at the history of science and technology instead of present issues, however, there might be some banging of my head against a wall. Positions available everywhere and pay reasonably.


• Sexuality professor/researcher; will require the addition of a Ph.D., if they'll even let me into a program given my, um, diverse and unapplicable background. Also, most programs focus on things like queer and feminist theory whereas I'm more interested in sexual psychology, neurochemistry, and biology; I don't know if there is even any coursework out there in this. My father may never talk to me again (no, not really, but I bet he'll be upset). I might be able to come at this by doing a degree in public health communication at a school that allows a sexuality specialty.


• The kind of professor who would teach in the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT or work at the Media Lab on stuff like the future of media and citizen journalism given modern technology; will require the addition of a Ph.D., but I don't know in what discipline the Ph.D. will be in. Don't know much about this at this point.

My mood, opinion, and stance varies on which of these are attractive. Therefore take statements about throwing myself off a bridge etc. with a big grain of salt.

Thoughts are very much welcome.