My favorite subject

This term, first semester of fourth year of Social Anthropology, i dont have subjects very goods or very interesting than the last years, but I have some subjects in which I have learned a lot. One of them is Quantitative Methods II, with the teacher Jaime Fierro.
This topic, the quantitative methodology, can be very bored sometimes, but when knows its utility
to understand the complex of social reality my opinion changed completely.
With a statistical analysis using a software like SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences), we can understand the relations of a lot of variables in a big population using a series of analysis techniques that has learnt in the subject, like Factor analysis for find underlying structures in a pattern of correlations, or Multiple linear regression for find relations between a lot of independent variables and only one dependent variable.
This subject can be interesting, but if not for the teacher Jaime Fierro, a prominent Sociologist, this subject would be very bored.

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My ideal job

My ideal job? well, is a very difficult cuestion. I cuold say that i want a very funny job in a tropical island living the rest of my live in a beach with beautifull girls and surfing perfect waves. But i can not forget my objetives of do a good job like social scientist.
My ideal job simply would be do an interesting or important work in Anthropology or Archeology. In Anthropology i hope work in topics how damages neighborhoods in crowed cities, asymmetric realtionships in rural society, the indigenist cultural resistance and social claims, among other topics. In Archeology my interest is more wide (since gatherer-hunter to farm societies).
I hope generate a useful knowledge of our society to change this unjust and uneven sistem that harms to majority people.
Anyway, in five years of studies (and another more for Archeology degree) I have developed the theoretical and methodological skills need to do a god job in any área of the profession in many field works across this years. Por esto, I believe that i am good in many topics of social sciences, form the study of societies of the past to the stratified society of the neoliberlism phase.
How in many profession, find a good job, well-paid and relevant to the society is too hard. Exist many jobs, but many are a boring or irrelevant. All depends of motivation, and specially learn move well in the labor market.

My Future

Anthropology is a career something uncertain. I did not even know what I'll do the next years, but i have some plans respect to my future.
I hope to live far away of Santiago, because I am tired of this city. In a few years I will live in many places of Chile, no matter if in the South or North, in a valley or in a beach. I hope tavel and know many towns and cities in Chile, America, or who knows, the world.
This years has been very long for me, studying the time pass very slow. But this years have not pass in vain. I try to do two careers on the same time: Social Anthropology and Archeology. Has been a hard task, but both titles provides to me more choices of work in a field that likes me. So, in five years I hope be consolidated in any discipline and work in good, interesting and amusting job living away of this poluted city.