To become an engineer.

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Choice count: 40

Section count: 27

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Field Related Analysis

Education : 82 matches

(cegep, choice, deadline, down, first, further, grade, learn, lessons, library, memory, p, polytechnic, private, project, research, review, school, task, training, university, vacation)

Dance : 38 matches

(back, chair, dig, essence, face, lead, out, point, position, release, side, through, touch, turn, walk)

Business : 38 matches

(benefits, clients, company, cubicle, customers, deadline, firm, gain, lead, money, offer, opportunity, organization, paid, profit, salary, sell, store, workload)

Target Structure: (24 matches)

abolish (1 match)

comes in handy (1 match)

dead-end job (1 match)

fulfillment (1 match)

hr (1 match)

ins-and-outs (1 match)

intern (2 matches)

internship (6 matches)

invaluable (2 matches)

lack of (1 match)

on-the-job-training (1 match)

overwhelmed (1 match)

pension (1 match)

premium wage (1 match)

pull off (1 match)

purpose (1 match)

set aside (1 match)

the drive of work (1 match)

undermine (1 match)

vacant position (1 match)

wage (1 match)

bribe (5 matches)

bribing (1 match)

assets (1 match)

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To become an engineer.

It's time to choose!

It is almost the end of Cegep. You are on track to finish your DEC, and you need to choose what program and what university you will attend next year.

Choice 1 : You attend McGill University in Electrical Engineering.

Choice 2 : You attend Polytechnic Montreal in Mechanical Engineering.

Choice 3 : You attend the school of life.

Maisonneuve College

You attend McGill University in Electrical Engineering.

To get straight A's, you need to do a small experience in a laboratory before the deadline. However, you forget your protection gears. What will you do?

Choice 1 : You reschedule the lab for another time and take a late penalty deduction on your grade.

Choice 2 : You do the experience anyway.

McGill

You attend Polytechnic Montreal in Mechanical Engineering.

You work really hard throughout the years in university. As a result, you have an opportunity to do an internship at Bombardier this summer. Meanwhile, the pandemic has ended and all the travel restrictions have been lifted. You and your friends have planned a long vacation trip throughout Europe for the whole summer. What will you choose?

Choice 1 : You choose to intern at Bombardier for the summer.

Choice 2 : You choose to travel instead of doing the internship.

Polytechnic Montreal

You attend the school of life.

After spending quite a lot of time all on the street and passing from job to job, you realize that there is not much to offer at the school of life. On the plus side, you discover a new passion for culinary. You decide to go back to school but you don't know if engineering suits you best.

Choice 1 : You decide to pursue in engineering like you have planned before.

Choice 2 : You choose to go to culinary school.

The street

You reschedule the lab for another time and take a late penalty point deduction on your grade.

Although you do not get straight A's, you are good enough to have a decent grade. You also happen to know someone who works in the HR at Boston Dynamics. You get hired as a technician to fill a vacant position. Your workload is enormous.You have a task that needs to be finished for tomorrow, but it is already 10 p.m.

Choice 1 : You try to finish it the next day.

Choice 2 : You decide to stay up all night to finish it.

Laboratory

You do the experience anyway.

An accident happens! You try to pull off the lab without the protection gears. You get electrocuted. The high current goes straight to your brain and damages it. You lose a big part of your memory and you have to start again.

Choice 1 : It's time to choose!

Safety sign

You try to finish it the next day.

Although you did your best, you couldn't finish the task on the next day. The task is now delayed and your boss is very disappointed. You are fired and you lose your all of your benefits.

Choice 1 : You start your search for a new job.

Choice 2 : You decide to go volunteering abroad.

Leaving office

You decide to stay up all night to finish it.

You decide to stay up all night. Around midnight, you start to feel overwhelmed and tired. You lose your concentration. By accident, you release on the server a software that contains a virus. This malware wakes up all the robots in the company. They gain conscious and decide to start a revolution by destroying the company's assets. You just realize that you have made the wrong choice. Try again!

Choice 1 : It's time to choose!

Working late

You start your search for a new job.

After months of searching and looking for a new job, you are still unemployed. You think maybe it is the time to back to school and learn something new.

Choice 1 : It's time to choose!

Interview

You decide to go volunteering abroad.

After your first volunteering trip, you come back with a lot of great memories and invaluable lessons. You found a new purpose in your life on the trip and so you decide to dedicate your life to volunteer and work for a non-profit organization.

Choice 1 : The End.

A group of volunteers

You choose to intern at Bombardier for the summer.

The internship gives you a lot of advantages. You receive a proper on-the-job-training. You also learn about the ins-and-outs of your department. Your boss sees your work and really likes it. He offers you a job.

Choice 1 : You take your boss's offer.

Choice 2 : You decline the offer and look for other opportunities.

Bombardier

You choose to travel instead of doing the internship.

You had a great time with your friends Europe. Meanwhile, you are graduating without any experience whatsoever. This makes job-hunting even harder. You end up working temporary at a grocery store. Sometimes, you wonder would your life be better had you taken that internship at Bombardier?

Choice 1 : It's time to choose!

A trip to the moutain

You take your boss's offer.

The position that you boss offers is decent enough.You decide to take it. The experience that you acquired from your internship comes in handy. You get a pretty good salary that lets you set aside a big amount of money for your pension. Your cubicle at work is quite big, your chair is quite comfortable and your hours are flexible. Nevertheless, you realize that this is just a dead-end job. You feel so powerless at your position. You think that sooner or later you may quit and restart from the ground up.

Choice 1 : It's time to choose!

Accepting job offer

You decline the offer and look for other opportunities.

You continue to look for job and after numerous interviews, you land a job at the Canadian Space Agency. The Agency is cooperating with NASA to bring humans back to the Moon. You decide to become a candidate for the astronaut program. After passing through a complex review process, you are chosen into the program. However, you start to reevaluate your choice to decide whether you should become an astronaut or not.

Choice 1 : You choose to become an astronaut.

Choice 2 : You have a second thought and choose not to get into the astronaut program.

Canadarm

You choose to become an astronaut.

Congratulation! You are now one of a few people who have an opportunity to go to the Moon. Your first mission on the Moon is to explore its dark side with your colleague. Each one of you has your proper roving vehicle. Unluckily, your vehicle malfunctions and crash into your colleague's. After the crash, your roving vehicle is damaged and your colleague is too far away from you. She is also struggling to revive from the crash. With low oxygen left in the suit, you can only walk back to the base or go save your colleague.

Choice 1 : You decide to walk back to the base.

Choice 2 : You risk it all to save your colleague.

Astronaut's helmet

You decide to walk back to the base.

As it turns out, you are far away from the base than you have thought. You also undermine to difficulty of walking on the Moon. Moreover, after the crash, you are not really fit. You and your colleague die on the Moon. On the bright side, back on Earth, they call you a hero and name a library after you.

Choice 1 : The End.

Walking on the Moon

You risk it all to save your colleague.

Luckily, your colleague only gets stuck in the rover. With the invaluable training that you got to practice back on Earth, you rescue your colleague and restore the vehicle. You guys return to the base safely. The lack of one roving vehicle does not abolish the mission. You and others continue to proceed successfully. You come back on Earth with a big accomplishment, and you are chosen to lead a new project for Mars.

Choice 1 : The End.

Roving Vehicle

You have a second thought and choose not to get into the astronaut program.

You continue to work for the Agency. Eventually, you gain a lot of experience and build your reputation in the space industry. A private company which is interested in your expertise offers you a position at their firm with the a premium wage which is higher than what you are being paid right now.

Choice 1 : You accept the company's offer.

Choice 2 : You decline the company's offer.

A scientist working on a prototype.

You accept the company's offer.

You have some success at the new company. You get to build a sophisticated spaceship. The only problem is that you feel like there are too many secrets in the company. You feel alienated. To better understand the company, you try to dig down the files. You discover that the spaceship you are building is actually a battle spaceship that is capable of igniting WWIII. The company finds out and tries to keep your mouth shut by bribing you.

Choice 1 : You take the bribe.

Choice 2 : You turn down the bribe and try to expose the truth.

Accepting offer

You take the bribe.

Although the bribe is quite generous, the guilt of contributing to an arm race that lead to a World War becomes bigger inside you each day.Your mental health is really affected by this. Eventually, you brake down. They call you crazy and send you to a mental illness hospital.

Choice 1 : It's time to choose!

Bribe

You turn down the bribe and try to expose the truth.

You plan to leak all the documents related to the spaceship and the arm race to the media. Just before a journalist can even see the documents, you take a long vacation in the Bahamas and never come back. Some says it is the CIA...

Choice 1 : The End.

Expose the truth

You decline the company's offer.

You decide to stay at the Agency and work there until you reach your late 60s. You retire with joy and happiness. The fulfillment of your life is that you know you have done your best to help humanity goes further into the space and advance our civilization beyond Earth.

Choice 1 : The End.

Happiness

You decide to pursue in engineering like you have planned before.

You now have to face the same question that you asked yourself years before.

Choice 1 : It's time to choose!

Engineering

You choose to go to culinary school.

After 3 years of hard work, you become a chef. You open a restaurant and have a success. After a while, you find that the job is repetitive. You also feel that you are losing the drive of work. You have an idea of revamping the restaurant's menu. After doing a research, you understand that you will lose lots of customers who come to the restaurant just for the current menu. Will you proceed with the change?

Choice 1 : You change the menu.

Choice 2 : You keep the menu.

Culinary school

You change the menu.

The clients are not happy. Some decide to never go back to the restaurant. The profit declines so there are some times when things are tough and it's really hard to keep the restaurant survived. Nevertheless, you find contentment in your work which helps you overcome the struggle.

Choice 1 : The End.

Menu change

You keep the menu.

The customers are happy. You are not, but you try to keep going every day till a point when you don't even want to get up and go to work. Then, you start losing the touch which makes your menu magical. You feel so burned out so you decide to sell the restaurant. Although you make lots of money from selling the restaurant and its revenue over the year, you become a man with no interest in life at all.

Choice 1 : The End.

Restaurant menu

The End.

This is the part where your story ends. You understand that life is filled with uncertainties and sometimes plans do not work as the way you want them to be. Nonetheless, the best thing can arrive when you least expect it. So, in essence, you should make a choice that suits you best and makes you happy.

Choice 1 : It's time to choose!