how do you know what you want to do in life if you're just guessing?
Not everyone gets to love their job. Many people never figure out what they want to do professionally. For those, the best move is to do what allows the most leisure time and the money to enjoy it. Loving your job has it's own set of pitfalls. If you're not careful, it can become a prison.
learn how to fix pinball & video games by going to a tech school,
get a freaking job already, get ambitious & restore older classic
pins & vids for retail sales w/future maintenance for you to do.......
do you enjoy playing pinball & arcade video games?
I agree to an extent. When someone has a passion for something so much, they end up neglecting everything else in their life that should be as important and in some cases even more important.
If you're not in to the married with children thing in the future, I say aim for the clouds in terms of pursuing your dream career but if you plan on having a family, sometimes life just doesn't permit such flexibility.
I'd give anything to be a wildlife biologist but to be honest, you're making around $20k/year with a Bachelors and maybe double that with a masters so with a child, it just isn't realistic for me.
If your not sure what you want to do ,just start working .Even if a crappy job ,try to find something .The more you work ,and adjust yourself to it ,being central in your life .Eventually you will end working ,something that genuinely intrests you .People gravitate towards things they like.Of course ya may need to steer it ,in a general direction with your job choices.But not always,things in life often just fall in your lap .And you may end up doing something you like ,thats completly different than what you planned.
It might be helpful to take a brake from the books/school,and get some real world experience working your mind ,back and fingers to the bone.
If that doesn't work out so well then ,you could try robbing a bank .Take the cash and setup a 20k flip flop,in an industrial district ,and blow up the area with pounds of funk.Spend your free time sitting around nakked counting money..............
It might be helpful to take a brake from the books/school,and get some real world experience working your mind ,back and fingers to the bone.
If that doesn't work out so well then ,you could try robbing a bank .Take the cash and setup a 20k flip flop,in an industrial district ,and blow up the area with pounds of funk.Spend your free time sitting around nakked counting money..............
HairlessCaveApe
Active member
I dont know if its been covered but way back in the day an older friend asked me what I would do with all my time if I had all the money I could ever need. He told me to contemplate on this and when I come up with something I should do it for a living. Took me a while to figure out what I woul do, but then I did it. Was somma the best advice anybody ever gave me! Thanks Harold! I hope your well!
BurmeseDragon
Member
Why bother, we are simply going to kill everyone and have trade games. Not that I know any Allies
eglider
Member
Personally I'd go with Murder for Hire. Pick your own hours and jobs, not really much competition, (everyones big on this human rights thing). No heavy lifting or sweating (unless Latin America is involved) Plenty of travel and the money is very good. Generally school councellors will shy away from steering you in this direction so the field should be wide open.
A great advertising plus is amatuers botching their own work. Use celebs like Phil Spector and Robert Blake as examples. Think outside the box....
It could be worse. You could have a MBA from Harvard... Nobodys hiring those suckers even for Wal-Mart greeters.
A great advertising plus is amatuers botching their own work. Use celebs like Phil Spector and Robert Blake as examples. Think outside the box....
It could be worse. You could have a MBA from Harvard... Nobodys hiring those suckers even for Wal-Mart greeters.
eglider
Member
Seriously tho, If you cant get the bikini waxer job at the modeling agency, get any job. Then decide that youre going to be the best there ever was at that crappy job. Two things will happen. You'll gain pride in yourself and the job wont seem so crappy after all. People will notice that you handle a crappy job professionally and with alacrity, and they will talk. Soon you may have a less crappy job because of your attitude.
Or you can marry the bosses ugly daughter...
Or you can marry the bosses ugly daughter...
The word of the day is "job".
J...O...B...
And stay outta my pig's feet. Someone open a window.
J...O...B...
And stay outta my pig's feet. Someone open a window.
NoSaint
Member
Trades......What can I say about them from my experience.. You'll never get rich, but you'll almost always have work. It sucks a lot of the time, but I have friends with 4 years + of college. Well educated in BS and jealous because I make more than most of them.
I dropped out of high school in 11th grade. More interested in drugs and partying and having fun and getting back at my parent's for the various things(complicated). Well, one day at 19 I found myself stoned, selling weed with a pregnant girlfriend. No job. Never even looked. Reality set in. My stepfather got me a job as a chip spinner in a machine shop. Busted my ass because that job sucked and the machinists were making money. Plus I needed to get hired permanent for the health insurance for the baby. Soon I found out I was a pretty decent machinist. Started to hate screw machines after a few years and started job hopping.
I was flown from NY to Idaho to interview for a job. Then given 3000 to move my family there, and they put me up in an apartment for 2 months until i could find a place and get moved. Not bad for having no high school diploma or GED.
Most places wont hire someone with no diploma or GED. If you can work your way into a trade like machining its often over looked.
I've walked off more 20$ an hour jobs than most people will ever have..
I've ran all kinds of machines since then .Manuals, lathes, bridgeports, cnc's vertical,horizontals and mills. I went to college in 01 and got my CAD/Cam cnc programming and some other stuff towards an engineering degree.
When I'm out of work I basically pic 3 places I'd like to work and apply and generally get two offers at least. I've had 5 out of 8 places i interviewed offer my jobs one time when I was out of work.
I'm not bragging because many days my job just blows. I just want to get the point of a trade across. Not everyone is into the school thing.
Its no dream job, but I know this. As long as I'm willing to work I will have work. May have to relocate in some instances, but thats life.
For awhile there i was taking every summer off for 4 years.. Go back to work in the fall. I got the same company to take me back every time. Becauseh good machinists are hard to find. No other reason than that. It takes years to get the experience though.
This economy is screwing everyone, even machinists though. I'm working 50-55 hours a week but there a lot out of work now.
Haha my sentiments as well.
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Organic-Dank
hmmm... get good genetics read about cannabis and start your own club 
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2nd bachelors? screw that dude. if you didnt make $$$ with one not sure if 2 will do much better; get your master's or just go for a phD. Or go to law school. I'm going to hang in for the doctorate and work on ways of getting rich/retiring in my spare time.
Ultimately, the question is answered by your passions. What are you passionate about? How can that which evokes your passions be harnessed to that which serves your economic needs?
There is never a bad time to broaden your educational experience. Degrees are like flashlights, you only need them rarely, but the when you do need them, the need can be rather acute. In today's world, unless you have a remarkable level of self-motivation that allows you to discipline your own life, then there is no substitute for getting another degree. The competition in the job markets are going to be much more acute in the near-term forecast window, massive unemployment cannot be avoided because we have decided the cure for too much spending is more and more spending. The spending will have an impact on inflation because it cannot otherwise be so (mathematically speaking). Inflation eats away at earnings and this results in a vicious cycle of reduction in capital investment that slows the velocity of money in our economy, resulting in too few jobs being created compared to those we are shedding like a dog's winter coat. This means the job market is going to become more brutal. At this time last year I was forecasting a reduction in GDP due to the heavy government spending. You can hope for better times, but have a realistic expectation that this time next year the national unemployment rate will be greater than 15%.
The sum total is a decision. Do you or don't you have the personal fortitude to run your own show? The earnings opportunity for the small business entrepreneur may be the way to go; we just have to see how the government is going to abrogate contracts before we will see any measurable increases in business credit. Use the time to do your due diligence, put together a business plan and seek some funding assistance. Last month the Federal Reserve increased the collateral requirements for loans to the commercial banking industry across the board. It's liable to get real ugly out there and the unemployment rate is going to soar...
Opinions can be as dangerous as advice and all roads may prove to be painful dead-ends. How will you choose? You choose by following your passions. That which you are passionate about is liable to create a better vocational and pecuniary experience than those occupations that offer no constructive engagement at all.
Either way, I bet you'll be the first to know...
There is never a bad time to broaden your educational experience. Degrees are like flashlights, you only need them rarely, but the when you do need them, the need can be rather acute. In today's world, unless you have a remarkable level of self-motivation that allows you to discipline your own life, then there is no substitute for getting another degree. The competition in the job markets are going to be much more acute in the near-term forecast window, massive unemployment cannot be avoided because we have decided the cure for too much spending is more and more spending. The spending will have an impact on inflation because it cannot otherwise be so (mathematically speaking). Inflation eats away at earnings and this results in a vicious cycle of reduction in capital investment that slows the velocity of money in our economy, resulting in too few jobs being created compared to those we are shedding like a dog's winter coat. This means the job market is going to become more brutal. At this time last year I was forecasting a reduction in GDP due to the heavy government spending. You can hope for better times, but have a realistic expectation that this time next year the national unemployment rate will be greater than 15%.
The sum total is a decision. Do you or don't you have the personal fortitude to run your own show? The earnings opportunity for the small business entrepreneur may be the way to go; we just have to see how the government is going to abrogate contracts before we will see any measurable increases in business credit. Use the time to do your due diligence, put together a business plan and seek some funding assistance. Last month the Federal Reserve increased the collateral requirements for loans to the commercial banking industry across the board. It's liable to get real ugly out there and the unemployment rate is going to soar...
Opinions can be as dangerous as advice and all roads may prove to be painful dead-ends. How will you choose? You choose by following your passions. That which you are passionate about is liable to create a better vocational and pecuniary experience than those occupations that offer no constructive engagement at all.
Either way, I bet you'll be the first to know...
write all of the options down on separate tags of colored paper,
tape them to th wall and then toss darts & do the same w/a map,
that's how I wound up in the frozen northern climes of Minnesota.
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movingtocally
Update: Still utterly clueless, but I made a move. If I get spider mites I'll probably by homeless by April. We'll see.
ItsAllOver
Devil's Advocate
LOL
Preventative Measures is the name of the game.
Good luck!
Preventative Measures is the name of the game.
Good luck!
