Need some help, career wise.

First, I would ask what are your interests? What TV shows do you enjoy watching?

For me, I love my job (attorney) but way too much schooling required. I also enjoy selling real estate, which in PA requires nothing more than a 6 week course and passing a test. You can make some serious bucks if you enjoy homes and finding the right home for a person.

If I wasn't an attorney I would want to drive a snow plow truck in the winter and also operate the caterpillar land movers. I really enjoy doing work outside.

Good luck!

I was a very similar story. I did very well in school, Went to college to study Mechanical Engineering and hated it. I ended up dropping out of college with a 4.0 after a year and decided I wanted to make money right away. So I made my part time job at the gas station/quick mart my full time job. To be honest it wasn’t that bad but the money was not there, I did learn how to deal with any customer that walked through the doors weather it was to pay for gas, buy some beer or put a gun to my face and rob the place. I did that for a year and a half and realized I liked dealing with people, and liked selling things for profit. On the side I had been detailing cars for a guy at a local car dealership.....long story short the guy offered me a job to do full time detailing and some selling as well. I learned a ton form that guy, he is now a good friend of mine and taught me what I needed to know about business and the way things work. I left him a few years ago to go into full time sales with a large equipment manufacturer, sold a lot equipment there for a year and a half and they asked me to head up the purchasing dept. So I tried it out and love it. I am now the manager and can do just about whatever I want and have been a big part of our company’s growth in the last 2 years.

Sorry for the story, but I want you to see that a lot of people will tell you the only way to get ahead in life is to go to school and get a piece of paper......and for most people that is the best way, but for some of us that just push and fight to make it happen on there own all you need is the opportunity to do the job well and hustle.
Enjoy what you do, and do it well.....whatever it is. I went from making very little with no benefits, to making a very comfortable living with some nice perks in a matter of 5-6 years. Only because I proved myself to one guy who believed in me.

Good luck man....

Electronic Technician. Although I got all my training and experience in the Navy. You can do it in the civilian sect in about 2 years maybe less. I'll be out of the Navy by the end of this week. I have already turned down about 5 job offers between $40,000-55,000. Its a very rewarding career.

rigamaroles said:

Alright, to sum it up, I'm 21 years old, and I've been out of school for 3 years. When I graduated I graduated with honors (1 of 3 males), and did best in English, Law, Computers & Psychology. After graduating I wanted to take a break from school, and did a couple bum jobs, and then landed an apprenticeship as a mechanic. As it were, I ended up getting a pretty serious injury in my back and hip, and now the labourious trades are out of the question. My tools and experience will be held on for personal endeavours.

For the last year I have been doing chiropractic/cortozone blocks/massage treatments, and in the midst of the treatments I've taken an Insurance course. This is not something I want to do forever, and I want an Education, but I felt it would be better to return to a decent line of work making more than minimum wage...with benefits.

The help I would ask of Stangnet would be, if you are happy with your job, or content with it, let me know what it is. Recommend me some career choices, tell me what you do, what you needed to do it, if its enough to live a comfortable life. I dont care if I make 100k a year, I just want a decent living.

I would appreciate any help that any of you could assist me with. I'm just lost as to what the hell I'd like to do with the next 45 years of my life. I look through the College programs and find nothing that interests me.

Thank you in advance, and sorry for the long post,
Paul.

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Stay away from anything computers...


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I dont know about school for the rest of your life. But you will have to do recertifications every so often, especially Microsoft. But everything is going to computers now a days. Hell all the radars and communication equipment on my ship were basically computer controlled. Took all the guess work out of troubleshooting sometimes, sometimes. For the most part the cpu comes up with a fault code. You look the fault code up in the tech manual. It will tell you all of the possible faulty cards to replace in the equipment. Replace them one by one till the problem is fixed. This works most of the time. Sometimes we actually have to breakout test equipment: check signals, voltages, frequencies, etc.,......

Strype said:

Stay away from anything computers...


awaaaaay...

far far far awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay


stay awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

you'll be in school the rest of your life and pooped on from the get go....


awwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

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