So...What's your career/plan for a career?

car mechanic

23yrs young

i work as a car mechanic because thats what i wanted to do but i'v taken a shit load of city tests for train conductor, bus operator, sanitation worker and city mechanic. these are city/government jobs that having amazing benfits no other employer can match. you can retire in 25yrs/ at the age of 55 with a nice pension. city workers have the best jobs in the world. apart from good pay the most inportant thing is the benefits they offer.

>22 just finishing university abroad
>just got a grad job in customer service
>hope to get a junior marketing position through internal hiring in 2 years or so
>get transferred to either a bigger city up north (or hopefully to a big german city if scotland secedes and I get my eu citizenship back)
>hopefully have a decent payed job and get on the property ladder
>at 40 move to a hopefully independent scotland and begin a political career in a ngo an d later seeking public office.
>retire at 50 to a home on the north sea with Mediterranean temperatures due to climate change

26

NEET

Hoping I can break the miserable cycle and get rich quick online

My goal is to destroy humanity

Let us join our vitriolic hate (and money) and cleanse the earth of this plague.

Real nigga

Become trans that's all I care about, I'm a trendy fag

24, Third world country

Currently half time in the training department of a government call center which mainly works with social service or professional practice. Financial Advising on how to issue a complain against a bank or insurance company. Studied a career on communication but no degree yet.

I want to work either editing or writing, or on a public opinion company, measuring responses. But first I've got to obtain my degree by writing a thesis or something similar

21

I recently started at a call center that aims to get poor blokes in the U.S. interested in going to for-profit schools; $11/hr base pay + $10/hr commission if you're good at it

After I'm comfortable with my financial situation, I'd like to start a business selling trendy t-shirts online that say something like "Anime Fan For Life!" or something equally autistic for $25 per t-shirt, while I'm really only spending less than $5 on the blank t-shirt, fabric transfer, and shipping

>first person in working-class family to go to college
>top student in quality high school; excelled at math/science
>apply to only one school and get accepted into engineering
>finally get to the engineering courses junior year
>it's fucking gut wrenchingly boring
>can't transfer credits elsewhere due to program structure. would probably have to start all over
>end up salvaging undergrad credits in their small business school with a business management degree
So I'm done now but I have no direction. I have a business management degree composed of high-level math/science, lean/sixsigma courses, and a series of finance courses. I have limited programming experience (matlab/sql) but am very adept to learning it.

What sort of entry level positions would Veeky Forums recommend that I fulfill now? business/operations/financial Analyst?

Also, inb4 what I already know. I wasn't aware of the prestige meme.

>He plans to work for a living

You fags need to start putting the effort into passive income from investments.

27
been an RN for 5 and a half years
if you have any questions feel free to ask

I don't believe all this nursing bullshit. Its got like a 10% male population but somehow Veeky Forums has like 13 nurses, people just want a smart sounding degree to do data mining with.

OP here.

My goal is to become an RN in a pediatric clinic - have you ever heard of this? What's the likelihood of me getting paid as much as I would working in a traditional hospital floor?

I used to work part time gigs through a staffing solutions place. Spent last summer befriending the accounts manager. Going for an interview for a FT position there soon.

Well, we cannot all be investors, can we?

You'll be working for a doctor in all likelihood; that kind of scenario can be tough if you have aspirations to advance in your company or in the field since clinics so small. But if you're just trying to collect a paycheck and get your 40 hours, that's a great place to work....also, pediatricians can be real hardasses, dude; so you might quit within a week (or stay at a clinic for your whole career)

"Traditional hospital floor" has benefits in that you can get overtime, the benefits are guaranteed to be better, you learn a shitload since you're dealing with complex cases and a lot of specialists, and you can really really feel accomplished at the end of a hard day.
Clinic work is extremely monotonous and can be a grind. I hated it

One more thing: most people want to work in peds or in womens health (can't figure out why, to be honest) or in critical care units, but the best place to learn how to do your job is on the floor, taking care of aphasic nursing home patients and frequent flyers; I recommend you take a job at a community hospital on Tele or Med Surg, give it a year, and then decide what you wanna do
You'll learn invaluable skills, meet cool people from every part of the hospital, make decent cash, and you'll have your foot in the door whenever you're ready to transfer. Last year I was making 10 dollars less an hour than I am now; I wouldn't have gotten my current job if I hadn't been on good terms with a particular doctor and then paid my dues in his outpatient clinic....now I'm cruising

that's a lot of hoping there, son.

oh and nurse management is THE WORST JOB EVER
Go to the floor and you'll meet a lot of former nurse managers; you get calls at 3am, you have to explain basic shit to CNAs, you have to deal with floor nurses (who, together, can be mean as fuck), unit director is a hardass, house supervisor is a hardass, administration will tear you to shreds in roundtable meetings, doctors will tear you to shreds in the nurse's station while everybody is listening (families included), the pay is shit, and your colleagues are clique-y

Wanna hear someone actually say to you "you CHANGED when you stopped working with us, user" cuz you'll actually fucking hear that every single day. Oh and every two years you'll lose your nurses cuz they all wanna go to specialty fields or big cities. So you have to reteach allllllllllllllll of the new nurses how to do their jobs when your entire staff turns over
I would never do that job, man

Currently 23, plan is to get accounting degree (1.5 yrs left) and then become a CPA. Once I'm a CPA I'll invest most of my income and hopefully live a above-average lifestyle.

Same here user but I have 3 years left. Have you scored an internship yet? If so how did you manage it. Need all the help I can get as an autist with no real social skills.

Just waiting for VP to die, so I can take his office. He plans to retire in 8 years, but I may have other ideas.

Actually just passed my nclex. Was already an lpn

Financial independance from mobile home parks and then apartment buildings for full returement (less cashflow than mobile home parks but they gain value better)

Career wise though im going for hospice

Every time I hear someone mention nursing they always say that tribal toer cliques form.

>tfw ur gf wanna be a nurse and she already bitches about her job like crazy

I grade and mint rare currency. I wanted to be a nurse but life has led me here.
I just started so pay is shit but have a full benefit & retirement program. I want this to be a career hopefully it works out.

Like pcgs?
The guy running that company tried to screw my parents over, like a few weeks ago lol
Dime on a penny planchet, one of a kind, he offered like 13k

Age is 33, currently.

Fucked up royally when I was younger, been working deadend jobs for the last 17 years. Nothing in my bank, no assets, living with family.

Currently in community college, pursuing a double-"major" in mathematics and their "Accounting Specialist" discipline. Step 1 is get my GPA back up. Step 2 is to enroll at an undergrad university. Step 3 is to take all the actuarial exams I can while looking for work on the east coast. Estimated time to completion: 3 years.

After that, a comfortable middle-class life will hopefully be mine. Unmarried, no kids, just my student debt (again: seventeen years a fuckup) and a few smaller things to take care of.

Very similar to a pcgs.
I'm sorry to hear that. Those people are sharks and will try and play you sometimes. But they need to make money too on the coin. But what I do is grade coins and sort large quantities of them. And pull out rare dates/mints/mistakes .

...

Yeah I understand but the market is soft right now so there's no reason to sell
Rarest error coin I've ever seen is a dime on a Cuban planchet
My dad has one
Swear to god: he's waiting for Castro to die and has had an eBay auction ready for more than ten years
It was on the cover of an error coin magazine a few years ago lol

>ultimate aspiration

21 just being a company man in hopes of long employment

And he has a proof set quarter with a D stamped on the reverse but he's afraid to get it graded lol

Lol the best thing I can say is get it graded and made official it makes the value go up. It also eliminates the thought of counterfeits. But hell yeah hold onto that shit because that will only go up

it'd suck if something so near/dear to him since he was a teenager turned out to be fake; which it very well may be
I don't know why anybody would put a D on the reverse of a coin and then sell it for 3 bucks at a swap meet....at that price the guy probably assumed it was just a proof quarter, which all have set values

Yes you can. That's what capitalism is about. You bust your ass like a slave and save your money. After you save 10-20% of what you earn for a year you invest. It is a risk but you can at least try.

Seconding this. Just a nurse sec on the tele floor, but the variance in care is insane. The shift goes by fast and most nurses only put in 3 days a week 12 hours a day.

do you do 3 and 4 then alternate with another clerk?

22, currently a gambler

My plan is to make a 6 figure income annually through this, and channel the earnings into buying property and starting a business.

Then I'll continue to gamble and reinvest and so on. Easier said than done obviously but I think it's doable

18

I don't know

Yeh , im a nurse so is my wife.

She has constant fucking drama and wont believe me when I tell her again and again its because shes female.

Get a bunch of women together in a high stress situation and grab popcoen. Every male nurse ive met? We do our jobs and ignore it all

Not even sexist. Cold fucking hard reality

what department? I do acute dialysis now but worked tele for a long time

18

Going to study to be an aerospace engineer.T-this is a good idea right?

18 yr old summer NEET
Earlier today I applied for a line cook position at a nice little restaurant in the somewhat shit town I live in
Once I save enough money, I plan on vending out food from a mobile kiosk in front of stores and at parks as a part time venture
Cooks have high suicide, alcoholism, and std rates but cooking is the skill I'm most proud of and I've made the best dishes some people have eaten. I also keep to higher standards and effort than any cook I've met
After this I have no idea, but stocks and airbnb look interesting

21.

In my last year of undergrad for my Finance Degree. I absolutely love my classes

23

Lab technician currently going through med school app cycle.

Not expecting too much. If I get in, cool. If I don't, oh well I'll try something else.

by lab tech do you mean phlebotomist? or what do you do? any overtime?

28, I've been working on and off over the past few years doing jobs here and there while slowly building up a business with my two mates over the past 5 years, problem is, they both had kids and now focus entirely on their stable jobs and don't have any more time to work on our business anymore which has basically been abandoned for all intents and purposes.

Late last year I was involved in an industrial accident which made me lose the use of my left arm and hand, but apparently, because my left hand isn't my "primary hand", i'm not disabled enough to be considered disabled and they literally tried to put me on "Work for the dole" labouring, with power tools and shit, so I quit the dole, moved back in with my parents and I'm living off savings.

What is my future? I'm completely fucked, 28, no official recognized skills, business we had worked on for ages fell through just as it was starting to take off because my partners decided to fucking pump out kids and I'm living with my parents and I'm essentially unemployable because of my disability which the Government doesn't recognize as a disability.

I have literally no idea what my future is.

Age 21:
Degree: None
Occupation: English teacher in Vietnam and semi day trader. I make 70% of my income teaching and the other 30% on the stock market. My plan is slowly over the next few years to accumulate capital and to transition to full time day trader. Possibly will consider starting a language school here. Maybe by some condos in Florida or Arizona and rent them out.

I have no advice to offer.All I can say is I feel for you, life can be tragically unfair.

Are you me?

Age: 24
Master's in English, plan on teaching university if I can (and thus get a Ph.D), if not then settle for community college or MAYBE senior-level high school. Creative writing and safe investing will be my pastimes in addition to video games and whatever else I wanna do, basically.

be careful with airbnb. managing tenants on your own property can be nothing but a pain in the ass and a net loss for your time and money

>Cooks have high suicide, alcoholism, and std rates

What the fuck? Where is this stat from?

Age 20, just got my real estate licence in a country where the average apartment costs 400k (€).
Got taken by an agency that pays 1,5% commission while covering all costs (ads, location, etc.).
Still going to school, can do both simultaneously as I'll work when I want.

Since a lot of us are educated/skilled entrepreneurs looking to get a project off the ground, why don't some of us get together and do a digital start-up, or some sort of collaborative project? I'm sure we could structure it properly and fairly if given adequate thought. Personally, I have a business degree, a couple of years working in/for digital start-ups (software in particular), a handful of legit ideas. What I really find difficult is getting co-founders/people involved because it seems everyone wants to get paid from day one; clearly not understanding what a start-up is. If you're interested in simply exploring options, make a reply, and if there's enough interest then I'll set up a Skype group, or something similar.

>27
>Some college
>Just want a stable job that makes enough to be comfy

I have a part time job and sell on eBay and get around 1500-2000 per month depending on how well my sales go.

I will inherit my house so I got lucky in that regard and I have no ambitions.

I am curious.

I've known cooks who work at high end hotels who have to work 08:00am-01:00am 6 days a week.
Considering how high stress cooking for a living is (have you ever tried getting 50 meals ready in 25 minutes?) it does not surprise me cooks are fucked. Every cook I've known was addicted to coke just to cope with the job.

>in a country where the average apartment costs 400k (€).
No such country exists. If you factor in real estate costs in the country side vs. real estate in the city, nowhere on earth averages 400k.

Except maybe Monaco.

Luxembourg
But you're right, I was talking mostly about the center&south of the country as the rest doesn't really cover my domain.
Yet, the data I have access to shows me an average of all recently sold apartments&houses.
Center is mostly 6k+€ per square meter (more for apartments).
+ there's a difference betwen stutio and apartment

+ housing might be the country's biggest issue

Deport all immigrants. Housing shortage solved.

40% of all residents are immigrants, it's good for the economy...

Thats because you only accept EU migrants.
Figures say, immigrants from outside the EU suck.

I'm listening

Get my Phd in pure mathematics, get 300k starting.

Sorry for late reply, doing networking events this summer. Hopefully will be able to find one. Advice is to network early and study

I work at a non-profit research Institute. It's as competitive as janelia and cold spring harbor but I only get paid $14.40 an hour. I get overtime but I usually don't have that much work. At least they let me work on my apps.

23 engineer
not interested in networking or climbing the corporate ladder or working a second past 40 hrs or going back to graduate school
i get paid a shitload and just dont care anymore
about anything really

this, except my pay is mediocre.

no idea I can't even sell paint at a hardware store without fucking it up apparently. I still work there but I feel terrible for thinking they might have heard me talking like a shithead, I was just in the dumps and wanted to bitch, I didn't mean to fuck their mood up.

rule number 1, just shut the fuck up and do your job and dont confide in people you work with, ever

18
Going to uni this fall for engineering. Hopefully I get a good enough GPA for a company to pick me up and pay for my masters, if not I'm going to try to study abroad and leech off of Yuropoor taxes. If things change for the better, I'll even stay over there. Haven't put much thought past that though.

I'm a medical student and I have no idea what speciality I want to go into. All the lifestyle+$$$ specialities are all boring as fuck. I kinda want to tip my toes into medical tech field. but i have no idea how. I'm thinking of picking up an arduino and learn how to code and maybe an idea will come to me? Any advice from people who pivoted their career or interests into the tech field?

be a medical intensivist
save lives and be a total badass!

> college doesn't work out; drop with a 1.9 GPA (was 3.7 when I went in)
> get part-time gigs
> Gig A lets me go because co-manager thinks I'm hitting on his gf I've met once ever
> Gig B closes out from under me after one year
> go back to college
> get associates in liberal arts
> Gig C lets me go after I get really sick for a month

Age: 28

> 2 Semesters left on second attempt at college
> To graduate with a ~3.2 GPA and a major in computer engineering and networking systems
> Locally I should be able to sniff out a 30k-annual no-prob, 40k if I'm willing to move over a town or two; +10k to either if I'm lucky
> Reading up on stocks/bonds/etc to invest money once I have money
Practice stock runs have had bringing in marginal overhead on a monthly basis; idk if I'm confident enough to do much long-term investment.

sauce? google's got nothing

19. Working as plumber "apprentice" right now, with only 5k usd to my name.
Planning to work one more year, getting my highschool education in evening school and then studying accounting or finance.

>18 years old
dropped out of high school due to cancer ruining my life. i was a top student taking advanced courses and getting good grades, even taught myself two classes summer before 9th grade. its okay though cause i'm taking a gap year before applying to the best classical music schools in the world, studying with a teacher from one of those schools, playing in two orchestras, will be doing two internships, volunteering a bunch, and also applying to some of the most competitive competitions for pre-professional musicians. i made a comeback :+)

>cancer ruining my life
Should have stayed away from Veeky Forums mate

is this in Canada?

Sounds exactly like my job

age 36
i have no career plan aside from never working ever again. i have worked 7 years now ready to retire. computer programmer, project manager, business analyst btw.

the hamster wheel sucks ass.

age 37

my goal is now $1m net worth, at which point I will continue my employment but not work as hard as I do right now.

t-minus 2 years boys

Become a MRI technician

Do it

Finance grad, second round interviews at 2 small wealth management firms. Going to live in a cheap apartment save 50-70% of my income by living like a jewboii whenever socially acceptable, max my Roth, pump my 401k, and once my first lease expires move into a multi family to rent out and start investing in real estate. Going to be rich as fuark desu.

new york city

nhentai.net/g/132309/

29 working towards M.Sc. in RF-engineering. Probably some radar or analog RF-design stuff after uni.

Oh my job is like this (working for governments public transportation)

I get a nice pension plan and can retire when I hit 55 (supposed to be 52 after 30 years, but have to wait till 55 minimum age).

Pretty comfy job

Gotta get a job, work your way up the ladder, eat shit. Such is life.