What do you guy do or plan on doing for a living? Will you make enough to continue living a healthy lifestyle?

>a year or two lel
In that amount of time you could be well on your way to making yourself a better life. Quit being a loser.
Currently in university to become a physio. Yes, I'll absolutely make enough.

I'm a government civilian, do IT work and have a paid hour a day to workout. Its pretty badass. I'm 27 so I don't think I'll be leaving anytime soon.

My work is 16 miles away, so I ride my bike, then goto the gym for an hour in the morning.

I'm majoring in accounting, but I fucking hate it/not very good at it. I'm pretty behind in my studies. I was supposed to graduate this year, but I did a lot of part time, so I got a few more semesters to go. I'm thinking about just going for business admin, but I've been told thats a shit degree.

There was a point where I thought about marketing, but I read a lot of marketing majors end up in sales and the marketing class i tool was boring to me.

I don't know what to do anymore. A lot of my co workers are in the same spot as me and my friends from high school are doing worse. Apparently I'm the "successful" one in the group.

this is commonly referred to as fat OP, not high test.

>mfw if we leave work early and I get to the gym hours before my minimum I'm basically working out professionally

>I want to go back to school to be a veterinarian.

same here.
how old r u, joi?

At university for engineering so yes

I'm about to start applying for Finance related positions now that I've graduated. I really hate it. did it for all the wrong reasons. I work in sales now and I'm incredibly good at it, but still hate it. I want to be in film, either producing or acting. I also plan on making intelligent investments early on so I can retire early. If that doesn't work out I'll either travel the world broke doing odd jobs, or become a criminal again. I was a damn good criminal.

Currently filthy gaijin English teacher. Plan to teach high school back home. Private or Catholic schools only, fuck public schools

Thinking about running for state parliament, it's only 250 dollaradoos to run and they have a yearly salary of 193,000. So I'll finally be able to get that home gym.

Work for the government and have a small business. No time to myself right now but im making them bucks and bill-e's senpai.

Professor here

It doesn't pay as well as you think it does

At least I have access to a university gym

Aerospace engineering, specifically computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer. Going to start on a cubesat project in a few weeks, but for that I'll have to learn up on noncontinuum flow and other simulation methods for rarefied gas dynamics, probably DSMC. Currently employed by the uni, but NASA, one day brahs, I wanna believe.

NASA is shit tier nowadays brush. Your sights should be on spacex

I'm pretty sure no one thought it paid well outside royalties if you get a textbook picked up by public schools. I think tenured professors in ausfailia get around 100k in terms of salary. Depends on the field and shit for lectures and books

Going to start adv maths computer science double degree next year. God help me

I'm 24 with a degree in history that I'll never use. I actually want to become a security analyst, but I've got zero skills in the field.

Going to try to get myself a job that pays more than $13/hr and isn't overnight. Then I'm going to start hitting the books so that hopefully I can start working towards getting certifications. If only I knew where to start

studied computational biology, work at an EHR company now. not super Veeky Forums since it's an office job, but amazing health plan (duh).
plan to stay for a little, then move into consulting, which is pretty anti-Veeky Forums given that it's 50% travel. live where ever I want, $100+ per hour. then work at a hospital for normal hours and no travel, but probably only 100k-ish depending on where.

If my fiance doesn't get into medical school, or maybe after she graduates, I'd consider a change/grad school.

Tutor history for high school and first years

Nah m8, the work they do at SpaceX is cool, but Idk if I dig the work culture. I know a guy whose working with them now so I might ask him how it is but from what I hear it's really rough.

One of my favorite profs was chief engineer of Marshall, and from his experience working on shut from shuttle to orion it sounds like the shit. I understand that the red tape will slowly kill me, but it's just another challenge to overcome.

I'm an illustrator making a good hourly rate but I wish I could get more projects. Money isn't an issue but sitting in front of the computer for hours is a little detrimental.

I'll be a leech as long as I can
once that is no longer sustainable, i'll end it
hopefully i won't be an ugly corpse

Ay senpai
What career/degree do you have?
I'm thinking about AAS in Networking Administration at a technical college
There's also a very similar AAS for information systems management

Not him but I worked in IT support for two years with zero qualification beyond my former boss going "you're a bit techy, want a job?"

got a degree in chem eng up in canadia land, unfortunately that was 2 years ago when the oil crash happened and I along with 75% of my graduating class never found work

So now I'm trying to become a police officer wew lad

Bullshit job for 8 years (car park attendant), but it pays well and I can do whatever I want during my work hours, so I read a lot. I'm back to school (distance course) and plan to become a philosophy teacher. With hard work I'll be one at 35, but my years prior to that where not wasted.

How's computational bio? I'm about to do a internship with computational entomology, it's more of a curiosity thing though. Or are they pretty different?

Well then
With a degree I ought to be fine then. But do I really want to commit is the question. I'll probably put it off a year and see where I'm at this time next year.

Decisions decisions

Getting a degree in Exercise Sciences to become a strength and conditioning specialist.

I'm also a professional, dedicated musician and I'm hoping/trying to eventually hit it big.

isn't entemology the study of bugs? that's really broad. you could apply computational methods to track a lot of stuff, I'd imagine. ultimately, that's all it is - I took CS classes and bio classes, mostly algorithms and genetics stuff. I got lucky that the school I went to was amazing for computational biology, even though that isn't what I initially went for.

Just careful brah. I know a kid who did the exact same thing. He makes 42k a year. And that's before taxes. I do better at my shitty sales job.

Yea it's the study of bugs. I'm already doing research with a professor about bumblebees. I'm not too crazy about CS stuff, but the genetics portion is interesting. I had a friend tell me bioengineering research is where the money's at.

Exact same situation for me. I'm thinking about ditching accounting and seeing if my dad can get one of his friends to put me on as an apprentice tradesman, I'll take what I can get really.

I'm a stats and economics major. Currently have a bullshit part time job on campus, but I want to be a data scientist

I'm an IT security analyst

Yes I make way more than enough to continue a healthy lifestyle

I recommend this field. It is easy and I make money hand-over-fist with basically no college education. Just have to be not stupid.

since when is being healthy expensive?

it's cheap as all fuck

How did you get into it?

Will have my undergrad in Kinesiology - Pre Med after 2 more semesters then probably applying to PA school.

Well here's the part where I had it easy- I have a friend that works at the place I work and he got my application looked at via internet referral program.

However, we get a bunch of applicants that are entry-level with 0 experience and/or college degrees that get hired all the time. So I had it easy, but I didn't do anything because of my friend I couldn't have done anyway, my process was just faster.

Software engineer, living a healthy lifestyle is cheaper than going out all the time.

what are your daily tasks?

I wanted to join the military but they wouldn't let me because I used to be on Ritalin or some other ADD med
I wanted to be a 3d artist for video games or renderings but art students end up at mc donalds, or make 35k at small no name studios
I wanted to be a programmer or a petroleum engineer and make the big bucks but I'm bad at math and talking to people

So I guess I'll do trades and snap my back and knees up

Just got my PharmD, trying to find a job while I wait to take my licensing exams. Going to save up for a home gym eventually but first I need to pay off my student loans. And get a home.

In order to explain what my daily tasks are you'll need some context, so I'm going to assume zero knowledge but not because I think anyone here is dumb or anything.

So every device and server in a network can and should be logging everything, from web servers in the DMZ to the active directory servers to the firewalls to the wifi access points. All of those logs on their own can be overwhelming, so a good secure network would also have in it whats called a SIEM. A SIEM intakes these logs and correlates them and generates alerts based on whatever rules the engineers have created on them. For instance, 50 logins failures within 5 minutes, or inbound packet rate over 50,000 packets per second or whatever. These rules generate alerts in the forms of emails or text messages or whatever you configure. I work for a company that co-manages these devices so the actual companies don't have to bother hiring and training their own staff.

My day-to-day consists of looking at an alert dashboard with a group of 4-5 other people, acknowledging the alerts and them investigating them to determine if they are legitimate. We get a few alerts a minute all day, so it's pretty steady work. But almost everything is a false positive or not actionable, so I rarely actually observe a for-really-reals incident occur.

nice

I work as public transport driver and I live in a shithole of a country. Still make over national average which is enough for comfy living. Friend and I started learning trading recently.

>data scientist

Not to burst your bubble, but if you've heard that there's a lack of data scientists right now, that's mostly because it's the CIO/CTO magazine buzzword of the hour. Most managers don't realize that what they need is commonly covered by business intelligence and data analytics products. Through their misunderstanding, they'll hire the most incorrect people for the job because they think they need somebody with a statistics background, when really what they usually need has absolutely nothing to do with stats.

Real data science jobs are few and far between, but the work you'd do is super interesting. Be careful of job postings, and make sure that the jobs you're interviewing for are real data science jobs. Or do BI, data warehousing or any of the other specialized data (spark, elastic, graph databases, etc.) stuff too, if you want more of a business/data management flavour to your work.

Retard alert, you could've LIED and told the recruiter you didn't have ADD. Fucking simple as that

To expound a bit more:

Most of what I actually do all day is watch youtube or twitch or netflix while closing out noisy false-positives or duplicates. Or I play 3DS or chit-chat with the guys who work there or something. It's steady, but there's enough breathing room that I can get up and go walk around every two hours or so so I don't go crazy sitting in a chair all day.

Dont do it

This user is 100% right. Shit, most recruiters would just say "I didn't hear that, don't ever say that again."

forgot to say I am thinking about joining police/army (if I dont get promoted here in 2 years) but I am afraid I am too old for that and I have no idea what would I do if I get kicked out of army after say 10 years

Particularly since it's a meme in the first place

user that posted that reply here, literally told my recruiter I used to take Adderall and he asked if I did and I said no, he didn't write shit down. If you tell them everything you have then you're too retarded to join the military. I didn't give a fuck about joining, was just helping a buddy out.

Since we're completely off topic.

I'm an intelligence analyst in the military, currently attached to a special operations unit. Frankly it fucking sucks. I'd murder for a chance to get a career overseas doing something relatively close to my current line of work. Trying to figure out what to major in that would best suit me.

I graduated college with a liberal arts degree and now at age 32 I have a job that pays really well.

That said, I had to work hard as fuck to get where I am and my degree didn't help at all.

I work with a ton of guys who didn't go to college at all but went to the military and came out with the right attitude. The military teaches you how to work as a team, take orders, and give orders. That's 100% what corporate america is looking for.

Also, the military is the biggest frat in the world. If you're not a complete weirdo you will come out with tons of connections who will help you find jobs/housing/small business loans/etc.

Or you may get blown up in Iraqistan.

how old are you?

23
E5 if that is pertinent to you at all.

I was going for IT security initially, but most jobs seem either boring or don't pay enough for the level of technical expertise I'm interested in.

Math grew on me eventually so I'm going for applied mathematics / quantitative finance instead. I think I'll shoot for PhD.
Not 100% sure what I'm getting into and slightly nervous due to moving from comfy small hometown uni (fewer than 3K students) to larger top10 school in September but we're all gonna make it breh.

>Or you may get blown up in Iraqistan.

I am not american. I would not worry about that our army does not fight desu

I live as far west as you cant go mate. The beavers here think they are the shit but they are rotten and worn out from all the logs they have consumed. They dont even build dams anymore, just nibble on the wood and move on.

It'd actually be interesting if you worked for an individual corporation instead of a managed security services business like I do. We do relatively shallow investigations on a large swath of clients, but if you worked for a single company you'd have all the time in the world to do a proper investigation. That would be pretty interesting.

But hell, I've been doing this for a year and a half, have 0 college education and no prior relevant jobs, and it may be a bit boring but I'm about to crack six figures and am still far away from the ceiling of pay here before I move onto a real security job somewhere else. I'd say that's pretty worth putting up with boringness for a while.

NASA is shit. High pressure, tons of BS and low pay. Go private or commercial. You may have some of the same shit to deal with but you're more likely to get proper compensation.

>two years out of college and 98k a year with plenty of growth
feels good man.

>our army does not fight

So you are French?

Financial advisor, best finance job with work/life balance. Around 100-120k is fine by me.

Frenchies fight I think. Last time we fought was in 1620

This nigga from the ottoma empire

degree?

chemical engineering

>1620

Im gonna need some citation for a country that hasnt been to war since then.

I am a security consultant in the SEA area. The flip government literally offered me an appartment so i can keep working with them.

>Will you make enough to continue living a healthy lifestyle?
Unless i go full retard, yes.

Hey man,

here.

Tell me more.

Sell software and have a Mech engineering background. Probably earning in the top 5% in my country as an individual but on the low end of that. I should be good.

Former milfag from a LatAm country to "PMC" to freelancer.

Language skills do help(don't learn Chineses, just don't). I made a reputation for myself in my service branch, and got my stripes i the drug wars. After a while i was assigned to a task force that dealt with human trafficking rings. I took the time and effort to instruct my peers in the use of open source intelligence and social networks to develop targeting packages.

When my contract was over some guys from DynCorp made me a job offer and i went from there.

Engineer for a space mission.

Start my internship this July. No idea how I'm gonna have time to work out anymore.

lol im in the same boat fml

Why not learn Chinese

hey i currently work an office job but i like working with my hands. :( how did you decide to do vet stuff?

I know some Hangul. Were you an all source guy? I'm SIGINT.

You have to deal with the chinese. You don't want that user.

Currently in Medical School, hope to become a paediatric surgeon but I'm not fussy.

I actually only recently switched to healthy lifestile, mostly because I can finally afford it. I reached a point in life where I literally don't care where to shop for groceries, and how much they cost, and can work less hours too to make some time for gym, cycling, hiking, other activities, but up until now (I'm 30 btw), I was pretty much an overworked workaholic with horrible fast food diet and only lifiting would be tv remote.

I got the idea of using social media and news reports from the ABC case.

I wasn't doing intelligence officially, i was just a door-kicker with an overactive imagination.

Arabic, russian, swahili and french are also pretty hot right now.

so you and your doorkicker dudes helped make TPs...? Unless you're an ODA that doesn't make sense.

I just fapped hard and have no sexual appetite right now, so to me, its kinda funny that you just posted some random fat bitch in a mcdonalds bathroom haha.. fuck her.
Im high too, what was the question again?
Inb4 degenerate.. Im aware

whats certs or books do I need to read/learn?

what programming languages do i need to know?

I did want to get into computer forensics.

It wasn't anything official, but people started to notice, and the higher ups suddenly wanted to know the how and why.

I guess we do things differently down south.

Summer is truly in session, lads. Behold the retardation.