What do you do for a living?/Help me pick a career.

[FuZion]

Some lesson's to learn from some of these posts is Money is not going to get you happiness. You have to love your job or you will not go very far, you wont want to progress, if money is the reason, then your doing it for the wrong reason. You have to want to progress for your own morals, and self-motivation has to be key. If your questioning yourself during your career then your in the wrong one. I'm 24, and I realized this over the past couple years, it took me a while, but I know what I want to do with my life. I just want to be successful in whatever it is that I do and give it my 110% so I know when it comes time for me to look back at my 20's I can say yeah, I gave it my best, and by 20's, I mean college. Do your best, I'm already doing that to my high school years. I'm in school now, and im going for the gold, using my G.I. Bill and I'm going to try my hardest to land the best job and best oppurtunity available.

 

[Psychedelic.Penguin]

So instead of wasting the last month of summer until school starts, I picked up this book

Amazon.com: CCENT/CCNA ICND1 640-822 Official Cert Guide (3rd Edition) (9781587204258): Wendell Odom: Books

Hopefully I can read through it and learn enough to get the cert. I dunno what to do after that, maybe try to grab an internship somewhere.


I just got back from seeing a counselor, who didn't help me at all.. My mom said she'd sit down and talk with me tomorrow night about whats going on. She would like me out of the house cause I'm costing money that she doesn't have. She thought I'd be going to university by now. I wanna tell her that I wanna move somewhere new, but then shes also uncomfortable with me moving out, unless its into a dorm at uni..

 

[A-Rich]

...You have to love your job or you will not go very far, you wont want to progress, if money is the reason, then your doing it for the wrong reason. You have to want to progress for your own morals, and self-motivation has to be key. If your questioning yourself during your career then your in the wrong one.

Good stuff, FuZ. I'm totally lacking motivation and I already know I won't be proud of my level of success/dedication. At 34, I still have a lot to learn. Again, good advice.

 

[tuc0]

Don't join the military, that is my advice If you do, just go reserves, and have them help you pay off your student loans.

FuZ! I guess you will finish up your contract then get out. The military is not for everyone. Even myself; I did the 3 out of my 4 years. I got out early because of RIF and Early-Out program at that time. I have 2 cousins in the Army on their 3rd re-enlistment. They don't love it, but they say it's only 8 more years then they can retire. So, they will be 38 years old when they retire! I guess they have bigger plans for retirement that I don't know about. Friends who just retired are double-dippin. Not too bad huh?

 

[kazuo Kiriyama]

Dude i have been trying to figure that out for awhile now. I am 24 and only have a slight clue of what i wanna do. Thing is, I don't have the cash, time or concentration to handle working full time and go to school, all while keeping a healthy marriage, haha. I have a decent gig now, but I'm always looking for something better.

 

[Fasttrak]

I say, fuck all their attempts at getting you into some menial job that makes your heart warm just thinking about it. Get into the liquor industry as there is never a shortage of product to drown yourself in a shitty days work. Everyone will believe you have some fairy-tale job, just show up and receive mass amounts of money for partying. Obviously, I am being facetious, but those are some of the things I have heard from people when they hear I work in the liquor industry. We have mass amounts of stress, I never let it bother me but some do, long work days especially when closing large suppliers fiscal year ends but we do have a party atmosphere on most occasions. The income is pretty good even by California standards, great medical and retirement benefits. I rarely see my boss and I am never stuck in a cubicle, I am on the road all day and dealing with clients, most of them I call friends, some assholes.


You need to find something that moves you, drives you to get up each morning and go to work. Money is not everything but it is important to some degree, unless you enjoying scraping together house payments and eating Top Ramen every night. Try not to get caught up in the glamour of how you perceive a job, but look at what it's underlying daily routine calls for. The luckiest folks find a way to sustain a living off their primary hobbies, I envy them.


Fasttrak

 

[built[4]sin]

oh and, i should mention, penguin, that i've worked a LOT of disparate jobs in my life and am on my third professional career; hopefully my last. i didn't know what i wanted to do with my life -what i COULD do with my life- until i was past 30. don't worry if you don't hit the mark with the first thing you decide to be. it's a given. in fact, the majority of Americans will change careers (not jobs!) three times in their lives. don't sweat it, man. you got a lot of life to live yet

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[Nutbutter]

My best advise to you is to find something that you like to do.. as love and job are almost never apart of the same sentence... unless your talking about something like im a porn star.... "I love to bang hot chicks and this job affords met he opportunity to do that and get paid for it!" But for most of us we do a job we can tolerate on a daily basis. Your gonna have good days and bad days but if the good out way the bad then you have found something! There are almost no people out there who wake up in the morning and say "omg I am so excited to be going to work today!".... if that were the case they wouldnt be paying you to show up, you would be paying them to show up. As for the computer field I stayed away from it because of the constant CE (continuing education) required to maintain a solid grasp on the market. But what I can say is if you love to do this work then you shouldn't let anything get in your way in doing what is truly in your heart for a career as this is extremely rare! We all have failures and successes in life, but its how we respond to these times that define us as a person. That which does not kill you will only make you stronger! Reminds me of a saying that a 1st sergeant said to me once... "You have to be flexible like a rubber dick." Sometimes your flexibility leads you down your path to success.

 

[tuc0]

My best advise to you is to find something that you like to do.. as love and job are almost never apart of the same sentence... unless your talking about something like im a porn star.... "I love to bang hot chicks and this job affords met he opportunity to do that and get paid for it!" But for most of us we do a job we can tolerate on a daily basis. Your gonna have good days and bad days but if the good out way the bad then you have found something! There are almost no people out there who wake up in the morning and say "omg I am so excited to be going to work today!".... if that were the case they wouldnt be paying you to show up, you would be paying them to show up. As for the computer field I stayed away from it because of the constant CE (continuing education) required to maintain a solid grasp on the market. But what I can say is if you love to do this work then you shouldn't let anything get in your way in doing what is truly in your heart for a career as this is extremely rare! We all have failures and successes in life, but its how we respond to these times that define us as a person. That which does not kill you will only make you stronger! Reminds me of a saying that a 1st sergeant said to me once... "You have to be flexible like a rubber dick." Sometimes your flexibility leads you down your path to success.

Hallelluiah Drill Sergeant!!! I'mah doin' pushups in between typin' right now! You're right Nut' (or left?) Whatever. Yes... thanks for sharing with our youngsters words to live by "You have to be flex as a rubber diiick!". HIgh five Nut'.

 

[tuc0]

So instead of wasting the last month of summer until school starts, I picked up this book

Amazon.com: CCENT/CCNA ICND1 640-822 Official Cert Guide (3rd Edition) (9781587204258): Wendell Odom: Books

Hopefully I can read through it and learn enough to get the cert. I dunno what to do after that, maybe try to grab an internship somewhere.


I just got back from seeing a counselor, who didn't help me at all.. My mom said she'd sit down and talk with me tomorrow night about whats going on. She would like me out of the house cause I'm costing money that she doesn't have. She thought I'd be going to university by now. I wanna tell her that I wanna move somewhere new, but then shes also uncomfortable with me moving out, unless its into a dorm at uni..

Hi P.P.
Get a part-time job to help momma with expenses. It's way cheaper to live at home while going to college. I used to work 3 part-time jobs on top of Army Reserves ( tuition-waiver). I understand it's way harder to find job for youngsters nowadays, but do odd jobs or anything to get some ca$h. Don't be a porn$tar unless you enjoy bangin' chicks like Nut' <j/k> I bet if your momma see you making effort to bring some cash in, she'll appreciate it.