What do you do? (2 Viewers)

kevost · Aug 11, 2023

Considering changing career paths at the ripe young age of 36.

What do you do and can I do it? Full disclosure, I'm greedy and like money. Does your career path have anything to do with your degree (if you have one)? I'm just mostly curious about what everyone does.

I worked in telecom/IT for 13 years and made a change about 3 years ago. Considering going back or making another change.

Sorry if this has been done, didn't feel like searching for it.

Jim14510 · Aug 11, 2023

I'm a CPA but I also run a brothel. You could run a brothel but make sure you're not in someone else's territory or your ho's will always be beat up.

P.S. friends let friends with brothels use their brothel for free. Let me know when you're up and running.

2010sarenevercoming · Aug 11, 2023

I post professionally on message boards.

So far I'm running a loss of about $8 a month, but I expect a massive windfall imminently.

dsbigred1 · Aug 11, 2023

I’m in Corporate, and no, you can’t do it.

Frogsker30 · Aug 11, 2023

Do it. my mom is 54 and just graduated Law school.

My brother is 35 was a personal trainer and switch to being a stock trader at 32 and now is a bank branch manager.

Im 27 and have constantly changed what I want to do. kinda for the same way I like money. I work in sports and want to continue but want to go on a different side of sports that is more luxurious.
Sports is hard to get into but once you do you stay. I had my masters in SA for 2 years before landing a job in a sector I never thought Id be in nor do i still picture my self in it. but its a stepping stone. and unless you're a big executive there is no money in sports.

Juro · Aug 11, 2023

I engineer the shit out of crap, especially on plant systems.

TreedHusker · Aug 11, 2023

No job for me...

Chi7397 · Aug 11, 2023

I’m a lawyer - don’t do it unless you can go to law school for free or nearly free, and even then it may not be worth it - salaries have a bimodal distribution so the averages are very skewed

KidsSeeGhosts · Aug 11, 2023

kevost said:
Considering changing career paths at the ripe young age of 36.

What do you do and can I do it? Full disclosure, I'm greedy and like money. Does your career path have anything to do with your degree (if you have one)? I'm just mostly curious about what everyone does.

I worked in telecom/IT for 13 years and made a change about 3 years ago. Considering going back or making another change.

Sorry if this has been done, didn't feel like searching for it.

Compliance (specifically privacy) is going to be a huge field pretty much everywhere b/c that regulation is only going to get worse and every country does things differently. Public tech companies pay above market salaries b/c you have to keep up with the Joneses, even in a non-technical role. Even though there's been some correction in tech salaries+benefits, it's still way better than anywhere else in the market.

Kaladin · Aug 11, 2023

Attorney. It's not the worst job in the world. There's some social status to it. I work at a family members firm so I have a lot of freedom to do whatever I want and take whatever cases I want. I don't make as much as a big law attorney (my brother works at a decent sized firm on the west coast, makes $150,000 after a year there). I don't want be an attorney for very long though, dealing with crazy peoples problems all day is tiresome. Also I can't stand most attorneys and I don't want to be around them.

I'm going to start a fitness related business or two in the near future, everyone in America is fat and there's a lot of money in that industry.

Drue629 · Aug 11, 2023

I'm in mortgages, I would suggest any other career path.

Alcaus · Aug 11, 2023

I'd avoid careers that are predicted to suffer due to the rise of AI

You have a technical background. I'd look into controls engineering myself if I'm ever forced to look for another job but I work primarily in production and focus on the material handling side of things.

Jim14510 · Aug 11, 2023

Drue629 said:
I'm in mortgages, I would suggest any other career path.

Just think how many refi's you'll have as the rates fall.

RedSeaRising · Aug 11, 2023

My primary job function is to convince people to hire my company to build their project, and then spend several months budgeting the project only to come to the conclusion that they can't afford to build it.

That SOB Van Owen · Aug 11, 2023

My title is “Director of Tax Accounting and Planning”

Like @Jim14510 I’m a CPA, but he CPA’s for mom and pop shops in Nebraska (lol) while I do the fun stuff working for a corporate multinational in their internal tax department.

Could you do what I do? Sure, but you’ve gotta go to grad school (plus probably some more business and accounting classes if you don’t already have them). When I was in grad school at Texas, there were a number of students in their 30s going “back” to pursue this career path.

After grad school, you gotta slave away at a Big 4 for 3-5 years (minimum) before joining an internal tax department and working your way up there.

Obviously this job has to do with my degree.

The pay is, I think, pretty good. Will I ever be ultra wealthy? No. Do I make enough to live comfortably and have some fun? Yes. Tax is a racket. But it’s a really nice racket because it takes a special kind of stupid (like me) to get into it and no one else understands what we do.

Frogsker30 · Aug 11, 2023

KidsSeeGhosts said:
Compliance (specifically privacy) is going to be a huge field pretty much everywhere b/c that regulation is only going to get worse and every country does things differently. Public tech companies pay above market salaries b/c you have to keep up with the Joneses, even in a non-technical role. Even though there's been some correction in tech salaries+benefits, it's still way better than anywhere else in the market.

I second the compliance part! basically what i do in the sports world

Mavsker · Aug 11, 2023

Instead of asking what do you do, you should try asking how do you do?
(I'm doing well, thank you for asking!)

RedSeaRising · Aug 11, 2023

Mavsker said:
Instead of asking what do you do, you should try asking how do you do?
(I'm doing well, thank you for asking!)

I'll rephrase for OP

How do you make money?

Ext. 55 · Aug 11, 2023

Gang Banger, both street thug and porn. Run the streets, mix the beats, and make'em squirt the sheets.

#Gangsta #ThugLife

OP, would highly recommend. Makin fat stacks out here homie.

Frogsker30 · Aug 11, 2023

RedSeaRising said:
I'll rephrase for OP

How do you make money?

onlyfans..

some girls pay shit ton to make fun of small dox

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