[zanetti]

on a scale from 0 to 10 + brief description of what you do

0: absolutely loathing every second of it
10: shangri-la

i'm in a pretty demanding office job

that i'm currently considering a 4...

[rumguzzler]

College + student job at an investment bank + bartending.

College: 4, I'm really, really not passionate about Economics. Just 3 months, and then I'm done, so I figure finish it, then reevaluate.

Investment bank: interesting stuff, but day-to-day trading just reminds me too much of gambling. Genuine value creation... I don't know. The traders I sit with are expected to net about 1.5 million bucks a year for the bank. So, I could end up making a shit-load if I work my ass off, but I don't think I'd be much happier with a whole lot of money rather than a decent amount, but a job I felt passionate about. But it's ideal right now. Give it 6.5, an average between great pay and boring, uninspiring tasks.

Cocktail bartending: Don't 'tend anymore. On its face by far and away the best way to meet people and network, including girls. For college, it's an ideal job if you like to party, but I got tired of the heavy drinking and working till 5AM, and most places aren't fun to work. I'm trying to get back into it, but finding the right place is hard in a town without much choice in the cocktail department. Give it 8 during college, if you find the right place. I've never had so much fun, but I was unable to balance it with school, so I fell behind classes. I did save a lot of money by drinking while working.

[OSL]

Graduate Student + Consulting = 6.5

My particular situation is pretty sweet in that I'm allowed to work out of my home. The workload is pretty intense though. Fortunately I have a light at the end of the tunnel.

In a few months I'm jumping ship and helping a German company open up shop in SE Asia, which will be difficult but exciting. Pay overall has not been great but the lower cost of living will offset a lot of that.

[MiXX]

Get to work with Movie Stars/celebs, travel the world, work from my home studio 10ft from my bedroom for an afternoon bang with my neighbor overlooking the ocean, and Colombia is a 3hr plane-ride away.....my job = 10!

Now, the road getting to have it this good = 0 - sucked! I ate shit and crackers for years!


Mixx

[Badstuber]

(10-25-2010 10:24 AM)MiXX Wrote:  

Get to work with Movie Stars/celebs, travel the world, work from my home studio 10ft from my bedroom for an afternoon bang with my neighbor overlooking the ocean, and Colombia is a 3hr plane-ride away.....my job = 10!

wauw

[NeVerGymLess]

0 = shit money and shitty hours

Thinking about joining the navy or going to trade school .

[HD668B]

selfmade trader = 10

[exe]

Software Architect. It's ranked as the No. 1 job in the U.S.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/...ots/1.html

Had the big corner office with the nice view. Six figure salary, company treating me well, rolled into work anytime I wanted to, etc. Got burned out and left my job to travel. Got so bad that the only thing I looked forward to when I woke up in the morning was speeding on the highway in my souped up BMW, weaving in & out of traffic going over 100mph, passing all the other 'rats', jajaja. Good adrenaline rush though. The job of a software architect isn't that bad but for me, almost any job where I have to work in an office I would rate a '0'.

Tried my hand at forex & lost my shirt. Didn't have the balls to place a trade that would have cut my losses but would also have exposed a covered margin position. Expensive education but now I know candlestick charting. How many people know what a 'harami' is, eh? Looking to get into options trading. Made some money on equities this year - 75% on TRGL and about 40% on SQM. Both have a lot more on the upside so planning on adding to my positions. Wouldn't mind doing some trading while traveling and making $500-1000 a day. Any more would be gravy. Would rate doing this an 8 or so.

[thegmanifesto]

(10-25-2010 10:24 AM)MiXX Wrote:  

Get to work with Movie Stars/celebs, travel the world, work from my home studio 10ft from my bedroom for an afternoon bang with my neighbor overlooking the ocean, and Colombia is a 3hr plane-ride away.....my job = 10!

Now, the road getting to have it this good = 0 - sucked! I ate shit and crackers for years!


Mixx

Similar to Mixx (minus the "Get to work with Movie Stars/celebs" part.) I would rate mine as a 9 or maybe even a 10 (compared with most people on earth), let's just say 9 though, cause it could always be better.

The road to getting here?

Well, getting thrown in jail, beat down, huge debts, scammed, countless mistakes, deceived, friendships ruined (their fault not mine, for real), dues paying, marathon hours etc = a 0 or a 1.

All worth it in the end.

And still pushing.

[Badstuber]

(10-27-2010 04:50 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

(10-25-2010 10:24 AM)MiXX Wrote:  

Get to work with Movie Stars/celebs, travel the world, work from my home studio 10ft from my bedroom for an afternoon bang with my neighbor overlooking the ocean, and Colombia is a 3hr plane-ride away.....my job = 10!

Now, the road getting to have it this good = 0 - sucked! I ate shit and crackers for years!


Mixx

Similar to Mixx (minus the "Get to work with Movie Stars/celebs" part.) I would rate mine as a 9 or maybe even a 10 (compared with most people on earth), let's just say 9 though, cause it could always be better.

The road to getting here?

Well, getting thrown in jail, beat down, huge debts, scammed, countless mistakes, deceived, friendships ruined (their fault not mine, for real), dues paying, marathon hours etc = a 0 or a 1.

All worth it in the end.

And still pushing.

what's your job then?

[iknowexactly]

College grad school, student loan I can never repay ( literally),
but I get a pension in a few weeks ( after 5 years of work) about 1200/month for life.

So it was 15 years of study to get a so-so job that gave me a pension after 5 years. Unless it's the arts, it all sucks.

[Caramel Communist]

(sipping a red russian right now)....like millions of other sheep I did the college and dream about being a corporate whore for some f500 multinational. Graduated and went to work for a major cpg mfg (that you have all bought at some pt in your life-yes i'm that arrogant to know that you have used or experienced it), primarily doing business development. Got promoted into mgmt, marketing, brand mgmt...it was good times because I made millions for my master and he generously rewarded me with my quarterly review/bonus and 3 percent raise and employee of the year plaques (belch)....had a "awakening" and realized corporate whoredom is nothing 2 aspire to...got my bearings and realized I wanted a internet related career...got hired as a ecommerce consultant to another f500 multinational and well known name brand apparel mfg..did that and learned the in and outs of ecommerce and the dirty secrets.....Now I consult on the side and work for myself..

In all honesty the only way you should ever have a zero is if your dead...life is fun, even in the hard and miserable times....

CC job/career rating=10

My next magic trick will be to start a non profit that reforms inner city schools and transform them from teaching kids to sit around looking for work from employers who will not hire them and learn 2 become entrepreneurial, financially literate leveraging the laptop, internet, mobile communications, and creative mind......ain't no one banging in Hollywood or Hamptons.....

[Vacancier Permanent]

Another great thread in our fine forum of ours.
Last real job I had was 2 years ago at the provinical gvt here (cushy job, stress free, long lunches, very laid back atmosphere, close to my place and well paying) then got laid off in Sep 09. After that, had my last ever taste of a JOB last spring for a major investment firm where I only lasted 5 weeks. Couldn't take it any longer and realized once and for all that I'm not made for a JOB. That's when I started to really focus on my biz and Im now living the location independent lifestyle having just arrived in BKK on saturday for 3 months. I'll reach 6 figures within the next 6-8 months with my little biz. I'll use that biz as a platform/base to build onto bigger and more profitable ventures while living the jet set lifestyle.

C. Communist (cool nick) and great idea. I also would love to educate our youngsters that there is a much much much better option to employment and that is using the power of technology (internet) to build profitable mobile businesses while being able to travel the world and live it up. However, society, big corporations and gvts may not be very keen on such an idea. LOL I'm already trying to teach my young cousins who are in high school and first year of college about online businesses and I sincerely hope they see the light at an early age and not waste 10 years of their life into a JOB or a "career" as I did.

[OSL]

(10-31-2010 02:22 PM)Vacancier Permanent Wrote:  

Another great thread in our fine forum of ours.
Last real job I had was 2 years ago at the provinical gvt here (cushy job, stress free, long lunches, very laid back atmosphere, close to my place and well paying) then got laid off in Sep 09. After that, had my last ever taste of a JOB last spring for a major investment firm where I only lasted 5 weeks. Couldn't take it any longer and realized once and for all that I'm not made for a JOB. That's when I started to really focus on my biz and Im now living the location independent lifestyle having just arrived in BKK on saturday for 3 months. I'll reach 6 figures within the next 6-8 months with my little biz. I'll use that biz as a platform/base to build onto bigger and more profitable ventures while living the jet set lifestyle.

C. Communist (cool nick) and great idea. I also would love to educate our youngsters that there is a much much much better option to employment and that is using the power of technology (internet) to build profitable mobile businesses while being able to travel the world and live it up. However, society, big corporations and gvts may not be very keen on such an idea. LOL I'm already trying to teach my young cousins who are in high school and first year of college about online businesses and I sincerely hope they see the light at an early age and not waste 10 years of their life into a JOB or a "career" as I did.

I was recently having a conversation with a friend of mine who just entered the same masters program that I did, that will take him through the US, Europe, and China. He kept saying how desperate he was to work in New York, which doesn't make much sense to me anymore. In this environment I'd rather be in Vietnam or Cambodia, sniffing out my own business opportunities.

He said that it boiled down to a relatively larger salary in New York compared to even Singapore or Hong Kong. Also, "Career Development."

"Career Development" is like mining the iron that you can someday spend hours forging into larger and heavier shackles than the ones you have on currently.

College students should stop thinking about "what is my best career move" and start thinking "how do I make 10 million before I'm 30?"

I'm glad I'm the son of immigants who created a business empire. They actively forced the principle into my head that a salaryman is a slave and a real man creates his own wealth.

[Passport Hustler]

(10-31-2010 02:40 PM)youngmobileglobal Wrote:  

College students should stop thinking about "what is my best career move" and start thinking "how do I make 10 million before I'm 30?"

Well put.

[Vacancier Permanent]

(10-31-2010 04:12 PM)Passport Hustler Wrote:  

(10-31-2010 02:40 PM)youngmobileglobal Wrote:  

College students should stop thinking about "what is my best career move" and start thinking "how do I make 10 million before I'm 30?"

Well put.

You do not need to have 10M to live a mobile lifestyle. All you need is a mobile business that you can take with you anywhere that generates a steady 5k-10K a month and that takes 10-15 hours per week to manage. So in that light, a better question to ask oneself IMO is: "how do I build and create a mobile online business that will allow me to live a mobile lifestyle that will require less than 1-15 hours a week to manage that will generate a steadily increasing amount to allow me to cover my expenses so I do not need a JOB in order for me to use my time as I wish to and travelling the world on a full time basis?". This should be the mother of all questions that all those who are aspiring to living an international lifestyle should ask themselves. And at the younger age that person asks themselves that question and works towards achieving that, the better they will be off and the soonest they can truly live life on their own terms.

[manilaguy]

I would say 8.5

It is not a perfect score because I have a regular office job and I am drone. However, this works perfectly for me as I really am the laziest sonuvabitch you will ever meet. I am so lazy that I am known as the most efficient guy in the office, go figure.

I work normal hours, and go bat shit of anything over 40 hours. The pay is decent for my educational level and I get to keep a majority of it because I am frugal. If I stay with this gig i'd hit 7 digits net worth before I turn 40. But I don't really need 7 digit net worth as I need just enough to build a ship to sail where the wind blows, metaphorically speaking of course.

PS. I could make my profession sound absolutely enthralling/interesting because in most aspects it is, but for the topic sake i'll call this spade a spade.

[rudebwoy]

5 Account Manager for Large Computer firm. Haven't even done 3 months and I am ready to hang myself, 9-5 is just not the way to go now. I will give it a year, save some money and like Willie Nelson song "on the road again".