OT: What do you do for a living?, are you happy? |
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OT: What do you do for a living?, are you happy? |
Aaron Cox |
Oct 31 2004, 02:05 PM
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Professional Lawn Dart Group: Retired Admin Posts: 24,541 Joined: 1-February 03 From: OC Member No.: 219 Region Association: Southern California |
hey guys, what do you all do for a living?
-what education did you go through? - do you enjoy your job? help me find a good career (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) by giving me info about yours (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) |
Bleyseng |
Nov 1 2004, 11:46 AM
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Aircooled Baby! Group: Members Posts: 13,036 Joined: 27-December 02 From: Seattle, Washington (for now) Member No.: 24 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
Have a AA in Photography and worked in Commercial Photography shooting catalogs, newpaper ads and all for 5 years. I left because during the winter I never saw daylight. Always working in the darkroom or darkened studio and it was tough never knowing when I could go home. Hard to leave at 5pm when a $20k shot was in progress....staying till midnight then coming back in a 8AM equals - No life.
Became a carpenter on a whim to be outside and eventually started my own company (good thing I learned lots of business stuff in school) and have pretty much stayed self-employed for 20 years. Right now I am doing Project Management for a medium sized construction company (went back to night school to get the training on the latest PM software and techniques). Pay is good and I have always enjoyed the "Guys" at work in construction. Office politics is usually at a minimum on job sites but once you go into the office, oh boy. I have managed a couple of those $10 million Microsoft homes and hated it so I left to build "real homes" for "real people". I learned auto mechanics in High School and have always been fixing cars on the side. My biggest joy was rebuilding my 914 with my son who NEVER thought it would run again. HAH, when it drove for the first time with us in it you should have seen the smile on his face. Wow, we did this! He has gone on to do some crazy wenching (turbo Mazda that people said couldn't be done) and is now going to mechanics school in Phoenix. My son also worked for me for 4 years learning a effin trade so he can always fix/build his own stuff besides keeping his cars running. My advice is after HS get a couple of different jobs-maybe in the trades to teach yourself effin workethic. Most young people don't know how to work these days-Show up on time everyday. Its hard, thats why its called"work". Try and take some time to travel to Europe or where ever to see the rest of the world to get some perspective on life and how different it is. Then come back and work hard at going to school with that work ethic (get great grades and learn something) and that new perspective on life. Take all that and find a job or jobs and a career that you enjoy and makes some money. You never know where or how things will end up! Take some risks as that is where you will find the greatest lessons - good and bad. Geoff |
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