Advice thread for those who are ****ing up their lives

[Dinner]

I have two friends in real life who are in investment banking. Both had extensive experience in fields some how related to what they do (one really was in a junior role at an investment banking firm while the other had a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering plus six years working for a major chip manufacturer and electronics firm [Qualcomm]) BEFORE they went to B-school. One went to Harvard and the other went to Northwestern for B-school. I'm willing to bet no one they know in B-school had military experience or if they did it wasn't their only real experience. You don't get into the top firms based on military experience because *SURPRISE!* business schools want you to have business experience.

[SlowwHand]

I'm not ****ing with him at all. Tradesman get damned good hourly wage, plus the initial service call. "You're not getting any heat because the pilot isn't lit.That will be $40. Would you like me to light it? Make it $50."

[Dinner]

Or law school after the military.

Or any government job.

Law school isn't very useful or very well paying unless you go to a top law school. Seriously, out here in California the average law school grad makes around $25k per year and that's why there are so many ambulance chasers. If you go to a top law school then you can write your own checks but if you go to a third rate law school the odds are you're in for a hard scrabble life.

[KrazyHorse]

I have two friends in real life who are in investment banking. Both had extensive experience in fields some how related to what they do (one really was in a junior role at an investment banking firm while the other had a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering plus six years working for a major chip manufacturer and electronics firm [Qualcomm]) BEFORE they went to B-school. One went to Harvard and the other went to Northwestern for B-school. I'm willing to bet no one they know in B-school had military experience or if they did it wasn't their only real experience. You don't get into the top firms based on military experience because *SURPRISE!* business schools want you to have business experience.

One of the guys I worked with had a EE phd from a top 5 program and just left to go back to qualcomm for personal reasons (2 body problem)

[giblets]

Al should give up on becoming a banker. I wouldn't want him handling my money.

[Al B. Sure!]

Al should give up on becoming a banker. I wouldn't want him handling my money.

And yet in my employment, I've been put in charge of a restaurant budget.

[giblets]

I'm sure you can figure out what a restaurant needs to buy. But if I had money to invest, I wouldn't give it to you.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

On a slightly more upbeat note go to pharmacy school and bust your ass working as an assistant pharmacist. An ex-girlfriend of mine easily made $80k working four days per week (10 hours per day) as a pharmacist so if you can pass the tests and do the hours without getting fired for being a ******** then even you could have a nice middle class life. You'll probably still be single but at least you'll have money to pay the hookers you so desperately need.

Would you really suggest he takes up a highly-skilled profession where an error could very easily leave people dead?

[dannubis]

And yet in my employment, I've been put in charge of a restaurant budget.

And then yoou went and ****ed it up with your brilliant resignation letter.

[ZEE]

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[MattBowron]

I'm 26 and live with my parents. It's hard to keep a job if you have certain types of mental illness.

[C0ckney]

there are certainly times when i wish i'd learnt a trade. the skills last a lifetime and you can take them anywhere.

[KrazyHorse]

I'm 26 and live with my parents. It's hard to keep a job if you have certain types of mental illness.

Like posting on poly?

[Zevico]

"The Happening" had scenes filmed at my high school.

That must have been an interesting occurrence.

[MattBowron]

Like posting on poly?

like having ADD, PTSD, Aspergers, Psychosis attacks in a form of Schizophrenia