Let me ask you a question, and I want an honest answer

[backbreaker]

If I told you right now that you could have a job doing what you didn't want to do, and make $300k a year doing it, or have the opprotunity to do what you want to do, nothing more, nothing less.. a fair opprotunity doing what youw ant to do...which would you do?

The 300k was guaranteed for the rest of your life per year.. assuming you don't get caught with drugs at work...okay more than once, or anything like tha.

Which would you choose and why? I'm not looking for a particular answer, just the truth

 

[azanon]

No i wouldn't sell drugs for 300K a year. Was that your question?

 

[djSlvt]

Are you going for ameriprise financial advisor?



At this point in my life I don't want to work, period! I want to try something on my own. Realistically, I might either fail or it won't be enough. So yea, $300k a year and I can do what I want with my life sound great. As long as I'm not loked in 9 to 5, or at least able to travel or move around.

 

[Microphone Fiend]

work a couple years @ the 300k career and quit once you cant take it anymore. Realistically speaking. 300k is too much money to spend in one year, let alone a couple. Id rather do something I like from the get go, but at the worst, I would sacrifice at least a years at the 300k position just because it will give me more leeway to follow my dreams. Just dont get caught up in the 300k job, its just a stepping stone to your true dreams

 

[Bad_Lil'Pixie]

I'd have to go with passions over pay if that were the case.

Life is just too short to dedicate so much of your time and life to something that isn't rewarding in return.

 

[Obsidian]

Yeah, I think it's important to pick a job you like (or can at least tolerate fairly well). Microphone's advice is very wise, however.

 

[penkitten]

i agree with pixie.

however, in my own life, i did not choose my profession, i just happened upon it by chance and i took it because i was desperate. sometimes it is rewarding but the pay stinks. other times i really pull my hair out because it is not worth the hassle and the pay stinks.however, i am good at what i do.
the reason i keep doing it is because it is close to home and safe to take off when my children are sick. i like the hours.i like my coworkers.
i have been considering a change of career but feel as if i should stay put until gio is out of school and the youngest child goes to school.

i say if you have a choice and opportunity to take the time to choose your profession, if you can get the education, then make the choice that would best suit you in the long run.

 

[Francisco d'Anconia]

It isn't that hard to make money, why work at something you don't enjoy doing for the security? Is that all your life is worth?

 

[backbreaker]

Are you going for ameriprise financial advisor?



At this point in my life I don't want to work, period! I want to try something on my own. Realistically, I might either fail or it won't be enough. So yea, $300k a year and I can do what I want with my life sound great. As long as I'm not loked in 9 to 5, or at least able to travel or move around.

funn you said that.. i have a VERY brief stint as an ameriprize financial advisor.

 

[penkitten]

It isn't that hard to make money, why work at something you don't enjoy doing for the security? Is that all your life is worth?

i dont have very much education so when i look for a job, i look under the general section in the newpaper. i would rather stay where i am and the hours and co workers are great than find something where i would be mopping floors or flipping burgers and have to work the hours that would make me lose time with the family.
pretty much, i think i will stay put until gio is out of school and then maybe i will go back and get a better education.
most days i dont complain about my work, but lately i have really been burnt out on my job i guess.
i guess i shouldnt complain since i am going to stay put.
at least it pays the bills

 

[backbreaker]

300k is too much money to spend in one year, let alone a couple.

it is?

 

[Francisco d'Anconia]

it is?

I don't think he's from either New York or LA.

 

[backbreaker]

my imput:

the reason I asked is because even though I am at a point where I don't have to work if I don't want to... my mom is STILL trying to get me to go to college for 'security'... yeah... Now, I know when to keep my mouth shut, and I'm not going to argue with my mother, espcailly when I know she means well,a nd for what? I'm well off.. a hell of alot better than she is, she shouldn't be giving me financial advice, it should be the other way around, but that's neither here nor there.

it got me thinking however... how many people are actually HAPPY and moreso, what is happiness worth these days?

I can read alot of posts here, not in this post but on this board in general, and you can tell how bad some people look forward to "meeting women" or "geting out at night".. like they are trying to get away from life. I know people who stay up as late as they cn on sundays becuase they don't want monday to come. Why? So you can have a guaranteed paycheck? Why?

about 4-5 years ago, I hit a low point financially that was so low i was literarly lving out my car. it couldn't get any worse. my mom kicked me out, my grandmom's BF tried to stab me with a knife becuase he though I locked him out the house (and my grandmom kicks me out the house).. i got to a point where I had NOTHING. however, in hindsight, it was the best thing that could have ever happen to me. my parents basically casted me off, simply because I choose NOT to go to collge and be what they thought I SHOULD HAVE been. I wasn't dumb (ovbiously), I just choose a different path, and had resinement and no help anywhere along the way.

What I am getting at is, i was able to, becuase nothing was expected of me, to do (at the time) what i wanted to do.. my PC company. If I would have ahd a LTR or a kid, I probably would have still, but it would have been WAY harder. But I got to the point where it couldn't get any worse.. I had the title to my car.

Then when I sold it, again nothing was expected of me, execpt sit at home and watch TV, maybe invest here or there and live off the interest.. maybe buy some real estate... whatever. But again I choose the path less taken, and laid the groundwork for doing exactly what i want to do.

I honestly, and I'm not saying this to be funny.. but I don't know how some of you do it. I'd probably kill myself if I had to work at a job I HATED for money.. that's like whoring yourself out, unless the job had a long term purpose, like to help me pave the way to do something I DO want to do.

I was driving home yesterday and i saw this woman walking and asked did she need a ride. I have seen her before. not my cup of tea.. not ugly, just not my cup of tea. So she is trying to make small talk and I'm talkig back. She says "let me ask you a question.. Are you gay?", and when i asked why, she said 'becuase you don't act like most guys, I don't know.. Are you?".. of course I'm not.. I'm just not interested in you, and I have more interesting things to do in life. My work is my passion. I LOVE getting up in the morning.

I can honestly say that if another woman neve rlooked at me agqain, I could care less. Ovbiously i dont' have that problem, but I won't date, and if I do, whoever it is will know she is not my first love, horse racing is.

Back to the point about being broke. Even then, I could have cleaned myself up, and go work at say, alltel fixing PC's or doing networking... but to me that was taking the easy AFC way out. I'd rather die free than be a fat slave. i'd rather DIE trying to do what I feel in my heart i should be accomlishing, than to be making 300k a year being miserable, or not 100% happy. The moment I realized I didn't want to run my company anymore, I sold it.. and not a moment later. not so much that I didn't want to, but I wanted to do something else MORE.

I guess that is what makes me, or alot of makes me who I am.. I'm as stubborn as they come. If i set out to do so mething.. it will get done. maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow.. but I will kill myself trying. That was part of what got me with my old oneitis.. not so much HER.. but chaisng her.. I don't loose. once I stepped away I realzied this was one worth loosing.

I guess I can speak I have no kids or no wife or anything (thank god), so it was easy for me to make thoose sacrifices.

 

[backbreaker]

I don't think he's from either New York or LA.

I'm from Arkansas and tha'ts not a hell of alot of money, espcially AFTER taxes.

I spent alot of cash last year.. but than again I bought my house. if you are oging paycheck to paycheck on a mortage, i guess 300k IS alot of money.. but even then living in Sarasota, FL, i was paying $6500 a month for Rent house in Venice (which is hop skip and a jump away from Sarasota, plus Venice has Sharkies Baby!, which is one of the best bars in the world if you ask me... you take a step outside and you are on the gulf of mexico, many a nights I spent on the deck, listening to music, drinking a cosmo watching the sunset... ).. and the house was nice, had a pool, 3 BR.. but it wasn't a mansion or anything

 

[Bad_Lil'Pixie]

Often a job or career offers us so much more then a pay check.

Many times the benefits of health care, dental and retirement plans make a job more appealing. Flexible hours, easy going bosses, company car with fuel, travel requirements, and more, really can meet our needs more then the job itself.

My job fits into my life by allowing me to work from home most days, I don't feel forced into it or too controlled by the demands. Sometimes that alone is priceless.

 

[backbreaker]

again, health care or not, think about it like this... the avg person spends 8 hours a day working. 5 days a week.. 52 weeks a year.. 40 years.. that's.


3466 days doing something you don't want to do or would rather be doing someting else.

there isn't enough health care, flexablity or pay in the world for that.

3466 days? I' rather kill myself now.

Again, that's just how I'm wired, and I don't expect everyone to be like me. I have a high tolerance of risk, and I'm willing to risk everything to get something I really want.

 

[Gangster Of Love]

If I told you right now that you could have a job doing what you didn't want to do, and make $300k a year doing it, or have the opprotunity to do what you want to do, nothing more, nothing less.. a fair opprotunity doing what youw ant to do...which would you do?

The 300k was guaranteed for the rest of your life per year.. assuming you don't get caught with drugs at work...okay more than once, or anything like tha.

Which would you choose and why? I'm not looking for a particular answer, just the truth

Follow your passion, not your pension, and everything will be taken care of.:rock:

 

[Francisco d'Anconia]

again, health care or not, think about it like this... the avg person spends 8 hours a day working. 5 days a week.. 52 weeks a year.. 40 years.. that's.


3466 days doing something you don't want to do or would rather be doing someting else.

there isn't enough health care, flexablity or pay in the world for that.

3466 days? I' rather kill myself now.

Again, that's just how I'm wired, and I don't expect everyone to be like me. I have a high tolerance of risk, and I'm willing to risk everything to get something I really want.

Let's take it a step further, do you believe that people would need as much healthcare if they actually worked in a profession they enjoyed? Oh yeah, how many people actually spend only 40 hours a week in the office in the US?

 

[backbreaker]

that's a very good point. i didn't even think of that... lol, i just has a visual..

Doctor: "so mr.. I see you are sick"

You: "yeah.. I'm sick of my damn job"

funny enough.. I clock 40 hours of "work" on a SLOW week. usually you can almost double it.. but I don't consider it work becuase I love it

 

[backbreaker]

you must be a child

a guy coming from mexico or whatnot and getting a job... THAT MORE THAN LIKELY WAS HIS PASSION.

at different stages of life, you have different passions. although I always LIKED horse racing, it wasn't a PASSION utnil a couple of years ago when I got reaquainted with the track. COMPUTERS was my passion, and I followed it with everything i had. Before that in high school my passion was...damn what was my passion.. I don't think I ahd one.. if It were one it was macking stupid *****s who thought i was good looking but to neive to see how insecure I really was.

an immogrant who has been dreaming of coming to america his entire life.. that's his passion. now, once he GETS HERE gets a couple of years under his belt, he develops NEW passions


BTW, I know a couple of drug dealers.. there isn't enough money in the world. you have no idea what alot of them put up with. I know a guy who grew up in a area by me (upper middle class) got around the wrong crowd...started selling, some guy pulled a gun on him so he pulled one back and shot..25 to life. he was 17 when he got locked up.

I know another guy who I am pretty good friends with who happens to be in the street pharmacy business. The hours are as follows: 24 x 7, 365 days a week. you have to be willing to drive across town to sell 20 dollars worth of drugs, just so you don't loose your cliente.. people ripping you off, peole sticking you, police, I can go on and on. The guy I know told me he knows the business in and out, and would trade all the money he has to get out and make the same money he does (about 1k a day, give or take).. you have allt he money in the world, but WTF can you buy without a red flag getting pulled up? lol, he's already a full time janitor driving a 2007 nissan maxima, a 2007 nissan altima and a 93 cusotmized old school grand capre... and he can't even put the cars in his name, they are in his GF's.. she can leave him right now and take his crap and there isn't a damn thing he can do about it.

again, not worth the money, drugs that is.. and cool guy. if he told you he did what he did you wouldn't believe him.. doesn't come off like that type of person... clean cut, somewhat professional.. but it's what he knows how to do.


again, I don't have kids.. even if I did I'm not waiitng to see if they pan out to ride off their coattails, i have too much pride for that.. but then again, that's why I don't have kids ( yet), I ddon't know what I would do if I were in that situtation


no.. you are pretty much a quitter. you can make excuses all you want, but the truth is, yo uaren't following your passions.

for cryin gout loud I was living in wal mart's paqrking lot in my car. it doesn't get worse than that. if there is a will, there is a way. The guy that founded Citibank.. immigrant with 10 cents to his name. but he had a dream. now he's...well, loaded to say the least.

The bottom line is.. you don't have to answer to me, you dont' have to answer to anyone on this forum. I don't give a damn what you do. But you have to answer to you, just like I have to wake up in the morning and answer to myself. And I can't sell myself short. you only get one life. peopled on't seem to realize that. I'd hoenstly rather Die trying to to wait for **** to happen to me