What do you do for a living?
05-29-2003, 11:30 AM
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Find something you love (or at least like) to do. Don't worry too much about the money. If a person is unhappy making 60K a year, chances are he would be unhappy making 600K a year. You just want to make enough to pay the bills because not enough money can make you unhappy.
05-29-2003, 12:42 PM
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by msindi:
<strong>Unemployed!!!
Graduated in 2001 - had an intenship for a year in a biotech comapny but now can not get a job (in part because I am not a US citizen and visas are becoming near impossible to get).</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">sounds like you have it rough <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />
<strong>Unemployed!!!
Graduated in 2001 - had an intenship for a year in a biotech comapny but now can not get a job (in part because I am not a US citizen and visas are becoming near impossible to get).</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">sounds like you have it rough <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />
05-29-2003, 12:47 PM
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by 02_TT_Menlo Park:
<strong>I own a clothing company based in LA.
Do what you love. I am 31 and used to work at Oracle in the Sales Consulting practice (out of their offices in the Dunwoddy, GA area), I made decent cash but was miserable pitching DB software apps. to tightwad IT and purchasing departments.
-Chris</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Check your PM box, I sent you something on your GNX
<strong>I own a clothing company based in LA.
Do what you love. I am 31 and used to work at Oracle in the Sales Consulting practice (out of their offices in the Dunwoddy, GA area), I made decent cash but was miserable pitching DB software apps. to tightwad IT and purchasing departments.
-Chris</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Check your PM box, I sent you something on your GNX
05-30-2003, 07:13 PM
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Strategy Consulting to DotCom (ebiz strategy...fun while it lasted) to Banking and now I have my own Golf Business (retail, range, etc).
It's quite a change from the corporate world, but, much more rewarding since it's my own business and I report to no one but me, myself and I.
Sometimes, it takes many years/careers, etc. to find out what you truly want to do in life. So, try not to stress too much...you're young and have a lot of time.
Im over a decade older than you and im always looking for new and exciting opportunities! So, do we have any real estate developers or restaurant owners in here?
It's quite a change from the corporate world, but, much more rewarding since it's my own business and I report to no one but me, myself and I.
Sometimes, it takes many years/careers, etc. to find out what you truly want to do in life. So, try not to stress too much...you're young and have a lot of time.
Im over a decade older than you and im always looking for new and exciting opportunities! So, do we have any real estate developers or restaurant owners in here?
05-30-2003, 08:37 PM
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by 02_TT_Menlo Park:
<strong>I own a clothing company based in LA.
-Chris</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Whats the name of the company, if you dont mind me asking.
<strong>I own a clothing company based in LA.
-Chris</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Whats the name of the company, if you dont mind me asking.
05-30-2003, 10:22 PM
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Own a company that's healthcare related. Started 1990 from nothing and now in multi-states(offices),zero debt and very strong growth & returns. Know the value of the dollar to succeed! Plan & budget both in business and personally.
You Always want to show a profit in both!!
<img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/beerchug.gif" />
You Always want to show a profit in both!!
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05-30-2003, 10:38 PM
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Started and still own company that makes software to automate and secure big inbound mailrooms .(After 9 Corporate Jobs/Moves). Sounds dull I know, but competition is light, and takes me into some cool buildings/companies/Govt facilites. Love it some days, wish I never did it other days. (Having lots of employees is a PITA)
But the "company car" get's to be a TT!
Advise: Always set Porsche related achievement goals.
Example 1: Own Porsche 911 variant 5 years out of School. Did it on the last day (even though I had a new kid etc...) Granted it was a "needs work" '76 Turbo, but goal met.
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Be able to walk into a dealer and buy any Porsche I want, on the spot, by 40. Met just 3 months shy of 40'th. (Disclosure: I can't really afford it, and I didn't really buy it (lease)). But I must be somewhat successful as my credit score alone got me out the door, and no one outside Rennlist will ever know the real truth)
Next: At 50 be able to still drive any Porsche I want, but also have a Track beater that I can afford to (both time and money) trailer around to 6 or 7 DE's a year. (Note I will have 2 kids in college then).
Lots of luck. Can't "plan" a career, so just keep making the next right decision and it might add up OK.
But the "company car" get's to be a TT!
Advise: Always set Porsche related achievement goals.
Example 1: Own Porsche 911 variant 5 years out of School. Did it on the last day (even though I had a new kid etc...) Granted it was a "needs work" '76 Turbo, but goal met.
Example:
Be able to walk into a dealer and buy any Porsche I want, on the spot, by 40. Met just 3 months shy of 40'th. (Disclosure: I can't really afford it, and I didn't really buy it (lease)). But I must be somewhat successful as my credit score alone got me out the door, and no one outside Rennlist will ever know the real truth)
Next: At 50 be able to still drive any Porsche I want, but also have a Track beater that I can afford to (both time and money) trailer around to 6 or 7 DE's a year. (Note I will have 2 kids in college then).
Lots of luck. Can't "plan" a career, so just keep making the next right decision and it might add up OK.
05-30-2003, 11:35 PM
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Started a software/dot com business, sold to a public company (in 02 post bubble bust :>
. Now I am employed by them.
Previously owned a computer memory manufacturing company, sold to partner.
Searching for the new new thing....
. Now I am employed by them.Previously owned a computer memory manufacturing company, sold to partner.
Searching for the new new thing....
05-30-2003, 11:47 PM
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by Mike in MD:
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Lots of luck. Can't "plan" a career, so just keep making the next right decision and it might add up OK.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Cool, thats pretty encouraging. It seems like its the general concensus that most people own their own businesses here, or work for themselves.
Its a goal for my father too to be successful in his own business. He flies for the airlines, but he's actually incorporated now too i guess in his own little business. And what he wants to do, is buy a MIG-21 and sell rides on it. The MIG-21 is a supersonic aircraft, so the bonus will be that customers will be able to break the sound barrier. And after the flight, the customer will get a plaque and photo in the cockpit etc. Right now, its happening slowly. But after the jet is up and running, i think he'll be able to make big bucks.
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Lots of luck. Can't "plan" a career, so just keep making the next right decision and it might add up OK.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Cool, thats pretty encouraging. It seems like its the general concensus that most people own their own businesses here, or work for themselves.
Its a goal for my father too to be successful in his own business. He flies for the airlines, but he's actually incorporated now too i guess in his own little business. And what he wants to do, is buy a MIG-21 and sell rides on it. The MIG-21 is a supersonic aircraft, so the bonus will be that customers will be able to break the sound barrier. And after the flight, the customer will get a plaque and photo in the cockpit etc. Right now, its happening slowly. But after the jet is up and running, i think he'll be able to make big bucks.
05-31-2003, 04:18 AM
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Hehe. There are no truths, only perceptions. An appellate judge I once worked with formerly stated that we went to a school of law and not a school of justice.
05-31-2003, 06:17 AM
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I write and draw comic books, animation, and live action. I've been doing that since I was a teenager.
Besides, I get to draw a lot of cool cars for my books, featuring a 944 in the next issue. I plan on featuring at least one different Porsche an issue, for the main Heroine.
I have had a much better time being self employed since I hit 30, when I quit caring what others thought. That's when things got better for me.
I have been a multi-millionaire twice, between owning a computer company with R&D, and a NASDAQ corp., and losing everything. But that was because I think I really was miserable with the companies, owned them with my exbf. The third time will be a charm, from my own projects.
My goal is to own a house with a 6 car garage, and obtain different Porsches, all in black on black. I'm totally sold on the Gemballa, I am DOOMED, I tell you! Doomed to succeed!
Which reminds me - after seeing Noel Blanc's car collection, I decided to collect what I love - and never see his chauvinistic face again. When I left his place, he smirked, and asked me what he had under the tarp in his front driveway; I told him a '57 Edsel, without him raising the tarp, and proceeded to walk away...his jaw hit the driveway, and I swear I could hear his father say, "That's, that's, that's all, folks!"
- Julie
Besides, I get to draw a lot of cool cars for my books, featuring a 944 in the next issue. I plan on featuring at least one different Porsche an issue, for the main Heroine.
I have had a much better time being self employed since I hit 30, when I quit caring what others thought. That's when things got better for me.
I have been a multi-millionaire twice, between owning a computer company with R&D, and a NASDAQ corp., and losing everything. But that was because I think I really was miserable with the companies, owned them with my exbf. The third time will be a charm, from my own projects.
My goal is to own a house with a 6 car garage, and obtain different Porsches, all in black on black. I'm totally sold on the Gemballa, I am DOOMED, I tell you! Doomed to succeed!
Which reminds me - after seeing Noel Blanc's car collection, I decided to collect what I love - and never see his chauvinistic face again. When I left his place, he smirked, and asked me what he had under the tarp in his front driveway; I told him a '57 Edsel, without him raising the tarp, and proceeded to walk away...his jaw hit the driveway, and I swear I could hear his father say, "That's, that's, that's all, folks!"
- Julie