Setting your sights on your career

[Lion]

How have you gone about choosing your role? What made you decide what you're doing?


I am inspired by people around me, doing things they want to do and suceeding because they have the desire to see it through, train in areas they are weak in and make it happen.

I have a good job working as a project engineer with a great team of people. Work is thin on the ground and I realise I am lucky to have a job in this economic climate.

I need to decide what I want to be doing for the next 5 years.

 

[3countriesPlan]

Ya, I need to decide what I will be doing too...
I'm a mid level sales manager and it is nice to chat with clients and all but I hate the rest of the job.. currently considering whether to move across the border to Hong Kong.

 

[The Bat]

"Choose a job that you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

 

[j0n024]

funny I just decided my future today.

I went today and got my summer classes schedule today and class starts 26.

I will be going for my masters of physical therapy so I suppose I will be in school for 6 years unless something happens or society goes in the toilet.

I might also be moving back in with my paretnts to lower costs and make it easier but that has yet to be seen but other then that I will be focusing 100% on school.

 

[PRMoon]

My career was decided a long time ago. As soon as I got into my first night club, I was hooked. Now I don't really work persay. I just encourage other people to do what I've done and hang out most of the day.

 

[RazorAzoth]

My career was decided a long time ago. As soon as I got into my first night club, I was hooked. Now I don't really work persay. I just encourage other people to do what I've done and hang out most of the day.

What do you do? Run a nightclub?

 

[Hughman]

I've pretty much know what I've wanted to do since I entered secondary school - medicine. And I'm not planning on being some lazy GP either, I'm going all the way, politics, adviser to tribunals/QCs, Chief of Staff, you name it. My career will always take priority over everything else, unless I can compromise in a way that still benefits me.

 

[Gaucho]

"Choose a job that you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

This is what I did, now I live my dream job and work with some of the best in my business I have ever met. Inspiring.

I am a futures trader and work about 2 hours a day these days.

 

[Teflon_Mcgee]

This is what I did, now I live my dream job and work with some of the best in my business I have ever met. Inspiring.

I am a futures trader and work about 2 hours a day these days.

What was your path to get to where you got?

I've been interested in this since I was a little kid.
Even though I love engineering (and it is a dream job) I really always saw myself as a trader. I just don't know where to start. And I mean formal education.

 

[xxpansion]

Unfortunately it didn't hit me till later in life. It's tough to decide your future right out of high school. In college I started with Physical Therapy and then did a complete switch to Computer Science. I got offered a great job out of college and snatched it up.

Although, I make good money it wasn't till a few years ago that I realized this isn't what I want out of life. The long hours, commute to work and answering to someone else just weren't for me. Although, I am still there I have begun working on a business plan and things have been increasingly getting better. I hope the money I am generating from my side business will allow me to leave my other job within the next year.

Although I have failed many times in my Internet Marketing attempts, those failures have taught me plenty and I am now making good money through my websites, blogs and Twitter and am happy with what I do.

 

[ready123]

I think there are those who always knew what they wanted to do and those who have no clue what they want to do. If you can identify your dream job and your just out of high school, you're in the former and personally I think you're lucky.

I'm in the latter and I fleshed out what I wanted from a career by jumping in the deep end repeatedly so to speak. I'm an electrical engineer now and much of what I enjoy about my current job has as much to do with the lifestyle it allows me to have as it does with the technical work. I don't have overtime, I get to interact with a ton of people, I don't have to deal with stress, I get to travel sparingly, I'm on a 9/80 schedule, etc.

And Lion, why only the next 5 years? Why not figure out what you'd wanna be doing for the rest of your life and go straight there?

 

[Gaucho]

What was your path to get to where you got?

I've been interested in this since I was a little kid.
Even though I love engineering (and it is a dream job) I really always saw myself as a trader. I just don't know where to start. And I mean formal education.

I always enjoyed trading as a kid, with the odd gamble in stocks.

Went to University and studied a degree in Economics and a degree in Management, along with much of my own study into 'value investing' to understand the global macro and fundamentals of the system.

Then studied how to read charts and really got into trading, making hundreds in my own account.

Worked as a Financial Analyst with the Treasury in budgets to understand more detail on fiscal expenditure and breakdown of company reports and financial statements.

Used this knowledge and passion to apply for a leading Futures Trading firm, of which I now trade a relatively large account.

If you know what you want to do, you have to start at the bottom, do everything you can to achieve it and then you can live your dream. Not easy, but definately possible and is the measure of a true man IMVHO.

Final step for me: Open a hedge fund of my own, with my own money as a large sum of the funds to begin with.

 

[PRMoon]

What do you do? Run a nightclub?

Eventually I probobly will. Right now I manage a fantastic team of promoters and host. I've been in the indstry in one way or another since I was 23. I met some great people with lots of money an some ideas about a year ago and now I'm a GM for their company. I handle marketing, team building, and hiring. I don't even work much longer then I did when I worked while at the MGM Grand, but concidering the difference I make, I'd do it anyway for even pay.