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I'm a teacher. Would not recommend. I only have a few years left though. Profession stopped being good about 15 years ago.

Gen X parents are horrendous and produced a generation of zero attention span morons (Zoomers).

>>56319598
>only have a few years left
Are you retiring?

I’m a banker. Pays well, and an easy job. For that reason it’s competitive to get foot in the door so prob won’t be able to as an old person. It’s stressful because everything’s out of your control and you just watch shit fall apart but if you can tune it out it’s great

>>56319410
I'm an engineer, and so is my wife.
One of our key goals in life is that we can stop our kids from also becoming engineers, because it's absolute torture.
$130k AUD btw, she's on about $125k.

I’m a cement truck driver in the oilfields I make $2.8K a week. Is this enough to invest in shitcoins & make it?

>>56319410

I went from $22/hr stocking soda to $72k salary being an analyst

>>56319598
Whoa, this is the year I graduated. Did it really get that bad with social media and smartphones? Or is there some other cause do you think?

>>56319632
Not that I have the setup for it, but how does one become a banker? Get a finance degree, know a friend, and go from there? It sounds like a cool customer would thrive because all the economic factors out of their control wouldn't make them go insane, while a more nervous type would be contemplating suicide every other month.

>>56319710
Is the oil industry still that profitable? Or is it a boom and bust thing? Do you have lots of experience driving, or is it more you were willing to move to North Dakota or wherever the heck?

>>56319759
Good job. Please send a job application so I can join you. Especially if it's WFH.

>>56319767
Yea I got a credit training gig right out of school. It didn’t pay great right away but after 5 years I was considered experienced and can hop around wherever now and make good money. And yea exactly I let the competition and the stress get to me at first but now I do my best to just not give a fuck. If I fuck up in terms of bad loans I just go to another bank, and not worried about playing internal politics anymore

>>56319767
I work in Texas 15 on 6 off & only have 9 months experience

>>56319798
Sounds pretty badass. You probably need certs and CDL stuff? And your company must supply the truck, right? Meanwhile the shitcoin industry is circling the toilet, so you might have to put off retirement gambling for another few years.

>>56319787
That's interesting - I guess moving from one bank to another would be a cinch since it's not like you're going to get blacklisted or something.

>>56319410
nothing
a lot
yes
no

>>56319759
Start investing in AI and Machine Learning and you will double that. If this is your first job you might want to stay there two years. If you're still at the same level get the hell out.

>>56319410
Senior business analyst for an corporate focused bank. 127K AUD including super. I take home like 80K after super and tax.
Best job I've had, had the chance to 'move up' but would have meant spending most of my time tard wrangling and accounting. I prefer working on business requirements, vendor negotiations, getting planned developer solutions aligned to business and regulatory needs, etc.
I work from home most of the week and get a good amount of annual leave.

>>56319410
>what do you do for a living? How much do you make? Are you satisfied with it?
Stuff. Not enough. No
>changing careers
Considering it

Is being a NEET overrated?

>>56319835
everybody talks but there’s a lot of banks and everybody’s pretty slimy so somebody talking shit isn’t the end of the world

I make $70/hr as a contractor, I make shitty training material on a piece of software a company develops.
It's cruisy cause I work from home, and really only do a few hrs of actual work per week, but am a bit paranoid about being found out and fired so wouldn't mind a more secure job. I have no formal training or qualifications so not sure what I would do instead.

Customer service but really ends up being tech support. Earn almost 2.5X times the minimum wage in my country and I can live off it well. I like my job, as far as jobs go it's pretty chill. Used to work sales over the phone earning similarly but was more stressful. Overall I just came to the conclusion that trying to escape by going into another job is just running in circles. Yeah I might earn some more money or get some other creature comfort benefit, but the lifestyle and dependency on an employer is the same. The only escape is to make money from a business, in other words to develop the skill of making money on your own.

>>56319680
Also an engineer, and can confirm it is brutal. What branch of engineering are you in?

>>56319612
Yes, started when I was 22, this is year 23/25. I can retire for full pension after 25 years because I bought 5 years. I'm done. I have not enjoyed my job the past decade.

>>56319767
Phones are a big problem. Gen X giving kids an iPad and neglecting all parenting responsibilities is a bigger problem. Admin is the biggest problem. There is zero discipline or expectations of students in school anymore.

Zoomers are allowed to use notes on tests. They're allowed to retake tests. They're allowed to turn in assignments late. They don't have to write down the homework in their planner - it's posted for them online. They don't have to keep a binder with their assignments, everything is posted online. They don't need to bring any supplies, it's expected that the only thing they need is a Chromebook (which they don't bring charged). As a result, their handwriting sucks.

Zoomers have every resource possible to succeed and still score lower than prior generations. If they don't know a concept, they don't have to read their textbook/notes, they can go on YouTube and watch a video. Their parents don't have to pay to send them to tutoring, there's free virtual tutors available. They have countless AI and math calculators that show them the answer(s) to everything. And even with all those aides, they know absolutely nothing. I have to dumb down the tests every year because they have no attention span capable of learning multiple concepts.

It wasn't like this when I was teaching Millennials. Millennials were given flash cards and simply quizzed each other. Zoomers are given interactive computer games practicing the concepts that Millennials did on flash cards and call it "boring". It's insanity.

Short this next generation in whatever way you can.

>>56319410
Auto mechanic making $45 an hour at independent shop. I flip cars and do a lot of side work. People I work with are great and I can do whatever the fuck I want. The actual work is sometimes greasy, difficult and frustrating but I enjoy it. You have to fully submerge yourself into it to become wealthy from it. It's impossible to go broke with the skill set but hard to become rich from it.

>>56320567
Cry me A river boomer fuck

>>56319598
>>56320567

Based insider-foresight poster.

Critical-thinking skills aren't taught anymore at all, and it really shows.

>>56320591
>boomer
>started teaching at 22
>this is year 23
>posts from phone

You proved everything I just said in a mere six words.

>>56320636
Imagine wasting your life being a teacher kek contributing to the very system that has made children this was can’t wait to take everything you got

>>56320640
I had multiple students from my AP Statistics class go to Harvard, Stanford, Penn, Berkeley, Cal Tech. I also coach and sent plenty of kids to college with athletic scholarships.

People who I taught 20 years ago reach out and tell me how much they enjoyed my class. Whenever I go out in public, someone always spots me and says "Hi" with a big smile on their face. My children have a father who is well known and well respected in the community.

You don't get that working at home or in the office.

>>56320676
Whoah dude nigger cattle thank you in the streets!!!!!! Lmao can’t wait for this shit to collapse I’ll take everything you got look to Israel to see what’s coming

I fell for the millennial meme and became an engineer.
Every day is a nightmare.

>>56319410
>So, what do you do for a living?
Worked in a factory, various jobs from QC to welding to general grunt work.

>How much do you make?
in 2021 I made about $28.xx an hour

>Are you satisfied with it?
It let me retire at 50 after 24 years working there. Was easy enough work and not too much OT depending on the department.

>>56319598
>averaged 19.8
Holy fuck I showed up to my ACT still drunk from the night before and struggled to hold in my diarhea the entire time and still got a 30.
I puked on my girlfriend's shoes in the parking lot when we were walking into the testing chamber.

>>56320722
>still got a 30
I got 29 avg. Think my "english" part was 20 or 22. everything else was 35/36. iirc

took the SAT so my buddy wouldn't have to take it alone, I outscored him.

Youtube $70k/mo

>>56320722
Keep in mind, many students don't take the ACT. That score is based on people who opt in to take it in many states.

Every state that requires the ACT for all their students scores lower than the 19.8 average.

>>56319410
CFO of a national HVAC company. 215k/year. Love it.

>>56320854
How long did you take to reach that?

>>56319855

It's my first analyst job so I'm gonna stay for a few years