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10944061 No.10944061 [Reply] [Original]

At what moment in your life did you realise you'd chosen the wrong career path?

>> No.10944084

>>10944061
This is a retarded mindset to have and is what fucks peoples lives up. Its why people study fucking music therapy at some private liberal arts college. you study whatever pays the most and you invest and then retire somewhere between ages 30-40 in some low of cost living area

>> No.10944095
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10944095

>that pic
Why didn't I get into interracial porn making with Japanese thots? WHY?

>> No.10944107

>>10944061
When I got my My First full time gig as a radi producer and only got paid 29K Canadian, while living in a high cost areas like the greater Toronto area.

Absolutely kiked

>> No.10944190

>>10944061
brAaaaaaaaaap

>> No.10944201

Every morning since I was 3

>> No.10944334
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10944334

>>10944061
None, I'm making $138,000/yr + stock and on pace to be financially independent in 5 years.

>> No.10944340

food service is for losers

>> No.10944626

>>10944061
*ppvvvvvvvvvfffff*

>> No.10944780

I always suspected it but did not throw uni. Now I am 31 and changing my career path.

>> No.10945303

>Start a philosophy PhD at age 22 because I'm interested in the subject. No thought of becoming an academic.
>Two years in, get asked to GTA for my supervisor.
>Smoke lots of weed and try to corrupt students into radical mindsets. Don't care about backlash because not going to be an academic.
>Get great student feedback ('He's really relatable!').
>An assistant Prof. quits in the middle of term due to family woes.
>I get asked to step in and take on his role for the rest of the year.
>Me: 'That's pretty cool! I'm not going to be an academic but it's something for the scrapbook.'
>End of year offered two year extension and full title and position.
>Me: 'Well, I'll take it just while I finish my thesis. Better than living on ramen for another two years.'
>Take on admin jobs within the department. Model employee. Students and colleagues love me but thesis slowed down a lot due to other work load.
>Finish thesis and two year contract. Colleagues working hard to find me jobs elsewhere or sources of funding so I can stay.
>Go to Greece instead and herd goats.
>Girlfriend gets pregnant.
>shitshitshitshitshit
>Take visiting Prof. job at top ranking school so we have some money and health insurance.
>Work now feels like a grind. Students seem less clever despite better school. Teaching courses I have no interest in. Told my research area is too controversial to support career.
>One year post ends. Start bouncing around countries picking up a year here, two there, and working on a book about something I have no interest on but that will secure me a permanent post.
>Finish first draft of book and send to target publisher. They reject it without reading the manuscript. 'Too complex and not commercial enough'.
>Find a good publisher who will take it but referee notes make it clear reviewers didn't understand the book. Ask for some revisions.
>Land a permanent job! Fuck yeah! Wife also lands a temp job but in another country.

>> No.10945322

>Commuting 1000 miles back and forth every 10 days.
>Crappy university. Brainless students. I've now been working on the book I don't like for 7 years. It needs another nine months to make changes I don't like even more for the press.
>After cost of second apartment and travel, I'm earning less than I would in a supermarket.
>One day, getting on the plane to fly out I have an anxiety attack, first in my life.
>Attacks get worse and worse.
>I remember that I didn't even want to be an academic and now all the things I did like about the job are gone.
>Quit academia and go home to live with family.
>Take a year to recover and find a new path.
>Happier than I have been in a decade.

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10945331

Midway through university, but I still completed it and I'm working in the field now. Software engineering. It sucks, but pays ok.

I'm gonna change to graphic design, which will be a step down, but maybe I'll wake up not wanting to kill myself.


I'll probably always be a wage slave since I don't earn enough to invest and I'm shit at trading.