be me, approaching 30s, asking for advice

[Anonymous No.22213863]

Hey,

Short intro - I'm finishing my Master's in STEM field but I don't see myself doing that nor am I sure about getting a job there.


I'm working a part time job and I'm wondering what are good alternatives for me to make money online? I did some freelancing on upwork (content writing), heavy fees and little pay.

I see myself having my own business in the future, specializing in marketing (did some dropshipping in the past but didn't have enough steady income to comfortably continue. I got more money saved up now (2k) but what I want is certain steady income so I can invest it into ads and other things. Not sure if part time hotel job does the trick when i will scale ).


Thanks for all advice and sorry for random post


tl;dr
- getting master's, realized uni overrated
- approaching 30s, still no career
- asking for financial advice

[Anonymous No.22214041]

bump

[Anonymous No.22214449]

>>22213863
>nearly 30 years old
>nearly done with MS in STEM
>$2k in savings
>decides he doesnt want to work in STEM

you're a complete moron if you throw away the last 6+ years of your life. the sunk cost fallacy isn't always a fallacy when you make decisions which are stupid in a life altering way. degrees have expiration dates. you're already fighting an uphill battle being 30 years old, poor, and partially employed. whatever you're thinking of right now, stop it. scramble to apply to jobs or get an internship before you graduate before your irreparably damage your life.

[Anonymous No.22214484]

>>22214449
2ndPBP

[Anonymous No.22214690]

>>22214449
>scramble to apply to jobs or get an internship before you graduate before your irreparably damage your life.
not true really, my cousin was in a similiar situation after being a homeless junkie for several years and he's doing just fine in his mid thirties. It's not really as irreversible as boomers make it out to be.

[Anonymous No.22214728]

>>22213863
What is it that youre studying specifically?

[Anonymous No.22214975]

>>22214690
he's poor and underemployed with a masters in STEM. why should he make life any more difficult than it has to be? if he wants to start a business on the side, that's fine. he can do it when he has a pot to piss in.

[Anonymous No.22215012]

>>22214728
The vast majority of STEM are basically useless so OP not being specific with his degree choice probably means he didn't choose the 2 or 3 STEM degrees worth anything.

>t. picked a useless STEM degree (maths), now working as a "data analyst" for a few bucks above the minimum wage

[Anonymous No.22215043]

>>22213863
I need to know, how to make woman pay to sex?

[Anonymous No.22215081]

>>22214449
>Hurr durr, do a job you don't like for the rest of your life for money
You're a fucking kike.

[Anonymous No.22215092]

>>>/adv/

[Anonymous No.22215100]

>>22215012
based and math is worthless pilled. i had to go back to school, got myself a masters degree in accounting. at least i finally make a tolerable wage for a white man.

[Anonymous No.22215161]

How is a BA in accounting /biz/? I've read starting salaries are around 40-60 which isnt alot but it beats McDonalds or Waffle House
Any accountants itt?

[Anonymous No.22215318]

>>22214728
biology. For master's I tried going with biotechnology but didnt have enough credit points... didnt take bachelor's too seriously... so went with a meme instead (environmental science).

I could get a job if I decided to learn programming and go with bioinformatics OR data science. Not sure if it's worth the time investment and energy tho, considering I see myself doing other things (entrepreneurship)

>>22215012
true

I was just very careless with my choices, this is why I'm reading a lot about advertising/marketing lately and such... I wanna take a different route in life.

I really wanna make more side income money on the internet, free lancing hasn't been that good to me. I know this sounds like a sob story, any constructive feedback means a lot to me tho.

[Anonymous No.22215531]

>>22215161
do at least 1 year in public accounting, ideally big 4 if you live in or near a large city. it fucking sucks but it pays off in the end because you'll completely bypass the shittiness of entry level accounting jobs.

[Anonymous No.22215800]

>>22215531
Thanks anon
Am I fucked if I don't intern? I'm doing an accelerated online course (accredited of course) and have experience in management

[Anonymous No.22215819]

>>22215318
>I was just very careless with my choices, this is why I'm reading a lot about advertising/marketing lately and such... I wanna take a different route in life.
Yeah I work in market research. So a lot of what we do is providing analysis for the advertising/marketing industry.

Dunno if it's a good field but it could be worse. Which part of world are you from?

[Anonymous No.22215833]

>>22213863
Get into carpet fitting. I know lads who take home £3000 a week.

[Anonymous No.22215946]

>>22215800
maybe not fucked but you'll face an exponentially difficult more time finding a job. public accounting, especially at large firms, will be pretty much impossible as they generally only hire former interns or on campus recruiting applicants. for industry (non-public accounting jobs) you'll have to wade through an ocean of "entry level (2-5 years of relevant experience required)" job listings.

[Anonymous No.22215990]

>>22213863
Do you have a sharpie and a camera?

[Anonymous No.22216111]

>>22215318
>biology
>environmental science
KEK no wonder you refer to it as 'STEM'.
Useless faggot. Enjoy flipping burgers

[Anonymous No.22216196]

>>22215946
That makes sense. I'll just have to look for an internship while I do my online course. I appreciate your advice and your time

[Anonymous No.22216240]

>>22213863
>>22215833
unironically semi-skilled labor if STEM really doesn't work out for you OP

[Anonymous No.22216351]

>>22215318
>I could get a job if I decided to learn programming and go with bioinformatics OR data science.
This is a lot harder than people think it is in 2020. To get a good coding job some retard interviewer can pick out any algorithm problem from the CLRS textbook and ask you to provide an efficient solution to it.

My job title has "programmer" in it but I probably can't get a job that pays a decent salary.

https://www.jarednelsen.dev/posts/The-horrifically-dystopian-world-of-software-engineering-interviews
>There are multiple anecdotes about current and former top tier engineers at particular companies who claim that the interview process has gotten so hard that they would never pass the bar if they were to go through the process now. I watched one talk that had a great story. At one particular ‘top’ tech company the process is that when a candidate goes through an interview he or she has a packet compiled about their interview performance. The packet then goes to a committee whose job it is to impartially review the packet to make a hiring decision. At one point a particular committee got so critical that they rejected every packet for several months. When HR caught wind of this they decided to set up a test. They sent the committee a new round of packets and once again the committee rejected them all. HR then called them all into a meeting and explained that they packets they had just reviewed were in fact the hiring committee member’s own packets from when they interviewed for that company. They had unknowingly rejected themselves! How could anyone pass that bar?

[Anonymous No.22216355]

>>22215819
middle europe. I did some minimal affiliate marketing in the past and I'm not that alienated from social media advertising because I've done it for my own dropshipping store in the past.

>>22215990
yes kek

>>22216111
as long as they're cheeseburgers, my favorite

[Anonymous No.22216427]

>>22216240
I'll probably have to do that, leave my ego behind and work in a store or something. same thing I did for part time job in hotel but it just doesnt cut it in terms of time and investment.

>>22216351
yeah thats the problem I highly doubt I can just "learn it" and be competitive with other freelancers.

[Anonymous No.22216452]

>how to make money online

flip uniswap scams, of course.

[Anonymous No.22216471]

>>22216240
double-post : at this point I just want constant flow of capital so I can re-invest it in my future business ventures. I see no other option than semi-labour work... Unless some of you know a good way to earn money online.