/biz/ - Business & Finance

[Anonymous No.51102431]

/biz boomers, did you get into the career you wanted?
>24: moved to the big city, first job in marketing, dated another marketing chick, lived in nice area
>36: Been in retail sales for 6 years, new GF works retail(the big one), live in a lower middle class area

[Anonymous No.51102475]

>dropped out of college
>First job at 19 with my fathers insurance firm. Girlfriend met at weekend scripture.
>37 now, partner of insurance multinational. Same girl now wife. 750k/yr.
People will seethe at this and say nepotism whatever, u don't see the hard work I put in to get this where it is today.

[Anonymous No.51102522]

>>51102431
>23 year old software engineer in bay area $200k salary starting
>33 year old retired dumped every paycheck into bitcoin and ethereum
I don't have to work ever again for the rest of my life, so yeah, life's pretty good I guess.

[Anonymous No.51102531]

>did you get the career you wanted
No, but I had no idea what I wanted. It all worked out in the end though. I think the best advice for the zoomies reading is to make as many opportunities for yourself as you can, staying static only gets you nowhere.

[Anonymous No.51102582]

Yup. I knew at age 16 that I wanted to work in healthcare and make $100k. I'm 33 now and making almost twice that.

[Anonymous No.51102600]

>>51102475
Yeah, typing like that? Fantastic LARP.

[Anonymous No.51102611]

I wanted to work from my laptop and now I program crypto shit

[Anonymous No.51102632]

>>51102522
my God fund me

[Anonymous No.51102668]

I did, and then I quit after a year.

[Anonymous No.51102722]

>>51102431
No, I wanted to be a freelance digital artist but reality slapped me in the face and I'm in an underpaid software dev job and don't have the capability to increase my pay any further. I feel like I'm spinning my wheels everyday and I'm in despair everyday.

[Anonymous No.51102766]

>>51102431
Kinda… I just wanted something stable. I found it. I’ve been working it for 6 years now and want to kill my self every day for not living a fulfilling life. So yes, I got what I wanted then.

I look at ditch diggers with envy now

Captcha: ASS HAS

[Anonymous No.51102833]

>>51102431
Sales? You must have no conscience

[Anonymous No.51102990]

>>51102431
to tell the truth, i never knew what I wanted. I did chem because I wanted people to think I was smart. did well for myself but chemists don't make shit in this country. so I swapped over to finance. finance is great in comparison; better pay, no hazardous environment, learn about finance on the job.. I was one of those kids who thought they were above money. just hitting my stride in finance now so not quite 6 figs but I'm getting close.

Now the question is, do I do analysis or sell side? And desu I'm not quite sure. I came in here thinking I was going to do analysis as that's the logical conclusion to my background. But I work for some excellent sales people, half technical half sales, and I can learn their path. Seems like there's more money sell side, but I need to learn more soft skills.

I question myself; do I go for analysis? It adds a great story to my name, analyst at a mutual fund. But then again, soft skills stick in the brain longer, not so much attrition with age as hard math. I got alot of personal shit going on and it's fucking me up.

I'll be successful either way, it's just, I'm afraid to make the wrong decision. I already did it already pursuing a career in chemistry, I feel like I can't afford to fuck up like that a second time. But I mean, if I go analyst before fully embracing sell side, well, why wouldn't you want a mutual fund financial analyst as your advisor? The guys at my work have such great "stories" to their name. I need to build mine. Head full of fuck. I need to make my choice. I wish I could see the future. But then, if I could, I would be wealthy