Sounds like you got fired. Too bad.
Sounds like you got fired. Too bad.
look, dude wrote:
For the 5 people not running AdBlock, your site looks like a giant billboard on their entire monitor.
Even worse are the butthead posters who haven't learned to clean up all but the relevant points they're responding to. Instead they hit reply and quote and take up space with useless reposts.
retired handle wrote:
4) Not sure exactly what career advice to give you. Many people are like you, if not most people. They're middle aged (okay, you're not quite middle aged yet but getting there) and receive little or no satisfaction from their job and feel like they're wasting their life. You have essentially two choices/ways of looking at this: a) your job is your life, so you need to find something you genuinely enjoy and find meaning in. This is very difficult but possible. I cannot help you much on finding out what that is for you. b) change the way you view work. Instead of it having to be something you are passionate about, view it as a means to an end. Your day job is a source of money. You can do other things you love during time outside of work. How many accountants love their job? Probably none, but they do it because it's a decent job that allows them to go to concerts, buy cars, have a hobby, etc. I'm not necessarily recommending this; just that it's a different way to look at things. Here's a link that explains it better:
http://markmanson.net/passion
Excellent response random guy on the internet, particularly #4.
I'm in my mid-30's and can attest to going through both of these mindsets, but as different phases.
Work was life until a couple of years ago. Now running is a major priority again with lots of mileage, strength training, stretching, sleep, and destressing, that all comes with serious running goals. Push comes to shove, I am in phase where I'm completely happy to be a cog in the wheel.
I don't do a bad job at work, I do the best I can but all during 9-5. I never say yes to overtime, and I never even check my email unless I'm in the office. That is key. I've quit jobs at more frantic tech companies and have found a bigger tech company where the pace is slower - stress is a big factor in how you recover in running!
Anyway, point is, don't write off the boring but stable work if your goal is support a life after hours. Alternatively, being constantly engaged at work is fulfilling to an extent, but your after hours life suffers (whether that's in the form of a wife, running, building a robot, other hobbies).
Now, obviously finding work that ties into your hobbies is key. That is the dream and the long term goal for me. I've released a couple of running related apps but apps don't make any money anymore so this is still a hobby. I'm not connected enough to get funded, so being a cog to fund this hobby and concentrate on knocking out the last of my serious running goals before I get too old, is how I'm happy to live right now. Hope that helps.
lllllll wrote:
65k will last you a good 6-10 years.
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Terrible observation. Without a job? 65k may be gone within a year. Easily too. I spend about that every year and have no kids. Maybe I'm just livin
I have a theory on this and I need more information. I have a question for the OP. Are your parents financially secure and comfortable?
The conditions under which you were raised may greatly influence ones thoughts on this.
Young people these days are idiots.
What should you do? Get a job!!!!!!!
I don't think I've seen this in the posts so far, but take the time now to invest in a career counseling service. Your college career services office or alumni office should get you pointed in the right direction on this. Sooner or later you will want to return to a career job and find some satisfaction in what you are doing with your work days as well as paying the bills. This will help make an "informed decision" on going back to school or getting trained in another career field or deciding that you want to stay in technology. Good luck.
Carl Spackler wrote:
I don't think I've seen this in the posts so far, but take the time now to invest in a career counseling service. Your college career services office or alumni office should get you pointed in the right direction on this. Sooner or later you will want to return to a career job and find some satisfaction in what you are doing with your work days as well as paying the bills. This will help make an "informed decision" on going back to school or getting trained in another career field or deciding that you want to stay in technology. Good luck.
I think the OP quit his thread. Do you see a pattern here?
Parbuster wrote:
Young people these days are idiots.
What should you do? Get a job!!!!!!!
Not all young people but boy there are many idiots. What adult just quits a job with nothing, no plan, no means of support, no idea.
Bump for new ideas
hey what don't you just do whatever the f ck you want. It's really easy.
Looking at this a couple months later.
Interesting array of positive and negative advice!
6) Don't spend your days sleeping in late and staying up all night on the internet. It's an easy habit to get into and is a waste of time/life.
Hey now...I have to draw the line on this one...
issac brunhau wrote:
Looking at this a couple months later.
Interesting array of positive and negative advice!
Yeah letsrun dwellers always have the best advice
You have made wise observations about much, but certainly not all, of the (business) world: style is emphasized over substance. Now look at yourself and ask: what gives my life substance?
For a moment, ignore some of the useless, negative replies in this thread and try to answer that question.
Get another friggin job
Issac, what did you end up doing/what have you been doing since you started the thread? I'm curios as I'm currently in a similar situation and trying to figure out my next move.
I did something similar when I was 28 (but I had like 650K saved... made a lot of money in finance... scrub).
I would suggest biking across country, solo, unsupported. It was the best couple of months of my life.
I'm back in corporate land (working to live) and am worth a lot more. Looking to retire at 40.
Yeah, Issac what did you do?
Do you own a house? If I were you I would go back to work just to buy a house , then work on your alternative lifestyle after that. You can rent it out or get roommates, so it doesn't have to tie you down completely. You always need shelter. As a single man you can work it to your advantage in lifestyle.
I owned two houses before I last worked for the man and it has made all the difference in the world. 20 years later there is 600k in equity and growing and for the last 6 years the rent from one pays the mortgage and taxes for both.
I have lots of friends who did similar things.
My brother bought a light industrial zoned building and put a bootleg apartment in it and opened a custom tile and granite shop. He did very well , calling a lot of his own shots to a large degree and now has a beautiful house in the mountains beside the industrial property.
Another friend got a long term inexpensive lease and built an awesome restaurant. He put a studio in the back so his housing is covered under the restaurant lease which is about what an apartment in the area goes for. Cheaper I think. He could have done tenant improvements and run any type of business he wanted to from it.
If you quit your job and live moderately lavishly (vacations and such fun) the 65k will probably be all gone in a year or less easily. Then you'll regret not having a job. And you'll have to start over at age 34 with no assets to boot. Not an ideal situation. But at least you have money right now.