What do you do for a living?

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Last job was a project manager for a development company, but to advance in that career I need a bit more education because my degree was much too broad (business studies.. I had no idea what to do with my life when I was 20 haha) so now I'm getting a MPS degree from Georgetown, to go back into development. Also hope to build up a portfolio of properties over the coming years and become a landlord, so hopefully I can get to a point where the passive income is enough, and I don't have to work for someone else forever.
Right now I'm working at Petco while I get the MPS, just so I burn through my savings a little slower.
 
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Gourami Swami said:
Last job was a project manager for a development company, but to advance in that career I need a bit more education because my degree was much too broad (business studies.. I had no idea what to do with my life when I was 20 haha) so now I'm getting a MPS degree from Georgetown, to go back into development. Also hope to build up a portfolio of properties over the coming years and become a landlord, so hopefully I can get to a point where the passive income is enough, and I don't have to work for someone else forever.
Right now I'm working at Petco while I get the MPS, just so I burn through my savings a little slower.
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Your doing things the right way... good for you brother!
 
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Nilsafeller said:
You went 8 years without a job? Where did you live? Lol sorry I'm confused... if you wanna make good money without education... framing... cribbing... roofing is prob where it's at... be ready for work in free,ing cold... burning hot summers... and a really messed up body over the years haha
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This is a long read so please, bare with me lol

Okay, I'm in Australia. In exchange for me traveling to and from a "job agency" 2-3 times a week for appointments the government paid me $470 a fortnight (I think at the time, this was a while ago) until I got my own house, then they paid me a little more to help with the cost of rent.
Then my ex and I moved in together and I had to report his income to the welfare agency and the amount they paid me was determined by how much he had earned that fortnight.
Once he started working full time my payments were reduced to about $30 a fortnight.
Then when we broke up I started receiving $560 from the government plus a little extra to help with rent. Then probably 18 months after that I got a job...

Sorry for the wall of text, but you asked for it. :P
 
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Kittiee Katt said:
This is a long read so please, bare with me lol

Okay, I'm in Australia. In exchange for me traveling to and from a "job agency" 2-3 times a week for appointments the government paid me $470 a fortnight (I think at the time, this was a while ago) until I got my own house, then they paid me a little more to help with the cost of rent.
Then my ex and I moved in together and I had to report his income to the welfare agency and the amount they paid me was determined by how much he had earned that fortnight.
Once he started working full time my payments were reduced to about $30 a fortnight.
Then when we broke up I started receiving $560 from the government plus a little extra to help with rent. Then probably 18 months after that I got a job...

Sorry for the wall of text, but you asked for it. :P
Hehehe fortnight! Aaah I hope jon snow survives the whitewalkers and becomes king of westeros
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Kittiee Katt said:
Is that because you cost more to pay and they were cheap? Or just because the company you worked for were d*cks?

Sorry, I'm just trying to work out why in a way that makes sense to me..
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I started working in the high tech jobs in 1997...around the same time America started shipping high tech jobs to China and other cheap countries. So, when our economy starts to tank. Companies first start to axe these high tech jobs by sending them to the cheap countries. The economy has to return to 'full status' before these types of jobs return in some form. So, your first thought is correct. I was making about double the base salary(say $14 per hour; in 1997). Where they could pay a China person $5 USD per hour for the same job.
 
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LBDave said:
Carpenter is an admiral trade. I am also a carpenter. That's how I started. Even after going to college and studying biology of all things!
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Admirable. Type too fast...
 
LBDave said:
Admirable. Type too fast...
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Cribbing 12 years... ended at well over 100 k a year .. carpentry 4 years now.. make maybe at best 50 k a year.... but that's all with whine and where we work...safety has become such a big deal... I understand some of it... but most is to ONLY protect the big money makers and massive contractors and not the actual workers and it slows down production on a huge scale... carpentry at one point may have been admirable... it is now one of the lowest paid trades
 
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