I need career advice

I suggest the one that would make you happy not the one that would make you the most money.

However, there is lots of money in software engineering architecture, but it is also a lot of work.

I think you should determine what your skills and interests are and than make your career choice. EX: if a ditch digger was making 500K a year would you want to do ditch digging for the next 45 years.
Find something your good at and make that your career.

Mean_Spice wrote: »

I think you should determine what your skills and interests are and than make your career choice. EX: if a ditch digger was making 500K a year would you want to do ditch digging for the next 45 years.
Find something your good at and make that your career.

If ditch diggers made 500k a year *kitten* yes I'd dig *kitten* ditches all goddamned day.

Healthcare m8. Aging population...go rural. But don’t do it for the money or you just earn misery.

j_c_29 wrote: »

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

Politics. <-- joke response
Business, started, your own. <-- serious response.

3 examples.
1. My mother had a cousin who never learned to read, yet started and operated 2 businesses to support his family.
2. I have one sister who started 1 business at the age of 23 with zero experience, zero product, zero customers, and zero education. She had dropped out of high school. She had her first $1M net year at the age of 28, is now 68 and has been earning multiple millions of USD for the past 40 years.
3. I have another sister who started 1 business at the age of 55 with only juco education, 1 year of experience, and no customers in the field of landscape design. She built it into a thriving business and saved enough to build up her retirement security.

It's too damned easy to make a lot of money owning your own business to NOT do it. All you have to do is get up in the morning and bust your *kitten*.

How did your first sister start a business and become so successful so quickly? What does her business do and how did she make it so successful?

Her words, "You do what you have to do."
She started with a saw, a warehouse space, and a telephone.
She made cold calls to 'Machine Shops" in the Dallas Yellow Pages, offering to sell custom cut brass and copper. She didn't actually have any brass or copper to cut.
On Thursday of the first week of her effort, she found a machinist who needed a bunch of bushings. He specified the size and quantity he needed and the price he would pay. She had her first purchase order. She took the purchase order to a bank. Using it as collateral she borrowed enough money to buy a 40' tube of brass. She took delivering of that tube, which was delivered by rail to her warehouse, and girl-handled it onto her saw and cut it into as many bushings as she needed. She then carried those bushings to the machinist in her car and received a check in payment. She went directly to the bank and payed off the loan, then went back to the telephone looking for more customers. At this point she had a tiny bit of inventory. She continued this day after day, finding new customers in TX, OK, and LA, doing all the labor herself. After 5 months of a growing business, her husband decided that he should quit all his commissioned sales activities and do the heavy labor for her while she stayed on the phone finding business.

After 2 decades of trading in physical brass and copper, she decided to offer hydraulic steel tubing. This is expensive chrome plated metric dimensioned stainless steel tubing which she sources from a mill in Romania. Making this move was the biggest decision she ever made. She said that she bought $5 million of tubes to have inventory to respond to expected demand. It took her 2 years to sell all that inventory. Her standard markup was 400%. Yes, that's $20 million. During this phase of her business she told me that on any given day, 3 shipping containers were on the high seas bringing steel tubing to her.

Her customers now are all over North and South America.