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Time to change it up again. * 2
    #27068261 - 12/02/20 01:46 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

I've done a lot of things in my life. I was a cowboy, I was a sound engineer, I was a pro fisherman and most recently I've been a sysadmin. Now I'm bored again. Thinking of maybe doing another degree, maybe as a pharmacist or maybe a computer science degree. Optometry seems like a good idea, but ironically my vision's a bit poor for that.
It's a bad time of world to be starting a new business and I'm getting a bit long in the tooth for taking a new trade.

So what do you guys reckon I should do?


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Northerner]
    #27068274 - 12/02/20 01:52 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Vote for me in the new election:jokerclap:


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Northerner] * 2
    #27068276 - 12/02/20 01:53 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Northerner] * 1
    #27068296 - 12/02/20 02:01 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Do you really have the money to just up and go to school for Pharmacy, for example?

Seems like a boatload of money. Would you be working while also doing that? I've heard Pharmacy school is some of the hardest shit there is... At least some classes. My good friend was about to finish his degree when he got caught selling cocaine. 
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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Northerner]
    #27068297 - 12/02/20 02:01 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Fluffers make good money.


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Texas Honey Badger] * 1
    #27068306 - 12/02/20 02:06 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

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Vote for me in the new election:jokerclap:




I hope you didn't pay for that name change.


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Northerner]
    #27068308 - 12/02/20 02:07 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Anything in medicine is a safe bet for the future and you’ll learn a ton doing it. Nursing, PA, NP, a lot of the allied health professions


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Northerner] * 1
    #27068309 - 12/02/20 02:07 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Possible career paths to choose:

Cartoon/Video Game voice actor
Conspiracy Theory Podcaster
Pet Groomer
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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Crazy_Horse]
    #27068319 - 12/02/20 02:13 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

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Donald J Trump said:
Vote for me in the new election:jokerclap:




I hope you didn't pay for that name change.



I won it in the Poo King Thread in OTD:snowman:


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Dilsnique]
    #27068524 - 12/02/20 03:55 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

I have money enough to study whatever I want, part time, while I work. I like the idea of becoming a pharmacist. I'm super interested in drugs and their applications in general. I don't know how many tatted pharmacists there are though. I don't have face or hand tatts, but pharmacists always wear short sleeves from what I remember.

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Possible career paths to choose:

Cartoon/Video Game voice actor
Conspiracy Theory Podcaster
Pet Groomer
Corduroy Consultant
Professional Snuggler
Repo Man
Snake Milker
Toll Bridge Troll



All excellent suggestions, I will consider your advice.

At the moment the internet is being torn apart by hackers and anyone with any experience and qualifications in network security can write their own pay check. I've got the basic set of IT qualifications, but specialising in security would only take a couple of years. Thing I worry about is becoming bored though. Boredom has always been my enemy.


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Northerner]
    #27068576 - 12/02/20 04:25 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

You could be an internet forum troller for the Russians or Chinese


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: mongo lloyd]
    #27068746 - 12/02/20 06:07 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Would they pay me in Bitcoin though? Would save me having to convert my usual pay into internet spendable tokens. Hmmmm :strokebeard:

I hear there's good money to be made in mink extermination at the moment.


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Northerner] * 4
    #27068770 - 12/02/20 06:22 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

I think if you're bored at your current job enough to consider a new degree path, you should not be looking towards pharmacy and optometry work. :lol:


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Northerner]
    #27068812 - 12/02/20 06:56 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Maybe learn to be a Chemist? Very difficult but hey, the serious challenge is there :yesnod:


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
    #27068901 - 12/02/20 07:50 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

I hear lab work can be shit boring though, so repetitive. There's labs where I work now and those mofos are so miserable. I guess I could try and mix my other science and tech qualifications together and try and get myself involved with a GPS company or something like that.

I'm the same at every career though, love it for 4 years, get progressively more bored over the next 3 and then dump it for something new. I need something that will hold my attention long term.

I even considered becoming a career criminal and then cashing out after a few years. Go live in the Maldives or some other tax haven. At least I could be rich and bored then.


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Northerner] * 1
    #27068903 - 12/02/20 07:51 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Biochemist


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: feevers] * 1
    #27068995 - 12/02/20 09:07 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

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Anything in medicine is a safe bet for the future and you’ll learn a ton doing it. Nursing, PA, NP, a lot of the allied health professions



:nursemaryjane:
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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: mndfreeze]
    #27068997 - 12/02/20 09:10 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

I feel like being a pharmacist would get boring unless you have a total hard on for chemistry. Because at least in the states you normally work in a CVS and just spend all day making sure that doctors don't kill people by prescribing medications wrong. It would also be strange to have a career in a CVS, where you are making ~100k while everyone else is making minimum wage.

Although, working as a pharmacist in the ED of a level 1 trauma center (highest level of care in U.S) would be pretty cool as you get to mix drugs for doctors and be involved in procedures. However, I would bet those jobs are rare compared to positions in a drug store.


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: mndfreeze]
    #27069008 - 12/02/20 09:18 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

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Biochemist



You know what's funny, when I was a kid that was the first thing I ever wanted to be.

Sometimes I wish I had followed that dream.


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Northerner]
    #27069020 - 12/02/20 09:37 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Why? Then you'd just be here posting after 7 years bitching about being bored.

The literal lowest of career problems of likely every person on the entire shroomery.
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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #27069109 - 12/02/20 10:50 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Meh. I dunno man. Maybe you're right and nothing will ever satisfy me. The whole "love what you do and do what you love" might just be for people who are far more easily amused than I am... or, I just haven't found the right thing yet.


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Northerner] * 1
    #27070625 - 12/03/20 07:28 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Variety is the spice of life!:heart:


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #27070886 - 12/03/20 10:38 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Be a chef


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #27070888 - 12/03/20 10:41 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

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Variety is the spice of life!:heart:




u got that right Trex! :yesnod::thumbup:

What about a Chemical Engineer? Both practical at home and a great career as well :awehigh:


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: blackhawk]
    #27071151 - 12/04/20 03:12 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

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Be a chef




Don't be a chef


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: GypsyBastard]
    #27071867 - 12/04/20 01:08 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

I'm crazy, but not crazy enough to be a chef. Lol.


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Northerner] * 1
    #27071896 - 12/04/20 01:21 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

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I'm crazy, but not crazy enough to be a chef. Lol.



good, not to knock people's dreams but I think being a chef is a bit like being an artist or writer: you should only do it if you literally have to, because the chance of success and of any money is so scant that nearly any other choice is more practically sound lol

that said thank goodness we have people doing those crazy jobs, the world would be a lot more boring without them


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Ezuma]
    #27071920 - 12/04/20 01:36 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

I used to be a chef :datass:


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Gypsy Boy]
    #27072175 - 12/04/20 04:22 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

It's not that it's hard to make it as a chef. It is just HELL on your body and mind. I had a blast and it was health issues that made me stop but those health issues are from my career and decades earlier than most would expect them.


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Gypsy Boy]
    #27072177 - 12/04/20 04:24 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

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I used to be a chef :datass:




Holy fuck! Just noticed your name. Chef life is very much a gypsy life. Lol! Just pack up, move across the country, do your thing for a few years then rinse and repeat.


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: GypsyBastard] * 1
    #27072195 - 12/04/20 04:34 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

I lived with a chef years back, we used to party like hell and when I was ready to crash he'd be racking lines and putting on his whites.

Cool guy, mad good surfer, crazy motherfucker.


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Northerner]
    #27072259 - 12/04/20 05:06 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Yeah that sounds about right. Lol


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: GypsyBastard] * 1
    #27072638 - 12/04/20 09:10 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

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It's not that it's hard to make it as a chef. It is just HELL on your body and mind. I had a blast and it was health issues that made me stop but those health issues are from my career and decades earlier than most would expect them.




If it's hell on your body and mind I would call that hard...


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Ezuma]
    #27072645 - 12/04/20 09:16 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

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It's not that it's hard to make it as a chef. It is just HELL on your body and mind. I had a blast and it was health issues that made me stop but those health issues are from my career and decades earlier than most would expect them.




If it's hell on your body and mind I would call that hard...




Haha, fair enough


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: GypsyBastard]
    #27078026 - 12/08/20 12:06 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

I seriously thought I could make a go of being part of the SES here, but I'm not cut out for the trauma exposure. Which is a disappointment. I thought I could be.

In the process of signing up for another degree. Gonna double down on the computer science stuff and push my qualifications. Thinking carefully about which subjects I'm gonna take now.


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Northerner] * 1
    #27078093 - 12/08/20 01:55 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

I've become skeptical "boredom" is something that happens to me. I suspect it is a choice.

After 25 years in plant research and breeding, I'm preparing to work with kids, which has always been my passion. The last few months I've been experimenting with spontaneous community events in parks. I organize various games that maintain physical distancing. Many kids (and parents) do not know how to organize and create fun games. I meet some kids who are 4-7 years old who have never in their life played catch with a ball.


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
    #27078224 - 12/08/20 05:51 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Do I double down or what then? What are you implying?

I dunno wtf to do but I know if I'm not learning I take too many drugs. I have financial responsibilities that arent cheap so I can't become a balloon clown. Gotta make the scratch hey.

If someone has a better idea than IT I am all ears.


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Northerner] * 3
    #27078260 - 12/08/20 06:47 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

I suggest being weary of any job that will have you sitting at a desk for long periods every day. I've been doing it twelve years now and it's hell on your body. I'm glad I got it out of the way whilst I was young, because it really is bad for you and I can see the toll it takes on those that are much older and have been doing it most of their life.

Just like yourself, I'm at the point where change has to happen. I'm nearly 37 and I've promised myself to be out of this career by 40 since I was about 33; and one of my criteria for getting out was that I would do something that didn't involve sitting all day.

It's very unfortunate, but for most people in our culture, working at a desk is the only way to make really good money. However I am now at the point where money is not enough to continue to do something that is not only hell on my body, but which I hate with every fiber of my being too.

I haven't known what I want to do next, other than several vague ideas/desires, none of which really work when I think about them through to conclusion. Thankfully, it became clear to me a few months ago something that would encapsulate all the various aspects of the different jobs I would like into one, and be a compromise that touches all my required bases: I'm going to open an old school bodybuilders style gym, probably somewhere around the Brisbane area.

It was such a huge relief when that realization came to me; I finally know what to do, now I just have to set about making it happen.

I wish you all the best on your journey man.


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
    #27078341 - 12/08/20 08:01 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

This year (and last year real) kicked my proverbial teeth in, in many ways. I'm looking at it as an opportunity though. Fire to injury, I can't go back to me life long career and I'm no one and injured to start a new career at entry level and still make enough to live the life I would want. Kinda like the kids discussion on the other thread, I refuse to sacrifice my life style for the almighty dollar. So I am using this time to start a business that I have wanted for a very long time. Even while still enjoying my career of choice, I knew this would be better. If it falls, well then I'll be unemployed, injured, and looking for a new path, which is no worse off than I am now so I don't anything other than the effort I used to try to make it work.


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
    #27079131 - 12/08/20 05:38 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

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I suggest being weary of any job that will have you sitting at a desk for long periods every day. I've been doing it twelve years now and it's hell on your body. I'm glad I got it out of the way whilst I was young, because it really is bad for you and I can see the toll it takes on those that are much older and have been doing it most of their life.

Just like yourself, I'm at the point where change has to happen. I'm nearly 37 and I've promised myself to be out of this career by 40 since I was about 33; and one of my criteria for getting out was that I would do something that didn't involve sitting all day.

It's very unfortunate, but for most people in our culture, working at a desk is the only way to make really good money. However I am now at the point where money is not enough to continue to do something that is not only hell on my body, but which I hate with every fiber of my being too.

I haven't known what I want to do next, other than several vague ideas/desires, none of which really work when I think about them through to conclusion. Thankfully, it became clear to me a few months ago something that would encapsulate all the various aspects of the different jobs I would like into one, and be a compromise that touches all my required bases: I'm going to open an old school bodybuilders style gym, probably somewhere around the Brisbane area.

It was such a huge relief when that realization came to me; I finally know what to do, now I just have to set about making it happen.

I wish you all the best on your journey man.



I'm hearing you brother, already I've been involved in tech jobs for the best part of a decade.

I'm glad you've figured out what your like to do.

I'm not 100% convinced doubling down on tech is the right thing to do, but sure as hell it's better than doing nothing.


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Northerner]
    #27079742 - 12/08/20 11:58 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

I signed up and paid my enrolment to start in Feb... fuck it. I have to do something or I'm gonna go fkn nuts.


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Northerner]
    #27079883 - 12/09/20 04:03 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Ever thought about starting a business ?

Cant see you getting bored there.

I get bored if im not challenged and learning new things.

Soon as i know what im doing im ready to quit.


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Enkidu]
    #27079884 - 12/09/20 04:05 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

I'm not in a position to take that risk full time, but yeah, totally.

It's the only way to truly get minted.


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Northerner]
    #27080053 - 12/09/20 08:13 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

You can take op out of the honky tonk but you cant take the honky tonk out of op lol I vote be a cowboy again :awehigh:


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Re: Time to change it up again. [Re: Northerner]
    #27080374 - 12/09/20 11:52 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

I found it very fun studying computer science, but unfortunately I never finished the degree.


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    #27080623 - 12/09/20 02:31 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

I am learn to program in scheme lisp. :psycow:


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