/b/ tell me how you can enjoy a successful career without obtaining

>>732733944
Tradeschool

Start an online business selling shit.

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>>732733944
IT as far as i know isn't college grade. Once you finish supporter, you can work for a few years and continue reading infrastructure or programming.

>>732733944
>Be poor.
>Get FAFSA and fee wavers,
>go to community college and transfer to a 4 year. (here's the tricky part don't pick a shit major.)
>Graduate
>Apply for jobs in your field.

>>732733944
Work in manufacturing. Start out on the line making ~$16/hr. If you prove your worth, in a few years you'll be promoted to TC making ~$20/hr. The opportunities don't end there. You might make it into maintenance ~$25/hr. They'll make you take a few basic classes in electricity and fluid power. Not a bad career if you don't want to go to college.

You can do IT support- you become the guy that sets up computers and troubleshoots at a company.

You can then transition every couple of years to other companies to increase your salary

I don't recommend it tho because you're not going to be making as much as people your age graduating from college

Things that might help down the road: get certifications, and have a recruiter to help you with your job search.

>>732733944
Tradeschool bro. There is welding, automotive, etc. Pick one and stick with it. My younger bro is personally majoring in automotive and currently interning at Chrysler. He attends Community College.

>>732734997
Does not want a college degree.

>>732735455
This.

Companies look for people with hands-on skill and experience. Liberal arts colleges generally can't prepare you for that.

>>732734997
Literally this. My parents couldn't pay for my college and so I did 2 years community college, and then 2 years at a good university with a good major (computer science). I recently graduated and got a 75K/year job

And I still think I could have made it all in 3 years instead of 4.

Also since you want money, you need work experience for a good job straight out of college, hence internships and a good GPA and extracurricular activities

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>we purposely trained him wrong, as a joke

>>732734539
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>>732733944
I just go around the country selling Trump and gun rights merchandise and occasionally work on high paying petitions when they pop up. Averaging $2000/week right now. Made $180,000 last year.

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>>732736569
>Trump and gun rights merchandise
Brilliant. It's like selling bibles or Jesus. I could never bring myself to stoop to this level, but I get it.

>>732733944
I taught myself how to code.

>>732737379
Not him, I don't even like Trump, but I see nothing wrong with taking rubes for their money. I'd do it.

>>732736569
Sound absolutely brilliant

>>732737643
So do it already.

The way I see it: I can take advantage of stupid people and make lots of money, or I can attempt to make those people less stupid by educating them. Maybe I'm the idiot for thinking I can fix stupid, but I'm going to try damn it.

>>732733944
Get a normal shitty job and put yourself through community college in a couple of years. Life's too short to waste it as a t-shirt carnie or call center drone.

>>732738505
>t-shirt carnie
>>732736569

>>732734539
Definitely this, find the ones that are in high demand that pay real good, like welding, machining, bit of both. Things like that.

>>732733944
>enjoy a successful career

There's your first problem. You're living to work instead of working to live.

>>732738505
>Life's too short to waste it as a t-shirt carnie or call center drone.

Honestly that's what a lot of college grads seem to be doing too, anymore.

>>732738839
Out of my friends with college degrees, about half of them have jobs they could have had without a college degree. It really depends on the field. Basically Liberal Arts = why not just get the fucking job instead of going to college.

>>732738790
You need a successful career in order for your work to let you live. You aren't really living if you work at McDonald's your whole life struggling.

>>732734539
This. Or have parents that will pay for it.

Or make money doing shit that doesn't require a degree.

>>732739207
I think you may have missed the intention of the phrase "working to live".

>>732739233
>tell me how you can enjoy a successful career without obtaining a college degree?
>make money doing shit that doesn't require a degree
Thank you for this thoughtful response.

>>732738264
You mispelled "indoctrinate" you filthy marxist fuck.

Join a labor union you faggot. I know some guys that make a shit ton without degrees

Military , don't be a bitch

>>732739515
This

>>732733944

Sales.

All you need is to talk to people and sell shit, no limit on income.

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>>732739515
>Military
>don't be a bitch

>>732733944

Plumber. Sure you'll deal with people's shit. But even a terrible plumber makes high 5 figures after a few short years.

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What good is a goyim that doesn't spend it's life savings to make less?

Picture related, this is where the best of goyim go. We want to see more there!

>>732739965
Anon asked I answered , you don't need a degree to get into the military. You just need to not be useless.

>>732734997
>don't pick a shit major

Good luck with that one.

>>732740202
Perhaps the irony is lost on you.

>>732736162
And this is why I think college as it currently exists is a scam.

>>732733944
Easy. Learn how to program. Do some research and find a good in-person school with an immersive program. Study and work your ass off so you get a decent portfolio of stuff to show off. Enter the market at a good 50k.

>>732739417
Low effort b8

Apply, apply and apply. I'm a linemen for AT&T with no experience towards it. I make $37.91 an hour and my wife makes only $18 an hour. I have no degree and no experience job trade. I got it through a veteran newsletter. I was only a mechanic in the army for three years. I'm 23 now. But I live in California so my pay is barely off average of living. Without my wife working to I'd probably be living in a apartment.

>>732739510
This. The reason people remember the 50s and 60s as a time of prosperity is because the labor unions guaranteed a decent pay.

>>732740587
Fuck unions their useless now. As soon as we got rid of our union at Comcast. My pay went from max cap $36 to $44 an hour as a maintanence technician. Better health plan now too.

>>732740077
Yes sacrifice yourself life as a plumber apprentice for 2 or 3 years I think. After that you'll see 5 figures easily especially if you go as your own business.

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>>732737379
I can't stand Trump, just do it for the money. Sold Obama shit when he was popular too. Transitioning to gun rights stuff now that the election is over. Obviously this sort of thing is highly seasonal, but you can make a shit ton of money real quick when it is good. I try to bank most of it, and generally invest most of the profits in condos overseas.

>>732733944
Learn a trade.

Have to understand something: Colleges accept ANYONE now. Anyone. If you aren't smart enough for a real degree, they have plenty of fake ones that hold no actual value that you can graduate with.

But those people that don't belong in College, that go to College, just end up with a job they could have got without a degree anyways - but with a shit load of debt at the end.

If you don't think you belong in college, DON'T GO! Learn a trade. Learn construction. Learn how to fix something. Learn fucking drywall.

Also, don't have kids.

Live at home until you're 21. Save every penny you can. Don't get traffic tickets or use drugs. Don't get any convictions. Go to truck driving school. Get CDL A with all endorsements. Go to work for reputable trucking company like US Xpress. Avoid Swift, CRST, Werner, CR England. Team with someone for a year. Save money. Leave your shit in your parents basement. Learn everything you can about trucking. Buy truck and start your own company.

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>>732733944
Nice dubs!

Learn to code. I went from making $15/hr to $30/hr to $50/hr to ~$100/hr over 4 years.

HTML, CSS, and JS

>>732733944
OP here.
here are a few extra details. I am 20 and about to graduate with my associates in paralegal studies(because I was thinking law school in my future.). But the problem is, I just hate it. I hate school. I hate what I study. I feel like all this money I have and am going to spend will be wasted on a career I hate.
I am not an incapable dumbass or anything like that. I just want to see what I can without going to college if I decided to quit. No offense to blue collar workers, but I don't want to just be a maintenance man or a truck driver or anything like that.

>>732741698

What's wrong with Swift? I heard the other companies suck, but have heard swift is okay as a starter company.

>>732742212
Do you want to avoid the rat race all together? Do you think jobs that don't require a degree will be more enjoyable?

>>732742212
Lmao bro if you become a linemen or garbage man. Out of your 10 hour day. You really only work 4 to 5hrs. The only thing difficult part of the job is getting it. My dad is a garbage man and he breaks 120,000+ every year. But this is California.

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>be me
>not an oldfag cause I usually lurk
>poor social skills
>I suck at school
>Not good looking
>At 18, I get a job bussing tables
>place is nice, a fine dining restaurant and all
>I work hard, management likes me
>I get promotes to server
>I learn just enough social skills to be a good waiter
>I study and show up to every wine class
>ten years go by, and I move to a new city
>get job as server
>wine director is nice guy, and teaches me more about wine
>I have a chance to stand for the level one sommelier card
>I take it and pass
>I keep working, I get promoted to wine guy
>Old wine guy quits, I get his gig

No degree, still a /b/ro, but make $65,000 a year running a wine program.

tl:dr, work in a restaurant and work your way up.

>>732742745
I believe that jobs without a degree would be more enjoyable than the career path I'm headed down right now. If I continue and only get my associates, I'll be a secretary my whole life as a paralegal and I don't want that. I don't want to be someone's assistant, I want to be the boss. I want to "avoid the rat race". I want to bypass college and work my way up to higher positions. The thing I'm having an issue with is finding that first step.
I want a tech job. I was offered a position with Airbnb, but turned it down because school and now I'm worried an opportunity like that won't come again.

>>732742213
Swift is a horrible company from what I've heard. They screw employees pretty badly. CR England is the worst though. Every year they get sued and lose over their mafia tactics.

>>732733944
Skilled labor. We are short skilled labor in the US. Too many idiots with degrees that are worthless trying to get work with them.

>>732742809
No offense. But if California was the last habitable place on earth, I would still rather live in Africa.

Head toward something like a CNA 6 weeks job starts at 12 an hour and goes all the way up to 19.

Surgical tech 8 months but start at 20 all the way up to 40

medical area is always worth it and easy there are lots of little thing to stay out of poverty

or you can get a mechanical engineering degree 4 years and get a job at starting at 35 an hour

>>732742868
>work in a restaurant and work your way up
>10 years
I left school at 15, by 19 I was running slabs, at 20 I was the foreman for a 22 level building getting $1800 net a week
Now at 23 I have my own firm and pay myself $2k a week net
If you want to work hard and work your way up without an education, it's in construction

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>>732733944
Gotta work at factories, try applying through man power.

>>732734937
>>732735435

I'M SO SICK OF FUCKING IT FAGS ACTING LIKE THEIR SIMPLE RECRUITMENT FIELD RESULTS IN SATISFACTORY JOB OUTCOMES

YOU GUYS ARE FAILED PROGRAMMERS, WHO COULDN'T GET INTO BETTER SCHOOLS

FUCK OFF WITH THE FAG SHIT, AND QUIT FEEDING PEOPLE YOUR RETARDED LIES

I went to university and regret it. Barely learned anything useful. You learn on the job.

Luckily I live somewhere that got me my education for free, but it's still 6 years I'll never get back. 6 years that could've been practical experience.

>>732743201
My advice: teach yourself some tech skills, save up some money, move out to Silicon Valley, and start networking. Plenty of work apps you can use to make money while you are looking for your dream job like task rabbit, uber, etc.

>>732733944
Cause i'm a poopsmoker and that's all there is to me therefore i poopsmoke

Butthash ain't cheap these days, i gots to flippin flapping burger diddly dool in McDick's kitchen nigga nah i'm saying?

>>732743948
Underrated post

don't have a girlfriend or get married

>>732743788
So tech fields require college degrees?

>>732743948
I'm not too sure I'm following you anon.

>>732742868
This is my backup plan. Im in college right now but I'm also working at a restraunt. I started off a dishwasher but got moved up to Expo a couple months ago. Hoping to continue moving around, and all the mangers like me

Leave school get Electrical trade/craft apprenticeship
Also get Instrumentation trade
Progress from craft to supervisor to foreman now construction manager.

Worked around the world all fully payed and havnt earned under $15k USD For last 10 years.

Will be working on a job in Freeport, tx earning $1100 a day for next 3-4 years

>>732733944
trade school. you can make more as a plumber or electrician than most kids coming outta college

plus alot harder to outsource

>>732735418

Cool. Just don't bitch and complain about how the management, ceo's and owners are making a ton with profit sharing, stock options, 401k's, great health benefits, and vacation time, while you slave away into your 50's. oh, and your new boss is half your age and making twice as much as you. Ok?

Study ur shit. Study hard. Know the field, know the game, aim to succeed. College is an opportunity, but keep in mind that its up to you on your degree. WORK HARD

yo i'm in the same boat. i'm more of an innovator tho. so like i try to come up with invnetions and shit and make it big

find a problem. solve that problem. become rich
it's so easy a black man could do it.
a black guy invented street lights

>>732748491

Because he knew his fellow nigs would be robbing.

>>732748562
no like traffic light red yellow green. nah a nigg couldn't come up with the light bulb. shit sticking 1 light bulb on a pole really isn't even an invention you need 3 light bulbs

>>732748660
the same guy invented the gas mask too

beaners and women think of jobs and corporations
real men earn their own money
fun fact there are more people than available high paying jobs. If you are going to break out of the system it's going to require some thinking outside the box

>>732733944
Enjoy a success career? Life isn't a fucking fairy tale. Your soft ass is part of the problem is this world. Go work for the oil industry, fucking sheep.

Why not choosing an european uni? There are a lot of them with english programe + much cheaper than us..

>>732748836
exactly he was tired of his childrens chicken and water mellon farts so he put his nose under his shirt. eventually that evolved into the gas mask. he put a cloth over his mouth then got tired of holding the cloth on his face so he strapped it to his head. litterally anyone can invent shit. it's not even like super fucking difficult just stop thinking the only way to make money is for someone to pay you by the hour

learn how to weld and be flexible.

>>732749420
and, on average, better

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>>732749026
Anyone can be a hero

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>>732733944
Work only 2 shit jobs for a very short period prior to my new job now.Then I faked my resume with more knowledge than I actually knew, though I brushed on some of those things. Applied to a new place for a third current job and aced both interviews for it. Did so well they offered me a better position. Took it and make $18 an hour salary with tremendous benefits. Worked only 6 months and did so well they offered me to go to Chicago for another position to train and go to school for which they payed for m to do. Now I make $30 an hour.
College is a waist of time and money. It's all about building experience and how you handle & present yourself of going die hard for the company.

>>732741178
go to pol faggot

>>732749503
>>732749420
Are they accredited? For instance, will classes transfer?

>>732742868
that was the old wine guy's plan all along. he needed to replace himself before he retired

>>732733944
You go to college to gain qualifications that will set you on your way to a 6-figure income and you don't want to pay for it?
The Age of Entitlement is still with us.
You could launch a career in dry-cleaning or catering. The good thing about catering is that there's a McDonald's within walking distance of your share-house.

It doesn't matter what the fuck you choose to do, op. Success is earned through hard work. Whether or not you go to school has nothing to do with it. There is no quick and easy route. Just go win.

>>732749794
that's a big fucking lie. Hard work won't get you jack shit. Knowing the right people, good looks, intelligence and occassionally working hard is how you make a lot of money. There are a shit load of people breaking their motherfucking backs for table scraps

I'm a self taught programmer with no formal education and math grades that started slipping as soon as high school started.

I managed to get my hourly rate up from 5$/h up to 50$/h. I did not become a better programmer. In hindsight I realized that I'm a shit one and I don't have any promising career prospects.

Here's my secret: I got better at politics. I got better at lying, conning and talking. I got better at slithering out of tricky situations, by blaming others when handy and always taking blame for the little things to build up trust. Smoke and mirrors, deceit, lies and twisting of truth.

Same goes for every other field. If you can't prove yourself in the way (((((normal))))) people do, learn how to be a douchebag, but never let be caught at it.

>take out max loans
>major in something like political science, gender studies, business, psychology, philosophy, or any of the other cake majors.
>fail out because even that is too hard for you
>get minimum wage paying job worthy of your kill and usefulness as a human
>join #blacklivesmatter regardless of your own race
>protest trump until he forgives student debt
>debt gone

This is how you lose debt. Good luck

>>732750073
if you were jewish your family would be so proud of you

I am a dental student. When i graduate i will be 430k in debt. I start at 160-180k a year unless i move to a place that starts you off in the upper 200s. If I live small for a few years i can pay this shit off. after that no clue.

>>732750073
I learned this really quickly getting in to it and development. Dropped out of college as a software engineer because of depression amd alcoholism. At least i learned how to teach myself to code. Applying for jobs and after i land my first gig i realize how absolutely awful most people in the field are at making code from scratch.

>>732750262
my old ass dentist was just telling me about how fucked their debt accumulation is. you're completely fucked.

>>732750262
dentists are a weird people. they are like sophisticated carnies

>>732750323
Well they do have debt repayment options. i can pay 10% of my salary for 10 years and have it erased. i could work in a free clinic and still make around 160 a year as they pay my loans or i could man up and just pay it off and use money to invest until i destroy my debt. then open my own office and another and eventually own a mcdonalds and retire with my 3rd or 4th wife.

>>732750335
Thats pretty strange that you think of us as carnies... i was thinking we are more like the mormons of the work world. Wholesome quirky odd people.

>>732750475
operating a circus is a lot like operating a dentist office

Few more tips about Making Money© Yourself™:

>always bitch and nag about your invoices being paid ASAP. develop friendly relationships with corporate client bookkeepers so you can tell them a sob story and ask for your invoice to be paid on the same day(preferably)
>ALWAYS(no exceptions) pay any outgoing bills on the LAST DAY POSSIBLE! see the due date? that's when you pay it. always starve others for cash
>never rent what you need, never buy what you don't need
>always take an up-front payment from customers that are easy to influence. then drag the deadline for as long as you can and deliver a half-assed product. time will dilute their expectations and it was all paid for in advance
>charge obnoxious sums of money for the tiniest things, but make sure you look busy as hell. NEVER admit that something was easy, always end your sentences with "but <REASON>"
>snitches don't get stitches outside of school and prisons, use it to your advantage
>always inquire about private lives of people around you, but keep yours hidden and secretive
>if you're outsourced and have to deal with staff, put yourself in a higher position than them. belittle them if required, show who's boss

>>732750718
jewing 101 right here

>>732750627
This couldn't be more true.

Fire/EMS

I never feel like I work everyday I come to work. Pay is good at $42k when I factor in benifits, no debt, relatively low bills, wife works and no kids.

Last shift, I went interior on a house fire. Shit is always a blast.

I could have gotten a degree since education is free in my country but didn't.
I worked a shitty warehouse job for 3 years, while living at home with my parents. Then I invested the money I made.
>bought a house in Italy by the coast
>nothing fancy, fixed her up and rented her out
>made my money back and sold it with a 30% profit a few years later
>used most of that cash to buy a café/coffee shop in France
>it quickly started making a profit in form of rent
>then signed the contract on a storage facility in Greece, just for the ground it stood on
>7 months later I got an offer from a company to buy the plot for 20% over my original purchase
>refused
>few months later they offered me 40%, I accepted
>took a year long leave from the market when the prices took a dive
>came back and purchased two homes in Italy again, they quickly turned profit since the stream of tourists renting is endless
>did major renovations to one of them and sold it with a small profit
>got my hands on a contract for 8 vacation cottages in Norway, they still provide a steady income
>purchased a few other small properties around Europe
I'm constantly buying and selling.
I never make huge profits but enough that a normal job seems ridiculous.

>>732734539
/thread

>>732751055
i know a group of people in dallas and their land is worth a lot of money. the value keeps going up, but they are poor and their property tax keeps going up. I was thinking would it be possible to find a builder and make an agreement split the profits from future rentals as opposed to just selling it and getting a lump sum?

>>732734937
IT is a large field and the vast majority of jobs require a degree. If you're skilled enough you can get into programming without a degree, but then you're pretty much limited to programming.

>>732733944
Learn to be an HVAC technician. That's my plan if I irreversibly fuck myself over in college.

Do >>732734616 to pay for that.

>>732751035
parading around being a hero sounds nice

>>732751334
That would be the deal I would try to make yes, long term profit is almost always better.
I don't know the laws in America when it comes to property but that sounds like a good deal.
I'm often buying people out completely but have made a few split-profit deals. They work, you just need everything in order, all documents properly signed etc so that no doubt of ownership can be argued.

>>732751473
I'm not doing this to be a hero. It's a fun, rewarding career and it's very hard to fire/lay us off. I'm one of six fire/EMS employees in my family.

>>732751055
Sounds like a solid way of making money if you know what the market looks like. I like it.
How old are you?

>>732734997
This is the only way. Other than that kys and pray you are reincarnated into a rich, connected family.

>>732751875
>How old are you?
I'm 32. Been doing this since I was 21.
Going to retire when I'm 40. Or sooner if that magic deal would happen.

>>732751990
nice bro, don't usually give out my info on here but hit me up maybe you'd be an excellent resource for facilitating that deal we talked about earlier. [email protected] < the texas guy

>>732751848
yea it sounds cool as fuck. i wasn't saying that to be like a dick or anything my point was that everyone likes firefighters being generally well liked is usually a decent benefit. the actual job description itself sounds like a thing for adrenline junkies

>>732752136
Thanks for the trust in me, I'll see what I can do. I've been planning on stretching my business across the big sea, this might be a good time.

>>732749542
Fucking shut the fuck up, pussy. I don't know what you want, but who was phone?

>>732733944
indeed dot com
monster dot com
Search 'no exp necessary' and 'entry level' jobs
Search
Pick
Apply
Interview
Get the job

>>732733944
Everyone will work for the same corporatons anyway

>>732752256
Well, yeah, adrenaline is addictive.

As for everyone loving us, they do...but I wonder how long that will last. Some of these BLM fuckers are starting to look at us as being on the same team as police. I mean we are, but it could start hurting us as well. Our Chief is considering outfitting all the trucks with ballistic vests.

>>732743617
there's no one way to do it

>>732751055
Fuck sounds like cool work with lots of travel.
How much you make per year if I may ask? Or monthly even?

>>732749900
and it's your fault if you break your back and get nothing out of it

>>732752710
Thank you and yes it is.
How much I make differ greatly from year to year but in the latest 6-7 months I've made a bit over 200k Euros in profits alone.
About 65% of that will be re-invested and the rest saved.

>>732752501
if someone from BLM goes after a firefighter it pretty much ends the movement. You can't really talk about how lives matter when you go after someone who litterally saves them cops try to lump together the two professions so they look good by association that's how they think aside from the fact that you both show up to the same party sometimes there's not really a lot of overlapping commonalities

>>732752264
alright well email me so we can have eachothers contact info

Become a truck operator.
I'm currently surfing /b/ while I'm on a break

>>732753362
took an uber one time. the guy was a former truck driver and said it paid more. There is probably a lot more variables and hassle tho

>>732737518
>>732737518
How did you decide what language would be most marketable?

Trump U.
You're welcome.
sincerely, John Miller

>>732742213
If in southern hemisphere. Start with linfox

>>732735418
>start at 16
Ahahahahahhahahahahha try 11 if you are lucky

>>732749743
>gain qualifications that will set you on your way to a 6-figure income
Yeah fucking right. Degrees don't mean shit anymore, I have two, one in math and the other in astrophysics. Even entry level jobs are out of reach because job experience is required for them in addition to degrees, making it impossible to fucking enter the industry.

>>732733944
Free education in my country™

>>732733944
I think this argument is the other way around, name one actual job you cant learn on the job
inb4 faggots

>>732733944
>/b/ tell me how you can enjoy a successful career without obtaining a college degree?
Be an evil opportunist in the USA with no soul. Do not give up. You will be hated by just about everyone in your life about the same time you profit more than anyone you ever met.

An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

The Mexican replied, “only a little while. The American then asked why didn’t he stay out longer and catch more fish? The Mexican said he had enough to support his family’s immediate needs. The American then asked, “but what do you do with the rest of your time?”

The Mexican fisherman said, “I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siestas with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine, and play guitar with my amigos. I have a full and busy life.” The American scoffed, “I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat, you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing, and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually New York City, where you will run your expanding enterprise.”

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The Mexican fisherman asked, “But, how long will this all take?”

To which the American replied, “15 – 20 years.”

“But what then?” Asked the Mexican.

The American laughed and said, “That’s the best part. When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions!”

“Millions – then what?”

The American said, “Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siestas with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos.”

>>732733944
I am effectively an electrical and mechanical engineer without having earned either degree

>>732733944
Military. Just dont be a stupid grunt and get into a technical field and it setups you up.

>>732738999
Trips of truth

>>732733944
on IT we don't give a fuck about degrees if that's something you like, but you need to be skilled if you want a good job, nobody will hire a guy for configuring a printer on windows and pay him a decent salary

>>732743687
Sauce?

>>732733944
Real estate and investing. Go to biggerpocketsdotcom. Huge support group. Buy up duplexes tri or quads using fha or va loans and bank like a mofo. I never grad from high school and I haven't worked a real job in 8yrs.

>>732756666
Quads of truth

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>>732756929
Like, I joined as a Satellite Communications Operator/Maintainer then went on with additional training as a Satellite Network Controller. A full year of non-stop training and got a TS/SCI clearance out of it. I was a high school graduate with a 2.1 GPA. Now that I'm getting out I'm getting job offers starting out at 90k a year.

>>732733944

Construction welder.

Literally the only qualification you need is a driver's license.

My friend and I both applied to an apprenticeship when we had no idea what to do with our lives. I got hired because I had a driver's license.

I turned it down, became a teacher.

apply for a job in a field that you're very good in. that's what I did and I'm earning 48k/year without a degree (20yo)