Help me pick a future career!

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>So my school has this retarded assignment every year where every sophomore has to write a paper explaining their hopes and ambitions for the future. A big chunk of it is job orientated, and it's supposed to help us pick classes next year and narrow down college choices.</p>

<p>Frankly, my only career-based ambition is to get rich. Any other time I would just bs a paper, but I really got to thinking about it and I do realize that I have to make some choices sooner or later.</p>

<p>So help me out here? Maybe get some ideas flowing. I’m open to almost anything, as long as I can be making a stable 300k yearly by the time I’m 35. Nothing that requires a huge amount of public speaking (lawyers = no) or enormously long hours (I want a life, please). And I don’t have a problem with hacking people up as long as it’s not their faces. Reasonable stuff too. CEO is easier said than done.</p>

<p>Thanks. :)</p>

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<p>some form of medicine? well that'd be long hours i suppose...
world domination?</p>

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<p>investment banking.</p>

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<p>-Serendipity-?
I think you misspelled stupidity.</p>

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<p>Sorry to disappoint Whadabala. Maybe if I had waxed poetic about my love for underwater basket weaving.</p>

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<p>MegaVortex: Hahaa, I've been looking into medicine because that's the first thing that comes to mind. Prosthetics looks fun, but I don't really know much about it.</p>

<p>Schrizto: I've looked at stuff like that too, but I really don't know anything about it. What would being an investment banker entail?</p>

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<p>well if you want to be rich thats ibanking</p>

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<p>I don't think the "I will do whatever job I can to get rich" philosophy is a good one...</p>

<p>If you find something you love to do, you will be happy. If you are happy in a lucrative field, then you will get rich.</p>

<p>But if you go into some field JUST to get rich, then you will burn out, and will probably suffer some health problems too. And as well, you probably wont end up getting rich.</p>

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<p>You don't want to work hard at long hours but you want to make 300k/year by the time you're 35. So you better be really creative or something, because that's not exactly realistic.</p>

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<p>You should start a war on fabricated intelligence in order to secure a natural resource available in the attacked country.</p>

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<p>fail post fails</p>

<p>"I’m open to almost anything, as long as I can be making a stable 300k yearly by the time I’m 35." </p>

<p>that's not "almost anything." in fact, that's "approaching nothing," bordering on "none."</p>

<p>"Nothing that requires a huge amount of public speaking (lawyers = no) or enormously long hours (I want a life, please)" </p>

<p>sorry?</p>

<p>i know ibankers sell their soul for that kind of money and its not stable at all </p>

<p>why dont you just polymorph into merlin </p>

<p>"Reasonable stuff too." </p>

<p>oh <em>really</em></p>

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<p>"I’m open to almost anything, as long as I can be making a stable 300k yearly by the time I’m 35. Nothing that requires a huge amount of public speaking (lawyers = no) or enormously long hours (I want a life, please)"</p>

<p>Lottery winner</p>

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<p>"Lottery winner" </p>

<p>sounds like a plan</p>

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<p>Nightsd – If that’s your philosophy, so be it, but I believe in working to have fun rather than working for fun.</p>

<p>Pyroclasm - 300k really isn't an unimaginable amount. Especially when you take into account rising inflation.</p>

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<p>It is an unimaginable amount when you don't wanna put in long hours or do any public speaking. So yeah, you can either inherit money/a business or win the lottery. There is no job that entails any of the things you described, surprisingly you might actually have to work hard to make a lot of money [shudder].</p>

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<p>Or you can get really lucky and invent something that sells. But yeah.. making 350k/year by the time you're 35 isn't exactly something you can make a road map for. It would just take a lot of luck.</p>

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<p>Anesthesiologist. If your slightly more ambitious, you could try your hand at nereaul surgery. </p>

<p>You could start a business at 18, get REALLY lucky, and earn 300+K by the time your 40.</p>