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Your Career Plan ? Did it Work?
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That was my original career, started at 15.
Better than expected.
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-Hate school so never going back to college unless I have a career all set
-Working on high end cars right now installing clear bra / vinyl
-Plan to stay w/ this company for a year or two more than try to start my business on my own. Industry is new since 90's and booming. Already have customer connections and know what it takes.
Back up plan:
-Become a officer, have family/friends already in. Great pay, benefits, love the 3 12 hour shift, love blue collar work.
-Other interests/skills. I have always been into investing,stock, or real estate. I won the stock game at my high school and am pretty good at money. Payed for my last three bikes and truck w/ cash, have no debt....
-Plan to go straight from parents to own condo in five years. Under $150k and rent a room to a friend for $500.
If I was smart, I would go straight into law enforcement and get my AA degree. Would have a huge down payment within 2 years of working and living at parents easily.
Damn that Boy George!
I did work in publishing, but never got bit by a radioactive spider.
Never had a plan. Dropped out of HS to join the Army. Got out 3 years later and had a mindset that I needed to "catch up" with all the "free lovin" and druggin and hair growin', and whatever else Id missed. I gave it a good shot and at the end of that decade (I call my anestitized decade) I sobered up. But now I had found M/C racing. All I wanted to do was go road racing. So any job that paid enough to allow that activity was good enough for me. Didnt marry or have kids so that probably contributed to my everlasting adolecence. Now that I look back I think I could have done better but not alot. I never had any ambition. I attibuted that to the war but more likely Im just lazy. Oh and that lack of ambition really helped to keep me single.
My second choice was a golf pro in Hawaii. That didn't work either.
My current job isn't bad, so I cant complain too much.
In between college & present had 30 years in sales for many companies selling art materials, Dunlop tyres, copier paper, bicycles and motorcycle accessories plus also owned & ran companies such as Stadium Video Europe & Moto Travel organising tours to Paris SX, MXDN & California USGP & SX events.
Almost got into partnership with Mike Goodwin promoting Wembley Supercross in 1984, didn't work out and could have been a one way street careerwise!
Ended up promoting biggest MTB events in England and also winning National & Scottish Downhill MTB titles plus going to MTB world champs 3 times.
Also got married, fathered three beautiful girls ended up divorced but re-married again now and have a great wife & step kids so it's all worked out.
Plans are only for bank managers and your own self doubt or belief,.
Just leap of the cliff of life
I guess I never had any kind of plan and, I know it has all worked out for many of you, I just like to hear
how things all came together. Perhaps our life's lessons can assist some of the younger members here...
Cheers to all, enjoy your Christmas and Holidays - and thanks for sharing.
I wanted to pursue a music career. Then I worked the Amway business at the same time I was running a tennis academy business.
Then got married had kids, went to work at a prison, and then with the government.
Not what I started out to do, but oh well. I still have those dreams of doing something I love, but I guess they got lost somewhere along the way.
Pit Row
I guess my career plan worked out- I studied a lot of "multimedia" in college, which was supposed to be the newmedia career at the time. We were all going to work in Virtual Reality someday! But my Dad and older brother were journalists and writers so it was a natural progression.
I think you have to very flexible when pursuing a career and quick on your feet to make a change if necessary.
That's funny. Once long long ago I was out of work and looking thru the help wanted ads. I found this one add where this guy was looking for a guy to work on and keep up all of his toys. His scuba gear, motorcycles etc. The guys name, Mike Goodwin. I didnt get the job.
Nice story, yours.
Me? started workin' in family biznesses at the age of 12. Payin' the tax man since then, too. Seems you're not allowed to make much money even if you're a kid...
Get this...left one of THE schools on a Physics ride 'cause it was too f'n boring compared to ridin' moto, surfin and chasin' chicks. Hey, I was young. Went in early, left early! Got to do some "work" on a project that got the Nobel. That was nice; but, sub-atomic stuff was a whole lot-a fun, back then.
Then, jus' like Hinter Hewitt (j/k!) I got a decent gig at a defense contractor and made some good bank thru the 80's and 90's...thanks Dad!
Left that to start my 1st Co. in '95. Sold it in Y2K and got "pushed out" in '01.
Thanks guys!
Hope your asses don't hurt too much from my Attorneys taking turns on your Bitch-Asses! Bwahahahahaha! Cha-Ching, Sting and stick your "Non-Comp" up your ass...yeah...still enjoyin' that one.
Traveled for a few yrs and saw more than a few of those lil' countries no-one thinks about and jus' enjoyed bein' lazy.
Started another Co. on 2004-5 and, somehow, I've been managing to make $1.95 and them some since. I'm really glad it's not like a "Real" job.
Ya know?
About got myself killed. Rebuilt my body from the ground up and came back from the grave. Fell into the bottle for a while. Packed up and moved across the country for the job offer of a my life. Quit after about 18 months to try and be a "pro bike racer"
3 years into this skinny tired bike racing thing and I am not sure I could be doing any better with my life. This year alone I raced in 7 states, 5 countries and 3 continents. There are plenty of days I get up, hate every minute of the training and want to get a normal job. Then I remember that my job is still better then anyone else that has a 9-5.
I grew up the son of a machinist, and I wanted to be one too. I had good math skills and that goes a long ways. After floundering around for a couple of years after h.s. I landed in a shop that my dad had worked for years before. I was 20 years old and they paid me $5/hr.
Seeing how good my dad was, I knew that all I had to offer was speed and quality, since I didn't know the first thing about programming or set-ups. So I just tried to run more parts and better parts than anyone else. In the meantime I learned everything I could about programming and setting up and machining in general.
Its almost 19 years later, and I am the night shift supervisor at one of the best companies in the area. That shop I started out at $5/hr for calls my dad regularly trying to get either one of us to come to work for them for $28/hr. We won't do it, we have too good of a job where we are at.
My dad is 60 years old and the most respected machinist at our company.
My little brother is the programmer at the same company that our dad and I work at.
It pays the bills and then some, so I am pretty happy with it!
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