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Thread: Tomorrow you wake up as a 31 year old with no job prospects and few marketable skills

post 1483364401 02-13-2017, 10:03 AM
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post 1483365111 02-13-2017, 10:10 AM
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post 1483366231 02-13-2017, 10:19 AM
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probably go to a school to learn HVAC, get a job, and then study on the side, and get into something in the health or IT field.
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post 1483367801 02-13-2017, 10:31 AM
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Start a gofundme and make an indie movies serious. You probably look like a ****gy movie emo kid anyway, 100% guaranteed you'll get to at least 20-30k.
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post 1483369371 02-13-2017, 10:42 AM
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can you edit film?

i just went to indeed.com , typed in "film" and got everything from popcorn stand operator at AMC to local news station film editor.

surely you can do the same? i bet one of those is better than what you have now, which is zero.
post 1483372621 02-13-2017, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted By RJBRAH⏩
You mean like flipping on EBay or legit sales?



We all gonna make it brah but act now. I'm sure my friend remembers being 26 and thinking "I'll figure it out next year" but here he is


Isn't 31 too late to join the Air Force/Navy?



I, I mean my friend, has a film degree. After graduation realized what a disaster that was and reapplied to a better school and was accepted to a business degree program but decided to roll the dice, I'm sure he'd do anything to go back and reevaluate that deciison



Would love to know which 2 year degrees make 70k possible (srs)


Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far
Nursing makes $70k with a 2 year degree all day long.

Also tell your friend to look into Construction Management. Srs. You can start off with a 2 year degree. You don't get paid as much as nursing, but you can move up to a bachelor's. $100k+ salary with years of experience
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There are endless options.. 31 is quite young and if you don't have any real responsibilities like a mortgage your options are endless

-trades (you could open your own business down the line)
- community college courses such as ADN
- possibly go back for masters???
post 1483373231 02-13-2017, 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted By AndYUKnowThis⏩
Nursing makes $70k with a 2 year degree all day long.

Also tell your friend to look into Construction Management. Srs. You can start off with a 2 year degree. You don't get paid as much as nursing, but you can move up to a bachelor's. $100k+ salary with years of experience
Problem with nursing is earning potential is capped off and tbh it involves a lot of bitch work. Sister left nursing for said reasons and never looked back
post 1483373771 02-13-2017, 11:16 AM
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Originally Posted By notredamebrah⏩
Problem with nursing is earning potential is capped off and tbh it involves a lot of bitch work. Sister left nursing for said reasons and never looked back
I know 4 nurses, 2 of them have quit because they couldn't be bothered with it (one in her 20's, the other in her 30's) and another is thinking about it and she is 24.
post 1483378091 02-13-2017, 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted By RJBRAH⏩
How did you get hired if you were denied everywhere else? Did you have connections or will they hire anyone?

Enough savings to survive a few months but extremely dire after that unless something changes and willing to do whatever it takes between now and then
Ended up at a place that liked me and made me sign a paper that I wont drive the cars since their insurance wont cover me. The sales manager lets me drive the cars though when the office people arent there (nights and weekends)

If you are motivated, confident and can talk to people or at least you can fake it till you make it this is a cake job. Tons of potential in the industry if you want to move up or just become a badass salesman selling 2+ cars a day. My sales manager is 27 years old makes $220k/yr
post 1483379821 02-13-2017, 11:51 AM
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32 and very behind the curve as well career wise. Recently got out of the Navy and obtained my Masters in Accounting. Now you may think that sounds pretty good and all but...been applying like a mofo for a while and havent been having much luck. Whenever I do eventually get a job, odds are good that it will probably be a low paying one.

Them feels of being way behind/having made a bunch of poor decisions in regards to career.
post 1483381801 02-13-2017, 12:05 PM
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Originally Posted By Polaris⏩
32 and very behind the curve as well career wise. Recently got out of the Navy and obtained my Masters in Accounting. Now you may think that sounds pretty good and all but...been applying like a mofo for a while and havent been having much luck. Whenever I do eventually get a job, odds are good that it will probably be a low paying one.

Them feels of being way behind/having made a bunch of poor decisions in regards to career.
Masters in accounting and Navy? You should be set. I'd go for a CPA if I were you too.
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Originally Posted By Jasonw1178⏩
I swear, the Misc is going to fill up with a bunch of car salesmen and engineers who can't get laid.
lol. man i dont know about the not getting laid part car salesman are a wild bunch. Im wishing i wasnt married lots of temptation.
Originally Posted By JoshSP1985⏩
Doesn't have to be cars, milk any contacts you have to land a sales job.
Sales is the quickest easiest way to ball out with no education.

Source: I have a buddy that has no degree worked landscaping milked a connection to land a sales job now makes 600k/yr
True true. Car sales is just one of the easiest to get for someone with no connections (like me.....i dont like people vouching for me anyway)

What does your buddy sell?? 600K is outstanding.
post 1483382611 02-13-2017, 12:09 PM
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Ability to work hard and be determined can't be taught. If you want to make it then you will I'd say. By studying, researching, getting the qualifications and so on. And when you're not doing that you'll try to think of ways to make money, be making money and/or saving money (within reason, need a healthy diet with good quality food, good sleep and hygiene)
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post 1483382921 02-13-2017, 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted By notredamebrah⏩
Problem with nursing is earning potential is capped off and tbh it involves a lot of bitch work. Sister left nursing for said reasons and never looked back
You're post reeks of mis-information.

Nursing degrees can get up to Doctorates. By that time your making on average $150k a year.
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i have a 2 year diploma worth nothing, next to no marketable skills. im in the process of getting a degree now, ill be done when im 31. better then being a loser with a ****ty grunt job and not a women attracted to him cause he's a loser
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Originally Posted By RJBRAH⏩
What's your optimal 5 year plan as someone with a worthless college degree but wants to make things right and is willing to dedicate 24 hours a day to make up for previous mistakes
this actually did happen to me.

I got home from an involuntary vacation at 31 and had lost everything, all my savings, my job and my only marketable skills and degree were now useless. I needed a whole other field to work in. It took me 7 months to find a minimum wage job which I rotted away at until I was almost 34 years old. I applied to hundreds of jobs over those 3 years, got tons of interviews and on the spot offers. Then came background check and all offers were rescinded. Then i got an email about an interview for a sales position, something I never considered because I was not great talking to strangers. I went on the interview and was offered a job. Accepted it (what else did i have to lose) and i worke din that position for 18 months until i was promoted to a sales manager. In 2014 I made 22 grand in 2016 I made 47 grand and this year I will do closer to 60.

moral of story: look outside comfort zone for a position you may never have considered and everything may turn around if you work hard.

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-college/trade school (preparing for a life of being an employee)
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Originally Posted By AndYUKnowThis⏩
You're post reeks of mis-information.

Nursing degrees can get up to Doctorates. By that time your making on average $150k a year.
Nurses can get master's and doctorates issue is those jobs are few and far between. Also it's a lot easier to get into nursing programs in the USA than in Canada, in Canada the people that get into nursing degree's are usually top of their class and could have gone down another much easier career path.

Yes they can earn upwards of 150k, but most wards are understaffed and there is a lot of **** (literally) they deal with. The average nurse to chronically sick and usually elderly patient around here is 6:1. Which is actually quite frightening.

Sister would always be working short staffed because the turnover rate for nurses in med/surg units is HIGH, sick calls are HIGH. There are endless stats about burnout in the nursing profession and that most nurses leave hospital nursing within 5 years of graduation. Very few nurses stay on one unit for longer than 2-3 years.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3762080/
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You're the same as me but 3 years younger if that makes you feel better

At least I had a pretty great life in my 20s, lived all over the world and smashed all kinds of girls, so I'm at peace with whatever happens now
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Originally Posted By RJBRAH⏩
What's your optimal 5 year plan as someone with a worthless college degree but wants to make things right and is willing to dedicate 24 hours a day to make up for previous mistakes?

(asking for a friend)
my psychic said I killed myself twice in past lives. Idk man probably off myself so I could start over.

seriously though learn a skill no one has the balls to do like fix computers or phones. I delivered fast food to stones and made good cash.
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Put it like this, you still have 35 years until you retire.
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Today is your lucky day OP. I want you to start making youtube vlog video's everyday. Also post instagram photo's 3 times a day providing value. It can be as simple as positive affirmation , or funny memes. I've studied youtube and have seen a guys getting 1000+ views eating pizza everyday. He stays consistent and tries different pizza's everyday and now I checked back on him and he is up to 1000+ views per video. Find something you like to do and film yourself doing it everyday, people will come. The key is consistency, post everyday and talk to each follower and comment. I've tested this myself with dance video's, I posted a dance video every few days , tutorials and just freestyles for 4 years. Videos started with hardly any views or comments and I kept posting and joined a dance community and shared my video's, views went up comments went up. People asking for tips,etc.

Provide value or entertainment and engage your followers and embrace them as friends. Be consistent, start now don't give me no excuse you got a smart phone start filming now I don't give a fck if you film yourself eating a box of candy everyday or farting and laughing. Just do it no excuse bro. If you like watching tv and movies film yourself watching a tv show and show your reactions. JUST DO IT, don't reply how hard it is, or that your ugly... no excuse there is deformed people on youtube making video's you don't need to be 10/10 brad pitt to make money just do it, your gonna reply with I'm going to start now that's it. otherwise you ain't gonna make it.
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