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What do Jazzfanz do professionally (...assuming they have jobs) ?

I am senior at ASU, hoping for medical school took my MCAT and did pretty well alhamdulillah.

Hopefully a doctor after med school and residency god willing.
 
I'm a stay at home drunk. My wife is a CFO and I was supposed to manage our money, household affairs, and change diapers. That went well for a few months... I still do the diapers but the other stuff is way to hard with a fuzzy brain, so I put the money into index funds and hired a cleaning lady and a chef that I pay for by recycling large amounts of aluminum budweiser bottles.

kennykyle said:
I also am genuinely interested in what people do. I am only 25, I have an alright job, but I want something better. So this is of some interest to me.
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It all depends on what you do and if you are willing to be a professional or not. Even mechanics can make $100k+ per year in a variety of industries from auto to train to aero to utility.

My experience with consulting work is bimodal. It can be complete bull **** that works a bunch of 25ish year olds 70 hours a weak in exchance for a sack of AIDs riddled monkey scrotums. Or it can pay well into six figures to millions per year for those in the right spot and with the right tools (sales/actor types). There doesn't seem to be much in between. Everyone I've come across in my industry has left the consulting stuff running, with the exception of a small niche of owner-operators who's work I would never want and doesn't pay all that great anyway.

Let us know what you think you might like and I'm sure you'll get great advice.
 
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I make some money working on my own by advertising products/services (affiliate marketing) on various websites but my "real job" (or not, depends how you look at it) is working at... ahem, Taco Bell. Yeah, it sucks.
 
I deliver sandwiches and play up the whole nice guy act in order to get good tips. I then spend other peoples hard earned cash mostly on alcohol, heroine, prostitutes, Jazz tickets, and Jazz gear.
 
Stoked said:
I am paid much more than my private sector equals, work 7-3:30 mon. - Fri., have federal health insurance, vision and dental, private pension, life insurance, free access to Rosetta stone, travel pay, a union protecting me despite not paying dues, my boss is over 50 miles away and I am protected by security cameras, an armed trained guard (ex cop), saftey glass, security alarms and police cars routinely driving thru my parking lot.
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Ha! You're the gatekeeper at Hill Field.
 
I used to be a tester for EA.

Now I collect unemployment and play video games all day. So really, nothing has changed.
 
I work as an engineer with Fairchild. Technically a "doping process engineer". I like my job, but I'm not in love with it. It pays well, and It's pretty flexible. But it's also surprisingly boring.
 
College Freshman, with no die what to major in, what to minor in, or what to do with his life altogether.
 
The Black Swordsman said:
I am senior at ASU, hoping for medical school took my MCAT and did pretty well alhamdulillah.

Hopefully a doctor after med school and residency god willing.
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Nice. A doctor that doesn't know the difference between YOU'RE and YOUR. I hope, at least, you go into geriatrics.

franklin said:
I'm a stay at home drunk. My wife is a CFO and I was supposed to manage our money, household affairs, and change diapers. That went well for a few months... I still do the diapers but the other stuff is way to hard with a fuzzy brain, so I put the money into index funds and hired a cleaning lady and a chef that I pay for by recycling large amounts of aluminum budweiser bottles.

It all depends on what you do and if you are willing to be a professional or not. Even mechanics can make $100k+ per year in a variety of industries from auto to train to aero to utility.

My experience with consulting work is bimodal. It can be complete bull **** that works a bunch of 25ish year olds 70 hours a weak in exchance for a sack of AIDs riddled monkey scrotums. Or it can pay well into six figures to millions per year for those in the right spot and with the right tools (sales/actor types). There doesn't seem to be much in between. Everyone I've come across in my industry has left the consulting stuff running, with the exception of a small niche of owner-operators who's work I would never want and doesn't pay all that great anyway.

Let us know what you think you might like and I'm sure you'll get great advice.
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Probably my favorite post and favorite sentence of this entire World Wide Web.

dalamon said:
College Freshman, with no die what to major in, what to minor in, or what to do with his life altogether.
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The use of the word "die" is apt.
 
dalamon said:
College Freshman, with no die what to major in, what to minor in, or what to do with his life altogether.
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You probably don't want anyone's advice especially mine but if I had to repick my major I would choose computer science.

I know someone who was an economics major but knows AJAX, PHP, and C and got a better job just by knowing those languages then by his economics major.

I am a Biology major with a concentration in Physiology (In USA you have to get a bachelors before you go to medschool unlike most of europe and rest of world) and if I don't get into Med school I am ****ed. I bought two books on PERL which is for some reason the most common program language for Biology and I really enjoy it.

Also have you seen social network!!! That guy created facebook after just being a sophomore as a computer science major!

You can make websites, cell phone apps, video games, anything to do with computers.
 
TroutBum said:
Nice. A doctor that doesn't know the difference between YOU'RE and YOUR. I hope, at least, you go into geriatrics.



Probably my favorite post and favorite sentence of this entire World Wide Web.



The use of the word "die" is apt.
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Macbook autocorrected my (mis)spelling of idea. Sigh. Hate this laptop sometimes
 
The Black Swordsman said:
You probably don't want anyone's advice especially mine but if I had to repick my major I would choose computer science.

I know someone who was an economics major but knows AJAX, PHP, and C and got a better job just by knowing those languages then by his economics major.

I am a Biology major with a concentration in Physiology (In USA you have to get a bachelors before you go to medschool unlike most of europe and rest of world) and if I don't get into Med school I am ****ed. I bought two books on PERL which is for some reason the most common program language for Biology and I really enjoy it.

Also have you seen social network!!! That guy created facebook after just being a sophomore as a computer science major!

You can make websites, cell phone apps, video games, anything to do with computers.
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Yup, I need a bachelor's degree as well, if I want to get into med school (which I am actually strongly considering). Unfortunately, I am just poorly handling my situation of actually picking courses that I am interested in, for the first time in my life. Up until this point, I always took classes that I was "required" to take; now, this lack of structure is kind of worrisome to me.

I was thinking of majoring in physiology, and Im trying to enrol in physiology this september. How difficult is it? Computer Science is seriously not up my alley, but Biology might be. Im basically torn in a three-way battle between Physics, Biology, and Chemistry. I will end up majoring in two- I just don't know which ones, at the moment.
 
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