I think that it's time.

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youre right...i knew that....i looked at your info and it said new haven and i automatically paired that with CT.
 
I like the "Powered by SunGard" logo at the bottom. Those are some killer geeks...at least you know your information is safe when youre on the website. SunGard doesnt let shit slip...they are anal retentive security freaks.
 
It's easy to make 2grand a week.

There, I said it. Curious?
 
yup, fill us in.

I could write a book on this, I may someday. But for now, the Gist:

The key to making money is to not work for someone. A lot of you may know this. But I guarantee that 99.9999% of the people out there don't follow it.

Do what you do, what you like doing. Print up flyers that state you can do it, and that you're looking for customers.

A friend of mine worked for more than a year as a car detailer, because that was one of the things he could do very well. He could clean a car. Fine, so be it - $60 a car, and he did 2 cars a day. Then he raised his rates, and people kept coming. Within a month and a half his schedule was booked.

Another friend's girlfriend (I didn't teach her this) advertised herself as a house cleaner. She still makes more money than I do, and has a waiting list of clients.

A friend of my father's does accounting for people. they literally sit in front of a PC with Quicken and a bunch of profiles. Every 2 weeks they send their clients a page with a detailled list of who to write checks out to, and for how much. Even sends them envelopes and stamps.

My friend started "Nerds To Go" which actually predates "Geek Squad". He's doing very well. He can walk into a county in any state and within 6 months be making enough to live in that area. That's remarkably easy.

My old boss at Wirth Salander Studios was living in a shelter with his pregnant wife. He started making tiles in the oven because he was bored and needed to pass time / fix the place up. Within 2 years he was a millionaire and owner of a top-notch Tile studio (His work is mainly in Europe and the Middle East)

Shit dude, there is SO MUCH OUT THERE to do it's nuts. In a world of, literally, millions of choices each day, we choose the same things over and over again. It's our downfall. (What the Bleep do we know)
 
Civil Engineers are in pretty high demand in my area as well...Its a good choice if CT has as much under construction as Dallas does.

Look up the average income of a civil engineer. Its quite high, as in up near $100k at well paying jobs in the industry, right out of college.

Its also extremely competitive to get into the major and its one of those damn "difficult" majors that I mentioned earlier. You have to be very scientific in your approach to analyzing problems as well as have the ability to regurgitate a ton of knowledge.

Not saying you can't do it and I am saying its a well paying job, but its not easy.
 
Read Rich Dad, Poor Dad for an excellent read on successful investment and lifestyle techniques.

7 Habbits of Highly Effective People is also an excellent read for someone looking for direction in their life.
 
Look up the average income of a civil engineer. Its quite high, as in up near $100k at well paying jobs in the industry, right out of college.

Its also extremely competitive to get into the major and its one of those damn "difficult" majors that I mentioned earlier. You have to be very scientific in your approach to analyzing problems as well as have the ability to regurgitate a ton of knowledge.

Not saying you can't do it and I am saying its a well paying job, but its not easy.

Sweet. I'm ready to stop slacking off.
 
Sweet. I'm ready to stop slacking off.

Credit loads are entirely different in the engineering program.

We have a very competitive program here and engineers need something like 170credits to graduate (we're on a 4credit system, since Princeton switched to the extra credit and we think we're mini-Princeton) while business majors need about 120credits to graduate.

Those are the sort of things that separate majors and make one major "easy" and one major "difficult", in general.

If you go through with a degree in psych and go on to become a psychiatrist, you'll also have to take this nasty course known as "Organic Chem" that many believe is a product of the devil.
 
Read Rich Dad, Poor Dad for an excellent read on successful investment and lifestyle techniques.

7 Habbits of Highly Effective People is also an excellent read for someone looking for direction in their life.


Read them both. I am not kidding you. My dog ate my copy of rich dad poor dad, so I went and bought another copy so I can re-read it.
 
Mike is completely right.

While admin jobs are hard to come by in the tech industry, Programming jobs are a dime a dozen and starting salary is 70k+ (in the DFW area).

Its all about making smart decisions, getting input from people that have been there, and getting started ASAP (Meaning if you havent started investing and planning for your future, its never too late to start).

:werd: :werd: Start as soon as you can.

Ya'll can count computer programming, tech and whatnot out. I've had enough of it. I'm not very good with it and I hate doing it. Trying to figure out why a new internet connection isn't working after hoping I'd set up the switches and routers correctly just flat out gives me a headache.

I was thinking of some sort of engineering program that deals with roads, bridges, architecture would be fun. I'm always interested in how interchanges, bridges and interstates/roadways/highways are laid out and constructed. Haven't had the time this week to really start looking around though.

No problem. Engineering degrees are about as stable as you can get. ;) I was using programming as an example since we were already talking about it.

Civil Engineers are in pretty high demand in my area as well...Its a good choice if CT has as much under construction as Dallas does.

Civil is steady. Any of the big five engineering degrees are always good to pick. Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, Aerospace (can always fall back to ME jobs), Chemical- they're all good.

personally, I'd rather be in a position to hire an engineer than to actually be one. :ph34r:

Fortunately, I get to do both. :D

It's easy to make 2grand a week.

There, I said it. Curious?

:werd:

Take my job, translate it up to northeastern cost of living, 2k/week take home easy. ;)
 
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