What Age Did You Know What Job/Career You Wanted To Persue In Life?

[Supermalt]

Always kind of knew I wanted to work in music/audio but never pursued it due to parents saying to go a different route. Decided at 22 to do it and now work as a sound engineer.

parents most of the time are the biggest brick wall in career choices

shits annoying

[macz]

still dont know tbh, currently in PR & advertising but I've peaked there and there's nowhere else to go, need to look for a new job but dont know what in...

[LOST]

At about age 18 wanted to be a Investment banker, now working in HSBC in Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage, ideally want to get into precious metals trading but im young so i will see what doors I can try to open.

[Guillermo Rigondeaux]

At about age 18 wanted to be a Investment banker, now working in HSBC in Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage, ideally want to get into precious metals trading but im young so i will see what doors I can try to open.

when you say "precious metals" do you mean you want to specialize in gold/silver/platinum/palladium or do you mean all non-ferrous metals in general i.e. copper/zinc/ally etc?

why not start trading forex yourself and see if you like it? being a trader is a tough graft mate, especially in the big banks.. they'll only give you one shot and if you flop you wont get another chance. the best route is obviously through a smaller fund but as i'm sure you know getting into one of those is nearly impossible without a connection to a partner or substantial experience.

[Frank.]

when i was really young i used to see the rubbish trucks driving to pitsea tip, and my goal was to drive one.

luckily i snapped out of that little phase and pursued other pursuits.

[Jodie]

never it just kinda happened and its something I never thought I'd get into or even existed.

[Skola]

I decided in high school that I wanted to work in IT

went and done comp science at uni then realised i hate programming

now moving into networking gonna see how that goes and if i could pursue it as a career

[NiNES.]

about 3/4

will prob never achieve it

ahh well

Pilot?

lock in

[Yuri]

Decided about 2 months ago I was going to be a consultant

Was really thinking about becoming a marine even until recently but decided to allow it

Good topic though. I think a lot of people never really know, and just end up working in a job they drifted into. I've come across successful people who love their job even though they never intended to end up doing it. I think everyone has that feeling of "is this career for me" or general doubt about committing their life in a certain direction or letting go of a dream, but sometimes you've just gotta start making moves instead of sitting around waiting for a lightbulb to switch on in your head

[Frank.]

SERIOUS fitness levels involved in that shizznit.

[Guest Waka Flocka Dave]

lol Army, thas when u know everything else has failed

i seriously considered this, even spoke to my firends in the army about it

[Frank.]

Marines is the navy still.

[Guest Waka Flocka Dave]

same thing

was talkin armed forces

[Greens]

lol Army, thas when u know everything else has failed

Not really, I had a friend who always wanted to do it, learnt a lot of good skills and now he has finished he has a very well paid job in telecoms engineering.

[Frank.]

exactly.

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its probably your best route for the pilot route too dave.

[Yuri]

lol Army, thas when u know everything else has failed

i seriously considered this, even spoke to my firends in the army about it

you don't know what you're talking about still

a wasteman like you wouldn't even get through the first morning of selection to join the Royal Marines, let alone finish 32 weeks of training

[Frank.]

[Yuri]

SERIOUS fitness levels involved in that shizznit.

yeah bro

it's all mind over matter with most of the sh*t they put you through though

they're not looking for the guy who can do 5000 push ups, they're looking for the guy who will die trying/never quit

[Guest Waka Flocka Dave]

can u not read i said when everything else failed, not if u wanted to do it all along

jeez

[Yuri]

can u not read i said when everything else failed, not if u wanted to do it all along

jeez

people who go to rm don't do it cos all else failed

you have to go through a lengthy interview process to even be invited to selection. they weed out the psychos and life's losers

[Mame Biram Diouf]

SERIOUS fitness levels involved in that shizznit.

yeah bro

it's all mind over matter with most of the sh*t they put you through though

they're not looking for the guy who can do 5000 push ups, they're looking for the guy who will die trying/never quit

You know what other sort of training routines etc they have to do/pass?

[Corrigan]

imagine dave in the army looooooooooooooool

creasing haha

[Guest Waka Flocka Dave]

that was aimed at Frank the cheerleader still didnt see the next page

the guys i know the army wasnt their first choice n they aint exactly the fittest guys

wasnt even sayin its a bad thing, bt obv cos of the way i felt n how my boys felt when they joined it was jus in my mind as a last resort

[Mame Biram Diouf]

Why cant you be a pilot dave?

You actually tried before or just cant be bothered to actually try doing it?

[Frank.]

SERIOUS fitness levels involved in that shizznit.

yeah bro

it's all mind over matter with most of the sh*t they put you through though

they're not looking for the guy who can do 5000 push ups, they're looking for the guy who will die trying/never quit

very true, pretty much the same ethos as the para's.