re: You're 18, pick your career

I’d want to make 6 figures working about 10 hours a week.

Golf on weekdays, etc.

So exactly like I do now.

I’d either be an industrial designer or a materials scientist.

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Learn to weld at 18.

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So you can never be good at it? All the pros started knee high to a grasshopper

Doctor.

Note that some athletes and actors make more in 2 games played or one film than all of those careers ' lifetime earnings.

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Probably accounting and try to become a CPA

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The problem is the hours. I’ll make way more than the $2-$4 million over my career, but the hours can blow sometimes, especially in your 20’s to early 30’s.

The best career is a cushy sales job. Money is really good and the work isn’t as stressful as big law, medicine, etc

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e problem is the hours. I’ll make way more than the $2-$4 million over my career, but the hours can blow sometimes, especially in your 20’s to early 30’s.

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That's true, frick that.


Plumber or electrician.

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Dentist. Never met a dentist who works more than 4 days a week.

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Surprisingly high dissatisfaction among dentists. High suicide rate in the profession.

Electrician by far. Those "earnings" for computer programmers are limited to extremely high cost areas, and likely include a lot of stock options which will probably never vest. Electricity ain't that hard, and it may involve rodent droppings and the occasional electrocution, but it doesn't involve pulling used tampons out of a sewer cleanout.

And once you start running your own trucks... Hooboy the potential is there.

Lawyer @ 50-80 hours a week for big firms? LOLZ.

Barber would be good. $25 a head and can easily give someone a haircut in 10 minutes.

Set own hours.

Con would be standing up all day.