I did this when i got bored in my third period class...

 

cool I couldnt think of a better way to waste time myself, (Maybe I could but not at school)

 

What we learn in school is forgotten when we get older.

 

hey

thats all i learn in school

well, ok, it IS mechanic school

 

I see my car, with the photoshopped chrome rims.

 

Try to figure out what you like best in high school, and then concentrate on that for your post-secondary education.

After looking back on high school from my current wise age of 43, I can see now that I might have enjoyed having a degree in history more than anything else. It came to me naturally and in the last nine years, since getting crippled up in a car accident, I have found it to be second nature to comprehend and write about. I'm almost complete a book that revises the entire history of Western North America from 1840 to about 1890. It disproves the accepted history conclusively and exposes the American strategy of continental conquest, which until now has been assumed to be restricted to the area south of the 49th parallel, except for Alaska. The big guns of the subject are all pretty impressed and confounded that no one has put it together before.

I guess what I'm try to tell you is that *** gives us all a gift or talent. Do everything you can to figure out what it is because that's where your earthly happiness of job is going to lie

 

Nicely said!

 

I see my car in there!!!

 

I've been having dilemmas lately about this, I took an accounting class in highschool and it came pretty easy to me, so I figured hey, CPAs make a butt load of money and it doesn't seem that hard. Well, now in college this stuff isn't so easy but I'm still able to get it, I just don't know how good I can be. I'm really interested in working out, and about to get certified as a Personal Trainer for over the summer, but that's something I would really enjoy doing everyday, it's just the pay isn't the best, not saying they don't get paid avg is probably around $30k a year, which would get me thru life, but I have too many needs and guess the CPA thing should be followed thru.

 

Yeah, go with the CPA accounting job. My point of view is to bust your @$$ while your young so you can relax when your older. Looking into networking myself. My job pay for the training so all I have to pay for is the 200 dollar test and the 50 dollar book. Like you pointed out you may think you know alot untill you learn a little more. Then you find out you dont know squat. Well thats how it is for me anyway. In the computer business the more you learn it seems the less you know. Well I know I need a high paying job, havent bought my drag car yet!

 

No offense to anyone on the board, but what Sitting Bull said was probably the most intelligent, non-3rd gen related, thing I have ever read. My boss here at Caterpillar is always asking when I am going to start building engines. I have loved doing that since I was 15 years old. The only thing I don't like is all the politics involved in running a business. Like Sitting Bull stated, find your nack, or what you love to do, and run with it. Determination is a very powerful tool when put to use correctly. I have not chosen to do so yet, and I know in 20 years, Lord willing, when the kids are out of the house, I will be more able to do this.

 

I nevur wen tu skewl... i staid home an huke on fonikz wurked fer mi! kant you c thaat?
:lala:

 

mark,

my dad is a CPA and he cant stand it

i was gonna go to school to either become a lawyer or a CPA

FU(K THAT!

i decided in like May of my senior year that i wanted to work on cars for a living

my parents did not object, since they KNEW that i would flunk out if i tried college for a CPA or lawyer

they also agreed cuz mechanics make damn good money

(this one guy at work showed me his paycheck--i went home and figured it out on a calculator-------$80,000 A YEAR!)

point in case---- you gotta like what your doing

only way life would be better for me is if i was playing in a band as a pro-musician, but we all know how hard that is to attain, but hey, i love working on cars

 

I'd be a little more careful about saying mechanics make damn good money and more so to say they can make damn good money. There is also the off season around september to january where there is little business due to holidays, second if you don't work quick enough, you won't even get paid in full in that hour. Three, 9 out of 10 times have horrible benefits. Lastly, never mix hobby with job unless you KNOW you will still enjoy it as a hobby.

I know two people:

1st one has been a mechnic for almost 8 years, he has a 10 second mustang, but won't take the time to put a new fuel pump in to run it because he's tired of working on everyone elses car and doesn't feel like working on his. This is over a months period of him putting it off. Yet he loved cars almost his whole life and even while being a mechanic.

Another friend is just now becoming a mechanic and is making 19 an hour. Good pay when he pulls it in full, but lately he said he's been really slow. He also hates going home and working on his firebird. But he does still enjoy cars.


Mechanics are great, they just rarely enjoy cars as much as they did before beginning because of the whole saying about bringing the job home.

 

Mark,

I doubt that you would find that a successful personal trainer would hit the ceiling at $30,000. There are just way too many variables in life to be able to see them all from college age. I'll bet you would find a lot of little wrinkles that would allow you to build a good business.

One of my younger cousins, Glenn Ballman, became a billionaire at the age of 28. That's right--a billionaire with a capital B! He saw an opportunity in the online marketing of computer products and services and started a company called Onvia.com. He took it public about 2 years later on the Nasdaq, in March of 2000, and made almost $700,000,000 US in about three days. That is over a billion Canadian. He holds the record in Canadian business history for the most money made in such a short period of time. Now he has a mansion in the Cayman Islands, ranches in Arizona, Hawaii and Saskatchewan, an aircraft parts manufacturing plant in Seattle and who knows what else

All Glenn knew was that he loved business, wheeling and dealing, and making projects work. So he took a degree in business at the University of Western Ontario and then became a beach bum in the South Pacific for a couple of years. At one time, when he was 24, he was an assistant coach with the Australian National Hockey Team. Why? Just because he met a guy on a flight ftom NZ to OZ who was in charge of trying to make the project fly and it intrigued him. He had a great time teaching the Aussies how to body check each other and the zillion and one other intricasies of hockey that only a kid who grew up playing it on the Canadian prairies would know. (Now his biggest problem is trying to find a woman who really likes HIM--and NOT just his money. He looks like a young Paul Newman, which both helps and hurts.)

I say go for what you love and things will work out, if you are diligent.

And if they don't, well, you will be able to look back on a life that YOU lived the way YOU wanted to live it. This world is full of people who wish that they had done what they loved doing--not what paid the bills. You only live once, so live it to the best of your ability!

PS Success isn't a ton of money but rather being able to make a decent living doing what you love. Sometimes it only amounts to just keeping the wolf from the door, but that is life from time to time--no matter who you are. Hey, that's an experience you can share with most of the world

 

The best thing I did in High School was play the Violin. Now I Concentrated that talent into playing the guitar and I can pick up playing any song from Metalica, Pantera, whatever. Maybe I should join a band ditch all the hard work and go for the gold to make a billion dollars like your freind. Well I did play once in a club at deep elem. Hehe screw this hard work I want to be a beach man and check out girls all day long!!!:rockon:



>hey I dont see my ride in that pic up there.

 

Play with third gens in third period.....coincidence??? probably so, but I'd like to think otherwise!!

 

yo redbird, can u play eruption by van halen. until the day u do with no flaws u r truly a ***. :hail: all hail the mighty edwardo van halen. he is the second coming of christ. just playin but he does kick some guitar butt!

 

Good to see another Metallifuk Guitarist Redbird! ...as for Vanhalen... he is good, but hes NOTHING compared to Yngwie! Yngwie is ***!!!

 

My cousin made it doing what he loves. He'd still be doing it whether he was rich now or not.

Since you are well into your CPA degree, it would be foolish to let it slip away. But if you really love music then you owe it to yourself to see if that is where your G0D given talents actually are.

Give it a whirl for at least a few years after you are done university

 

yngwie?yngwie!?what!are u mad? eddy is a ***. but i do have to give u credit and didnt say that hendrix was a ***. cause he is waaaaaaaaay overated. good but overated.

 

First off, Im sure youll agree with me when I say Hendrix basically sucks. He is WAAAAAY over rated. As for Eddie, Yngwie could smoke Eddie with one hand behind his back! If youve never heard Yngwies stuff, I suggest you listen to it... then youll realize whos really g0d!

 

though Yngwie IS probably one of, if not THE most pompus, egotistical guitarists/musicians to walk the earth today...

 

hey azure, does that mean that u are an eddie fan as well?

 

if jimmi was the most creative guitarist of the 60's,
and eddy was the most (well-known) of the 80's
and Tom Morello was of the 90's
who was the man of the 70's???

 

thats simple Jimmy Page


:rockon:

hey man, i think Hendrix is good

i think it is Eddie that is overated

Yngwie is cool

but Zakk Wylde...................he rocks :rockon:

 

thats a valid argument

but so far i like what i am doing

and i allways have the option of going back to college for 2 more years and becoming a service manager

 

the man for the seventies was clapton. clapton is great! and i think there is a tie bewteen tom morello from rage with slash from gnr. but tom is more of a developer and developed his own style

 

Im turning 20 in july and now that i look back i think man, i had it good around 14,15. u dont realize how fast life goes by until reality bites u i the @ss, then u got taxes to pay, work to go to, car insurance to keep up etc, now that i work with my uncle at the US patent office its alot more rigorous work at longer hours compared to my previous Trak Auto job.I personally dont like the work im doing but the reason why i chose it because my uncle is my boss(which is cool) at the pay is $13.10 rather than $6.05 at Trak. I know u should be choosing a line of work that u perfer doing the rest of your life, im still searching for that position. The only thing that might interest me is a networking position, so a question for all the network people in here: 1.what are the steps to becomming one 2.how long is training 3. and is pay good.
My favorite lyrics that describe my current position in my life by the band Aerosmith and song called Dream On, "every time i look in the mirror, i see all these lines on my face, the past is gone....."

 

Ace Frehley was The Guitarist of the 70's. And he is still smokin' today. Look at all of todays guitarists that list him as an influence. :rockon:

 

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