Career tips and self-questions 2012 (Try Not Becoming A Slave Edition)

Tell me if these are good tips and self-questions. Also state what other tips and self-questions one should apply to themself.

Tips:

1. First, you got to be years ahead in how to question yourself on what career is correct for you.

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Self-questions:

1. How many hours a week are you comfortable with doing work?

A) 40+
B) 30-39
C) 20-29
D) 10-19
E) 1-9

2. What city and state do you want to live in? It's important not to be punk'd out of living where you'd like to.

3. What kind of home are you seeking to live in? Motel? Apartment? House? Condo of a Community? Mansion?

4. How much after taxes are you looking to make a year to fit your chosen lifestyle? Yes, it is important to know ahead what expenses a particular lifestyle will cost you.

5. What age do you want to retire at? And how long do you expect to live after that age?

6. What would you like to do for a pay? Work for an employer?...Why? Work for your self?...Why? Both?...Why?

7. Do you like being a morning, noon, evening, night, midnight, or late night person when it comes to doing work?

ADD ON!

 

what is the goal of this test?

 

1) Learn to communicate and network with people. If people do not know who you are and what you do, they can't show up to give you money (or a opportunity)
　
2) Read and follow the principals in the book "Richest man in Babylon", by George Samuel Clason.
This book was written in 1926 and has held up to the test of time. It is a small book that you can get a a used book store for a few bucks, or at a library for free.

3) Start a physical fitness program. It is one of the best ways to deal with stress and you will notice you have more energy.

4) Cut down or eliminate watching TV. There is nothing but crap on anyway.
The Television is an electronic income reducer. Watching a few programs a week for entertainment is fine. But if you are watching more than that you are reducing you income possibilities.

5) Try to have a positive outlook on things. No one wants to hang out with a sour puss.

6) Read a book. Reading is a great way to learn things.

7) Be brutally honest with yourself.

8) Stop going to bars and clubs. If you want to drink go to the liquor store. It is way cheaper.

9) Travel when you get the chance. Seeing other places and people will open your eyes to other perspectives.

10) Never give you word to someone if you do not intend to follow through. Your word needs to be your law, Not following through on what you say effects your ability to manifest things.

11) Constantly challenge yourself. You might be surprised at what you can do.

12) Try to reduce ridged opinions. Be open to new ideas. Perhaps you will learn something.

13) Forget getting rich quickly. It is not going to happen.

14) Set specific goals for what you want. Be open to changing them if a better path comes along.

15) Find your passion or bliss. That is the ticket to happiness and earning.

16) Stop buying things that you really do not need.
　
Mega wealth.

1) get a mentor. It may surprise you how easy it is to contact the very wealthy. Avoid advice from people who have not done what you want to do. If you uncle has never been rich, any advice from him as far as that is basically worthless.

2) Keep your goals a secret. If you tell others they will tell you how it is impossible and likely talk you out of even trying.

3) Toughen up your resolve. Walt Disney went Bankrupt 7 different times before he built his empire.

4) Eliminate any distractions. If it is not getting you closer to you goals, cut it out of your life like cancer.

5) Learn marketing. There are tons of genius inventors that will live in poverty becase they can not get their product to market.

6) Know your weaknesses and seek out experts to assist you in areas you are not familiar with. You cannot know everything.

7) Wealth has an energy and a feeling. Learn the feeling and then learn to express that energy. When I was starting out on my goal to make money, I would sometimes dress in a suit and go to a posh restaurant and go in an order a coffee and spend an hour or so drinking coffee. The coffee with a generous tip cost me about $25. But learning about the energy of opulence was priceless. There are way cheaper ways to do this btw.

8) Volunteer and charity work will allow you to meet and talk to the rich.

9) Never say "I cannot afford this", say that is beautiful, but "I choose not to buy this at this time".

10) Do not hate the rich. If they did it so can you. When a limo drives by point at it and say, "Sweet! That is for me!"

11) Study and learn asset protection. You can actually start making plans for setting up your investments.

12) With the exception of selling things and starting an investment plan, you will never get rich working for someone else.

13) Find a job working for someone who is doing what you want to do. This is not for money, it is for learning the In's and outs of the business.

14) If you are willing to do whatever it takes to succeed, you will. If becoming a actor requires spending 5 years waiting tables at a restaurant, be willing to do 10. You will succeed.

These are a few of the things I can think of. I am sure I left some things out.

Holy crap that was a lot of writing,

 

1. During the summers, I work a 35 hour standard workweek. When there are fires, I sometimes work upwards of 80, with the record being 142. I tend to enjoy doing physical work and camping out, however. I also especially enjoy double time.

2. Rural areas... specifically those with lots of snow, salmon, and mountains. I can't stand being in cities for more than a week at a time.

3. I live in small house with a girlfriend and a friend that is hard up for a place to stay (charity roommate). Ideally I'd build my own timber frame cabin using an Alaskan sawmill... maybe in 5 years.

4. I can live on little, but school is expensive. I make about 50k a year in the best years (less in a bad) in the 4 months of summer.

5. Who knows? I'm a bigger fan of sabbaticals than retirement.

6. I enjoy firefighting... Especially working with chainsaws. Big fire is also fun to play around with. I'm finishing up the last year of a teaching program (career rather than the summer job of firefighting). I'd like to spend a fall commercial fishing as well, although those are harder to come by.

7. I'm a morning person, for sure.

 

Bump.

I think this is a valid thread and would like to see what other suggestions people have to say.

 

1. Know what you want and what you are willing to do to get there. You have to want it enough to taste it. Know realistically what the cost or sacrifice is going to be to achieve it. I do not mean financially.

2. Always plan for the worse case scenario. It allows you to meet the challenges with forethought. You become proactive in solving rather than reactive.

3. Always remember that no matter how talented, successful and intelligent you are, you are only as brilliant as those under you.

4. Never stop learning and exploring. Any idea is always better than the one you did not listen to.

5. Know your weaknesses and surround yourself with those that compensate for them.

6. Treat those you deal with respectfully as chances are at some point they are going to be in position to either assist or hinder you.

7. Be realistic with a business plan as the time line must be realistic and attainable. No business plan is implemented and runs smoothly and it has to be constantly evaluated and amended to current situations. Flexibility is necessary.

8. Solve issues and then solve what went wrong. Learn from that instead of that being the focus.

9. Use caution when needing either expertise or backing from any person or company as then you share their reputation. Be very sure that exactly who they are is what you wish to have attached to what you are doing.

10. Spend the money, even if it is a difficult amount at the time to hire the professional service that you will need. It saves money.

11. If you employ people, hire the best you can. You also need to hire those that you can work with. There is no point in hiring someone who you can not work with. It does not matter how good they are, if they are not compatible.

12. Terminate the employment of anyone who you feel you can not trust.

13. Believe in what you are doing. No one else is going to.

14. Depending on your business always have a contractual non compete clause.

15. Trust no one.

16. Always make yourself indispensable. Learn all aspects of your business and be able to reasonably function in them. At least enough to recognize be able to judge what is or is not working.

 

Good information Heat.

I am sure the OP can use it.

 

1. I don't have a problem with working 40+ hours each week. Pushing 55+ is too much though. Time of the year can change my thoughts though. I tend to take most of my vacations in the winter due to my hobbies. Either way it depends on my job. If i'm making damn good money and i'm not letting stress get to me, then bring it. I want money. These days the only way's that save's ya, pays ya. I'd rather work harder now and retire with more free time later. Work hard party harder.

2. I don't want to live in a very urban city. New York, Miami, Los Angeles. Honestly BIG cities on an ocean edge is just a bad idea. I love to drive fast so that needs to be there. I want to drink the water from my own well. Once you have had pure pure water you wont want to live with something else. I love the city life in its own way but I also feel the same for the country. Location is tough and im in the middle that decision right now.

3. I want a house with my dogs, a garden, and a garage. Nothing fancy but it will be nice. Ever been in a huge house that was just ugly? Ever been in a house that was smaller but beautiful? I'll take the smaller.

4. It's hard to answer that right now. I have to fill other priorities before i can answer. Ask this question again in five years (i better know!!!).

5. Retire at 50. How long you will live? Shit i don't know. My family has friends that have abused there body for years and they are now in there 60s. I can think of a few people who were very very healthy and passed not long ago. The how long will we live question doesn't matter. Do what you can when you can while you can.

6. I would love to do something in medicine. I was very sick throughout my childhood. Going to doctors I always felt I knew when a doctor was talking through experience vs books. I feel we need more doctors that want to help because they have been there. Not what the $300 biology book told them for the MCAT. Unfortunately education is just as greedy as most politics. Money strips the best of people sometimes.

7. I've worked graveyards and won't do it again. If i could get up at 5am and go to bed at 10pm that would be ideal. In the winter its 7am to 12am. hehe

peace

 

as long as one limits one's perceptions to what others claim to know, one is as much a slave, as in any other use of the word.

1: everything i do is in some sense my "work". none at present is being done with intent to seek reward in symbolic value. so, all, none, and everything inbetween, could serve as an answer. however, not more then half of waking hours, and with regular and frequent pairs of assigned rest days, something like 4 hours a day, 4 days out of a 6 day week that is 1/3 of a 19 day solar month would be ideal, and entirely suffice, were it the universal norm, to accomplish everything that each other depends upon actually needing to be done.

2:the kind of place i would like to live is not particularly defined by geographic location, but more by elevation, climate and sociopolitical ambience.

3: the kind of living arraignment i'd be most comfortable would be a very small cabin or cave, surrounded by a natural setting in which i was permitted to arrange as i find aesthetically gratifying.

4: symbolic value itself is of little or no pertinence to my gratification. exploring and creating is, and the means of doing so is of far greater gratification then the means of impressing anyone.

5: retire, at birth or never, again all depending on how you look at it. i'm 62 now, so the question is almost moot.

6: again, "pay" misses the point. what i would like to do, is without stress create and share what pleases myself, and hopefully others.

7: i prefer being a person who gets as much sleep as feels sufficient, fallowed by as much time awake as is gratifying, fallowed by again as much sleep as feels good. none of it being tied to time of day nor hours on a clock.