Wondering if I should go back to granulate school

[xoxoxoBruce]

Build boats, little boats with extravagant price tags for wealthy people. Boats for people too busy making money to use it, but want the bragging rights that come with a high priced boat, and since they aren't going to use it why go to the trouble of storing a big boat.

[Griff]

Bruce is spot on.

[Pete Zicato]

Have you taken a career test lately? If not, it might help. Contact your local junior college. Most of them do career counseling for no or low cost.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Ft3, have you thought about going into "industrial design"?

I'd love to do that sort of thing, not sure how I could get into that field w/o an ID degree. I know I'd be great at it though.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Build boats, little boats with extravagant price tags for wealthy people. Boats for people too busy making money to use it, but want the bragging rights that come with a high priced boat, and since they aren't going to use it why go to the trouble of storing a big boat.

It's a deceptively small market and w/o creating a highly desirable brand no one would want to pay the premium price, and puts me back in the spot I am in now, namely I would have to market myself and I haven't got the cash or time or chops to do that. The appeal of a regualr job is not having to do all the cold calling/marketing. Another problem with that line of work is that like woodworking and photography an awful lot of the people with the money and interest fancy themselves as weekend hobbyists who want to get their hands dirty.

Originally Posted by Griff

Bruce is spot on.

see above

Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

Have you taken a career test lately? If not, it might help. Contact your local junior college. Most of them do career counseling for no or low cost.

Funny, I took a career test right after graduating and of the top ten careers they outlined for me, I had already done 9 of them. The only thing I hadn't done was be a detective.

It was really uncanny. I wonder if my aptitudes would have changed since then.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

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But I still wonder if I should go back to school to get a better degree.
Now I kind of wish I HAD gone back to school 6 years ago to become and MRI tech when I had the chance.
I'd be just about done by now.

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

I'd love to do that sort of thing, not sure how I could get into that field w/o an ID degree.
I know I'd be great at it though.
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[/Coaxing mode: intense]

Famous last words ?
One is regret, the second is optimistic confidence.

Any degree is primarily a credentialing "union card".
It just gets your foot in the door.
So an AA from your local community college is an easy first step,
especially if some of your photography income can be maintained for a couple of yrs.

[/Coaxing mode: off]

[wolf]

I just took one of those free career tests. It was very long and detailed, and required signing up for a lot of spam mail and then discarding offers for stuff I don't want or need.

Anyway, when all was said and done ... it told me that I wouldn't be suited to my current profession because I'm insufficiently sensitive to the plight of the homeless and don't care about other people, but that I might consider becoming a professional athlete.

(I also scored high for tech jobs like computer programmer or highly skilled jobs like doctor).

[xoxoxoBruce]

I still think boats.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Funny, I took a career test right after graduating and of the top ten careers they outlined for me, I had already done 9 of them. The only thing I hadn't done was be a detective.

Well, then, it's elementary, dear Footson.