re: I'm making a career change. Any ideas?

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If you decide to go into fetish porn make sure it's written in your contract that you always have to wear a mask.

Then you go back to get your EE degree with a couple hundred grand in your pocket so your family doesn't suffer.

Get a job at google designing electrical systems and drones and shite.

Invite your coworkers over to your new house for a pool party and brew dogs.

There's gonna be a couple dudes there that recognize that tat on your arm from somewhere they can't quite pinpoint. If you're lucky, they'll chalk it up to déjà vu. If you're not, then atleast you wore the mask and you can deny and call the dude a creepy perv and you have leverage on that dude.

Wait til he does something revolutionary and blackmail him.

Kill him.

No witnesses.

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Franchising or small business ownership.

Unfortunately, politics is involved in most every job unless you're working for yourself.

I work small business and there's a ton of cash to be made with complete autonomy over decision-making and living in the rural south. I'm constantly trying to figure out ways to grow business and make more $$$ and I enjoy the smaller setting.

Good luck. From what I have read it takes a certain kind of person to enjoy it...and a lot of people are put off by the beginning of the career which seems to just be an Excel jockey.

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nteresting post. What kind of job titles do these positions have?

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The titles are essentially meaningless. You are a physical commodity trader. Not like the electronic kind where you are buying and selling futures and options.

You've got a client with a feed mill in Sitchuan China. He needs 5 containers of soybean meal per week. You have to buy it and work out the logistics of getting it to him, and keep all the documents straight.

A typical split of profits is 1/3 to you, 1/3 covers your overhead, and 1/3 goes to the stockholders of the trading house who's money you have at risk.

Job title might be something like: Category Manager, Forest Products. Or Animal Feed. Or whatever you are trading.

It's all about the money, not the titles or the politics.

Honestly, you can start by spending some time on Alibaba. There are a lot of people who trade there in their spare time.

One piece of advice I would give you is to pick something you know something about and can bring some value. Most people try to make money the easy way by handling everything online and never touching anything. You can separate yourself and make some extra money by getting personally involved.

As an example, you can go to Alibaba and find people in Asia who want maybe one container of 2x4 lumber, as an example. Most sawmills won't fool with am order that small, and most will not sell to a foreign buyer.

But maybe you know someone who knows someone in management at the sawmill. Or maybe you knock on their door and tell them you want to break into the export business and are trying to learn it one container order at a time. They will probably respect and admire that.

So you get them to sell you 18,000 feet of lumber. Have them set it out in the parking lot out of the way somewhere. The call for your container. The lumber bundles will be in dimensions suitable for a flatbed, not a container. So to load the container efficiently you are going to have to break down the bundles and re stack the lumber to fill the inside of the container.

Along the way document and photograph each bundle. Manage all the paperwork yourself. You will learn a lot. On a trade like that, with you loading the container and doing everything yourself, you ought to be able to make $1000.

You can do something like that on the weekends and learn your way into it. What you will soon figure out is that the commodity is just a place holder you are really in the logistics and finance business. Lumber, corn, DDGs, recycled paper, scrap metal. It all trades and you can make money in whichever commodity you have am interest in.

If I'm not mistaken you have to pass the first two before you can begin the work.

Advice: Don't quit your current job until you find the next one - do school at night or online.

I feel like it has something to do with Aladdin.


eta: Prince Alibaba LINK

Mainly consumer lending. Dont have any authority though, I just take the app and someone else makes the decision