Occupation list

[cinda]

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." - Lewis Carroll

We've heard the pharmacy school bit, and the getting rich bit. Now there's law school in the mix. And I, for one, encourage you, if that is truly your passion for life is to be wealthy. But I find a contradiction with all of the education you are pursuing and the desires to make money. Unless you got full scholarships to both pharmacy school and law school (which you might), you'll be drowning in student loans for years that you're pharmaceutical patent lawyer job won't be able to support. You will never get rich working for someone else. With large salaries comes tight strings. I, myself, am not rich, nor do I even know how much money would constitute being rich.

Learn these skills now, and master them over a lifetime:

1) Negotiate. It's not what you know, or even really who you know. It's what you negotiate.
2) Set goals and timelines, then take steps (even small ones) to attain them. Sacrifice all. Even cigars, if you really want that goal.
3) Pursue ideas and dreams. Even the wildest ones. Always. Don't listen to detractors, but know when to quit; accept defeat and move on when the time is right.

You really need some kind of talent to fall back on. What if you flunk out of pharmacy school? Then where do you go, or what do you do? Learn some kind of skill that makes you marketable while you are working on your wealth dreams.

Finally, money does not equal happiness. You won't ever find it there.

Very true..infact thats what I do all day long Negotiate.

[bigwhiteash]

Very true..infact thats what I do all day long Negotiate.

Don't you mean ARGUE?

[cinda]

Don't you mean ARGUE?

I wait to I get home to argue.....

[MarineOne]

I don't tell anyone what I know or what I can do .... at least not anymore.

I had to do a professional assessment (PA) while working for a previous employer which was on a scale of zero through six ..... zero being the basic stuff, 1 and 2 being associate, 3 being manager, and 4, 5, and 6 being senior management, principles, and partners accordingly. We were told that due to the criteria on each level we as associates shouldn't get much higher than 1's or 2's. In order to be a "1", you had to have all the experience they outlined in the "0" and in the "1" categories. In order to be a "2", you needed everything from 0, 1, and 2. And then you filled in any partial experience from higher levels.

Out of 12 different areas, I had nine which were 3's and three which were 4's, with tons of "partial" experience in the 5's and 6's. I had to explain the why's and how's for a couple hours during my review which I found out what the longest review ever done.

For that, I had to thank Uncle Sam's Moving Company and the training I had gotten from my six years on active duty.



Kris

[ashauler]

I spend all day telling college boys with imaginary doctoral degrees how to put the maximum amount of shit in a given space and keep track of it. That way, when they finally get those gazillions they will know how to efficiently store it.

[cigarsarge]

I supervise 11 refuse collectors. We get calls of where refuse might be located. They then go check it out. Sometimes we stumble upon refuse and haul it in. We take it to a large processing center where it is routed to various destinations for disposal. I make sure the collectors do their job within the guidelines mandated by state law and company policy. Guess you could say I'm in waste management.

[kevin7]

I make pharmaceuticals in my shed