What's the Dream Job?
So, I saw Lily_1988 was saying that he works pretty reasonable hours (9-6) and still makes a pretty good salary. So as someone who's still trying to figure out what to do, I"m wondering what would be a job with reasonable hours but still pretty good pay. I don't care about making millions per year down the line, but something where I'm able to get mid to high six figures would be good. As I understand it accounting would be good, but I'm wondering are there any other well known options. Obviously there's no easy path to getting these jobs, but just wondering what some of them are...
LOL pathetic
Don't let money run your life. Find something you like, master it, and the money will come.
+1
+2
How is that pathetic? Wanting a job with good hours that makes a lot of money?
It's not the dream job that is pathetic. It's dreamer that I was addressing.
engineer, doctor, nurse, accountant, work for the cia,
there's a lot of different paths, gotta find what you love to do
My Dream Job: Lay on a beach for 50MM / year.
Haha sign me up.
I will lay there twice as hard for half the money! #capitalism
Regards
I like that one too Connor
A dream job that I'm too afraid of pursuing due to the average pay/low career advancement that I'm ASSUMING is involved: video game reviewer. Of course, every pothead with an xbox wants this job, so it's probably extremely hard to break into and make decent money (how many consistent, big time video game review magazines can you think of?). But, my god, the main reason I've skipped just about every responsible thing I've ever skipped would be my job (not including extra sleep)? And getting drunk/high would more than likely not be a problem at all? Stay late at the office and do what? Play video games/write my opinion on one/interview developers?
sign me up plz
I can offer some perspective on a couple of things...
Doctors tend to make between $150k and $350k (http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/compensation/2011/), although they don't earn that money until they are done with med school (4 years), internship and residency (3-6 years), and possibly fellowship (2-3 years). Doctors don't make anything during med school, and make around $50k during internship/residency/fellowship. I live in Baltimore which, thanks to Hopkins, is teeming with doctors, and I have fucked many of them. They are all motivated by money, and deeply in denial about that motivation. My impression is that medicine breeds cognitive dissonance and solipsism. Cure rates are actually rather low, and an entire book (House of God by Samuel Shem) has been written about how shockingly ineffectual medicine actually is. That said, sometimes, you get to help some people to some extent, and a very few times you get to save somebody's life. (Of course, sometimes, you fuck up and kill people.) But on the whole, you're a government bureaucrat in a white coat, albeit with job security for life. You also don't work that hard. People who say that doctors work really hard clearly know more doctors than roughnecks. Even in the absolute worst of your days - when you are doing 16 hour call every other day in your internship year - you are working 48 to 64 hours a week. The biggest challenge is the intensely mind-numbing nature of the work, which boils down to memorization and pattern recognition. (Deviation from the script a la house would actually get your ass sued and unemployed.) But you have job security for life if you play the rules. About half of all doctors regret doing medicine. Doctors also have the highest rates of suicide and divorce of the professions. (The preceding analysis doesn't vary much for dentistry, podiatry, etc, save that they are less competitive than medicine.)
Engineering/CS is the most balls-out absurdly difficult major in undergrad, ultimately washing out something like 75% of those who try for it. If you got less than a 750 on the math portion of your SAT, you will need a hail mary to get a 3.5 GPA in college. That said, engineering is very meritocratic, and where you went to school isn't all that important. Starting salaries tend to be around the $50k-$80k mark, and companies like Google will typically throw in a bit of bonus also. Careers are very unpredictable. Some folks top out at $150k after a decade or so of experience, and then get laid off because they haven't been able to keep pace with technological progress, usually because they wanted to get laid and start a family. The most technically sharp engineers who devote themselves to their craft can reliably pull $250k at a Google or something like it (factoring in bonus and such). If you get a security clearance, you have more job security in the government sector, though this work is usually regarded as the most mind numbing on earth. You can also switch into management, and reliably make $100-$200k, and possibly $millions. Ditto for going the sales route. And then there's entrepreneurship/startups, where your upside can be $0, $billions, or anything in between. All told, it's a fairly volatile career path, and succeeding in it tends to breed aspergers. As a rule of thumb, if you are in the top 10% of engineering talent in the entire world, it's a great field to get into. But if you're a mid-level performer, prepare to get pounded in the ass by H-1B visas and offshoring (which is why engineering salaries, adjusted for inflation, have been flat for the past 30-40 years). It's sort of like a career as a musician or an actor, where the relatively few-in-number outsized successes obscure the great swathes of people who are clinging to a $90k gig in their 50's. Prestige/sex-appeal in engineering is as volatile as the financial rewards, and it all varies by field. At the moment, being a programmer seems to be relatively cool, but nobody seems to care about aerospace. Hours are volatile also. I have a friend in his mid twenties who pulls around $100k for something like 4-5 hours of telecommuting work a week. On the other end, I know guys who work 50-60 hours for the same money.
Some essential reading for people thinking about programming/engineering: http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/28/silicon-valley%E2%80%99s-dark-secret-i… http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b.html http://www.halfsigma.com/2007/03/why_a_career_in.html
What's the old saying? If it were fun or interesting, they wouldn't be paying people to do it.
Dream job is hitting that point where you no longer need to work but still decide it's worth it to show up every morning. IMHO, it's difficult to hit that when your age starts with a 2.
fucking girls 4 cash
It already exists. It's called being a gigolo.
This.
great post
How was plb13's post a good post at all? It was filled with generalizations, stereotypes and flat out incorrect information. If you think a surgical resident only works 48-64 hours a week, you are sadly mistaken. Just to give you an idea: http://www.journalacs.org/article/S1072-7515%2809%2900223-3/abstract
Professional Snowboarder.
Either do what Jeremy Clackson, James May, or Richard Hammond do.
In America, Hollywood producer: 1. make more than the actors without the paparazzi and all the promotional front of the camera bs 2. exposure to hot actresses that you could possibly nail 3. Bad ass film locations so you would be traveling all over the world 4. free movie studio stuff
In Europe, top-notch F1 racer... nothing else needs to be said on this occupation
Accounting is boring as hell. Come on dude, not at all a dream job.
Find something you like. Money comes afterwards.
freezepop, y u no like me?
anyway, hours have been recently tightened up. that article is from 2009, and all it does is ask surgeons what they think their hours ought to be. predictably, hard dick surgeons want longer hours, leading to higher barriers to entry and better wages in the long run. but the rules are a changing. see: http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2011/08/new_doctors_have_s…
guys, anybody here have a love of poetry? music? literature? theater?
anybody tried to make a living they can support a family on doing that stuff?
point being that love doesnt necessarily lead to money.
there are upsides though. ive never had a better sex life than when i was fronting a rock band. ive also never had less money. i eventually admitted to myself that i wanted a family one day, and that i didnt want a sugar momma. so i sold out and went corporate.
my friends who are still in are still broke, but carefree and banging groupies. still, they are in no position to support a family, but for now, they seem to be cool with that.
but if you want a family one day, i would think long and hard about "doing what you love." is there anything your ultimately going to love more than your family? if you had to work at a boring ass job to provide for your kids, well wouldnt that be worth it? reading these threads on career posts, you tend to find that all careers sorta suck in their own special way. that is, they turn out to not be amazingly fulfilling. well no shit. do you think millions of years of evolution selected for an organism that is more interested in "career" than family?
of course, if you really dont care about family, than yeah, "do what you love." otherwise, it makes sense to choose a career based on pay, hours worked, sex appeal (though modern chicks dont seem to reward your job with sex, viz my slacker ass banging doctors), etc.
Many people aren't going to like this, but I would have loved to be an awesome tenor. Maybe even a director. They make good money and I've loved opera since I was a kid. Unfortunately I have no music skills whatsoever. So it's not only about finding something you like and money will come like some people said, it's about finding something you like and can actually do well.
I wouldn't mind being one of the Top Gear guys like someone said above.
It's ok if many people don't like your "opera" choice. The OP asked about your dream job, so it's about you and don't give a fuck about who like or don't like your dream.
To answer the OP: I'd like to be a fixer like Michael Clayton or a trade negotiator at the WTO.
I've never had a better sex life than when I was fronting the chess club. I've also never had less money. i eventually admitted to myself that i wanted a family one day, and that i didnt want a sugar momma. so i sold out and went corporate.
my friends who are still in are still broke, but carefree and banging groupies. still, they are in no position to support a family, but for now, they seem to be cool with that.
I agree that your dream doesn't necissarily lead to money. I think being a Capitol Hill staffer would be incredibly fun. However, they are not allowed to make more than the Speaker (about $225,000) and that only happens for the very top staffers otherwise expect to be making about 70K at the most for the first 10 years or so, therefore, I realize that other jobs pay better and I'm wondering which one of those jobs have good work hours. Good Work/Life balance...
Any profession that you excel at, people will pay money for. Simple as.
The world doesn't only constitute of corporate types or doctors or musicians that are well off. You have the average Joe who is a kick ass landscaper or event planner who works tirelessly hard to become an expert.
One of the wealthiest guys I have spoken to ran a cab stand for private hire cabs. Went from a fleet of 10 cars to around 100+, each driver which now has to pay around $250 a week for licence/hire and whatever else they make in fares, they keep.
CEO of an E&P company that I started with my buddy, a killer reservoir engineer / geologist / petro-physist, seasoned old school landman and an admin (5 peeps total). Grew from 5 to +100 people and overall an awesome / well organization.
One of my mentors, post getting his MBA from HBS, turned his back on the IB / PE track he was on pre-MBA, rolled the dice, packed up his stuff, moved out west in the early 1990's, started driving around UT / CO / MT / OK / TX kicking the tires on potential leasehold positions in his crappy whip w/ his geologist buddy for 2.5 years , scrapping together quarters to call his wife from from random pay phones, and spent most of his nights in tents out in the boonies (which is actually pretty dope). Now David Einhorn's on his board and is a personal friend. Fucking badass.
I was just thinking the other day that a suburban cop would be a sweet gig. Make about 90,000 - 120,000 depending on the suburb once you become high ranking, then retire after 20 years with 80% pay for the rest of your life, and then can work another more fun job if you want...Also MLB umpire would be sweet, making 400K a year, plus travel stipends plus only work about 9 months a year...
Correction: an MLB ump who doesn't fuck up perfect games...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/02/armando-galarraga-perfect_n_59…
Correction: an MLB ump who doesn't fuck up perfect games...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/02/armando-galarraga-perfect_n_59…]
running a hedge fund
Being a part time partner at a PE firm / part time famous Hollywood actor. And saving the world every other weekend.
I wanna make enough to pull down Kate Upton. Im working on it bro!
Be the front man for Metallica, although I would not like to replace my idol.
F-18 pilot in the U.S. Navy.
VC, Entrepreneur...open up my vegan restaurant, vegan start-ups.
I'm surprised no one actually gave this guy a serious answer
OP these jobs provide a good mix of salary-hours.
Your point #2 is way off. After 5 years you won't be making 150k and you sure as hell aren't going to lateral to be a CFO anywhere. If you're lateraling anywhere decent it will be as a manager,which is a world away from CFO. Occasionally being a sole proprietor as a CPA can be lucrative, but overall that's an EXTREMELY tough route and not very realistic for most people.
Public accounting can be a great career (if u can deal with the boredom), but your points are way off.
My apologies, my second point is a typo..I was thinking one thing but wrote another. What I meant was to transition to industry after making manager at Big4 and then POSITIONING yourself to lateral to a CFO role. Not actually lateraling to a CFO role directly (though it may be possible to become a CFO of a small company/start-up). I assumed 150k all-in with bonus though this seems overly optimistic as I am still in school myself and do not have the experience that the certified users do. I assumed one would be making around ~100k as a Big4 manager and since transitions to industry are accompanied by pay raises, I thought something like 150k all-in with bonus could be possible, however this seems overly optimistic. Sorry for the false representation.
As for the CPA firm, my evidence is mostly anecdotal...the CPA who does my father's taxes worked for the IRS for about 20 years and then started a tax accounting firm with another partner. Pulls in about 200k per year doing taxes, not a bad gig for the hours. Makes low 6 digits working 50-60 hours a week. If you are good and have the right mentality it is something you can pull off - you won't get rich but you can live a pretty comfortable life in my opinion.
Thanks for the serious answer n1cktm, appreciate the help
I gave a serious answer. I currently cook at my house and will start selling my food to some restaurants and health food stores.
Very sad indictment on our future if this is all you guys can dream about. Dream much larger Please!!!!!!!!
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[quote=tonicarol]Very sad indictment on our future if this is all you guys can dream about. Dream much larger Please!!!!!!!!
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That's your first post? Alright then.
[quote=tonicarol]Very sad indictment on our future if this is all you guys can dream about. Dream much larger Please!!!!!!!!
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I would like to be the HBS adcom for a day when Brady4MVPs application arrives.
My dream job is to be a professor of history and/or archaeology at a prestigious university.
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." John Adams
This is my reason for doing what I do. I don't love money, but I want my children to be able to pursue careers for love rather than out of necessity. My grandparents gave my parents a better life than they had; my parents gave me a better life than they had; and I intend to see that my children have it better than me.
^^ Good post.
Now, my answer would be - sit on 2-3 boards of public companies. Each one would pay 100K+, even for medium-sized companies. You need to show up to 5-10 meetings per year per company, do a bunch of reading and research beforehand. Overall, you'd be working less than half of the year, getting paid mid- to high six digits... Running a small hedge fund on a side would be good too. Unfortunately, you'd have to have a great deal of experience and good connections to get to this point...
I would love to get paid to masturbate
Sad, but true part of life. Regardless how much you like doing something, doing it on someone else's dime and time every single day will eventually lose its appeal.
Ha! "I'm in banking."
DREAM JOB- find and marry an attractive chick with a massive trust fund.
You will be her father's dog and he will spit on you whenever he gets a chance.
And exit opps suck.
Guidance Counselor. I don't know what it is but i just love researching admissions criteria for various graduate schools, colleges and professions.
I would love to own multiple small businesses (if it becomes big, i sure wouldn't be complaining haha) or something one day. For example, like buying companies or restaurants that seems to be failing & making it successful. Or buying a property, remodeling it & then, leave it on the market for rent.
Of course, I'd need a loooot of money to even do this so who knows... :/ But I always wanted to be the boss and look over "projects". Ever since I was little, I wanted this - no idea why haha. I guess I'm influenced by my dad cause my parents own a family business & dad does a little bit of real estate on the side.
Is that what PE is? Thank you! :D I had no idea..I was just playing on going into trading cause it has better work hours...hrm, time to do more research haha
Thanks again!
COO of a F250 or Top Gear Presenter
This, Top Gear presenter is a dream job. But honestly I wouldn't want the trio to ever leave the show. In essence this job can't be replaced by anyone else.
running a fat camp?
Bankster + Warlord + Hugh Hefner (-50 years): Endless amount of money. A warlord with UN-approved nuclear weapons for world domination. Endless supplies of STD-free virgins on birth control.
What else? Money + Power + Sex = Happiness. :-)
wow if you guys are going to give joke answers, at least make them funny. this thread fails.
Jdawg, shut the fuck up
Seriously though, I've been a quant for some time & will now be branching off into actuarial science. Better hours, more fun (for me anyway) and you dont need a rediculous GPA/MBA/target-status etc to excel at it.
If you're already a quant, then why the hell would your "rediculous GPA/MBA/target-status etc" matter? That stuff may be important for breaking in, but beyond that I don't see how it really matters unless maybe your quant job sucks and you're trying to lateral.
Actuarial science is a nice, stable paycheck, but IMO the work seems boring as hell. Also there's way too many exams, which is why I never really considered it despite being a math major.
Sorry bro. Hopefully the realization that you're not funny doesn't come as too much of a shock. I guess ignorance is bliss, so maybe I should have kept my mouth shut.
Back Office job...lmao
Haha! Well McGee to each his own.
Established writer for ESPN/Sports Illustrated.
Drink beers with Charles Barkley. Dick around on Pardon the Interruption/Around the Horn. Write columns a couple times a week. Get paid to go to the Super Bowl.
Shit, sign me up.
Charles isn't always there, but check out Koo Koo Room on a Friday or Saturday night if you are ever in the ATL...though I don't think he usually drinks beers.
Funny enough, Clint Eastwood was there the other night...which is the last person you think you would see at a place called Koo Koo Room, lol.
Regards
Feasible dream job - International real estate developer and investor, specializing in resorts and 5-star hotels in exotic travels destinations (Cancun, Caribbean, Rio). Basically, doing what I love in places that I love.
"Want to go back to my hotel? I fucking own the place" would be fun to say to a woman.
Not-so-feasible dream job - The first American-born European soccer star to win FIFA World Player of the Year, and model for Calvin Klien underwear on the side.
LOL @ your Not-so-feasible.
Self-awareness is great for the soul.
I know a guy that runs/owns a construction/development company. He built, at least partially, the' Atlantis, the Palm' resort in Dubai. He loves his job but it can be super hit or miss. He was recently traveling out to San Fran and Hawaii, from Texas, because he was supposed to be building some huge bridge (in Hawaii) but I guess it fell through...or put on hold or whatever.
I think he essentially took over his father's company years ago when things were booming but obviously there's been a lot of slow down. He's not as baller as you might think given some of the projects he's worked on but he lives a pretty sweet life...of course, it was better before his divorce, lol.
I think I would like to do something similar, but can't say I'm passionate enough about it to take the risk...yet. I wish times were better because I could probably get him to bring me on in some capacity and show me the ropes, since the cost would be minimal.
Regards
Jdawg is the official WSO Nazi who goes from thread to thread to tell people that their jokes aren't funny. Must be a pathetic life he leads.
Lol, I've only done it on this thread and to you. You definitely deserved it, but in case you still don't understand why I was so mean to you and hurt your feelings, 1. soccer is the most popular sport in the world 2. you're a dumbass for not knowing who Wayne Rooney is. I kind of wish you'd change your WSO name to something else because you're a huge embarrassment to Virginia Tech.
And you're an embarrassment to the community college you flunked out of.
Run an entertainment agency in Korea or Japan. Churn out some big-name underage popstars. I would do this in the US but if we ran training the same way they did over there, I'm sure my agency would be filed for child abuse.
JDawg, on the point of credentials I was just talking about act-sci as a general career to break into. Obviously I dont need the credentials anymore but if I had known, I would've started as an actuary from the word go. Took ages to get samething decent in banking.
Sure the exams are long but that's what makes the career even more exclusive. Moreover the hours in banking (especially in IB where I started) are far more gruelling & soul-sucking. I'd much rather be studying stochastic models in the comfort my room while lisnin to some placebo than typing a memo for some douchetastic superior at midnight...only to then watch the caveman get some 7-digit bonus @ yr-end...
fund of funds or pension/foundation investment professional focused on choosing managers, rather than actual investments...
Space shuttle pilot. Oh wait.... thanks Obama.
Equity research for casinos would do it for me.
I think most banks called this "Gaming & Entertainment" analyst. There is actually a group for that. One of the analysts at work, covers at strip clubs, and casinos.
Ok yeah I've heard of that, just didn't connect the dots. Sounds like a fun group to cover though
I work about 20 hours a week, 40 weeks per year.. never in the month of July I never start work before 2pm... My job is intellectually stimulating... I set my own hours/schedule... I truly enjoy my rewarding work... I make about 250K per year+ I have great job security.
Guessed it yet?
I'm a private SAT tutor in NYC, where the going rate is $300/hr. Top tutors earn $500+.
Sure the barriers to entry were tough (high SAT score, Ivy degrees)... also I didn't make this much $ from day one...but I love it!!
Next step: hiring tutors to work for me.. making $ in my sleep! :)
Holy shit I had no idea SAT tutoring paid that much. That sounds like an awesome job.
Whatever this guy did for a living:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Fossett
Do you do the tutoring privately or do you do it through Kaplan or something?
Dream job: music producer.
I'm totally not in that field so for now my goal is to set up my own CF boutique and have real estate income on the side.
^^^^ when I was going to school for music, that was my end goal. I talked to the producer of Between the Buried and Me's albums on Myspace before, he said he usually works ~80 hours a week. I'm not sure how much money is left to be made in that field either considering anybody with a little chunk of change and a computer can get pro tools... the need for pro producers will always be there though.
Kaplan doesn't pay.. I'm on my own. I also tutor GMAT and GRE.. :)
Damn... if only I decided to study for the ACTs/not take them hungover.
Dream Job: Movie/T.V Producer..
The official cameraman for TomorrowLand 2012........ i prefer my bananas peeled
http://www.youtube.com/embed/M7CdTAiaLes
This looks better than Ezo and electric daisy.
those stages are amazing ha
also: Electric Forest
POSSIBLY NOT SAFE FOR WORK: DEPENDS ON YOUR COMPANY'S POLICY ON NIPPLE TASSLES
http://www.youtube.com/embed/lOUMmpPP2tc
http://www.youtube.com/embed/2Gla230_pF0
I feel a music festival thread comin' on...
I think running your own hedge fund or PE shop are the clear cut #1s for me. Sucks that neither will probably ever happen b/c by the time I reach that point, the US economy will have collapsed and anarchy will reign supreme.
Of course, all the secrecy of the CIA makes it very intriguing but don't know how someone would ever want to live that life. Can't talk about what you do to anyone, ever. Depending on your position, you're risking your life..all for what? Some old dbag that's not living in reality and wants to cause some international mischief? And b/c of the CIA's extremely compartmentalized structure, you get an order from someone and you can never ask why. You just have to bend over and deal with it, no matter how astonishingly stupid / unethical it seems. Meh, i'll pass
I think being a DEA agent would be cool. Or a guidance counselor. I guess those two are pretty different, but I'd love to do either.
developing high-rises/hotels
^^^well apparently dubstep is old/lame now (dunno what happened), so you you'll probably be seeing less of that, at least in MI
my brother went there last year and he's said that there are secret stages that you have to find hidden in the woods ha... don't know why. But I guess some of the artists playing on those stages were pretty boss too.
3: Actor or Comedian
2: CIA Economic Analyst
1: President of the United States and Motivational Speaker
Honorable Mention: Governor of any of the Top 5 largest states, rapper, or Patrick's job.
Best Job? (Originally Posted: 07/14/2011)
Hey guys,
I know there is a lot of talk on here about what jobs pay the most, get you to an elite b-school, etc. But I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the best jobs for other reasons. Those being: lifestyle, hours, respectable pay, good career track, etc.
What kind of jobs are there? I'm considering Corp Fin just due to the fact that the hours are good and the pay is decent. Will I enjoy it? I'm not so sure...
What ENJOYABLE jobs are there that offer good hours and decent pay? I'm interested in specific companies as well.
Thanks guys
president
The four hour work week
Bumpin for quality answers
trust fund baby
Depends on what you enjoy doing. If you like IB but want more time for family, go for corporate development. Found this thread VERY helpful:
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/the-other-road-corporate-developm…
Trading typically doesn't have the same hours as IB, but if you keep overnight positions, you'll be bringing your work home with you so to speak. Found this thread helpful:
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/traders-lifestyle
[quote=Crazy Ray]Depends on what you enjoy doing. If you like IB but want more time for family, go for corporate development. Found this thread VERY helpful:
//www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/the-other-road-corporate-development-ass…
Trading typically doesn't have the same hours as IB, but if you keep overnight positions, you'll be bringing your work home with you so to speak. Found this thread helpful:
//www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/traders-lifestyle[/quote]
Does anyone know of places hiring undergrads into corp dev in the Chicago area? Also good trading shops? Would love to hear someone from corp dev give their opinion of the industry besides what I have read in that thread.
Prop trading for a not Overly quanty prestige shop... If you are good of course.
Best finance job to get some golfing in? (Originally Posted: 07/29/2013)
What are the best type of finance jobs to get some golf time in each week? Are relationship management jobs best for this? Or would a FA/broker job be better? I have a CFA and am looking to possibly make the switch to a more client oriented role to get some time on the greens and still make good money. Thoughts? I am in a small midwest city for what it's worth.
corpfin at titleist?
Along the same line, I'm seeking a career that will maximize my "personal massage" time.
Any suggestions?
Any kind of sales and business development careers, including the prime brokers that ITF talked about the other day. If you are a good golfer, when you are out in the field with clients, make sure to lose to them in a graceful manner to boost their egos. Better lose the game and win the contracts than the other way around.
wealth mgmt is by far the best. others you may enjoy tournaments, but you could literally never leave the course in pwm.
Definitely trader on the west coast. Leave the office at 3:30 every day.
I hear some prop shops get weekly massages ;)
PWM all the way. If you want to stay in a small town then look for financial advisor roles. Sure, sales sucks but if you are good at it then it really can be a great career.
Back in college I interned at a small advisory shops and they literally worked 30-35 hours a week and golfed every friday. These people were in the twilight of their careers though so I'm sure starting out wouldn't be so pretty
Yes, I would like to stay in the small midwest city. My wife and I moved here from Chicago to start a family, buy a house, etc. So, I'll be here for the long term. Ideally, if I could find a broker/FA that is looking to retire in 3 - 5 years who I could buy his book (that's how it works, correct?) then I would be set. My previous positions have been in securitized and TAA/SAA, so not sure how easy the transition would be.
Commercial Banking Relationship Manager..
or "Business Development Officer"
Entertainer. Some entertainers will have a personal masseuse on their staff.
Dream job? (Originally Posted: 02/15/2011)
If you could have a job, any job, what would it be?
I'm guessing many of you would say something like MD at GS TMT... but curious to see what you think.
As for me, I think Skydiving Instructor in a tropical paradise would be a pretty sweet job. Make a boat load of money off of rich tourists while actually enjoying what I do...
^^^ Look at the guy on top. What a badass.
It was pro surfer for me.
porn star
Sign.
Ninja Turtle
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
If money was not an issue in life, Bartender.
dude i'd be an iron chef
i have had this conversation plenty of times in b-school.
we wouldn't do a damn thing.
anyone who says goldman TMT MD should kill themselves now, or wait until they are at least old enough to rent a car.
Hank Moody.
This
^Yes!
or CIA/NSA
or F1 driver
King of the world
Batman
pro bass fisherman
hitman
james bond
CIA
The dude that tastes Ice Cream for Breyers. He has a 14,000 dollar spoon and taste buds insured for 5 mil. Talk about work life balance.
That guy's cardiologist.
pro skateboarder
CIA
Econ prof.
us ambassador to some country that doesnt blow
President of the United States
This guy:
http://dealbreaker.com/2010/11/the-job-you-want-at-sac-capital-involves…
Or, own a professional baseball team or be an author and write non-fiction sports books like Moneyball/The Blind Side/Soccernomics.
Own a badass restaurant on the beach and just bullshit all day while hassling my awesome chef with my ridiculous culinary ideas. I would do that for 10 years and then sell the restaurant and buy a winery in Napa to live on and hire the best wine maker to teach me to grow the dankest grapes. Always traveling every few months....
Weed farmer. Just sit around and blow tree every day.
own several luxury hotels
Strip Club manager
Bro, I can't think of a worse way to make a living. Can you imagine what it's like to have to manage a stable of dysfunctional meth addicts with daddy issues? Pass.
Gun runner a la Viktor Bout (you know, except for the supplying weapons for genocide part).
Chef.
Own several Michelin star restaurants and hotels
Professor that doesn't have to do research
Ari Gold
This
Jerry Bruckheimer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carter_(character)
stripper
Vincent Chase
Bon Jovi
racehorse masturbator
anthoney bordane or Own a baller BBQ place and some real estate that I can have someone else manage. High CF and then free time a plenty.
OR F1 driver
Cum to think of it, if I could get any job, it would be a blow job....
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