To not have to worry about anything except to think up new ways to have fun everyday. To walk in your garage and ponder which exotic sports car to drive that day. To travel the world and have threesomes with beautiful girls every night....sometimes I wonder.

same here, except the threesome part.

Ya, I just threw that in there to appeal to everybody.

What are you going to school for wotnartd?

a lot of people I know are going to school for mechanical engineering so how are YOU going to get rich at it?

Try $97k starting out as a Pharmacist :D


if I can stand that much school that is

I was offered 96K a year about a month ago working as a heavy equipment mechanic but I enjoy being a Marine too much so I don't think I'll do it.

Easy, average of $50k starting salary for MEs coming from my college.
I was making that before coming to school for ME.

I could go back to my old job and make more then that if I really wanted to. But... working for a living is for the fucking birds. I just wish I could have enough money in my bank so I wouldn't have to worry about paying for school. Going to wind up with student loans methinks :rant:

50k is not much money when you're making it. It may sound like it at the moment, but trust me you will want alot more. I've got a summer internship lined up right now as a senior market analyst making about $40 an hour, and that doesn't seem like enough. When you've got loans, payments, and have expensive taste, it's a necessity to be making 6 figures.

"expensive taste," lol. I hear ya man.

^ It really isn't that IMO.

It is that you get used to making that much and your spending habits shift to take up the "slack." When I first got my last raise I pulled an "OMFG I have a shitload of money left over each paycheck." But it didn't take more then two months forr that "shitload of money left over" to start vanishing into my toys. And once you get used to being able to spend a certain ammount of money per paycheck, it gets hard taking a paycut.

Try $97k starting out as a Pharmacist :D


if I can stand that much school that is
If plans A and B dont work out, I'm going back to school for that. I only need about 24 credits in biology and other related classes to be able to attend a pharmaceutical school that's located 10 miles from my house. I took some science/biology classes in college to fill up my general education requirements.

I better read their brochure again to make sure I don't need a BS to attend.

Mechanical engineering... I'm not good at math though... so, who knows these day.

If you're planning on getting rich by becoming a mechanical engineer, I'd start playing the lottery if I were you.

What kinds of jobs can you get if you got a maketing degree? I'm looking at international commodity trade but I have no idea how you would start in that, anybody got some advice on how that works?

If plans A and B dont work out, I'm going back to school for that. I only need about 24 credits in biology and other related classes to be able to attend a pharmaceutical school that's located 10 miles from my house. I took some science/biology classes in college to fill up my general education requirements.

I better read their brochure again to make sure I don't need a BS to attend.

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos079.htm

explains it better than i can

Thanks for the link.

Np, I cant even look at my advisors office without somebody telling me to go check that site

Sometimes, it's not what you know, it's where you go. For example, I go to one of the best engineering colleges in the country, which gives me a leg up for advancement as well as placement. If I get a specific enough degree under the mechanical engineering field, I could bank $125,000, not even joking. Nanotech is amazing.

I know guys that even got signing bonuses...

$125,000 does not make you rich (unless you're living with your parents whilst you make it). I'm not saying that you wouldn't be living a good life or anything, but if you want a helicopter, you're coming up short, big time.

A couple years ago, my mother had a great year, pulling in just shy of $300k and I do not consider her to be rich.

^ It really isn't that IMO.

It is that you get used to making that much and your spending habits shift to take up the "slack." When I first got my last raise I pulled an "OMFG I have a shitload of money left over each paycheck." But it didn't take more then two months forr that "shitload of money left over" to start vanishing into my toys. And once you get used to being able to spend a certain ammount of money per paycheck, it gets hard taking a paycut.


I would agree with this 100% Seems like the more money I make the more things I can think to spend it on. Took me a while after I got a 'real' job to realize how to manage my money. I used to save and save, then I started making money and it was spend spend

There comes a point where no matter what you buy, how much you buy, how often you buy it, that you always have money left over. That tip over point where you can buy whatever you want, and not WANT anything else, and have money left over, is when you are rich.

For me, when I started working I was living on $1200 a month. That made my car payment, paid my bills and kept me fed, thats it. When I started in the car business I Was like HOLY SHIT I just made $3k in one week. After 3 months I was spending it all on fixing the 7, buying crap, fixing the house, etc. Now I'm back in school again, working for my family living on $1600 a month, but my rents paid for, and I have no expenses. Still though, it's weird for me not to go out and buy whatever I want. I almost quit school though last month when my boss called and offered me HIS position b/c he was leaving...I would have been making $8k a month. Not bad for a 22 year old with a degree in criminal justice.

What kinds of jobs can you get if you got a maketing degree? I'm looking at international commodity trade but I have no idea how you would start in that, anybody got some advice on how that works?

Take 2 more years and get an MBA concentrating in marketing, you'll be in a much better position afterwards to make big money. Right out of undergrad marketing is a touch degree to sell since you generally have no experience in quantitative analysis and decision making, which is at the core of successful marketing. Most people who tried marketing right out of undergrad end up working shitty sales jobs, or doing promotions for Verizon. Either way, you're not gonna be making much more than 30k a year.

If plans A and B dont work out, I'm going back to school for that. I only need about 24 credits in biology and other related classes to be able to attend a pharmaceutical school that's located 10 miles from my house. I took some science/biology classes in college to fill up my general education requirements.

I better read their brochure again to make sure I don't need a BS to attend.


I hope you adore chemistry.. lots and lots of chemistry :|

p.diddy said it best.

"more money...more problems"

I'd like to just be comfortable. WHich is hard as hell to accomplish in New York.

bah... it isn't just being "comfortable"

the way to look at it is this:

being "rich" is when you have enough money to afford the things you want to afford and enough time to enjoy them.

I had the money, didn't have the time.

Chemistry is easy. :) It's the Calculus class that has me worried.
:werd: Calculus=pointless took it in high school, not looking forward to round 2

Obviously you have not endured the hell on Earth that is Organic Chemistry. I did well in calc, but I like math, and I HATEhatehatehatehate chemistry :/

I havent but at least it will have some effect on my future job, unlike calc, which is the most utterly worthless thing on the planet

Yeah i managed a B, barely, in AP

cant force myself to focus on something I know ill never use

Calc is simple shit, its just basic algebra applied to complex ideas.

Chem on the otherhand :cussing: I'm going ot be lucky to pull a C in chem this semester.

rich or wealthy?

remember what chris rock said

"there is a difference between wealthy and rich.... Shaq is rich, the guy that signs Shaq's checks is wealthy"

there is a big difference in the way of life from wealthy to the rich

Is there anyone on here that is good at both Chem and Cal?

I don't hate chem because I suck at it.. I make all right grades in it (A's, except for Organic >:l). I just hate it because it bores the living hell out of me

nerd! :D

I can't help it :(

Calculus = soul sucking.
I could not agree with you more.

Fsck calculus.