Author Topic: Any of you change careers? (Read 3091 times)

Yesterday I found out I failed my personal trainer cert exam. What do you think I should do, Bast? Continue living a meek lifestyle, like your local hermit on the eternal quest for truth, or should I suck it up and get any job I can just so I can be like everyone else, pay bills and with whatever money is left finally get a car and buy mindless video games?

Bast175 · « **Reply #10 on:** June 17, 2009, 05:24:39 PM »

Quote from: slaveboy1980 on June 17, 2009, 05:22:48 PM

exactly

well i'm not a bodybuilder stud. This forum is for 'fitness' as well. I'm 5' 7". If I were a bodybuilder I would look like a tool. I stay light and athletic. Any more questions?

webcake · « **Reply #11 on:** June 17, 2009, 05:25:08 PM »

I'm living the dream...........why would i go and change it?!

ToxicAvenger · « **Reply #12 on:** June 17, 2009, 05:26:18 PM »

i ws a biology major in college....took all the premed classes etc...took a lot of physics on the side..

quit college my senior yr..got bored with it

and i teach IT $:-\$

slaveboy1980 · « **Reply #13 on:** June 17, 2009, 05:27:15 PM »

Quote from: Bast175 on June 17, 2009, 05:24:39 PM

well i'm not a bodybuilder stud. This forum is for 'fitness' as well. I'm 5' 7". If I were a bodybuilder I would look like a tool. I stay light and athletic. Any more questions?

yeah, whats your moms number?

Bast175 · « **Reply #14 on:** June 17, 2009, 05:28:10 PM »

Quote from: figgs on June 17, 2009, 05:24:21 PM

Yesterday I found out I failed my personal trainer cert exam. What do you think I should do, Bast? Continue living a meek lifestyle, like your local hermit on the eternal quest for truth, or should I suck it up and get any job I can just so I can be like everyone else, pay bills and with whatever money is left finally get a car and buy mindless video games?

I'd love to do a creative job like writing, art, etc. I feel I'm good at these things but it's difficult to make a career out of.

People who use personal trainers are lazy; I wouldn't want to train lazy people. Plus I would get sick of the gym very fast.

Bast175 · « **Reply #15 on:** June 17, 2009, 05:29:02 PM »

Quote from: ToxicAvenger on June 17, 2009, 05:26:18 PM

i ws a biology major in college....took all the premed classes etc...took a lot of physics on the side..

quit college my senior yr..got bored with it

and i teach IT $:-\$

i'm a programmer. Haha it isn't exciting, huh?

nzmusclemonster · « **Reply #16 on:** June 17, 2009, 05:31:19 PM »

Gayer than having a career.

ManBearPig... · « **Reply #17 on:** June 17, 2009, 06:36:02 PM »

UPS is my favorite, i'd stick with them.

johnnynoname · « **Reply #18 on:** June 17, 2009, 06:44:18 PM »

Quote from: Bast175 on June 17, 2009, 05:28:10 PM

People who use personal trainers are lazy; I wouldn't want to train lazy people. Plus I would get sick of the gym very fast.

i hate when people tell me how bad they want to be personal trainers.

let me tell you something, personal training is ALL SALES (/spoiler)

you know those car salesmen that do ads on TV- well, if you were to give them a issue of muscle and fitness and have them study it and then give them a shirt that says "personal trainer" on the back and i am willing to bet 1000 dollars that they would make more money than any well muscled trainer with a NASM cert

240 is Back · « **Reply #19 on:** June 17, 2009, 07:27:14 PM »

I used to be a teacher for almost 7 full years. burned out, went back to community college. Got computer certs then MBA.

If you're looking at being a personal trainer, ask coach a few Qs. He makes a great living.

sync pulse · « **Reply #20 on:** June 17, 2009, 08:02:13 PM »

I was an electrical engineering major in school. I broke into local radio in Houston without finishing school and worked at a news/talk station for 24 years. I produced call in shows on a wide variety of subjects(agriculture, gardening, medicine, politics, home improvement, sports) and worked in master control, and after 24 years I was laid off by a famous and widely vilified broadcasting company. I got a job with a small telecommunications company installing microwave links between Verizon cell phone sites. nine days short of one year on the job I was laid off again in February. I have been unemployed since then and have had no luck getting any sort of job...so yeah I have changed careers.

Eisenherz · « **Reply #21 on:** June 17, 2009, 08:09:24 PM »

Quote from: sync pulse on June 17, 2009, 08:02:13 PM

I was an electrical engineering major in school. I broke into local radio in Houston without finishing school and worked at a news/talk station for 24 years. I produced call in shows on a wide variety of subjects(agriculture, gardening, medicine, politics, home improvement, sports) and worked in master control, and after 24 years I was laid off by a famous and widely vilified broadcasting company. I got a job with a small telecommunications company installing microwave links between Verizon cell phone sites. nine days short of one year on the job I was laid off again in February. I have been unemployed since then and have had no luck getting any sort of job...so yeah I have changed careers.

Get a job as a security guard brah, you do jack shit, and when something does happen where you gotta work, you just look the other way cause you dont wanna narc to the popo's and get goons chasing after yourself.
Plus chicks love men in positions that require responsibility.

BayGBM · « **Reply #22 on:** June 17, 2009, 08:24:38 PM »

Quote from: sync pulse on June 17, 2009, 08:02:13 PM

I was an electrical engineering major in school. I broke into local radio in Houston without finishing school and worked at a news/talk station for 24 years. I produced call in shows on a wide variety of subjects(agriculture, gardening, medicine, politics, home improvement, sports) and worked in master control, and after 24 years I was laid off by a famous and widely vilified broadcasting company. I got a job with a small telecommunications company installing microwave links between Verizon cell phone sites. nine days short of one year on the job I was laid off again in February. I have been unemployed since then and have had no luck getting any sort of job...so yeah I have changed careers.

Dr Kincaid · « **Reply #23 on:** June 18, 2009, 03:25:46 AM »

Quote from: figgs on June 17, 2009, 05:24:21 PM

Yesterday I found out I failed my personal trainer cert exam. What do you think I should do, Bast? Continue living a meek lifestyle, like your local hermit on the eternal quest for truth, or should I suck it up and get any job I can just so I can be like everyone else, pay bills and with whatever money is left finally get a car and buy mindless video games?

Just do it again, no reason to turn a set back, like a failure on 1st attempt into a life altering choice.
No quitting. Quiting is something people who accomplish nothing do indulge in.

Marty Champions · « **Reply #24 on:** June 18, 2009, 03:27:58 AM »

Quote from: Bast175 on June 17, 2009, 05:02:00 PM

From one career to a completely different one?

Speak on this.

you need to quit your desk job