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Title: Any of you change careers?
Post by: Bast175 on June 17, 2009, 05:02:00 PM
From one career to a completely different one?

Speak on this.
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: Switznegger on June 17, 2009, 05:04:06 PM
Let me guess your going into the Smelly Fish Dick career???FFS.
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: slaveboy1980 on June 17, 2009, 05:04:45 PM
From one career to a completely different one?

Speak on this.


haha grow some calves
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: Bast175 on June 17, 2009, 05:07:45 PM
haha grow some calves

Let's see your calves, twink.
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: slaveboy1980 on June 17, 2009, 05:11:00 PM
Let's see your calves, twink.

why are your calves brown?
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: Bast175 on June 17, 2009, 05:13:14 PM
why are your calves brown?

why are your deltoids green?
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: slaveboy1980 on June 17, 2009, 05:19:37 PM
why are your deltoids green?

haha so are your calves still analadjusted?
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: Bast175 on June 17, 2009, 05:21:08 PM
haha so are your calves still analadjusted?

what do my calves have to do with bodybuilding?
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: slaveboy1980 on June 17, 2009, 05:22:48 PM
what do my calves have to do with bodybuilding?

exactly
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: 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?
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: Bast175 on June 17, 2009, 05:24:39 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?
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: webcake on June 17, 2009, 05:25:08 PM
I'm living the dream...........why would i go and change it?!
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: 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 :-\
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: slaveboy1980 on June 17, 2009, 05:27:15 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?
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: Bast175 on June 17, 2009, 05:28:10 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.
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: Bast175 on June 17, 2009, 05:29:02 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?
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: nzmusclemonster on June 17, 2009, 05:31:19 PM
Gayer than having a career.
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Post by: ManBearPig... on June 17, 2009, 06:36:02 PM
UPS is my favorite, i'd stick with them.
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: johnnynoname on June 17, 2009, 06:44:18 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
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: 240 is Back 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. 
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: Eisenherz on June 17, 2009, 08:09:24 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. 8)


Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: BayGBM on June 17, 2009, 08:24:38 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.

:'(
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: Dr Kincaid on June 18, 2009, 03:25:46 AM
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.
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: Marty Champions on June 18, 2009, 03:27:58 AM
From one career to a completely different one?

Speak on this.


you need to quit your desk job
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: Mars on June 18, 2009, 03:32:31 AM
people are not made to sit in little cubicles all day.
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: RJ DRIVER on June 18, 2009, 06:48:37 AM
Desk jobs suck! I went from being a financial adviser to an airline pilot.
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: DK II on June 18, 2009, 07:07:18 AM
From one career to a completely different one?

Speak on this.


changing from crack to meth to paint thinner is not exactly a career change, DW.
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: ToxicAvenger on June 18, 2009, 07:16:09 AM
i'm a programmer. 



i'm strictly a cisco systems guy.....programming requirres wayyy too much patience mang!

i took c++ in college n fotran...never again  >:(
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: pellius on June 18, 2009, 11:26:04 AM
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.

Damn! I too got laid off after 18 years in Aerospace. This was almost 2 years ago. Haven't gotten it together since.
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: YngiweRhoads on June 18, 2009, 11:56:58 AM
Worked 15 years at a shitty blue collar job...though the pay wasn't too shabby.....went back to college and I'm now partnered with a friend of mine to work for ourselves. We scored a nice juicy new contract today too.


Life is good.
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: The.Giant on June 18, 2009, 11:57:11 AM
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. 8)

Security guards are the dumbest people on the planet. I respect janitors more than security guards.
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: pellius on June 18, 2009, 12:18:21 PM
Security guards are the dumbest people on the planet. I respect janitors more than security guards.

QFT. And the idea that working security, which is practically a minimum wage position, isn't going to pull any hotties.
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: vic86 on June 18, 2009, 12:21:15 PM
Im from the Hotel background,on my way of completing diploma in hotel management and catering technology,but always looking for a better working condition,there was around 2 yrs of gap in my education, in that time i worked many jobs,butler, customer service excecutive, sales excecutive,security at various events,,then Fitness consultant,but really hard to figure out whats best for you,maybe time makes one career stable,im pretty much clear on the fact that i wont leave hospitality industry.
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: Eisenherz on June 18, 2009, 01:22:37 PM
QFT. And the idea that working security, which is practically a minimum wage position, isn't going to pull any hotties.

You speaking from experience? No, no you're not,  so just STFU.
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: emn1964 on June 18, 2009, 01:30:09 PM
From one career to a completely different one?

Speak on this.


I really don't feel like talking about it right now.  Maybe one day.  But not today.
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: Eisenherz on June 18, 2009, 01:33:13 PM
Security guards are the dumbest people on the planet. I respect janitors more than security guards.

Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: Reign Down on June 18, 2009, 02:06:46 PM
Gayer than having a career.

translation, the only thing i've had more new jobs than is my father's load dumped on my face willingly.

ta ta
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: badlad on June 18, 2009, 02:16:30 PM
See it as an opportunity...alot of people are 'stuck' in relatively mindless desk jobs and never ever leave them only because they couldn't or wouldn't think outside of the box. If you lose your job instead of trying to go back to the same work (that is if you don't really enjoy it anyway) find something completely different but look for something that also has a future in it. However you probably wouldn't want to listen to me as I went from reasonably entertaining work that was ok paid to a mindless desk type job that is extraordinarily well paid - I thought money would make all the difference but while it has helped ease my pain I certainly don't want to do what I'm currently doing for ever.
I see me becoming a consultant again - it's on the horizon - 3 day work week - 2 days golf - train went I want etc etc. Ah the dream...
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: Bast175 on June 18, 2009, 02:40:58 PM
See it as an opportunity...alot of people are 'stuck' in relatively mindless desk jobs and never ever leave them only because they couldn't or wouldn't think outside of the box. If you lose your job instead of trying to go back to the same work (that is if you don't really enjoy it anyway) find something completely different but look for something that also has a future in it. However you probably wouldn't want to listen to me as I went from reasonably entertaining work that was ok paid to a mindless desk type job that is extraordinarily well paid - I thought money would make all the difference but while it has helped ease my pain I certainly don't want to do what I'm currently doing for ever.
I see me becoming a consultant again - it's on the horizon - 3 day work week - 2 days golf - train went I want etc etc. Ah the dream...

what was the entertaining work you did before?

Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: badlad on June 18, 2009, 02:49:17 PM
well maybe 'entertaining' is a stretching it a little - did a wide variety of things from working in clubs, construction, bouncing, plumber, demolition, basically hands on kinda stuff.
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: Pete Nice on June 18, 2009, 04:07:52 PM
I can relate to you here Bast...
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: shiftedShapes on June 18, 2009, 06:31:25 PM
From one career to a completely different one?

Speak on this.


yes law to entrepreneur, much better, hope to never work for someone else again.
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: pellius on June 18, 2009, 07:55:36 PM
You speaking from experience? No, no you're not,  so just STFU.

I was a guard for 2 years.
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: Kegdrainer on June 18, 2009, 08:07:41 PM
i went from turning a wrench to desk/computer job and worked my way up the corp food chain into wireless network engineering.  5 weeks of paid vacation a year, benefits....the auto dealership I was working at is gonna be up a creek....it was Pontiac/GMC truck.  I would have been laid off so good thing i switched up.
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: figgs on June 18, 2009, 08:42:35 PM
Fuck making a debt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_currency

Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: sync pulse on June 22, 2009, 10:25:29 PM
Damn! I too got laid off after 18 years in Aerospace. This was almost 2 years ago. Haven't gotten it together since.

Electronics?, Air Structures?, Materials?, Mechanics?
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: CalvinH on June 23, 2009, 06:35:30 AM
Right now is the perfect time to quit your job and look for another.
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Post by: Mars on June 23, 2009, 06:50:26 AM
the perfect time to die.
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Post by: The Showstoppa on June 23, 2009, 06:53:41 AM
Right now is the perfect time to quit your job and look for another.

Yes Calvin.  The market is ripe for the picking...
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: Trapper_Slapper on June 23, 2009, 06:58:10 AM
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
Spot on post! When I graduated from high school, I was going to become a personal trainer and there wasn't  damn person on earth who was going to tell me other wise. After doing some internships, I quickly changed my intrests in area of study within a few days.
Title: Re: Any of you change careers?
Post by: Trapper_Slapper on June 23, 2009, 07:01:46 AM
Damn! I too got laid off after 18 years in Aerospace. This was almost 2 years ago. Haven't gotten it together since.
Whoa! Were you government contracted?