OT: What do you do for a living?, are you happy? |
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OT: What do you do for a living?, are you happy? |
Aaron Cox |
Oct 31 2004, 02:05 PM
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Professional Lawn Dart Group: Retired Admin Posts: 24,541 Joined: 1-February 03 From: OC Member No.: 219 Region Association: Southern California |
hey guys, what do you all do for a living?
-what education did you go through? - do you enjoy your job? help me find a good career (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) by giving me info about yours (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) |
campbellcj |
Oct 31 2004, 09:15 PM
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I can't Re Member Group: Members Posts: 4,550 Joined: 26-December 02 From: Agoura, CA Member No.: 21 Region Association: Southern California |
Since college (they tell me I have a degree in quantitative economics or some such shit - I barely remember) I've worked for a small enterprise software company. We build asset management apps for large high-tech companies and govt agencies. I married the owner's daughter, and now am pretty much the head cheese around the joint. Funny how that works...although it HAS taken 15 years of sweat equity with plenty of 7-day work weeks and some major bumps in the road along the way. (Like last year when my main developer suddenly keeled over dead from a heart attack right in the middle of a massive project. That sucked for me almost as much as him! Well, not quite.).
I wouldn't trade it for anything overall, although clearly a small family biz has its ups and downs -- especially when the bank account is down and you've gotta scrape to make payroll and fend off the landlord. But when a small biz is good, it's really good and sure as HELL beats working somewhere where you have no personal stake, no freedom, and an artificial "cap" on your income or upward mobility. I think entrepeneurship may be partly genetic: my wife is currently starting up her own gig, my mom and one brother and his wife run another small biz, my bro-in-law does as well, and my other brother is a "from day one" manager in a VC-backed silicon valley firm. Well, maybe what's genetic is INSANITY, but honestly we are all well-fed and happy 98% of the time. |
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