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Doctor. The idea of studying human body and saving lives fascinates me. Having said that, i think Docs should be more accountable, like for ex: they could screw up a surgery resulting in a loss of life and no one would even know about it, is something always scares me.
I do exactly that as a break from my other businesses of lighting and network installation. Mining is awesome stuff. You get outdoors, you see awesome views, you can go it solo or with friends, and if you use your brain a little bit, you can make some serious cash in a short period of time. There are tons of BLM lands with abandoned claims just waiting for someone to re-register the claim and open it back up, or land…
I'm trying to figure out where the value is coming from. Are you essentially trading on the difference in metal markets between now and when it was last claimed? Or are you trading on the difference between current mining technology and past mining technology?
Are you working with someone who actually does the mining? Or are you just re-prospecting? How do you test the ground? What equipment do you need?
Mind emailing me? :)
//edit one place where people tend to sell their claims: http://www.icmj.com/properties.php What kind of due diligence do people put into this?
It's interesting that the majority of these answers are professions that pay nowhere near what a software developer's salary would be. If the question were, "What other job would you like to do, if it paid at least as much as software development?" I could probably come up with some creative answers. But even though I'm not particularly driven by money, given that I have a family to support, mortgage to pay, etc., I…
I'd buy a sailboat and take people on tours in Greece. Except I hate people, which is why I work in tech.
>Except I hate people, which is why I work in tech. I once met an older guy who was a software developer and asked him how he got into the field. He said that he'd originally received a doctorate in psychology and was a psychiatrist for years before he realized that most people don't want to be fixed. He said he'd got into programming because, "Computers always want to be fixed."
And now I want to print out and put into a frame what you just wrote.
I still think people deserve a chance though.
I'd be an economics teacher. I'd love to teach High School and/or College economics. Since this is my own fantasy land, I'd be able to set my own curriculum. 1. Why do we work? (Jobs, Businesses, and the individual economy) 2. What is wealth, and how do I get it? (Saving, investment, real estate) 3. Is it supposed to be like this? (Capitalism, Government, modern political economy) 4. Systems Design (If you want to ch…
Higher education in economics quickly ramps up to using actual mathematics. Your curriculum is more in line with high school or International Baccalaureate styled diplomas, with a focus on the "old" philosophical economics.
I feel the math should be used to prove the philosophical points. It's rare that the math actually improves understanding without a novel hypothesis behind it.
HVAC. I love figuring out proper air flow for some reason and have made modifications to the ducts at my house. I could see myself doing that stuff for a living.
For the unacquainted, is the purpose of the modification to improve efficiency, and thus get to temperature faster or reduce costs?
I also did modifications to some ceiling registers because they were never installed correctly and were leaking air into the ceiling of my basement. That helped with the temperatures down there without really affecting anything else in the house.
Recreational vehicle repair. Sales are way up since the industry almost died after 2007/2008, and the manufacturers are producing crap quality in order to satisfy sales demand. It's not uncommon for someone to spend $400k on a new RV and have to take their new purchase back for a months worth of rework -- only to find out there's no service openings for 5 months. What's stopping me is the up-front capital requirement…
Mobile RV repair is extremely common and doesn't have quite the same capital requirements. The challenge is getting set up with a manufacturer to be a warranty specialist. Most of the warranty work required is interior stuff anyway like plumbing, electrical work, cabinet and door re-hanging, re-carpetting, etc. Leave the "roof replacement" jobs to the big shops and you could get started quicker than you think.
How has RV life been for you?