Technical High School.
AKA do a trade and normal school.
So, sorta like a highschool/college I guess.
Congrats. I've got a deep respect for tradesmen.
Leafsnail: It's not like having straight A's are fantastic grades is an excuse for not knowing what you want to do in the future. Straight A's are a piece of cake. They also don't mean anything out there in the real world. In fact, what you'll see is that people look at successful people first, then look at their past and see "wow, this genius had straight A's in all his classes". The best part is when they look at a successful person and then look at his past and go "wow, this amazing billionaire failed everything in school, school system must be wrong!" Did you not do anything in your life so far that made you go, "wow! I can do this forever since I'm so 'effing good at it"?
Sofia: See, that's a good goal. It doesn't have to be grandoise or exuberant. It doesn't have to be detailed. But having a goal is fantastic. A set goal that you can never achieve is the best, so you will never stop working towards it and fall into pointlessness. When you have a "what", the "how" follows easily. Good on you.
Martian: You might want to consider neuroscience. It's practically the same field, except neurology lets you prescribe medicine and essentially turns you into a psychiatrist instead of just a normal psychologist (who inevitably becomes known as a counselor). You get far more interesting cases and much higher pay though it does take a lot more work. Furthermore, there are a lot, lot more psychologists than there are psychiatrists, even to the point where it has become joke fodder for sitcoms. Food for thought.
Zironic: I'm perfectly fine, thank you.
Sean: It may sound vain and silly to you guys but I'm just so damn good at generating money from unbelievable sources and arbitrage opportunities. Yeah, I'm 100% sure. No doubt whatsoever. I made my first 10k back in Jr. High selling Pokemon cards. FAKE Pokemon cards. My current job is a Teacher Assistant making a pathetic sum and I have zero investments but I still generate a substantial income from all these externalities. I'm a landlord with 5 tenants in a large house and I live without mortgage and rent free and I still haven't graduated from my Finance degree. Making money is like breathing to me. There are geniuses in this world who can solve advanced mathemathical equations in a split second. I can solve advanced NPV > 0 projects in a split second. I really doubt if my purpose isn't to rip off everyone's money.
It's not that I'm materialistic, far from it as the only material things I like are food and games, or really really need to be rich. I'm just good at it. I couldn't care less if I lost it all tomorrow. It's part of the charm. It's fun for me. I love it. The chase of making money. That's how I know it's what I'll do for life.
Barbarossa: What kind of post high school education uses high school credits to grant you a degree?
Wiles: That's a goal too. To do nothing. It's perfectly fine as well. It's quite honourable as well, to transform into a spectator of the world.
Zai: To the best of my knowledge, I can only classify myself as a businessman. I don't do investments. I may do finance as my major but I totally don't believe in the stock market or any derivatives or currency exchange. I don't have a specific field because I've made money doing fricking everything. I can make money doing anything. It's not like I have a specific draw towards a certain field. I don't work for anyone. I just create income doing whatever works at the moment. It can be buying over an entire apartment just to sell everything inside for profit. It can be acting as an agent between Chinese students and professional proofreaders and collecting a commission on every paper proofread. It could be getting a job in a bakery to learn how to make fancy cakes before quitting in 3 weeks and selling my own damn cakes at cheaper. It could be trading on Intrade prediction markets and making $40 000 on a short sale that the US will bomb Iran by December 2009. What do you call what I do?
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