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I heard making nukes for a living could be hit or miss....
Urblock was making bank in the 80's.
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Urblock was making bank in the 80's.
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Since I am a programmer I have all kinds of ideas if I ever won the lottery and could essentially pay myself.... mostly ideas for developing video games, start out small with a few good programmers I know and have fun with w/e I decide to build.... this is assuming ive won millions and its not vital to pump out games for profit like some of the studios out there.
Some awesome games have resulted from people who work on them on their own time and do it for the love of creating it rather than in order to meet a deadline.
Mount and Blade was a game developed over several years by a husband and wife who built most of it just the 2 of them on their own time, and now they have a successful product and their own studio and a team of people behind them.
There are also many mods for games which are done 100% non-profit, over years, and they are far better than the original creation.
Thats what I would want to do if I were to employ myself.... but it is not a feasible option without a lottery of seed money or something like that.
Some awesome games have resulted from people who work on them on their own time and do it for the love of creating it rather than in order to meet a deadline.
Mount and Blade was a game developed over several years by a husband and wife who built most of it just the 2 of them on their own time, and now they have a successful product and their own studio and a team of people behind them.
There are also many mods for games which are done 100% non-profit, over years, and they are far better than the original creation.
Thats what I would want to do if I were to employ myself.... but it is not a feasible option without a lottery of seed money or something like that.
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So, you've been playing the lottery right?
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I have a similar dream but my business would be to run a campground.
We have a permanent site at a campground close to our house and the current owner took it over from his parents when his dad died and his mom retired.
He’s a decent guy and we really like the place but it’s in desperate need of somebody with a lot of extra money to invest into the place and make it really great.
There was a time where we had to book sites months in advance for holidays because we knew they would be sold out. Then they had some flooding problems with the river that runs through it and haven’t had the same amount of campers since.
There’s a campground in Wisconsin that I basically grew up in that’s done nothing but expand for the past 20 years. So there’s certainly a market for it.
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Where the **** do you work? Sounds awful.
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I will never understand why so many people go into business, the field that seems to have the highest proportion of unhappy employees and shit corporate jobs.
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It's better than teaching lies.
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Teaching isn't my job.
Anyway, I always thought developing a skill doing something that interests you is so much better than going into business.
But is seems like the business school is always the biggest in colleges. Is it cause people think its fast money? Do people think its easy?
Anyway, I always thought developing a skill doing something that interests you is so much better than going into business.
But is seems like the business school is always the biggest in colleges. Is it cause people think its fast money? Do people think its easy?
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My work has "bluejeans fundraisers" where you can wear jeans if you give money to a charity. So I break out my denim bush hat and duster.
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Well I may have been exaggerating somewhat for dramatic effect.
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If we contribute so much to the United Way (our company's main charity), you get to wear jeans all month long in December.
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Money and circumstance....
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Big corporations can suck the life out of you. People do it for the benefits and the money but little else. When I look back at the thousands of nights I spent in hotels or customer dinners with people I didnt like or driving in blizzards to get to meetings
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My career advice to kids is always to find something you are interested in and develop a skill that involves it. Whether its computers, medical industry, science, construction, whatever. Start with a skill. If that develops into a business, then so be it. But you don't want to be one of the masses of businessmen that begin from the business end in search or an idea or product to hock. You will probably end up a cog in some bs machine that way, basically kissing ass for a living.
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On a slightly related note, am I the only person in the world that would rather wear Khakis than bluejeans? I think they're more comfortable. :shrug:
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Alot of people use business school to run their own business. It gets you connected to others who are learning similar skills and forces you to work with them to achieve goals. At least in the MBA program. Like me for instance, I got my bachelor's in an area I love and am getting my MBA to learn the whole business picture. As for pure business undergraduates, I really don't know the motivation behind that. I don't get loving "business" enough to make that my college major.
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Oh, no doubt. I guess I meant more in the office setting. Apologies.