Internet, give me your advice!

[Nique]

In this thread you tell Nique (that's me!) what he should be doing for work/ what type of career he should pursue as an alternative to the current pit of despair that is tech support. Outline your proposal with a 4-5 or whatever step plan on how to make my way into your suggested field.

My destiny is in your hands! :ohdear:

tl:dr - hate my job, gimme funny and/or real suggestions on what I should do when I grow up.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I need a research assistant. Basically your job wil be to push buttons and turn dials like a monkey and to tke screds of numbers and put them in charts for me. Sound fun?

Or you can code stuff I guess but my requirements border on insanity/possibility

[krogothwolf]

Gigolo

[Specterbane]

1) Go to clown college

2) Become clown

3) Usurp Pennywise's power over clown.

4) Use power of clowns to take over world

5) Stomp out any rebellions with a long toed red boot

Repeat 5 as often as needed.

Seriously though what kind of stuff do you think you'd enjoy doing? See what the job requirements are for those and work to fill those. There's lots of jobs on Monster and Careerbuilder to do research on.

[Amake]

1. Abandon dignity.
2. Get welfare.
3. Write a book.
4. Profit!

[TDK]

Open a bar.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

1. Burn all bridges.
2. Move to mountain.
3. Grow beard
4. Meditate.
5. Become one with nature.
6. Destroy economy with limitless resources.
7. ????
8. Profit is obsolete.
9. Love.

Note: You can do step 3 at the same time as 4 or any time before that.
Females can skip step 3 if they want.

[Darth SS]

Open a bar.

During every man's life, he will have a conversation with a friend where they decide that opening a bar is a good idea.

It is not. Neither is starting a band.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

During every man's life, he will have a conversation with a friend where they decide that opening a bar is a good idea.

It is not. Neither is starting a band.

But we have free access to liquid nitrogen and pure ethanol!

[Aldurin]

1. Claim yourself to be in a minority.
2. Get yourself fired from your job.
3. Sue company for discrimination.
4. Use earnings to run for Congress and become the main swing vote.
5. Accept any and all bribes and buy an emergency space ship if the FBI tries to arrest you.

[EVILNess]

1. Claim yourself to be in a minority.
2. Get yourself fired from your job.
3. Sue company for discrimination.
4. Use earnings to run for Congress and become the main swing vote.
5. Accept any and all bribes and buy an emergency space ship if the FBI tries to arrest you.

I think I have seen that movie!

[Nique]

1. Claim yourself to be in a minority.
2. Get yourself fired from your job.
3. Sue company for discrimination.

I want this like so hard.

[Amake]

During every man's life, he will have a conversation with a friend where they decide that opening a bar is a good idea.

It is not. Neither is starting a band. But if no one did, then there would be no bars or bands?

[Aldurin]

But if no one did, then there would be no bars or bands?

No place to get drunk and no way to drown out your significant other's voice? Nooo!!

[Amake]

I could live without bars, but do you realize that bands do more than play loud concerts? If no one started bands there would be no music. Except by solo artists. Imagine if Madonna and Nine Inch Nails were the only musicians in the world. And then forget about it because they have backup bands and one man bands. Imagine if Insane Genius was the world's only musician. (Hi CC.)

[EVILNess]

Quit. I know people will say that it isn't always that simple, but unless you have absolutely zero skills and no prospects or have a dependent counting on your paycheck to live then it really is.

If it makes you unhappy and there is no concrete reason to keep doing it, then why are you still doing it?

Letting work drive you to suicide is such a far out notion to me. If it's that bad, then stop.

At the very least look for another job while you continue to work the one you hate, find one, and then tell the old employers to fuck off and die you don't need their damn reference.

In short, quit. Life is too damn short for you to piss and moan about your job.

[P-Sleazy]

I could live without bars, but do you realize that bands do more than play loud concerts? If no one started bands there would be no music. Except by solo artists. Imagine if Madonna and Nine Inch Nails were the only musicians in the world. And then forget about it because they have backup bands and one man bands. Imagine if Insane Genius was the world's only musician. (Hi CC.)

There's always Haley Dries (http://www.haleydreismusic.com/).

[Professor Smarmiarty]

All music would be produced by lone men on synthesizers and it would be glorious.
The synthesizer can simulate all instruments (except the basoon) and thus is mathematically superior to all other instruments (except the basoon).

[Aldurin]

All music would be produced by lone men on synthesizers and it would be glorious.
The synthesizer can simulate all instruments (except the basoon) and thus is mathematically superior to all other instruments (except the basoon).

And then someone would find a formula to simulate the basoon and then all of the world's music would come from creative geeks in their mother's basments.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

The basoon is a highly complex instrument. It will perplex technicians for many years to come.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

I could live without bars, but do you realize that bands do more than play loud concerts? If no one started bands there would be no music. Except by solo artists. Imagine if Madonna and Nine Inch Nails were the only musicians in the world. And then forget about it because they have backup bands and one man bands. Imagine if Insane Genius was the world's only musician. (Hi CC.)

This post is me pointing out that there is no space in my name to honor the 12-character limit on some other site and NOT me shamelessly plugging shit stuff the greatest achievement of music ever.

CLICK HERE! CLICK CLICK CLICK!!! (http://krachfabrik.bandcamp.com/album/klangverschmutzung)

[CheshireThief]

1. Open up an indy-music / gaming themed coffee shop / bar.
2. Get internet quasi-celebrities to staff the place and/or make appearances there.
3. Stay open 24 hours (you know, coffee in the morning and after the bar is closed, liquor from like 11 am to 2 am, and mixing the two for great justice).
4. Have gaming tournaments and live music.
5. Rake in the cash.
6. Give ol' CT a share of the cash for giving you the idea.

[TDK]

Okay, first DarthSS somehow knew why I had mentioned opening a bar and NOW CT IS STEALING MY IDEA.

(Even if *I* stole it from the Mana Bar.)

Intellectual property rights! Lawsuit! LAWSUIT!

I'll hire Snake as my lawyer!

[krogothwolf]

Okay, first DarthSS somehow knew why I had mentioned opening a bar and NOW CT IS STEALING MY IDEA.

(Even if *I* stole it from the Mana Bar.)

Intellectual property rights! Lawsuit! LAWSUIT!

I'll hire Snake as my lawyer!

Well, he is a thief.

And do you really want to have someone who say's he's quitting for a while, comes back and creates a new user account and thinks by not asking for his old one back he's somehow still "not officially back" representing you?

[TDK]

Sounds like a good lawyer to me. Thinking circuitously is a job requirement for them, is it not?

[CheshireThief]

My idea was at least 20% different.

I included the 24-hours and the coffee shop.