I am tired of my 9-5

[manasol]

I am tired of it. It's actually an 8 to 5. I get payed alright for a single guy. This is my fourth 8-5. I can't even afford to go to college because I live in an expensive city, my job doesn't allow me the flexibility to go to classes in the morning, and I hate my automaton job.

Oh yeah, and in 30 minutes I have to go to sleep so that I don't fall asleep during the job.

I feel like that claymation guy in the animation "MORE." Kenna used it in his music video "Hell Bent."
http://www.happyproduct.com/more1.html

[racketboy]

Start a side business -- do something you love and gradually make enough money to ween yourself off the job you hate.

[Perseid]

If you can get away with part time job or part time school, you might want to consider a 3rd shift job. Work at night, go to school, go to sleep. I know that sounds insane, and it is insane, but it can work.

[4ppleseed]

Start a side business -- do something you love and gradually make enough money to ween yourself off the job you hate.

Bang on. That's the best bit of advise you're gonna get.

Don't rush into it, plan ahead, start slow and keep it fun.

[manasol]

Thanks a bunch fellow posters . It's all good advice. I think I am going to have to start with learning how to do something else or something I know much better, slowly. Thanks for the advice I definitely will give it a try, I have no other choice, since I don't want to stay there. Fortune 500 Most admired company, balogne.


I really appreciate the replies. This is a great forum, not in the sense of messageboard but a great Forum.

[ravenmgs]

Try to find a roommate or two or thee or four to cut down on rent and utility bills. Try to find a really low paying job, say 15,000 a year, this will give you 12,000+ dollars for college via FASFA. Once you have your FASFA money the college it's self will give you financial aid to match FASFA. If this doesn't work, look for a community college (their cheap, very subsidized, about 1,500 dollars a year if you are going full time) go there for two years, maintain a 3.5 to 4.0 and join Phi Theta Kappa. Most colleges have a Phi Theta Kappa scolarships combined with normal merit based scholarships.

If you are ubersmart, like me.

You combine FASFA with Phi Theta Kappa scholarships and end up with 2,000 dollars a year extra in scholarship money. Also getting an on-campus job over the summer so you can stay in the dorms for free cuts out needing to pay rent over the summer, and you can ride a bike or something yo your job and purely save for college.

If you don't like having to work, I recommend being a college professor. You sit in a room and tell people what you think about stuff for 50,00 to 800,000 dollars a year depending on the college. Naturally the better the college and the more you are viewed as a "crucial asset" or an "authority" on a subjects the more money you will make and the less work you will have to do.

That is my best legal IRL sploit.

[racketboy]

Unfortunately, to be a college prof, you at least need a Master's Degree....

[Perseid]

At a real, quality college yes, but you can get a job at a tech school on less than a Master's. But you won't be making "800,000" either...

[ImportBoy]

At a real, quality college yes, but you can get a job at a tech school on less than a Master's. But you won't be making "800,000" either...

No were close to 800,000 I would think unless have a PhD or something and do some serious research. Quite a few of the professors I've had worked more then one job. Either teaching at more then one school or something else completly. One of my english professors has a law practice on the side.

[marurun]

All of my profs have been hard-workers with lots of either experience or education. No laziness in higher education, alas. That's one big misunderstanding.