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You are fortunate to have a set of skills in demand so you can just pick up gigs. Unfortunately I became a lawyer, which is probably the most useless thing to s
by cylinder 9y ago
You are fortunate to have a set of skills in demand so you can just pick up gigs. Unfortunately I became a lawyer, which is probably the most useless thing to study; should have learned HVAC repair or something.
- devmunchies 9y agoDo you not do coding? Not that it matters, I guess I'm confused about the type of people on hacker news.
- cylinder 9y agoused to, as an amateur in adolescence, along with tinkering with Linux, servers, etc., then continued to follow tech. then the tech boom happened well after. I can still read and modify some code for my web development needs, but at this point, that ship has sailed. I could have gone a number of different ways professionally, but due to a lack of personal boldness and poor parental guidance I took this path.
- smoyer 9y agoBut you don't have to stay a lawyer!
- cylinder 9y agoI am struggling to figure out what to switch to. years of unemployment, resets, switching careers once already, have taken their toll, and I am struggling to find the initiative to commit to a new profession that would take years to enter. ideally I'd find a business to get into.
- smoyer 9y agoI'm sorry to hear that. I think a good place to start is to ask what you're passionate about. There's very often a way to turn it into a way to earn a living.
- RugnirViking 9y agoYou mention that becoming a lawyer is a useless thing. My (very far) removed perception has been that lawyers are in demand and tend to live relatively comfortable lives. It seems that many on the web also think so. Is that generally the case? Or is it usually more parallel to your own experience?
- majani 9y agoFrom where I stand, it seems like law is lucrative in litigious countries like the US. Outside of that, law tends to be a really long and hard slog to the top.