For everyone who avoided the typical Degree > internship > 9-5, did it pay off? I see so many NEETs trying to start instagram t-shirt businesses dodging the "rat-race" and all they can show for it is a jack-shit business any 16 year old with a PC can start.
I truly don't believe I can start a business in less then 4 years before I graduate college that will pay more than 10k a year.
So I plan on going the smart route. Going to CC, transfer to a university, intern, then get a decent office job.
I might do accounting or computer science, or computer information systems.
Any opinions?
I don't know man. I was a NEET now I'm in community college, don't even think I can transfer... Whatever I'll figure it out eventually I guess.
Can anyone in /biz/ recommend me a desktop ticker application? I'd like something that feeds in prices of stocks/gold/bitcoin in real time so I can speculate while fapping.
>>1038250
bumping out of interest
>>1038250
make an etrade account and use their marketcaster, its realtime.
It is so predictable. It is so well known formation.
The question is what kind of news will support the bounce, and what will the new crash.
>>1038236
the low is easier to make than the high
How do I into the stock market? I have $200 I can use now. Is that a complete fucking waste of time? If not, what should I invest in?
>>1038161
Buttcoin
>>1038161
Put it all on ASTI, bro. Thank me later
>>1038161
200$
You gotta think of your returns.
cmc no 11$ per trade, so now you're left with 189$
what increase do you need to break even?
and will you invest more before this increase? then might as well wait till you got more,
Hey /biz/ long story short I have about 10k worth of stock between Mcdonalds and Pepsico that my parents have given to me.
The stocks are held in Computershare? I know nothing about them. If I wanted to liquidate this and begin in the stock market, what should I do? is e-trade a viable option? Or can I do all I want on Computershare?
A bit confused and googling didn't come up with much, thanks.
Do you have a statement of your holding's! Because if not you have nothing. Post it or gtfo
>>1038082
A statement? Like a screenshot? I'm looking at my portfolio right now.
>>1038075
PepsiCo at an all time high. Not a bad thing to hold onto.
Used to work for US tech corp as sales people herder (making sure they make their target, planning the business, strategy, forecasting that sort of thing).
Quit job to get move to London for personal reasons. I'm all set as far as living expenses go and have the right to work here because EU citizen, but most jobs here either want qualifications that I don't have (qualified accountant) or pay too little for London (like below 50k/yr).
Should I keep trying to get something over 75k because I'll get it eventually, should I get an accounting qualification or should I settle for something like 50k/year. What does /biz/advise?
Also, I'm white, straight, male and in my low 30s
>>1038160
Yes, I was managing five. What would you recommend as a good threshold? Mine is 75k atm but haven't been here long.
>>1038170
Not in London so I couldn't really say. In any major city in the US a management role in a white collar environment is low six figures easily.
I'm in my second year of comp. sci. but I have a crippling inferiority complex toward doctors. Doctors and medical students just seem like better people. Good background, generally knowledgeable, sociable, cultivated. I want a comfy upper-middle class life, not just in terms of pay. Is this possible as an engineer? What should I do to avoid ending up in an office with depressing drones?
I went with comp. sci. to learn skills with good entrepreneurial applications, with careers opportunities to fall back on. I'm looking at a master in software engineering because programming and management skills seems useful. I'm tempted to get a business degree instead, or try to get one one the side, but I don't know.
In the broader sense, what kind of lifestyle do engineers lead? Family, hobbies, travel etc. or do they just slave away at the office?
Depends on the person anon, there's hundreds of thousands of engineers in the job market, no real median personality. You'll be fine with what you're doing, CS is probably better for entrepreneurs than CE per se anyway
>>1038046
It depends if you're good or not really and therefore what kind of job you can get. There's certain places that give you more freedom(r&d for example), which is great but they tend to be on the high talent end. you could get stuck at caterpillar designing tractor transmissions
Want to make pretty simple app games (drag and drop, color-in, etc) for iphone, ipads, and non-iphone platforms WITHOUT coding knowledge but don't know where to start.
Is there a free program to do this? Or will it be easy to learn as I go?
Any advice appreciated.
Invest time in learning XCode
>>1038030
Unreal 4, blueprints. You better have logical thinking skills.
>>1038030
Image should be stickied for all the newfags
Hey /biz/
I'm starting a business in next few months. We'll be making a consumer product (essentially building it ourselves) and we need to create a business account(s) to have all our inbound and outbound cash go through.
With the industry/product we're launching, startup costs are extremely low; think of something like a business that builds custom PCs. Essentially the only expenditures other than paying our salaries is buying the components and shipping them to customers. Because of this, we're dealing with startup money of a few thousand/a few tens of thousands of dollars. This means we can't afford ridiculous transaction fees, daily minimum balance requirements, monthly service fees, etc.
Do any of you have experience with business accounts? Any recommendations?
Pic unrelated. Ridiculously beautiful Maui last summer. I'd never been before, and being from the Southwest it's just stunning how different the environment is there.
>>1037999
S. D.
>>1038002
I don't know what that means.
What should I do with all my money after I hit the powerball on Wednesday?
Should I do stocks or a mutual fund?
>>1037922
Lol. Just can Goldman Sachs.
>>1037940
Call*
It's a $200 order for 5000 ping pong balls from Alibaba. Any idea how much I have to pay to get them to Illinois after the FOB point?
Pic unrelated
>>1037884
5000kg of should cost you maybe a few thousands
>>1037884
My bad. It's 5000 ping pong balls, not 5000 kg of ping pong balls
>>1037901
5000kg would be like 2 million ping pong balls
That's a lot of balls
Has anybody been successful working from home? If yes, how?
>>1037875
Ask your mom. She works very hard.
>>1037875
Genuine reply...
I work from home, choosing my own hours, so long as I get the job done. I'm employed by several places in Australia and after 4 years working for them, primarily from home, and then totally from home with 'optional' in-office work, I decided I didn't need to live anywhere in particular. Now I currently live in USA. Where? Wherever I want. I've worked out of a hotel room in Vegas, log cabin in Tennessee, McDonalds in bumfuck nowhere Kentucky (or was it Indiana???) and now in Scottsdale AZ.
I have an ongoing joke with everyone I meet that I 'don't work' because they never see me work and I am always just wondering around like an unemployed bum.
Some days I work for 10hrs, other days I might shoot off a few email replies - 10-15 minutes tops - and call it a day. So long as I look like I'm doing something.
I know a bunch of other people who work from home - seems pretty popular in Scottsdale - but they seem to have hours set in stone and they're much more accountable than me... so I really feel like it doesn't get much better.
I'm also the 'joke' of my family - they always talk about me as if I'm unemployed, always offer me money, ask if I need help with bills etc - because they never see me working.
I'm starting to think even my wife thinks I'm 'faking' having a job...
>>1037898
It does sound like you are. Because you spend all this time talking about your imaginary life and no time talking about what it is that you do or how you got there at all. Faggot.
/biz/ I have a request. I've been a NEET for a while but was wondering how things would be if I were a girl so I've devised this experiment.
I'd need someone to make 2 resumes up, one male one female naturally. The resumes should be similar, but not exactly the same as to avoid detection as trickery from an employer.
my experience/education is as follows if you can stick close to that, it would be lovely.
High School Graduate,
Basically Janitor experience at a family business, something that isn't like food related, probably something out of the ordinary, 4-6 years of this
And finally Tech work, like repairing PCs and fixing software issues, 2 years of this, but it's not some official business at best buy or even a local repair shop, more self employed odd jobs I guess
Basic point here is that there is no like steady work for these people/me, just family business as a kid and odd jobs
I'll fill in the emails for the resumes, probably shouldn't include a phone number at all
So if anyone is interested in creating a pair of resumes like that for this experiment I'd be most appreciative, I'm going to try and make some but I'm none too creative.
At the end of a few weeks to a month I'll tally up the total requests for interviews for each person. The point is to gauge weather or not there's a male/female bias when it comes to hiring a NEET
if anyone is interested I'll compile my results after all this and send them to some website to see if they'll publish it
The chick will land more interviews.
/common sense
/thread
>>1037844
Very interesting, anon. I'm busy right now and don't have a computer handy so I can't participate in your experiment right now, but perhaps I will later.
>>1037844
You're the NEET, you have all the info. Make it work.
>when were/are the best times of your life?
>was due to you having lots of money/assets?
No but the worst parts of my life(all of it) were due to a lack of money.
>>1037824
Money buys OPPORTUNITIES for happiness
doing the same droll tasks for a job everyday, perhaps for 10-12 hours a day, for not nearly enough cash can limit you to very finite moments to be happy
give this guy a million dollars and he will go nuts doing everything he ever wanted to, hell go on vacations, delve into interesting hobbies that his time consuming work didnt allow, he'll be able to afford the things he wants
>>when were/are the best times of your life?
right now, making money, watching those who called me failure at life fail themselves
>>was due to you having lots of money/assets?
yes
So I was working in Japan for a few years but I'm now back in the US.
Theres a law in Japan that says you have to close your bank account if you move out the country, so I shut it down and brought all my savings back with me. The problem is the yen is doing really shitty currently so I didn't want to convert it to dollars. I also don't like just having a pile of cash sitting around at home. What are my options in the US?
Its not a massive amount (about $3000) but its still something
>>1037820
There was a similar thread recently, see if it's still up. You can wait for a reversal, or something about bitcoin and precious metals? I don't know.
>>1037820
Safe deposit box at bank?
Cash it in and deal with it?
Give it to a Japanese friend?
Hate to say it OP but I don't see the yen recovering against the greenback any time in the next decade
Either convert it now or just hold on to it as spending money for your next trip to Japan
