How the FUCK do I decide what job to do Cred Forums?

Oh and the reason I didn't learn a trade was because my parents were always drumming it into me to 'use your mind instead of your hands' and 'study hard and go to uni'. So I studied, failed a bunch of A levels (I'm not good at essay style exams), then went back and got qualifications in music technology..

Good pay and retire at 50. It's a career that has purpose.

See, at least you have a wife and kids to live for user. That is your purpose. Or it can keep you going when you feel like this.

I live alone. No wife, no gf, no kids, no pets, nobody, nothing.

I just think it would be easier for me to die. The only reason I haven't offed myself yet is because it would hurt my mum and dad too much and I can't do that to them.

OP, so theres 2 ways of looking at it, do you want to live to work or work to live.
Do you just want a job that will pay for the fun shit in life and the things you need. If thats you I'd just get an easy job in any field you can stand

> I like to do yoga. I like to cook food. I like to play my guitar and piano. I like to get out in nature. I like to ride my motorbike.

Yoga instructor -- get your cert, start teaching a class at already established gym, open your own place

Chef -- start out at the bottom, food prep, sous chef, etc. Work your way up to head chef at established place or open your own

Music teacher -- shit pay, but fulfilling if you like teaching. Otherwise, play per gig -- artists need backup players, events need backup musicians, hit up cl or local music shops that have bulletin boards, or the employees will usually know where to look for gigs

Nature -- apply to the gov parks dept. Start out in janitorial if you have to, just to get in the door. Applications for employees are preferred, so once you're in, apply to be a ranger, or water patrol, or something similar.

Motorbike mechanic -- go to mechanic school, get cert, work at shop or for a pit crew.

Unfortunately, you have to put in time at the bottom if your restarting maybe get a second job while the party is low. But if you love it the time will pass quickly and in a few years you'll be able to pay your bills fully with just your main job, then a few years more you can start saving and investing while working in a career you love till you retire.

Either that or an hero. I don't know you from Adam and you should treat advice from strangers with a grain of salt. GL

Oh I am very much of the work to live persuasion. But I don't want to struggle. It's hard on your own you know, with only one wage coming in.

Well in that case my few recommendations based on my few years of work will be to do something like a trade, you will need to start at the bottom but once you have skills you can choose your hours.

Being a plumber may mean you deal with shit sometimes but the situations you go into can eventually be your choice.

If you're creative maybe theres something there.

Personal training if you can.

Public sector for something worry free

Yoga instructor - I have considered this. Would have to be a part time thing until it takes off. Could be one to work towards. In fact, I've already started a new yoga class last week to get some more epxerience.

Chef - I have thought about this over the years, but I've read it is one of the most stressful jobs out there. And I would prefer not to work evenings. Though something like a cafe/bakery or something open in the day would be good. Or like a street food truck I could take to festivals and shit would be good.

Music teacher - nah, I hate kids. Good shout on the session musician stuff though, I hadn't thought of that.

Nature - I would probably like to do something specialised like tree surgeon.

Mechanic - I looked into this, even got accepted for an apprenticeship. But decided not to pursue it. The money was crap until you have 20+ years experience, and the work was boring and monotonous - every single thing I read from mechanics said if you enjoy it as a hobby then don't do it as a job as you will grow to hate it and it's soul destroying. So I decided against it.

I think chef and yoga are the two that are standing out at me there.

I might even sell my house and move back in with my mum while I go to chef college. She would be happy to have me live with her. Not that it would do much for my street cred.

Thanks for taking the time to reply user, you are a good person.

become a nigger

You could still offer yourself to a mediocre woman desperate for kids. There are tons out there. At least you can reproduce. Don't expect to feel better in the long run. The only thing in my life that made me feel good was taking steroids and working out every day. You could also try that. And also taking naps on the couch with my dog on my lap. That's heaven.

You're in a supreme position having paid off your mortgage, what's the house worth? And what's the market like in your neighborhood? I would rent it out for passive income, maybe keep the job a little longer to stack up some cash and then just start taking jabs at low-risk investments

do you have a degree?

Once you get the ball rolling quit your job and do whatever the fuck you want, travel around, work on building your capital, and most importantly think about something meaningful to do with it

Probably £100-110k. Market seems pretty buoyant. After fees etc I would probably be walking away with £90-95k.

I could rent it out but then where would I live? It's taking the piss a bit moving in with my mum while I rent my house out. I also don't think I'm cut out for being a landlord. I'm in a pretty fragile mental state right now.

If I was renting it out I would probably travel to Asia somewhere cheap where rent I'm making would pretty much cover the cost of living

I completely missed that this thread was about jobs. Back then i looked up what jobs were a lot of applications for and did masters mechanical engineering with some mechatronics and python coding. I can get a job anywhere.

>Be white
It would have worked out regardless user

Stomp a tranny to death

I have 9 GCSEs all grades B or C.

I have BTEC ND and a BTEC HND in Music Technology. So like stufio work, live sound, that kind of thing. But no experience in the field, so it can be pretty hard to get into, and anybody with experience would beat me to it.

Well the thing is you're doubling your income by renting it out, best call would be to buy a second house, that way you're still actively growing your capital and you could potentially get some free cash along with it (if your new mortgage is < the rent you're getting paid). As for being a bad landlord, there's tons of agencies that take care of that shit for you, they'll take a small cut of the rent but it's definitely worth not having to manage that stuff

What do you do now?

The reason I'd recommend actual investment of some kind is because it speeds things up a bit, if you're just putting your cash into property your wealth won't grow as quickly, though it is the most reliable way of increasing it

You'd be amazed as to how many people have 1 IQ and are rich simply because they keep buying houses whenever a mortgage is paid off/close to being paid off

Yeah, I could. But that would tie me to my job, and I really need to get out of there. It's not what I want to do and it's killing me and making me depressed and suicidal.

It's an office job I just kind of fell into. Nothing skilled, I'm a work planner for a local housing association. So I book the diaries for the repairs guys with the customers. It's busy, it can get real stressful, and we've had a lot of cutbacks and redundancies in the last few years.

The trouble is, it pays pretty well (considering you don't need any specific qualification for it) at £23.5k, and the benefits are good - 30 days holiday, decent pension.

So even just juping ship into something else has worse hours, much worse pay, much worse holidays, shit pension. It's really fucking myself over.

If I was happy in work and I knew I could stick it out long enough to pay the next mortgage I would definitely go for this.

Whilst it is a good idea, I think first things first I need to sort the job situation out. This is the perfect time to do it while I only have bills to pay and not a mortgage on top. Remember, there is only my wage coming in, I live alone. And a new career will come with a pretty hefty pay cut.

You might be able to find resource planning jobs with your skills and try to move into financial planning

Yes I would like to get out of housing. I have applied for a couple of other 'planning' jobs in different industries, but heard nothing back.

I'll take a look into financial planning and see what it entails.

Sauce on this girl?

Well OP here, I'm off to cry myself to sleep.

See y'all tomorrow.

just some random that was posted on Cred Forums. only have this one pic sorry :(

inabit

since you're financially independent with no more mortgage, have you ever considered turning your hobby into a job?