I don't think anyone at vbs is going to tell you they want to become a stock broker. Most wall street types want to end up an investment banker, investment analyst or trader. Ops is a path of lesser resistance into a bulge bracket firm.
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Son, I think you should shoot for a job with low pay, unchallenging work and half-wit co-workers. You can get a nice cape cod style house in Levittown, get out of work at 4 every day, slap on some jorts and drive your Chevy Cobalt to the Phillies game.
In general, you either find ways to automate work, or someone finds a way to automate you. Google wants to create driverless uber. The implications aren't so good for people whose work is mindless/repetitive and don't have the intellectual capacity to do anything value creative
Goober?
I've thought of trying to steer my son into some type of Robotics Engineer, though he's still still young (7) so who knows what the job landscape will look like when he's entering the market. We're pushing science camps and things like that, and he does have a pretty good aptitude for that type of thing.
Either that or car mechanic. Get the technical training, work for someone else for a bit while taking some business courses, open up your own shop and work for yourself.
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"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots."
Classic JMerc "ignorance"
Not sure how this is so hard to understand. I don't work in finance but it's such a common position for people from VSB and in NYC in general that I understand it. It's not just Wall St. either. Think about traditional product sales. A sales rep makes a sale, then back office ops manage delivery, commission calc/payment, inventory control, customer service, etc.
Congrats. I fervently apologize for not knowing what an "ops role" is, and posting a picture about what I felt was an obscure term. I guess I need to do more studying in order to meaningfully contribute to VUSports.
It can be a great way to establish your own business and work for yourself. Of course, another advantage of working as a mechanic is there are a lot of cash payments, which tjc would appreciate because mechanics often just report their fair share.
The father of a girl I was friends with at Nova was a car mechanic for nice cars (Beamers, Mercedes, etc) in orange county. He owned his own shop and based on the house that they owned, the boats/cars they had, vacations he took, wouldnt be suprised if he was raking 500k/yr
And it can't be outsourced. I'd imagine the higher end automotive restoration shops that actually require people to know what they are doing do pretty well too. I don't know how much business they will continue to do as the boomers die off though. Milennials don't give a shit about cars.
More people should get into trades. The US does it wrong by convincing every kid to spend $100+K for a college educate. Go learn a trade and you can make decent enough money without incurring debt. If you do it right, take some business classes and someday own the business. In some areas it's nearly impossible to get good people to do trades and many do not have English as their first language. Which is fine in my view. However, I think we're screwing a bunch of kids from this generation by selling them a dream/standard that might not fit the individual. Thus we bloat the price of college and create a loan bubble. That's another debate. Point is, all kids shouldn't mortgage their future in college because most likely there isn't a job that fits their skills/recoups their investment upon graduation.
NickleDimer
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Will be less auto mechanic work once google drives your car and there's no need for collision work. And with online parts sales, they won't be able to take an extra cut on top of that either.
Not enough traffic for my liking, so I'm bumping old threads that might reignite some old posters. I already made a mistake with that Selmore thread -- I forgot he was dead and now I feel bad.
