I work in the finance industry (investment banking/private equity). My family never had a lot of money growing up, we weren't poor but money was always tight. I told myself from a young age that I wanted to make money, I wanted to have financial security, I never wanted to worry about eating and that ultimately drove my decision to study finance and aim for wall street.

I've come to realize that money, once all my bases are covered, doesn't make me happy (duh!!). I plan on making a career change, I NEED to do something that lets me go to sleep at night knowing I made the world a better place each day and I can't tell myself that in my current employment situation.

I'm still brainstorming on what I want to do but my experience with psychedelics has only reinforced my desire to make a change.

My long-term goal is to open a no-kill animal sanctuary and to help raise funds for all the small, local no-kill shelters that generally struggled and are often financed by the founders own income, since most small no-kill shelters struggle to raise funds/donations.

That is very admirable, Darthcan. I wish you the best of luck with achieving this goal!!

Studying biotechnoloy, not sure what I will do with it exactly, but I will probably go into something neurology related. Hoping to eventually learn enough about biomechanics to shed some light on psychadelics from a scientific standpoint.

Right now though I work at Target haha.

I load trucks for one of the biggest food distributors in the country. Its really fast paced and physically demanding. I load around 60 pallets an hours and get paid really well to do so. Good benefits and bonuses. It sometimes cracks me up to watch a new guy come into the warehouse behaving nice and helpful only to be changed by the rat race. It becomes easy to harvest bad karma, being so caught up in ones own job, that you consistently avoid someone in need. I guess this is one of the downfalls of capitalism. At any rate I do enjoy my job and it leaves me plenty of time and money to carry on my religious works with the teacher plants.

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Work in IT. Another IT degree in progress towards network security. I work in huge buildings and never see all the great spring days happening right now. All I see are terrible florescent lights all day instead.

But life is great when you have outdoor hobbies like mountain biking!

Great thread btw.

I do tattoos and build tattoo machines. I also operate a dyno do EFI tuning at a performance shop.

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This reminds me of a comic I was shown when studying industrial design engineering:

You've probably seen it before haha. It is indeed important that everybody involved has the same image of what's got to be built.

Alas, I quit industrial design and will be studying computer science. It took me a while to figure out what I want to do, but I think I've got it now. Computer programming feels like magic sometimes.

I know that image yes .

For me, the magic of computer programming has disappeared when I entered university (I started learning computer science as a kid). But I don't mind reading some of it or talking about it (which is the most I do in my job).

But glad to hear you found a potential passion .

I'm currently the former president of a major western nation, but I'd like to take up painting

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I'm a famous actor who basically quit acting, for a career in Winning.
... on a quest; right every single w-r-o-n-g.

I love this forum.

Oh and I'm also a famous actress (who once starred in feature films such as The Parent Trap and Mean Girls) , but after a life-changing aya ceremony in South America I gave up acting to pursue my studies of ethnopharmacology and chemistry.

My friend sent me this the other day, good for a laugh maybe you guys would have seen it some funny storys in here http://clientsfromhell.net/page/2

Yeah CFH is really funny.

I started off as a slaes man initially. A few years later, I was offered a job as a cassette cover designer and took it up for awhile. Much later I started and ran a pet store, during which I thought myself a few design programs and finally settling into a career as a graphic designer

Could you show some of your work? Cassette covers, that's cool.

...and here's another Graphic Designer.

Also my job description is Media Designer, which means that I work with different media. Video, Web, Print, Software etc. I also do animation.

On top of that I'm testing and working out the Workflow of a Media Asset Management System, which we are working on for years now.

After years of working horrible sales, food service jobs and even working side by side with the evil government... I sort of fell into what may become my potential career if I decide to take the plunge, which is owning the supplement and health food store that I currently manage

It was a VERY synchronistic series of events spanning over 2 years that led me into this field of work and my current job, which is why I can safely say I think it may very well be my destined career.