[ale] Little OT: Blind Future: Advise Wanted

[Mike]

All good advice above, but if I could start over (and I won't - I'm too close 
to retirement), I would combine the two ideas.

For one thing, don't plan on being an employee. All work sucks sooner or 
later. Be a boss, go to meetings and hang with other bosses. It beats the 
hell out of having one foot nailed to the floor as an employee and it pays a 
lot better. But, you say, I'm not a jerk - I can't be a boss - and I don't 
want to claw my way up the ladder. You don't have to be like that, most 
bosses aren't a**holes, they just don't care about you, but if you think 
about it for a minute, neither do your co-workers.

Get a four year degree in something you like, but prepare to join to military 
as an officer. Do ROTC for example. If you can do that well, and make it to 
Colonel, (it still wouldn't be easy), you can retire in 20 years with good 
pay, excellent bennies, and then do anything you want. You'd also be 
surprised at how much respect you would acquire from people who can open 
doors for you.

If you find out later you just can't stand being in the military, and there 
are a lot of good reasons for that as well, at least you got paid better as 
an officer and got some experience as a "manager".

Planning on working for a living all your life as an employee is not one of 
the best ideas you can have, but most of us take that (being an employee) as 
an assumption because that's what "they" want us to think.




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