What's the dream lids?

[pbeyer]

I've recently started my first job from uni and so I'm hoping to get a good career from that. If I work hard enough then there's good opportunity for career progression and very good money. I've thought about maybe doing a Masters at some point too, and I really want to work/travel abroad and perhaps settling down abroad somewhere. The idea of having my own business is appealing too and I've thought about possibly going in to lecturing at some stage. I can't do it all so it's a case of thinking of what's the most important and trying to fit it all in.

Don't know why you don't think you couldn't do all of that mate. I look at the progression of a lot of my professors at Uni (IIRC your in construction management or something similar, I'm civil engineering) and it almost follows that to a tee. Either having their own business before or consulting for others during while living and lecturing abroad. Most went a step beyond masters as well.


Work hard and set your mind to it and your able check all of those boxes.

 

[The Esk]

Yes the same principles apply. I speculate that a football betting market may move one way or the other (that people will bet more on one team than the other, that they will bet on lots of goals being scored or not, etc) depending on what I've observed in previous markets, patterns, or things as simple as team news. More mundane than it sounds really.

As a very quick example, England-Norway, international friendly after the world cup on a week night just before the Euro qualifiers start. Most bettors will probably be thinking of a 1-0 or 2-0 England, so I will look to back these early before they shorten and hedge my profit later. Obviously it isn't as simple as that and requires more analysis - why will bettors favour 1-0 and 2-0? - but that's the general idea. I will look at specific market patterns when England play (and there are a few!), previous markets in such conditions, potential for volatility with friendly game lineups etc etc. And then you can also only rely on all this up to a point... Sometimes markets behave unexpectedly.

Anyway... Probably boring everyone now! You can tell it's a passion haha.

I've adopted in a similar strategy in the golf market, not so much in the last couple of years, but particularly when Woods was in his prime, the markets in the majors were so skewed by the weight of money following him.

It was extremely profitable

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Genuine answer is to be happy. I don't mean waking up smiling, I think contentment. With my life, me. I know when that happens everything else will fade into the distance.

 

[Elong]

Was always playing cricket professionally, but injuries in my early 20s stopped me going any further than provincial level. Still, I'm only 29 and actively involved in coaching that's always a new path to try and walk down, I get so much satisfaction from watching players grow and learn, feels like it is a part of me out there on the field when they have success.

 

[Dell Boy]

I've recently started my first job from uni and so I'm hoping to get a good career from that. If I work hard enough then there's good opportunity for career progression and very good money. I've thought about maybe doing a Masters at some point too, and I really want to work/travel abroad and perhaps settling down abroad somewhere. The idea of having my own business is appealing too and I've thought about possibly going in to lecturing at some stage. I can't do it all so it's a case of thinking of what's the most important and trying to fit it all in.

The above post jogged my memory that you're in construction aren't you? My field is property investment management (commercial only).

I've worked for myself for 8.5 years now. My advice is to definitely try and establish a consultancy practice in a parallel field to your current employer. If you have the skill back yourself to add value to small companies/high net worths. In your spare time literally offer your services for nothing (and be clear on liabilities). Ask to share in the upside if your advice proves worthwhile.

The academic route is great but night be a little dull for a few decades.

Good luck either way.

 

[tsubaki]

Watching reruns of Firefly on the Sci-Fi channel, specifically the bit where Morena Baccarin tries to kiss Christina Hendricks. That pretty much sums it up.

 

[mezzrow]

"Rooster, peel me a grape."

It makes me happy to post this kind of stuff in a serious thread. It's just what popped up in my increasingly twisted mind.

Personally, I'm living the dream.

 

[Maxwell]

Either to manage a band from the bottom to the top.

Or to run a festival.

 

[Tree13]

Learn to fly helicopters. If I can get that done I'd like to think it will give me a sense of achievement and satisfaction.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Genuine answer is to be happy. I don't mean waking up smiling, I think contentment. With my life, me. I know when that happens everything else will fade into the distance.

It's a hard paradox, though - being happy and content. Because the motivations that enable you to smash career goals and realise your dreams are exactly counter to the contented state of being. Like anything I've ever achieved in my career has been powered by worry, stress and anxiety - they're the fuels that makes the fire rise. Not great for a happy, sunny disposition it has to be said, and also hard to switch off from when you actually do achieve something significant.

 

[Librarian]

A career is what you talk about in interviews so that they will give you the job

What we all want is praise or attention or reward in some form so that we can lord it over one another

It would be something to create a thing that is truly beautiful though

 

[Pat's Van]

It would be something to create a thing that is truly beautiful though

I made a sausage dog out of a savaloy and four chippy forks once.

 

[paulbefc]

Just to feel like I've genuinely fulfilled my potential in something that seriously challenges me and that I really enjoy.

I'd have loved that to be football or music. If only!

It's looking more and more like I'll be going into the business/financial world when I graduate, so I guess the dream now is to be successful in that if I possibly can, whatever career path I decide on taking in the end.

 

[The Esk]

It's a hard paradox, though - being happy and content. Because the motivations that enable you to smash career goals and realise your dreams are exactly counter to the contented state of being. Like anything I've ever achieved in my career has been powered by worry, stress and anxiety - they're the fuels that makes the fire rise. Not great for a happy, sunny disposition it has to be said, and also hard to switch off from when you actually do achieve something significant.

The key to a successful career/business life and a state of happiness and well-being lies in the ability to compartmentalise both areas. Career/business is a means to an end, not an end itself. Happiness and well-being is the end.

I appreciate it is not easy, but the only way to deal with multiple areas of stress within a successful career/business and still have a happy, enjoyable private live is to make that distinction.

 

[dholliday]

It's a hard paradox, though - being happy and content. Because the motivations that enable you to smash career goals and realise your dreams are exactly counter to the contented state of being. Like anything I've ever achieved in my career has been powered by worry, stress and anxiety - they're the fuels that makes the fire rise. Not great for a happy, sunny disposition it has to be said, and also hard to switch off from when you actually do achieve something significant.

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