Thread: How did you come into your career? Do you feel it is your "calling?"

I got into the "car selling" business because I suddenly needed a job and had a wife and child to support. Overall, it's been a great business, but the hours are brutal. Funny, while car salespeople are on the low end of the trusted scale, I'd enjoy this business a lot more if there weren't so many lying customers.

RT

The job selects you. I haven't been able to find a job that didn't require proven experience yet.

Your career is usually chosen for you while you work to support yourself and pretend its all about your "passion".

I like to remember its a job.

I remember sitting next to two volunteer fireman who said "Why don't they pay us for all this work we do" and I said "Because you two idiots keep doing it for free"

I fell into my "career" out of necessity. The company I worked for downsized and everyone said I needed a degree to get a job in the same field so I went back to school. Unfortunately when I was done most jobs in my field had been outsourced to India, China, Phillipines, etc. I started my own business and I've been drowning ever since. Hopefully I'll get good at selling things on ebay and make up the difference.

My advice would be to pursue something you truly enjoy doing. Period. My father told me this when I was younger and I didn't quite listen to him. I wish I had.

Jordan