Cool Job versus well paying job.

..after skimming the thread - My brother got some kind of economics degree, and I think a year or so after college he is now working in a bank as the head honcho of investing, or whatever his title is - I think he recently reported over half a million earned in total investments made (of which he gets a tiny percentage). Anyway, he had never worked in a bank before. Before that, he was trying to sell life insurance, and before that he was doing other odd jobs like park maintainence and waiting tables. So, unless you really see yourself working at a bank in the near future, I doubt that staying at the bank will make much difference at all. What matters is excellent job performance no matter what you are doing.

[MattE30]

Teller jobs are great for 26 year old women with no husbands and a rent check. But I've known adults with college degrees not making an advance as a teller and had known it was dead end. Who the fuck cares if you are in a bank? Learning information and relaying it to customers is important, regardless of what industry.

Bike mechanic: find the problem, relay info to customer, sell labor.

So, we've got troubleshooting, communication, and sales from a seemingly worthless job at a bike shop.

[Hick]

come out with the mountain bike. some dude did the entire event on a bmx'r.

I built a FREE bike [minus tubes n' tires] Found an old Trek 950 that was cherry, frame too small for free. Traded a friend from a larger Schwinn frame. Painted the frame red and made vinyls on autocad to make it look like a ferrari. blacked out everything else and made it a single speed [54 to 18, i think] with mustache bars and step ins.

[Jscotty]

Are you seriously using a Tom Hanks movie to justify a life decision?

That's how I justify ALL of my life decisions.

[mudflaps]

Best idea EVER!

yeah i tried to think up the most offensive thing i could do to the bike. cant wait to see the look on my managers face.

[Turf1600]

\ i might go with the bontrager clear bartape, and put porn under it.

Best idea EVER!

[mudflaps]

no shit! i need a nice bottom bracket bearing pack.

do you ride? Monday nights at 10pm about 50 or 60 bike punks meet at 15th and high and ride until 1am. We ride to south high were there is a bar that has free pizza. The whole thing i usually 30-35 miles total.

that sounds real fun! i mainly mtn bike, but im in the process of building up a road bike.

its gonna be a steel bianchi, black and im painting the lugs pink. im using an old school shimano 600 group as well. i may go pink bartape, but i might go with the bontrager clear bartape, and put porn under it.

[rwh11385]

Being a teller at a bank isn't going to do anything for him.

Teller jobs are great for 26 year old women with no husbands and a rent check. But I've known adults with college degrees not making an advance as a teller and had known it was dead end. Who the fuck cares if you are in a bank? Learning information and relaying it to customers is important, regardless of what industry.

[Hick]

no shit! i need a nice bottom bracket bearing pack.

do you ride? Monday nights at 10pm about 50 or 60 bike punks meet at 15th and high and ride until 1am. We ride to south high were there is a bar that has free pizza. The whole thing i usually 30-35 miles total.

[mudflaps]

Fuck, hook me up on some new wheels and a carbon fork for a Specialized Allez chassis.

-Charlie

it could happen.

[Charlie]

Trek store columbus in New Albany

Fuck, hook me up on some new wheels and a carbon fork for a Specialized Allez chassis.

-Charlie

[Ryan Stewart]

If you ever saw the movie "Big" with Tom Hanks, there is a part of the movie where the owner of the corporation goes to the toy department of one of his stores to observe the customers and he says to Hanks' character, "You can't see this on a marketing report".

Are you seriously using a Tom Hanks movie to justify a life decision?

Although you are right about the econ degree. I worked with a few econ majors in retail when I was 16. Its not a very powerful degree.

[mudflaps]

What bike shop do you work for?

Trek store columbus in New Albany

[Hick]

What bike shop do you work for?

[Jscotty]

Let us back up to the root of things- Why are you majoring in economics? What exactly do you want to do with that major? You stated earlier that you want to become a day trader which is all well and good, but you don't need a degree in order to do that.

Keep the job at the bike shop. If I needed to hire someone with your education and expertise, I would be more apt to hire someone who has over a year of work experience dealing with people who spend money. By working at the bike shop you know who spends money, what they spend it on, and why the spend it. You see first hand as to how people ponder how they will spend their money. Even though this is just a bike shop, it is a direct indication of how people decide to spend their money in other areas of their life.

If you ever saw the movie "Big" with Tom Hanks, there is a part of the movie where the owner of the corporation goes to the toy department of one of his stores to observe the customers and he says to Hanks' character, "You can't see this on a marketing report".

Working in a bank on limits you to what people are depositing and withdrawing. You will never have a clue as to what people are actually doing with the money.