Is anyone here NOT planning on doing a typical 9-5 job?

Lol nice. You say you earn most graduates, can you expand on that, and what you do?

What are you hobbies that you'd want to pursue for the next 50 or so years of your life?

I'm a writer, poet, illustrator and musician. The idea of being an accountant horrifies me.

pilot

I'm a writer, poet, illustrator and musician. The idea of being an accountant horrifies me.

Me.

I want to set up my own software engineering and web design/development business in the United States. I will work whatever hours I can freelancing at first to build a portfolio but then i'll employ other computer science/web design/software engineering graduates to work for my company.

Expand on what I do?

I build websites, market them, sell them, rent digital real estate to competeing local companie etc.etc I also run some succesful porn blogs (profit from affiliate sales). I earn a few grand a month, considering the average starting graduate wage is what, 24-30k lets say I'm around there for less than 1 day of my week working.

And hobbies? Well my passion for growing cannabis could easily take up my whole lifetime, building growrooms, experimenting with some advanced aeroponics and hydroponics, trying some guerilla growing, building an underground growroom, making my own custom strain(already started), there is a **** load. I also want to pursue my writing further and eventually write and direct my own movie.

Lol @ the people who think every job that's 9-5 is boring, I'm going to love the field I'm going into, fact, it's 9-5 and it's good that a lot of people work these hours - I like seeing my family and friends a lot. I've seen how disruptive shift work is to life.

But then this is also very similar to my plans after a few years:



...except for moving to the states, I'll keep it U.K. and then maybe expand as and when

Do you know much about research? I've always had a romanticised idea of being a mathematician who contributes new ideas

Expand on what I do?

I build websites, market them, sell them, rent digital real estate to competeing local companie etc.etc I also run some succesful porn blogs (profit from affiliate sales). I earn a few grand a month, considering the average starting graduate wage is what, 24-30k lets say I'm around there for less than 1 day of my week working.

And hobbies? Well my passion for growing cannabis could easily take up my whole lifetime, building growrooms, experimenting with some advanced aeroponics and hydroponics, trying some guerilla growing, building an underground growroom, making my own custom strain(already started), there is a **** load. I also want to pursue my writing further and eventually write and direct my own movie.

For almost 10 years [fresher to p.h.d] you have an excellent mathematical life. Unfortunately research afterwards hinges on being a fellow of a University [or college] demanding tutorials from 8 to 5 which are soul corroding (it is basic to the tutor who writes up the same solutions to a problem sheet every hour).

Aside from this nobody works alone in research because ideas are ripe in a group so even when research begins you have to be quite mathematically relaxed here to take on other view points and run with those, so you do not really get focus until after these groups were you can start to work on the thing all the mathematicians have thought of as the best approach.

I couldn't think of a more difficult job for someone who just wants to research mathematics and I am being serious, it is tough to stay mentally sharp for 10 hours every day moving to lots of other branches of mathematics due to lectures and tutorials.

check out GCHQ for a good job (ciphers / code breaker et. al.) that are challenging, have interest, well paid, etc.

My name is Steve. I want to work a 9-5 and earn a decent salary with which I can buy a car and support a family, eventually. Frankly I think anyone who doesn't want to work a 9-5 is an idiot and is throwing away a comfortable life.

Thanks for the info Dean (seriously), that's made my view of mathematical research a lot more realistic.

I don't want to add irrelevant discussion to the thread so do you mind if I private message you a few quick questions about it, I'll be so grateful.

5. Way too risky.

Many employees believe getting a job is the safest and most secure way to support themselves.

Morons.

Social conditioning is amazing. It’s so good it can even make people believe the exact opposite of the truth.

Does putting yourself in a position where someone else can turn off all your income just by saying two words (“You’re fired”) sound like a safe and secure situation to you? Does having only one income stream honestly sound more secure than having 10?

The idea that a job is the most secure way to generate income is just silly. You can’t have security if you don’t have control, and employees have the least control of anyone. If you’re an employee, then your real job title should be professional gambler.

Nice, how did you get into doing that. I've always wanted to start my own business or just make money using some skills I have but I really don't know how! E.g. how did you learn about how to build websites and then sell them?

And how did you manage to make so much . You're going to be a millionaire!

It seems that when a businessman knows what he's doing, they're very likely to be successful and make **** loads