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Hello Everyone, I was hoping that you could help me along in a thought process which has been occupying my mind for years. Because of it, I have been vacillating between two different paths that I cannot see much further down than their initial steps. I would seriously value your input. The paths I’m referring to are Licensed Electrical Engineer and the Software Developer. I’m currently employed as a junior electrical engineer but I could very, very easily make the jump over to software developer. I cannot choose one over the other because it's hard to see how either one will make me wealthy. Through multiple failed ventures that I worked on in my spare time with software I learned that it’s more about connections and marketing than about how good the software is and I’m unable to compete on this front right now. My work – both salaried and venture – limit my interaction with people to a point I think is detrimental now. Working in my dark bedroom and being stuck in the office are keeping me from moving and interacting with people in an effective way, unless I choose to get no work done. In order to make enough time to meet all those wonderful people that make life more fun I need to quit one. When I get work as a software developer in the places I’d apply then I could make those connections with my coworkers much like the founders of Intel and ATI did back in the day. Please just assume that it’s possible to get in to them. It seems to me, and please correct me if I’m wrong, that the only way to become wealthy is to know lots of people and leverage your connections and information in a way that’s really similar to having lots of functions and tools in your box. There’s also that great feeling of actually having fun with other living people. Beyond that the market environment also helps to a great degree. Would consulting engineering in power distribution be lucrative assuming there would be a few guaranteed small contracts to start with? Or would it be better to go into software development, find like-minded individuals with compatible and useful skillsets and see what grows from there? Again, the purpose of all of this is to become wealthy as a business owner, just assume happiness is tied directly to the amount in the bank account for the sake of simplicity. Which is more likely to succeed? Is there something that I missed which makes this entire problem unsolvable? Should I just flip a coin? Please help. After two years of these thoughts circling around in my head I’m dying while spinning my tires.
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Cicero posted:How wealthy do you want to be? My specific goal was an income of $184,046.92 per day before tax based on inflation. It's not a level of cash flow that can be met by only being a programmer, saving money won't get me there either hence my issue. It may be outlandish, but it is my goal.
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