View Poll Results: What do (did) you do for a living?
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Doctor/Nurse/Medical Tech
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9 |
4.71% |
Lawyer/Paralegal
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13 |
6.81% |
Business Owner
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4 |
2.09% |
Accountant/Financial Analyst
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12 |
6.28% |
Executive/MegaCorp Manager
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15 |
7.85% |
IT Professional
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39 |
20.42% |
Salesperson/Marketing Professional
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8 |
4.19% |
Financial Professional / Snake Oil Salesman
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6 |
3.14% |
Journalist/Writer
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2 |
1.05% |
Carpenter/Plumber/Electrician/Other Building Trades
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1 |
0.52% |
Engineer
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48 |
25.13% |
Other
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24 |
12.57% |
Military
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7 |
3.66% |
Blue Collar Employee
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3 |
1.57% |
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Poll: What was your (former) profession?
02-15-2007, 12:53 PM
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Poll: What was your (former) profession?
I'm curious. With such a high level of financial acumen on this Board, how many people are actually in a financial field. Just what do you do? (or what did you used to do?)
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
02-15-2007, 01:03 PM
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
Hey Scared, thanks for the snake oil salesman choice! Makes all those nights I'm studying Estate Planning right now seem more worthwhile.
BTW, my older CFP boss just left the office to sit in on an apptment his wife has with an annuity guy that wants to sell her some junk (her Pharma job had a automatic rollover to an annuity for some portion of her retirement) and the salesman doesn't know he's a CFP. He will get a lot of entertainment from it, I'm sure! Boy, to get him on a roll about how bad annuities suck....
Sarah
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
02-15-2007, 01:29 PM
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
Actually, I have great respect for fee-only planners. It's those insurance people who masquerade as financial planners that get under my skin. My DW is a Customer Service person for a large insurer and she comes home daily with stories about people in their eighties and nineties who have been hoodwinked into buying annuities. And you know, it's not like I'm against annuities either. But people living off social security and a nest egg of just a couple of hundred dollars don't really have any reason to avoid taxes!
Believe it or not, I've got a personal friend who is trying to convince me to join his organization after i retire. He wants me to sell annuities of all things!!
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
02-15-2007, 01:32 PM
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
Gosh, what a sign of the times! There is no category for blue collar folks other that the one category for building trades.
I worked in a factory, so I checked other.
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
02-15-2007, 01:36 PM
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
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Originally Posted by mclesters
Hey Scared, thanks for the snake oil salesman choice! Makes all those nights I'm studying Estate Planning right now seem more worthwhile.
BTW, my older CFP boss just left the office to sit in on an apptment his wife has with an annuity guy that wants to sell her some junk (her Pharma job had a automatic rollover to an annuity for some portion of her retirement) and the salesman doesn't know he's a CFP. He will get a lot of entertainment from it, I'm sure! Boy, to get him on a roll about how bad annuities suck....
Sarah
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Your partner in snake oil.............
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
02-15-2007, 01:57 PM
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
I do financial risk assessment for the gov't, and I have my CFA, so I chose Accountant/Financial Analyst, but I'm definitely not an Accountant!
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
02-15-2007, 01:59 PM
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
and I have my CFA
Shame on you kaudrey. You know why...
- M
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
02-15-2007, 05:19 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
I join the ranks of other former engineers....at least I was an engineer for about 16 years of my career. I retired at 52 (actually 5 days before my 53rd birthday!!) and am now 56. I retired as a regional manager for a major telecom company. My best years were as a working engineer (technical support) and then I opted to go into management - which was probably the reason that I retired.
But regardless of the reason - I love retirement....lessons learned...you can;t predict your or your spouses health, you can't predict the markets but so far everything is beautiful.
Peace
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
02-15-2007, 05:26 PM
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
The way this poll is shaping up, we might need to redefine FIRE:
Financially
Independent,
Retired
Early Engineer
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
02-15-2007, 05:29 PM
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
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Originally Posted by REWahoo!
The way this poll is shaping up, we might need to redefine FIRE:
Financially
Independent,
Retired
Early Engineer
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Frugal Introverted Risk-taking Engineers
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
02-15-2007, 05:29 PM
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
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Originally Posted by wab
Frugal Introverted Risk-taking Engineers
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Change one word and I think you're there.
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
02-15-2007, 05:34 PM
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
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Originally Posted by REWahoo!
Change one word and I think you're there.
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Are you suggesting that I'm not frugal?
Actually, I wasn't an engineer either. I was a Software Artiste.
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
02-15-2007, 06:23 PM
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
I didn't see an entry for the professional adult film star career
Would that fall under the "other" group ?
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
02-15-2007, 07:48 PM
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
I was both the IT department and owner. I checked IT as that was where my day to day responsibilities were.
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
02-15-2007, 07:51 PM
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
I consider myself frugal, but others call me stingy.
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
02-15-2007, 08:12 PM
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
I second the post about the lack of blue collar jobs. Early retirement is especially attractive to those that work physically.
Was that list written in the late 1990's? It is not well-diversified and does not cover the whole market. It's too concentrated in tech and health. Is that where the growth in REs is expected? So service industries don't have early retirees?
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
02-15-2007, 08:19 PM
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
Quote:
Originally Posted by REWahoo!
Change one word and I think you're there.
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Which word??
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02-15-2007, 08:35 PM
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
Introverted geeks rule!
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
02-15-2007, 10:24 PM
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
Currently an estimator/project manager at a family-run construction company...but finance has always been my true interest, despite being fairly competent at my current profession. Hoping to change to something investment-related in the next year or so, and continue in that for about 5 years before hanging it up for good.
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
02-15-2007, 11:03 PM
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Re: Poll: What was your (former) profession?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Spanky
I consider myself frugal, but others call me stingy.
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It's frugal if people agree with your values.
It's cheap or stingy if they don't.
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