Where can I go to get career advice?

Question

I'm currently at the tender age where I need to decide what to do with my life and eventually I narrowed it down to three careers I would like to pursue and within those there are even more things to look at. It's either going to be...

1. Video Game Designer
2. Cartoonist
3. Writer

And within each of those is whole set of other questions to consider (if I'm going to be a writer what books would I want to write? If I'm a Game Designer should I be a Programmer or Level Designer?). And now I'm all confused and sick to my stomach...

All of my friends have met with a career adviser from their schools but because I was home schooled I lacked that event in my life. So where would I go to get advice? I'm tired of everyone I know saying, "Oh, why don't you do all three?"

P.S. Please don't mock any spelling or grammar -_-... Whenever someone hears I want to be a writer it's the first thing they do and I already have an editor who does all the mocking I can handle.

Answer 1

Your library is a great source for career information... and it's FREE! Here's something else for you to consider. You need to think about the big three: Law, Medicine, and Business. Of those three, you can get started the quickest in business. If you enjoy people and like to listen, a career in sales can earn you a significant income. For example, if you like investing, you can become a stock broker... some easily earn six figures once they are established in the business. Of course, you can always take the entrepreneur path... decide what you love and build a business around it. I was recently in Napa Valley and the balloonists there earn quite a bit to take tourists on a hot air balloon ride... again, they love to balloon, and built a business on their passion. You can do the same. Good luck!

Answer 2

How to start and maintain a successful Internet Auction business.

1. Find a auction site that you can post and re-list items over and over free of charge. I have listed several legit free auctions below. Don’t use Ebay! The hay-day of Ebay is behind us and unless you want to pay more in fees than you make, be my guest. I have had luck with Epier.com and Yahoo auctions is big and dependable.

http://epier.com/
http://auctions.yahoo.com/
http://www.traderbait.com/
http://www.ibidfree.com/
http://auctionfire.com/
http://www.webidz.com/

2. Find reliable drop shippers. A drop shipper is a company that will let you list their products for free. You mark them up and make a profit. You have no overhead at all through this system at all. A true drop shipper will not charge you for their service. They make their share when you sell to your customer and your drop shipper ships it off for you. Be sure you save the item you list in your shopping cart so they don’t sell it while your auction is running. Also, to avoid this most drop shipping sites have the amounts in stock. If there’s over 75 or so in stock you should be ok with a 5 day auction. I will list several legit drop shippers below. Keep in mind I have an account with all of these.

http://dropshipdirect.com/
http://idropshipper.com/
http://glitterdirect.com/
http://tngdirect.com/
http://nugin.com/
http://www.directbuyvideo.com/
http://www.ckbproducts.com/

3. Spread yourself around but keep good records! Have one account at more than one auction and use several drop shippers as this will diversify your seller accounts. I am doing well at this, I figured this stuff out on my own. Now, I’m sending this information to you. Why? Please see step 4.

4. People want to know about systems that work. If you list that you have a system, people will buy it! It’s a great way to advertise your own auctions and at the same time make a little more selling a product you made yourself with no overhead!

Most of my items are on Epier.com as seller DWW32720 take a LOOK!!!!!

David Watts
Richwood WV

Answer 3

prison