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I have a degree in acting. I am now a retired porn star.
 
Vinyard said:
I was able to read it but it took some time.



I was considering DEA for a long time, but then it hit me that I'm not 100% against drugs.
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To get any federal job, you'll have to at least pretend to be 100% against drugs.

The stories my neighbor tells me about the kids they discover living in meth houses are just completely disgusting.
 
PapaG said:
To get any federal job, you'll have to at least pretend to be 100% against drugs.

The stories my neighbor tells me about the kids they discover living in meth houses are just completely disgusting.
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Agreed, but I don't want drugs to be the focal point.
 
Major(s): Legal Studies in Business, Management
Minor: English
Profession: Sports Marketing

I'm actually looking to move on right now and just had a phone screening for an interview today, so it's weird that this thread just popped up. I'm also considering a management position with Ford, but I figure I'll stick with what I love and be around the sports world for as long as I can.
 
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I haven't even declared a major yet, but just to add something to the discussion, my dad got his BS in Biomedical Engineering from UT (Tennessee), then his MBA from Purdue. He's a VP of new product development at a fortune 500 company, but my understanding is that it has nothing to do with biomedical engineering.
 
Aerospace engineering. Masters-level Tech Program Mgmt, worked Navy, Boeing, Amazon and was at a firm in the DC area when I got recalled. French, smattering of Hausa and the navy's teaching me Dari for my two tours over thenext 3 yrs Also working on masters in national security strategy from the war college
 
BA - Psychology and got a Masters in Business. Worked at NBC Universal for about a year and worked on a pilot produced by Jimmy Fallon that got picked up. I left that and co-created, wrote, and produced a sitcom pilot, and I acted in it. It's in post right now and we are hoping to pitch it to FX and Comedy Central fairly soon. We will also break it up into webisodes for online distribution.

I'm considering dental school, got accepted into law a while back but don't think I'll go through with it.
 
AmirIcon said:
BA - Psychology and got a Masters in Business. Worked at NBC Universal for about a year and worked on a pilot produced by Jimmy Fallon that got picked up. I left that and co-created, wrote, and produced a sitcom pilot, and I acted in it. It's in post right now and we are hoping to pitch it to FX and Comedy Central fairly soon. We will also break it up into webisodes for online distribution.

I'm considering dental school, got accepted into law a while back but don't think I'll go through with it.
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With a MBA and an undergrad degree in psychology, how did you break into writing? Did you do the stand-up circuit, did you know the right people, or did you just happen to get an interview and impress?

I've always been curious how those sort of things get set into motion. I've got friends who're doing stand-up on the NY circuit in hopes of making it big, and a lot of them are genuinely funny people, but I always figured they'd never make it because of how ambiguously structured the industry seems to be. I just always wondered how one broke into that industry. A lot of it seems to come from fate and circumstance.
 
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NOVoodoo said:
With a MBA and an undergrad degree in psychology, how did you break into writing? Did you do the stand-up circuit, did you know the right people, or did you just happen to get an interview and impress?

I've always been curious how those sort of things get set into motion. I've got friends who're doing stand-up on the NY circuit in hopes of making it big, and a lot of them are genuinely funny people. I just always wondered how one broke into that industry.
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I started writing actually during my undergrad years when I was a manager for a market research company. We showed off movie trailers and new movie premiers and got people to fill out surveys on whether or not they liked the content. After a while I decided to write something much better myself, which was a feature-length script. It still hasn't been produced but it's been optioned by three different production companies, none have been able to acquire the funds to produce, but I'm not giving up.

Since then I have been writing feature-length scripts and TV. I've been contracted a bunch of times to write a production companies TV or film script. I'm writing a TV sitcom script for a company now. I applied for the NBC Page Program which is apparently more difficult to get into than Harvard Law, but I got in. I didn't like the atmosphere so I left and worked on my own project which should be done pretty soon.

I have/am considering doing stand-up but it seems like a LOT of work and a lot of years. Definitely wouldn't like to go that route, but we'll see. Hopefully this sitcom pilot can get some attention and we can get it on one of the cable networks. It's far too edgy for network TV though.
 
To better answer your question, I always wanted to write but didn't think it was necessary to get a degree in English or creative writing so I got something more applicable to something I might actually be able to get a job in.
 
political science. Now I'm a stay at home dad.
 
porkchopexpress said:
No problem about not being able to help. We just started thinking about it, but since she has a good gig down here we're a little reluctant to move (esp with 4 years of grad school loans). Good luck to your GF. Hopefully the legal market is better in a few years when she gets out. The market was horrible when my wife got out of school and San Diego was the closest to Por/Sea we could get (she went to school back East).
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BS in chemistry, chemistry Ph.D., JD Lol I was 31 when I got my first job, miraculously had only 30k in debt, inhouse attorney at a biotech now, and love my job.

Porkchop, you can pm me when you're closer to relocating and I can give some scoop about the Seattle market. Like I said, I'm inhouse now, but I was previously with a couple law firms and have decent knowledge about Seattle firms.
 
mobes23 said:
BS in chemistry, chemistry Ph.D., JD Lol I was 31 when I got my first job, miraculously had only 30k in debt, inhouse attorney at a biotech now, and love my job.

Porkchop, you can pm me when you're closer to relocating and I can give some scoop about the Seattle market. Like I said, I'm inhouse now, but I was previously with a couple law firms and have decent knowledge about Seattle firms.
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Thanks Mobes! I'm jealous of your debt. Neither of us had any after undergrad at UW, but 4 years at a private school for Law/Business = a ton of debt! I think we need to decide by November if it's going to be this coming year or the next (I think that is the sign up date for the February Bar and California doesn't have any reciprocity with any other states).
 
Mediocre Man said:
As for school, I have an MBA in sales and marketing, with a minor in foreign studies

I hate sales, but I am damn good at it. I make a comfortable living, but if I had to do it all over again I would probably start young as an apprentice in a plumbing or electricians shop and then after 10 years of schooling and becoming a "master" plumber, open my own business, and be my own boss. Move to a small town where I only need to make 30-40k to live on and be happy
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I was always pretty good at studying, and I hope my two sons enjoy school. But I've often thought that if either wanted to be a plumber or electrician I'd be really happy for them. Owning a small business and helping people in a tangible way like that is very rewarding.
 
BS in Journalism, minor in Business. I've been a marketing/graphic design/web/writing dude for a pretty long time, although I also do some database design stuff and software coding.

I went with the journalism degree because it was as close to a "General Studies" degree as you could get without being "General Studies." Which has proven fitting, as I'm kind of a jack of all trades and master of none.
 
mook said:
I was always pretty good at studying, and I hope my two sons enjoy school. But I've often thought that if either wanted to be a plumber or electrician I'd be really happy for them. Owning a small business and helping people in a tangible way like that is very rewarding.
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My youngest son has no interest in school, so in case that continues, my wife and I have always told the kids to be the best them they can be, and not force school on any of them.
 
Mediocre Man said:
الإسبانية يسبب ذعرا = Hispanic causing panic, or technically panic causing Hispanic
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Not to derail an already derailed thread, but I just noticed this post. How is this technically "panic causing Hispanic"? Maybe my MSA is a little rusty.
 
Does it matter? This motherfucker right here causes panic from ALL directions son!
 
Doubled up with BA's in Communications Broadcast News and Production then minored in History. I'm currently the Sports Director for an NBC affiliate doing local news. Really fun job but it doesn't pay for shit. I'm trying to break in with a university athletic dept. or a pro team doing this job but more in-house specific. Actually had a few interviews with the blazers but didn't get the offer.
 
As an undergrad, I did a double major at a liberal arts college in International Relations and Romance Languages.

I'm now a partner in a real estate merchant bank.
 
maxiep said:
As an undergrad, I did a double major at a liberal arts college in International Relations and Romance Languages.

I'm now a partner in a real estate merchant bank.
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With a degree like that I'm surprised you are a partner and don't HAVE a "partner"!
 
VanillaGorilla said:
I haven't even declared a major yet, but just to add something to the discussion, my dad got his BS in Biomedical Engineering from UT (Tennessee), then his MBA from Purdue. He's a VP of new product development at a fortune 500 company, but my understanding is that it has nothing to do with biomedical engineering.
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I got my MS and BS both in that major. Don't do it. I was able to land a job in a major Pharma company only because I had biochem/pharma experience while in grad school, and I killed my interview. That degree is pointless. They teach you the basics of every little thing (statics, mechanics, calc, phys, bio, anatomy, etc), and you work your ass off to maintain a semi-decent GPA, only to realize that you don't have specific knowledge on anything. And to land a job, that's what you need.
 
HCP said:
With a degree like that I'm surprised you are a partner and don't HAVE a "partner"!
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HCP, I appreciate the offer, I really do. You're an attractive man; don't listen to what everyone else is saying.
 
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