I believe it's VC or being a CEO that is a part-time mentor.
As much as I love software development, I also love marketing, design, business and networking. I spend a lot of my time connecting people in my local community, connecting companies I think are cool with possible customers and hires, mentoring juniors (both devs, PM's and more) and helping a few pre-launch startups focus their vision. Some of them have told me that I've taught them more than their college professors and incubators, which I find inspiring to keep on moving.<p>But at the end of the day, I just love impacting the world and providing people a chance at doing the same.
I'd really like to start a software consulting business providing enterprise modernization and application security vulnerability analysis to corporations. Basically going in telling people where the security holes are and what needs to be modernized and help them choose / create solutions.
I have a long term vision of which I am carrying out the necessary first steps now.<p>I want to create an organization that is essentially a 6 week retreat for students before they begin college. Selecting the best applicants possible, they will go through rigorous training to become their most successful selves, covering Academics, Social life, Health, and Lifestyle topics. Elements of secrecy will help it's applicant pool, I was heavily inspired by the Bohemian Club.<p>Long term, the alumni network itself will more than make up for the cost, in turn making the applicant pool stronger and stronger.<p>It's an aggressive plan, and requires years of building up from the ground. But it's my dream to make it happen.<p>And if it doesn't work, I'll fall back on becoming an accounting professor. Pretty similar jobs anyhow.
1) Helping people. Doing interesting and creative things.<p>2) Not actually, nor having to perpetually severely worry about, being screwed over with respect to basic quality of life. Access to reasonable and effective health care. A decent place to live (for me, that means mostly quiet and hopefully with a decent portion of friendly neighbors). Knowing that when I can no longer work, I won't end up in a hell hole.<p>Sounds pretty modest, doesn't it?<p>Yet today, in the U.S., it's becoming increasingly illusive and uncertain.<p>A major downside of categorizing into "winners" and "losers" and focusing on some dystopian fervor for a modern-day "manifest destiny."<p>In my case, some crap health care (despite my relatively affluent circumstances) set the stage early for additional struggle. Things just kept spiraling down, and the advice I received only reinforced this.<p>Now -- too late -- I believe you can't have these things, unless you make your primary job learning how to and practicing sticking up for yourself.<p>I think a lot of my generation got quite fucked over by unrealistic instruction such as "the bully is only hurting himself", "collaboration [undifferentiated, un-qualified] is the future", "things will turn out all right in the end", "you're so [smart|pretty|special]", etc.<p>So now, my ideal career would be teaching all this by example.<p>Whatever you do, teach by example.
It'll never happen (due to a lack of any formal on-paper education), but my ideal career would be me researching new things that are interesting to me in regards to math and programming. I'd love to research news things in the Join and Pi process calculi (and other interesting things with distributed computing) and write papers in LaTeX and whatnot; honestly, the more theoretical, the better.<p>Sadly, I think those jobs are mostly reserved for people who went through academic programs and have a bunch of letters after their name, so I stick around in the land of pragmatism.
My ideal career is actually a split one.<p>I'm working on turning my garage into a fully licensed winery so I can start producing hard cider commercially.<p>So in a perfect world, my time would be split 70/30 where 70% of my is spent making/distributing/marketing hard cider. Then 30% of my time is spent on lifestyle software businesses/applications
my ideal career would be to have a position probably related to tech where my work is to have a direct impact on people's life.By meaning tech i would love to have a job i which i am facing new challenges every day and solving them.Also my job should give me time to meet best minds around the world :)