|
If you're unwilling to make the time investment to become an architect, you can work for Vandeleigh Industries. Or tell people you do.
OK, serious time. RB, you're really at a cross roads. What I haven't seen you say is that you don't like working for someone else. And you don't seem to have a vision of bringing a creation to the market. That's all fine, but it does rule out striking out on your own as an entrepeneur.
If you become a lawyer, you've got a minimum of a 3 year school commitment (with the first year where you'll rarely see your wives). After that, you'd be doing grunt work for a minimum of 5 years, maybe longer. If you end up in corporate law, you'll spend long hours making decent money, but in a corporate culture that thrives on long nights. The magic of billing by the hour. There are alternatives, but there's a long period of suck for most lawyers at the beginning of their careers, and it's not a 9-5 job.
Reading your OP again for the 4th time, something occurred to me. I think you're already answering the question for yourself, which is really what needs to happen any way (moronic be the soul that takes career advice from the likes of us). Have you considered getting certified as a counselor and doing web-based sessions with clients across the country? You have the ability to handle the technical end, I'm sure, and I can't imagine that the local polyamory community is large enough to support you financially. Why not reach out to those in similar circumstances elsewhere?
As for me, getting legislated out of existence is a distinct possibility if the current soft insurance market reverses itself too sharply. The conditions are going to swing the other way eventually and if they swing too far too fast, the Feds will probably do to P&C what they did to Health Insurance. Positing that it comes to pass, I'd probably either try to swing onto the underwriting side or into the risk management side. Insurance is a bit of a black hole in that people rarely leave the industry permanently, but if I had to do that, I'll probably try to go do development for one of the cultural institutions in town. I'm pretty good at getting people to agree to things they initially didn't want to do.
__________________
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - B. Franklin
"There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo
|