[bacon]

I find some of the most interesting people often are currently working in jobs that are a complete contrast to what they were trained and educated in doing for a career.

One of my favorite comedic actors is Ken Jeong who is famous from his work in the Hangover and the tv show Community but before he started acting he was a Doctor.

Also Roosh who found an really unique nitch as travel PUA writer went to school for and worked as a scientist. So I guess what I am wondering is are men like Roosh and Jeong outliers or is it relatively common for educated professionals to study and work in a field for years then flip the switch and do something completely different for a living?

[WestCoast]

Nah roosh's ex-scientist background shows in his writing style.

Just like my finance background shows in my typing, low tolerance for bullshit and being a straight up dick when wrong things are said.

In order to succeed in anything you have to break convention, no surprise really.

[Kabal]

Intelligence, ambition, and drive are not distributed evenly across individuals.

Intelligent, ambitious, and driven people will be good at whatever they feel like putting their mind to.

I'm more impressed by people who are good at things that lie outside their putative purview of expertise, or good at things they're not known for, than I am by people who are good at things they're "supposed" to be good at, or known to be good at.

Even the subject matters that weren't Von Neumann's best, he was pretty much better than everyone else on the planet at.

Steve Nash is reputed to have been a professional football-level talent.

Vladimir Nabokov was Russian but was one of the finest English prose writers.

[germanico]

I got into med school, then graduated as a lawyer, then got into law enforcement, then drifted into menial jobs until I started out in personal development.

Training or education has nothing to do with it, you take the opportunities that present themselves to you, or you create your own. When nobody would hire me as an ex-cop I created my own.

And here I am, making my stand against the world.

[MikeinMKE]

I'm dying to find my niche - I dream of one day having a job/career that I love. Something entrepreneurial I suspect.

[OSL]

Steve Jobs - college dropout, learned calligraphy at Reed College

Takes the PC to the market with Apple

Fired from Apple, starts NeXT and Pixar

NeXT acquired by Apple and he becomes CEO and proceeds to disrupt music, entertainment, telecoms, computing, between 1997 and 2011.

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Mark Cuban tried out a bunch of random things but they were all ultimately somewhat related to the tech industry. You can his ebook "How to win at the sport of business" on Amazon for under 5 bucks I think. It's basically a collection of his top blog posts. I loved reading it.

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MJ Demarco of The Millionare Fastlane graduated from university with degrees in finance and marketing then proceeded to do some of the following occupations for the 4 years following university:

-Chinese food delivery boy
-Flower delivery boy
-Limo driver

He eventually moved from Chicago (seasonal depression) to Phoenix and then dabbled in web design. He scraped by on a web design living and then created and sold Limos.com, a lead aggregator for the limousine industry nationwide. He sold it for 1M USD and the investors proceeded to tank the business. He bought it back at like 250K, improved the business, and sold it again at I think 10-12M USD and retired at some point in his mid thirties.

(I might be off on the ages and the precise value of his business when he sold it)

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Felix Dennis was a crackhead hippie

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Martha Stewart was a model and stockbroker.

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JK Rowling was nearly homeless and totally bankrupt before growing a $400M USD empire in children's novels.

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I sort of hijacked this because this is all people who eventually became entrepreneurs who built a brand and became millionaires.

Steve Jobs said that we have to trust that the dots will connect.

Good luck.

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