Skerbitz, I never meant that what *I* do doesn't involve communicating with people. I look down at my phone some days and see 50+ incoming phone calls (and that doesn't count out going calls). I like trading and I like managing. Managing gives me the people contact that trading is lacking. BTW, I came from a programming background and these are the things I encountered quite often that involve people: Interviewing to get a job Selling a custom program to a client Initial desing meeting Design review Co-ordination of interfaces with other systems Code Walk-thrus Demonstrations of the app to the point thus far Working with QA people on how it should work. The dreaded time-reporting into 50 meaningless categories. I've done it as an employee, a contractor, and self-employed for clients as well as marketing my own canned app. Even the guys who you lock in a room and through Pizza and Mountain Dew to have to communicate with someone. (Quite often not fun communicating with those guys, particularly when you tell them it's more important that they take an hour to change the color scheme of a window so that color blind people can see it, than take 3 days to re-write an algorithm to shave 20ms off the processing speed.) I still maintain my position as well, but horse-race gambling and recylable redeeming seem to also meet the criteria so far. (Just can't nail down if there really are successful horse racing people).
With a couple of solar panels and a satellite dish for an internet feed you still could be trading while eating your rabbit stew
Then you're back to trading as the career and trapping rabbits is equivilant of getting groceries (or for the equivilant of keeping people to a minimum... having WebVan deliver your groceries)
Unfortunately, Webvan went out of biz! hehe. But Albertson and other traditional grocers are picking up the slack. Wonder if they will deliver in the middle of nowhere... hehe
Well, We've had this going for a few days now. And in *my* opinion, only 2 other careers have met the criteria: Betting on horses... but I question if there are many if any people profitable with this. Collecting and redeeming recyclables... This is definite as I've seen people making a living at this. i wouldn't call it a *great* living, but they do survive on it. Also, the ceiling is definitely limited on this.
Just got back from the dumpster. Had a bad day yesterday... Thanks for declaring my other business a winner. I always said to myself that I would never be in a position to rely on others for my living. Ain't gonna be another man's caddy so to speak...