jacob_cannell comments on Optimal Employment - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 01 February 2011 01:10:51AM 9 points [-]

Police or fire fighter in the San Francisco Bay Area is a low barrier to entry high salary high status job and not very dangerous.

I think small retail is an even better deal than that. Terribly run stores in SF stay in business and well run ones prosper ridiculously.

Many LW readers are coders who could be Google quality if they worked at it a bit, though the outback might be a good place to get practice without distractions.

PUA enthusiasts can obviously make money selling instruction in Game, and should be able to make money in sales in general.

Comment author: jacob_cannell 01 February 2011 05:28:06AM *  2 points [-]

PUA enthusiasts can obviously make money selling instruction in Game, and should be able to make money in sales in general.

I'm curious about this one (PUA-instructor) - it seems to be a limited niche (as a specialized personal training service), it's already colonized by early adopters, and it requires artfully developed social skills. But sales - yeah.