Bored of Trading

[mauzj]

I'm getting a bit bored of trading and am thinking of doing something more worthwhile for humanity. Alas I don't really have many skills. Here's my background:

2:1 BSC Mathematics from a proper English Uni
2 Years in an IB.
4 years as prop trader for private firm
6 months as a local.

I can do Matlab, Java, Excel Jockeying.

I am 29 years old.

Last time I sent out my CV I had no replies, hence me becoming a local.

Any tips would be appreciated.

 

[arabianights]

Volunteering - VSO
CSV > Volunteer > Volunteer Home Page (did this on gap year)
DO-IT Home

?

 

[Gumping]

Coral Cay Conservation

I did this on my gap year. Fun!

 

[rawrschach]

United Nations Volunteers: Home

VolunteerAfrica - volunteering opportunities in Africa

etc etc

 

[wasp]

I'm getting a bit bored of trading and am thinking of doing something more worthwhile for humanity. Alas I don't really have many skills. Here's my background:

2:1 BSC Mathematics from a proper English Uni
2 Years in an IB.
4 years as prop trader for private firm
6 months as a local.

I can do Matlab, Java, Excel Jockeying.

I am 29 years old.

Last time I sent out my CV I had no replies, hence me becoming a local.

Any tips would be appreciated.

I note everyone has given you links to charity works but by the looks of your post, you want something that earns a living too?

Surfers Against Sewage - Not just Surfers, Not just Sewage

Why not something like this? Work in the finance side and help keep our local oceans clean and full of life at the same time?

 

[Hoggums]

Here's some suggestions for jobs...

Wrinkle Chaser

This is the person that irons wrinkles from shoes as they are being made to ensure they are perfectly smooth when you buy them.

Chicken Sexer

A chicken sexer sorts through baby chicks to determine if they are male or female, and then segregate them.

Citrus Fruit Colorer

A Citrus Fruit Colorer, with the help of steam and chemicals, gives citrus fruit a more natural coloring, because fruit is usually picked before it is fully ripe.

Celluloid Trimmer

A Celluloid Trimmer shaves down a golf club and then adds celluloid bands onto the golf clubs to make the leather grip stay in place.

Odor Judgers

smell armpits all day to help make effective deodorants

Furniture Tester

The La-z-Boy Company (and probably others) employs furniture testers to check out their recliners.

Cowpuncher

You can herd, castrate and brand cattle. Then, when you get bored castrating cattle, you can repair fences, watering troughs and do other maintenance work on the ranch.

Alligator Wrangler

This is more of a dangerous job than a strange one, and probably not worth the pay, unless you get a T.V. show like the The Crocodile Hunter!

 

[arabianights]

Chicken Sexer

A chicken sexer sorts through baby chicks to determine if they are male or female, and then segregate them.

Except in Norfolk.

 

[chilltrader]

"Odor Judgers" - Can we choose male or female armpits?

If female ones, then I'm in ... and also willing to go er.. further ;-)

 

[Lee Shepherd]

Hoggums,

I'll take:

Furniture Tester

The La-z-Boy Company (and probably others) employs furniture testers to check out their recliners.

Before others apply.

 

[arabianights]

Well if you want a job that will make money... Considered becoming a criminal defence lawyer? Would be great fun too.

Get over to balii.org and start reading some of the criminal appeal court judgements... Then visit some court cases at the old bailey or whatever and decide if you enjoy watching them. I find them fascinating myself.

 

[shadowninja]

Find your local Macmillan Cancer Centre and volunteer there. That's what I do.

 

[arabianights]

Sorry link should be British and Irish Legal Information Institute

 

[Mr.J-Arthur]

Why not continue to trade if you're consistently banking?

You could save those profits and start your own business. Do you have other hobbies and interests? Build a business around the things you enjoy most, it could be very rewarding and profitable.

 

[shadowninja]

Like your thinking.

Or you could trade and donate all profits to your favourite charity. Or perhaps have a school built in a third world country.

 

[Gumping]

Like your thinking.

Or you could trade and donate all profits to your favourite charity. Or perhaps have a school built in a third world country.

A friend of mine did something like this. they did a big fundraiser and built a new building for a school in Sierra Leone. As a part of it, 10 came over from Sierra Leone on an exchange visit.

They did a bunk on the way to the airport and only 4 went home again!!

 

[Directional]

Or perhaps have a school built in a third world country.

i went on a package holiday in Kenya a few years ago. got bored of the hotel complex, and ventured out into "real africa" - figured out how to use the local public transport system - "matatu's" are the crazy little bus/cum taxi's where everyone seems to be hanging on to the size of a too-small van with too-many people crammed into it.

met a guy in the bus who offered to show me round his local village, which was literally a mud hut shanty town with grubby kids chasing chickens round.

Met the village chief, who took us to the school - hot shack with kids on the floor and teacher writing on chalk board. amazing stuff. I offered to come back with some sweets or some treat for the kids - the chief suggested, if we wanted to help, they didnt have any desks. Great suggestion! the local carpenter didnt seem to have had any work for a while as he was extremely enthusiastic about making a desk, and only wanted twenty quid/300 shillings for it.

We were invited back to see it two days later. big desk+bench for ten kids, which managed to seat twenty of them. the kids were thrilled and sang songs for us, and the carpenter had carved our names into the side, which made for an amusing photograph.

photo attached.. spot the mzunga's (white people)

Not quite building a whole school, but still quite gratifying return on a couple of ticks worth of charity

 

[mauzj]

Great story! Very brave of you to stick your photo on here too!

i went on a package holiday in Kenya a few years ago. got bored of the hotel complex, and ventured out into "real africa" - figured out how to use the local public transport system - "matatu's" are the crazy little bus/cum taxi's where everyone seems to be hanging on to the size of a too-small van with too-many people crammed into it.

met a guy in the bus who offered to show me round his local village, which was literally a mud hut shanty town with grubby kids chasing chickens round.

Met the village chief, who took us to the school - hot shack with kids on the floor and teacher writing on chalk board. amazing stuff. I offered to come back with some sweets or some treat for the kids - the chief suggested, if we wanted to help, they didnt have any desks. Great suggestion! the local carpenter didnt seem to have had any work for a while as he was extremely enthusiastic about making a desk, and only wanted twenty quid/300 shillings for it.

We were invited back to see it two days later. big desk+bench for ten kids, which managed to seat twenty of them. the kids were thrilled and sang songs for us, and the carpenter had carved our names into the side, which made for an amusing photograph.

photo attached.. spot the mzunga's (white people)

Not quite building a whole school, but still quite gratifying return on a couple of ticks worth of charity

 

[shadowninja]

Nice work!

 

[Vrothdar]

"matatu's" are the crazy little bus/cum taxi's where everyone seems to be hanging on to the size of a too-small van with too-many people crammed into it.

They are crazy aren't they. When I visited my uncle in Tanzania I got myself a t-shirt which claims that I've "survived the dala dala" which is unfortunately untrue as I never used one. That's the only thing I feel like I missed out on.

photo attached.. spot the mzunga's (white people)

How to pronounse mzunga is really annoying me know. I just can't remember =[

I strongly advice visiting African countries and doing it properly. My uncle is involved with developing their tourism and catering so we went to see a couple of stunning hotels which would have been a complete waste of a holiday to stay in imo. There's so much to do, experience and learn about that could only be experienced by spending as little time as possible in areas aimed at tourists. That holiday really changed my views on life.

I was invited to sit at the head table of the (the actual name of the party eludes me, awful I know) pre-wedding party of a very well connected family that my uncle knows even though I'd only met them the day before. It's amazing how welcome I was made to feel and I'm ashamed to say that 8 months on I'm already forgetting what I learned out there.

Still, I did climb a coconut tree
http://i35.tinypic.com/mt8mfm.jpg

Visit an outdoor market cum restaurant before going to a very nice bar
http://i37.tinypic.com/34rt4xk.jpg

and get to see the lesser spotted 5 legged zebra...
http://i35.tinypic.com/2rek6k8.jpg

 

[mauzj]

Inspirational.

Why are you allowed to post a photo of a Zebra *****, when my poll about how many trader's had used masseuse services was deleted a few months ago?

They are crazy aren't they. When I visited my uncle in Tanzania I got myself a t-shirt which claims that I've "survived the dala dala" which is unfortunately untrue as I never used one. That's the only thing I feel like I missed out on.



How to pronounse mzunga is really annoying me know. I just can't remember =[

I strongly advice visiting African countries and doing it properly. My uncle is involved with developing their tourism and catering so we went to see a couple of stunning hotels which would have been a complete waste of a holiday to stay in imo. There's so much to do, experience and learn about that could only be experienced by spending as little time as possible in areas aimed at tourists. That holiday really changed my views on life.

I was invited to sit at the head table of the (the actual name of the party eludes me, awful I know) pre-wedding party of a very well connected family that my uncle knows even though I'd only met them the day before. It's amazing how welcome I was made to feel and I'm ashamed to say that 8 months on I'm already forgetting what I learned out there.

Still, I did climb a coconut tree
http://i35.tinypic.com/mt8mfm.jpg

Visit an outdoor market cum restaurant before going to a very nice bar
http://i37.tinypic.com/34rt4xk.jpg

and get to see the lesser spotted 5 legged zebra...
http://i35.tinypic.com/2rek6k8.jpg