Thoughts on Education, Career and life of an Economic Enthusiast

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Freeman Posted: Mon, Jun 4 2012 3:08 PM

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If you are easily bored by long-winded speeches, you can scroll to the bottom paragraph.

In my sparse twenty eight years of living, only in the last eight have I come to learn and grow passionately about Free Markets, Libertarian ideals and Economics. Driven more by passion than ability, I choose an economics major in college and earned my degree without much difficulty (coming to learn of Austrian Economics only when I worked abroad in China - of all places...). Thankfully, the Mises Institute has enabled me to be further my passion and education in this subject.

However, having returned from my temporary work abroad, and finding the Job Market in South Florida less than exciting, I feel that I am mired in stagnation towards my pursuits of finding a job, much less a career in which I can employ these passions and skills. I am currently a restaurant manager, generally enjoying the skills I am developing here but still longing to just begin work in something related to economics and free markets. (For sheer lack of someone to talk to I actually wrote a small book on Economics - I hope to get it published)

I have come to impression that asking for advice of this sort tends to give off a general aura of incompetence but nonetheless, having grown to love Free Markets (and especially Austrian Economics), I have found fewer and fewer individuals of whom such advice can be found. I suppose the notion that such a person would spend their days roaming the Mises forums is a bit overly optimistic.

None the less: I am young, have no debts and no major responsibilities. What I do have is a passion for a career in what could possibly be labeled as the most ostracized school of economic thought. I am currently studying for the GRE so that I might attain a Masters in Econ but the Education bubble has me worried that this is not the best time for a piece of paper and no job. In an effort to simply gain experience I am also looking to apply at several different Free Market organizations, but some appear to be strongly opposed to the Libertarian taste for Free Market Economics. Have any of you felt likewise? What do you believe is the better course of action to take? What ideas/opportunities have I missed? Where have you found the best advice? What are your thoughts? 

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