Complete career change: have you done it?

[satori]

Cheers PG for the reply. Soooo many factors to consider, but it's something we're both really talking about making a move and doing. Cheers!

[XXX-er]

June 7th is the 20 yr anniversary of my big job change, i was right sized/ canned/ given the boot AKA losing the lifetime job when a couple of managers wander in at 8am to hand me a package & ask for the office keys/ LT passwords and just like that i was jobless after > 30 yrs.


The first thing i did was book lunch with my lawyer/ ski buddy/ paddling buddy who read the argreement and told me they made a pretty good iron clad deal as one would expect from the mother corp


I had been a corporate animal (kind of) since age 18 so how to become a ski bum was not at first apparent, I MAY have been too serious, you would think it would be easy but becoming a ski bum was not really apparent so it really took 4 yrs to hit my stride just smoking dope/ skiing chasing a woman/ drinking beer


So it was like a 4 yr program eh

[Vt-Freeheel]

Sucking ones own dick is a career change?

[Hott Butt Mud]

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Cheers PG for the reply. Soooo many factors to consider, but it&#39;s something we&#39;re both really talking about making a move and doing. Cheers!

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Are you like 75 years old?</p>

[SKIP IN7RO]

Sucking ones own dick is a career change?

golf clap

[mcski]

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I hear it’s good work if you can get it

[MarcusBrody]

What does the potential growth path look like at the potential new job? At this stage of my life/career, I would not leave my current job that I like for an extra 10-30k if it meant traveling one week a month (and possibly not being able to easily ski/bike on work days). I have a 9 year old. I want to be around as much as possible. My wife and I both have decent jobs at the moment and I&#39;d of course love an extra 10-30k, but it wouldn&#39;t really have a major effect on our everyday life (though obviously it&#39;s always good to put more in retirement). Since we&#39;ve passed into a comfortable income, I really prioritize quality of life things over much else.
Now, if this was 10 years down the road - when my son is in college - maybe I&#39;d feel differently. But for now, it would be hard to get me to move unless I really wanted the job (or saw a much better advancemeth path over the next 5 years).

[Bunion 2020]

Been through 3 complete career changes in my life, heading for the final on in 2026 when I fully retire. Most real jobs suck, all jobs are a trade-off of time for money and everyone has to decide what their time is worth. No one ever said, damn I wish I had put in more hours at work.

[Name Redacted]

I've changed careers a bunch of times. Finally decided to invest in a business and become my own boss. It is blue collar AF but makes 2-3 times what I was making before. I work less, take more vacations and am overall happier, the first few years were stressful though. For the right person, I'd recommend it.

[Thaleia]

Sucking ones own dick is a career change?

yikes big time loser energy there bro

[mcski]

I've changed careers a bunch of times. Finally decided to invest in a business and become my own boss. It is blue collar AF but makes 2-3 times what I was making before. I work less, take more vacations and am overall happier, the first few years were stressful though. For the right person, I'd recommend it.

What kind of biz? Did you buy it or start up from scratch?

[m2711c]

wondering the same thing.

[Bunion 2020]

I've changed careers a bunch of times. Finally decided to invest in a business and become my own boss. It is blue collar AF but makes 2-3 times what I was making before. I work less, take more vacations and am overall happier, the first few years were stressful though. For the right person, I'd recommend it.

Same. And there can be a lot of satisfaction when depositing the payments.

[Name Redacted]

I bought an operating automotive windshield replacement business about 4 years ago. It is small, one bay shop, I have two employees, one works from home as the office manager. I do the work, and inspect every job. So it is work, and it was a very steep learning curve but we focus on doing high quality work, and we charge for it. Someday maybe I'll have my tech take over, but to be honest, I kinda like the work, and enjoy doing it. I don't get to ski every day anymore, but winter is my slow season so I get out enough to keep me happy. Summers are busy AF for a few months. I'd like to expand it to other locations but it is tough finding quality employees these days. That's the biggest challenge, but at least I can do the work by myself if I have to. Being a business owner is not for everyone, but I just got sick of being an employee, I was a brewmaster for a few different breweries for about 13 years. Fun job, decent benefits, lots of perks, but not a lot of pay. I get asked all the time if I miss it, and yeah, I miss the social nature of the job, but I don't miss a lot of other things about it. I was pretty burned out and over it when I got out. I pretty much only drink pilsners now, haha. Before that, I was a helicopter pilot. I got chewed up and spit out during the recession. It was fun, but there's a lot of challenges to doing that for a living. Thought about and tried to get back in a few times over the years but at my age now it just doesn't make sense. If anything, I should have gone the fixed wing route. It provides a lot more options for employment, better QOL, and pay/benefits.

[mcski]

Wow, thanks for the detail. Always interested in the paths people take and yours is about as diverse as any. Congrats

[exsparky]

I was a stock broker right out of college.



32nd floor of the mailbox building cash register wells fargo whatever building you see on the Denver skyline. My office overlooked the Warwick Hotel pool by 10 floors, it was the playboy club in the 1970s. It was dry the whole time I was there though.


It was 2000 and the dot com bubble had burst and market tanked. One guy left before me. We were the home office of 17 locations but Boiler Room had come out and I thought the whole thing was going to tank. It did about 4 months later.


I went and started up on my own at 24 as an electrician passing my test while doing my first job. Going from white collar to blue sounded pretty dumb at the time but my co workers checks bounced.



Who really knows what the other road looks like.

[XXX-er]

&quot;&quot; I was a brewmaster for a few different breweries for about 13 years. Fun job, decent benefits, lots of perks, but not a lot of pay. I get asked all the time if I miss it, and yeah, I miss the social nature of the job, but I don&#39;t miss a lot of other things about it &quot;&quot;

They seem to drink alot of beer I think maybe too much for me, more than I think I would want to be drinking


I always joke with the local brewmasters that really sexy part where he buddy hold up a glass to the light and smiles at the bubbles is a small part of the job mostly its washing vats

[Bunion 2020]

When I was working as a Ski Patrol Director my position was FT/YR. During to off months I did a lot of different things, drove a haul truck, ran equipment, built ski area related infrastructure.

The Director of Development had me get certified as a SWPPP Administrator (Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan) as the company had about 8 Stormwater for Construction permits active and I inspected them and pushed the paperwork. I did that as a part of my duties for about 7 years.

When our company was taken over I saw the opportunity to try and make that a business. The DOD stayed on with the new company and agreed to back my play as an independent contractor doing the same work.

I established an LLC (Sole Proprietorship) and leveraging other connections I gradually built the client list. After 10 years I was invoicing > $ 200K a year but it was a lot of work doing it solo.

I encouraged another ex-patroller to do the same and sent her a lot of clients, I am in the process of getting another ex-patroller buddy set up doing the same things.

Total niche business, needs to be in an area where building and development are balls to the wall. Now I am lurching towards retirement, that will probably look like writing Stormwater permits and having them handle the administration for one more year and then me getting out entirely.

I am still astounded that it worked out as well as it has.

[Edgnar]

This thread promoted my semi annual return to TGR. I went from paralegal to snowboard bum (check post history) to grad school in DC and just recently to Denver. Some luck, some hard work and I’ve got a job I enjoy and a business that makes it possible for me to do something I care about. It’s doable, but it takes a lot of work to go from one career to another. It helps if you can either stay in one industry and change functions or stay in a function and change industries. Doing both in one go is hard.

[Danno]

Nobody seems to realize that xxx bumped a 13 year old thread, but it's an interesting topic nonetheless.

No career change for me until I completely hang em up, then maybe I'll become a Walmart greeter

[Bunion 2020]

What makes you think no one noticed?

[NBABUCKS1]

I went from Teacher (10 years) to IT - system administration, Engineering Apps/servers management(6 years now). I've only worked a buts in seats job in IT and it's not my favorite. I wish I was remote. I dabbled in some field service at my old job and I really enjoyed that, but no way i'd want to be full time travel. I got to goto some pretty remote spots (Mountain top in alaska, oil rigs in the gulf, California deserts) and that was fun. Wouldn't mind some part time level job like that with big pay.

[XXX-er]

wow 10 yrs later it is almost like even more people no longer have the same lifetime job anymore SO anybody ever been given the job counseling as part of the package to help them get another job ?

I think it was Warren-Shepell back then the mother corp had them give courses learn to write a CV and talk to a counselor by phone who helps you get re-employed

I told counselor yeah the retirement deposits started right I donot think I need I need to work anymore so I never completed her counseling

I could tell from her voice she was not sure what to think

[mcski]

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No career change for me until I completely hang em up, then maybe I'll become a Walmart greeter

I’d like to hear what Satori is up to now

[Edgnar]

It’s been about 13 years since I was a regular poster and here I am.