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Work environment is everything. Seems like you're in a good place. |
I went from API fuel tank inspector traveling 250+ days a year, to private lending mortgage broker, now am outside sales in construction industry. My whole career has been a 180. Love where I’m at now though. Inspector - solid money, fun going to new places, too much travel life in hotels, wife/me wanted kids, needed more work life balance. Mortgage broker - private lending world is a strange place, praying on the weak essentially which I wasn’t into, cubical life killed me, only did it for a year and a half. Outside sales - great work life balance, meeting new people and not being in office, I’m a golfer so the perks are great for that haha love where I’m at now but definitely scary to do the 180s especially once I had kids/mortgage. |
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I failed java and realized tech is not for me at all. Especially having expectation to finish xyz amount of code by date. |
I'm doing the 180 right now. Did the safe accounting thing and got my designation, hated everything about it, jumped ship a few times thinking it'd change with new scenery - it didn't and after a few years sucking it up it really took its toll on my mental health until one day I just said no more. Currently back in school for something I've wanted to do since high school and I absolutely love it and am thriving. My only regret is not doing it sooner. I realize I'm quite privileged to be able to go back to school while still having a roof over my head and food on the table. A lot of folks don't have that luxury. But if you have the means, I highly recommend it. You'll be working the next 30+ years of your life, might as well spend it doing something you enjoy/are interested in. |
ya'll a bunch of brave ass mofos. Id be terrified to go back to school to do something i actually wanted to do (like become a mate/captain on a tug boat). I always wanted to be a pilot too but i got shitty eyes and weigh too much for crappy Cesna's |
Forgot to add, it's not all rosy as the tradeoffs are significant. Going back to school has pushed back our plans for home ownership and starting a family. My only saving grace here is that the gf also spent eons in school so she knows how it is/it's time for her to pull up her bootstraps while I've got 2 months of summer break :lol |
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I'm training this week for shift mgr in Burnaby. |
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An extra patty would be perfect to go with the $5 Baconator app offer. |
I hear extra patty at Wendy's, I want in. |
RS Baconator meet?? |
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Such a rich person flex to buy one so you can fly to the island to grab a pie and go home. Quote:
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The pilot road is no easy task. It baffles me how little they make until they make captain at a bigger commercial airline. My best friend is a commercial pilot for a major airline and he’s mid 30s, started the process when he was very early 20s; Slowly working his way through the smaller airlines, up north for a bit, then Canadian commercial, then transferring to bigger airline, now finally copilot on 737. During Covid when no one was flying he went to sweep grain at the railyard in van, making mid 80s or so…..he’s now flying human beings around the planet and had to take a significant paycut to get his seat back. Eventually will be making 250k + but holy shit it’s a long journey to that money. |
I can't give away too many. Wendy has numbers for shrinkage/waste. Give away too much Pattys and Cheese they will beat me with jumper cables, those items are highly monitored as they cost a lot. I can maybe do like 2 pieces of cheese or one patty a day. |
how many to patties does it take to get a Golf R? |
A lot man, a lot. |
There's that $5 Baconator deal, I'm good with that. |
Someone say baconator? |
wendy's meet? |
Kinda down before summer ends. |
No donuts in my parking lot pls. |
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I started out reading the original post thinking this sounded like such a bad idea, but then I remembered just how honest-to-god no-BS, genuinely happy and excited you are about cars. And I vividly remember that from something like 15 years ago! I'd buy a car from you even if it wasn't the best deal: sometimes the value of a sales experience is not calculated in dollars. |
^ Whao... SFICC ftw hahaha.... hahahahah thanks... it helps that we are actually competitive =) and being next to Toyota helps ... a lot btw the person who got me this interview/job was also part of our club... in the same year as me, can you guess who? hehehe |
Congrats [mention]dark0821 [/mention] on the YTD sales and new rollie [emoji57] Glad you're killing it after making the big jump! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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