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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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Originally Posted by EvoFire (Post 9106055)

I'm in the same boat, but I got nowhere to jump to. I'm in tech and to make a salary that can support my mortgage is impossible as a junior anywhere else :alone::QQ:

For the longest time, I thought I made a mistake going into accounting/finance and I should be in tech because I rather slap my keyboard in a different sequence to make more $$$$.

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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Originally Posted by trollface (Post 9106109)

Stop by Wendy's some time I give you extra patty

are you working today? XD

I'm training this week for shift mgr in Burnaby.

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Originally Posted by trollface (Post 9106109)

Stop by Wendy's some time I give you extra patty

Offer open to all RS'ers? :lol

An extra patty would be perfect to go with the $5 Baconator app offer.

I hear extra patty at Wendy's, I want in.

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Originally Posted by Badhobz (Post 9106132)

I flew a Cesna for 30 minutes a few weeks ago and I weigh like 230lbs :awwyeah:

Such a rich person flex to buy one so you can fly to the island to grab a pie and go home.

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Originally Posted by SkunkWorks (Post 9106129)

What'd you end up doing? I feel like post CPA, it's so hard to leave once you make above average salary for 20-40 hours of work, add remote on top and this is probably what retirement feels like.

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?

There's that $5 Baconator deal, I'm good with that.

Someone say baconator?

Kinda down before summer ends.

No donuts in my parking lot pls.

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Originally Posted by dark0821 (Post 9106103)

I guess I am coming up to my 1 year mark...

whao... time really flies...at my age, I actually wish time will go slower haha....

Job has been great... income has been good? but also super unpredictable, I can literally make it rain one month and eat dirt the next lol (well still better than my last job even on my worse month) but... once you taste the highs... the lows feels pretty low...

Otherwise, mentally doing great!

- meeting new people and just chit chatting
- sitting into the newest and greatest (well.. for a 50K car lol)
- experiencing just all kinds of cars, and management encourages it, because only when you drive your own used inventory, you can then find its strength and weakness then match them to the clients wants and needs, otherwise a real shit example of a competitor can be your ticket to selling your own new inventory lol
- and most of your service techs are car guys thru and thru, so break/lunch has always been too short
- managers have been great, absolutely no micro-managing, but do give you actual advice when you are stuck in a deal and goes up for help, also.... car guys thru and thru, cant stress that enough, we can talk for hours and hours on the new GT3 or R32, if it wasn't for work, I would actually just sit at the managers desk because they just have so much insight on the topics that I want to know more about....

Hoping to keep the momentum going and hoping to have actual cars to sell next year lolo, our new car inventory is still a joke lol

Man, goes to show that when you really love what you're doing, you're going to really succeed with it.

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!

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