What do you guys do?

Sales rep for a Major player.Work at least 50 hours a week.Tough to get out during the week days now.Just for a little side job I shoot weddings now and then.

 

I work in Commercial Lines insurance. I have been a Producer (sales) for the last 4 years and Team Lead for the NC/SC sales team. I recently switched roles to Marketing, which in insurance means dealing with the carriers we write with and getting accounts put together for Producers. After being in Financial product sales for the last 14 years I was fed up with commission and wanted to just broaden my knowledge of the industry and companies. Before that I was a loan officer for a Credit Union, Financial Planner, and then a lending rep for another Credit Union to car dealers selling our loan program. I love what I do even though I am in Raleigh (2hrs inland) but since I work for the 6th largest broker in the US and 7th in the world as long as I am getting accounts done I can take off and surf and since I spend most of my time talking or emailing I can work from the beach (thank God for smartphones!) so I get to surf whenever I want pretty much. I get wonderful benefits, great pay and we even still have a classic company funded pension plan in addition to the 401K we offer that the company matched contributions too up to 8%! Who says Corp American doesn't take care of their employees anymore?!? My bro's who live at the coast do seem to find it harder to make as much income as here in Raleigh so it is harder for them to take trips, buy boards and many of them work hourly jobs so heading out to surf may mean going with out pay or burning one of a few precious vacation days, I get 3 weeks paid leave a year, goes to 4 weeks at 5 year mark this Dec plus unlimited sick leave so again I have lots of freedom. Keep in mind this job came after 10 years of working for much less and earning the skills needed to get such a position. Best of luck on your search for a job man.

 

Bro your gonna end up jackin it in San Diego

 

34th St.: You have the freedom now to make major changes in your life and take some risks. Go for it.
If there's a company or organization that you really feel passionate about and want to work for, take a lower level job with them to get your foot in the door and then work your way up.

I graduated from college in CA, went into the Navy for 4 years as an officer, got out in 1984, and immediately moved from San Diego to the Ventura area to take a Navy government job as a logistics manager. I was never really career minded. Just wanted to make enough to be adequately comfortable (not living pay check to paycheck), live by the water, SCUBA dive and windsurf. Those were my things. At the time, I thought the logistics job would be temporary until I found something better.
But 29 years later, I'm still at it. Along the way I acquired a wife, 4 kids, a house and a bunch of cars. In 1997, we move to VA Beach, but it was essentially the same type of job in a different location. Eight-plus hours a day, year after year in a job for which I had no real interest, took its toll. Started studying Zen and martial arts to help cope. I should be grateful for having been steadily employed during all that time, but it would be nice to be able to get some real satisfaction or sense of purpose from one's work. The nature and priorities of the job have changed so much over the years. We now spend 75% of our time reporting on the other 25%. Never ending c.s. "urgent" data calls of questionable value. We're supposed to be supporting the Fleet, but it's hard to tell what we're really accomplishing anymore.
Enough of my venting. I probably sound like Newman when he goes nuts complaining about his postal worker job.
But I have my family, and I work on a base (Dam Neck) that's right on the beach. I can go surfing every day - morning, noon, and evening - if I wanted. Free parking and no crowds. In that sense, I am a lucky man.

 

Early 30s surf grom that hit it big on a keno game at the track back in '07 and took the dividends to multiplicity by parlaying some ridiculous algorithmic money line bets on Super Bowl XXLIII. Needless to say, as Forrest put it "we don't have to work no mo. And I think that's good!"

That was all just freestyle but I think I might use that story out this weekend when a wahine tries to interrogate me for info prior to DNA collection.

 

Pilot for Int'l cargo airline. 2weeks at work, 2weeks off every month. Sometimes get to go to Hawaii, lots of Europe, Middle East and Asia. Free travel on any U.S. Airline anytime, however I dont use that benefit much anymore.

 

I'm an Intern at Ishbowl.com

 

vibrating buttplug repair.

 

I'm an engineer but I hate being chained to a desk. My goal is to invent sh*t in my garage and eventually sign my own (large) checks... I have some interesting ideas in the hopper. Only problem is that many a man has lost his mind on that journey.

 

Manage the desk at Hot Rod Tattoo in Atlantic City. Do side work in restoration and rough framing/finish work. Run a non profit called #skateac based in Atlantic City, NJ working with the city and state to build AC's first skatepark. In my free time also developing a surf/skate/punk/graffiti/urban style soft/hard goods brand called Local Thirteen. I keep myself busy.

This year marks 3 years since 4 of my friends moved from NJ to CA. 1 of my buddies (who is a hard worker and a good dude) is doing very well for himself.. got himself a California girl and a decent job within his first couple years. The second one knocked up some chick so he's stuck and the other two are back in dirty jersey. From what I understand... California is beautiful... but its filled to the brim with the worst type of people there is. Also, crowded line ups, surfboards on every car, and I hear their "shoobie" problems are WAY worse than ours.

With that being said, if you do move out there I wish you the best. Your perspective on life usually determines how you will live no matter where you choose to settle down. Find the stoke out there!

 

i beat off a lot and watch surf videos since its been flatooskies. I am a sales rep also actually. flexible schedule when there are waves I am on it

 

haha classic

 

What I do..
Step 1 Identify from municipal and private prints where existing electric, water, gas, data, etc cable is laid.
Step 2 Mark existing lines
Step 3 Dig where new line is going.
Step 4 Lay conduit
Step 5 Snake CAT 6 or fiber cable
Step 6 Fill hole.
Step 7 Update plans
Step 8 Go coach son #2 hockey team
Step 9 Go to job # 2 and work as dockworker unloading and loading trucks.
Step 10 Chavez meet Jack Daniels, Jack, meet Chavez
Step 11 Wake up wife by rubbing my bulge against her rump. (That's romance at Casa de Chavez)
Step 12 Sleep
When do you surf you ask?
Whenever I damn well please. If I feel like surfing then the whole don't get dug until the next day. trust me, no one's in a hurry at these job sites.

 

OP, you are in the classic post-college dilemma. for the last 4 plus years you have been fed a line by your school that riches await upon graduation. the reality is that isn't true and hasn't been for decades especially with a non-specialized degree. so now you have a choice. you can hold out for the dream job that will probably not happen out of the box OR you can identify the dream job and work towards getting that. your best best is to take anything that will get you real world experience in your field so you can position yourself for that dream job when it is available.

 

I work for a major Limousine manufacturer located in MA. I sell vehicles, parts and I am the service manager. when people have issues with their vehicles they call and yell at me. Not the most fun job in the world, but its a paycheck. We have 70+ employees, so there are lots of cool people around, but my first thought each morning is.."I hate limos"
34th, Go for it. Move out there if that's your thing, but the job market out there can be pretty fierce. try to get your foot in the door before you get there, or atleast make a plan of attack. It can be pretty easy to get caught up the relaxation and coolness of the area. It seems like no one in that state has a job, so its easy to get in the mindset that you don't need one either. I lived in CA for four years and I don't regret one second. But when your poor out there, your poor. Oh, and alone. which can suck

 

Production manager at a Paper Mill in New Hampshire. I commute about 30 miles each way so I can live 5 minutes from the beach. Degree in Mech. Engineering and an MBA. I'm a douche bag. Anyway, enough of the boring stuff. Who I REALLY am...

- Dad to an 8 month old man.
- Mediocre husband
- Drummer...I have been paid for it
- Brewer. I hope to be paid for it someday
- Life long skier
- Long time wakeboarder
- Pretty new surfer
- Oh, I also repair vibrating buttplugs on the side.

I tend to like most people, so come to Maine. I'll show ya around.

 

on the bucket list!

 

Teacher and Coach. Get all the holidays and summers off. Pay sucks. I used to love what I do. Now it's just OK. Kinda winding down my career. Side art projects. Stained glass, reclaiming, recycling junk furniture and all sorts of odds and ends, including surfboards and bikes into other functional "objects de arte". Plan on moving permanently to beach in five years and supplementing my substantial retirement income with my art projects. Actually, hoping to have enough money to keep my boards repaired, waxed and the beer flowing like beer.

 

Divorce lawyer. My office is five blocks from the beach here in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ, and I work maybe 40 hours a week on a bad week. House is half mile from the beach. Used to work for a huge firm in Manhattan and hated my life and never surfed. Made a lot of money, but almost had a nervous breakdown from the stress and maniacal senior partners. Took a pay cut originally, but now I make more as a partner at my firm, and my lifestyle is a 1000 times better. I surf every time there are waves, and I am getting back into competitive surfing, and loving life with our first child who is only 3 weeks old.

Unsolicited advice....if you just graduated and you have no strings holding you down, make your move out west. If it doesn't work you can always come back. At a certain point you won't have that option anymore and you will kick yourself in the ass for not at least trying. My brother did the same thing with snowboarding, jumped from here to Park City and lived the high life for 8 years before coming back. I did a smaller version and spent two years living on the OBX after college, basically scrimping by but surfing my brains out.