What does everyone want to do for their next job?

[Puck it]

My kids are 13 and 16. I get crap for taking it during the week too. I thought it was the perfect too.


Should have been a ski bum!!!!!!!

 

[bigbog]

College professor and D1 lax coach up in VT. I'm guessing my only option would be UVM for D1 lax. Maybe do some run kayak tours in the summer along with running a lax camp. Pay isn't important. Time and space to do my activities is key.

*Ditto deadheadskier!..:lol: :lol:

Grassi21, have you done any paddling/traveling at all in northern Maine??, most operations do northern New England.., not just one state. VT + NH = ~1/4 the water in Maine...

 

[MRGisevil]

1. Trophy wife

2. Open a series of bed & breakfasts all in back country. Affordable places in the middle of nowhere for skiers, cayakers, mountain bike & hikers, all kinds of outdoorsey types who don't want to sleep with their heads in the mud.

3. Take over the world.

 

[Kerovick]

My plan outta highschool (graduated in1992) was to lifegaurd in the summer and ski partol in the winter. I did that just like I did everything back then, half-assed! I lifegaurded in the summer at the beach and then moved to an indoor pool for the winter. Still sounds like a good life though!

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

My plan outta highschool (graduated in1992) was to lifegaurd in the summer and ski partol in the winter. I did that just like I did everything back then, half-assed! I lifegaurded in the summer at the beach and then moved to an indoor pool for the winter. Still sounds like a good life though!

Kerovick I like your signiture..It would be cool to have a job where I worked 60 hours a week during the off-season and then just spent the ski season living off my earnings and not working for 4-5 months..that would be mad steezy yo..

 

[Paul]

1. Trophy wife

2. Open a series of bed & breakfasts all in back country. Affordable places in the middle of nowhere for skiers, cayakers, mountain bike & hikers, all kinds of outdoorsey types who don't want to sleep with their heads in the mud.

3. Take over the world.

In that order?

 

[severine]

I'm not touching this subject with a 10 foot poll....

My wife reads these forums...

Oh come on, I know you'd rather be a ski bum than primary breadwinner for a SAHM, 2 kids, and a dog. There's always a chance to do that in retirement....

 

[Grassi21]

*Ditto deadheadskier!..:lol: :lol:

Grassi21, have you done any paddling/traveling at all in northern Maine??, most operations do northern New England.., not just one state. VT + NH = ~1/4 the water in Maine...

We have yet to visit Maine. It is on our list. We have numerous friends and family members that go up once or twice a year. One friend is looking to buy a huge piece of land for vacationing/fishing purposes. His goal would be to get 2 or 3 friends to purchase 2 - 3 acre subdivisions. The idea is to get members of the group to own a slice of the pie but have access to the total acreage..

 

[tree_skier]

My plan outta highschool (graduated in1992) was to lifegaurd in the summer and ski partol in the winter. I did that just like I did everything back then, half-assed! I lifegaurded in the summer at the beach and then moved to an indoor pool for the winter. Still sounds like a good life though!

I spent the first 8 years out of college lifeguarding in the summer and skiing in the winter (coaching/teaching/up to ski school director) I still have thoughts of what a good life it was for a single person. I also obtained a MBA mainly at night during that time.

 

[Kerovick]

Well, if I couldn't make a go of it at least you did! I'm perfectlly capable of living vicariouslly though you!

Thanks steezy, some werid guy on a forum I frequent said it.

 

[SkiDog]

Would love to open a cat ski op.....not likely, but who knows.

M

 

[bvibert]

Oh come on, I know you'd rather be a ski bum than primary breadwinner for a SAHM, 2 kids, and a dog. There's always a chance to do that in retirement....

Well at least we're on the same page...

 

[Nick]

I've got a new startup idea with a buddy of mine for a mobile application I'm working on. If that works out the way I want it too, I can spend my whole winter skiing and posting on AZ.

For now, I'm an IT project manager working on insurance software, exciting stuff!

 

[ERJ-145CA]

I had always wanted to fly but after doing the airline thing for a bunch of years flying has become just a job. The flying itself is fun but the schedule can be tough. If I could make the same money skiing or playing guitar I would. That's about it so it looks like I'm sticking with flying.

 

[hammer]

I had always wanted to fly but after doing the airline thing for a bunch of years flying has become just a job. The flying itself is fun but the schedule can be tough. If I could make the same money skiing or playing guitar I would. That's about it so it looks like I'm sticking with flying.

Same here...but flying for the military didn't work out and engineering work pays quite well (and sure beats digging ditches). I did manage to get a few ratings along the way though. I'd like to get back into flying but between keeping a house, saving for retirement and paying for kiddos to go to college I can only have so many expensive hobbies...

 

[Warp Daddy]

I'm living it now ~retired `` which I define as( "adolescence with $$")

Everyday is whatever the Queen and I want it to be ,

Have the means , time and desire to LIVE life, Ignore noize and negative nuts and simply enjoy the best thing in life ----Simplicity unencumbered by what often passes as the popular culture du jour

 

[Nick]

Same here...but flying for the military didn't work out and engineering work pays quite well (and sure beats digging ditches). I did manage to get a few ratings along the way though. I'd like to get back into flying but between keeping a house, saving for retirement and paying for kiddos to go to college I can only have so many expensive hobbies...

So you guys ar eall pilots... I've got a private pilot's license (got it when I was 16 years old, actually) but haven't used it in probably a decade. I loved flying but it really gets cost prohibitie. That's why I ended up learning paragliding, it's more like soaring and less stress worrying about all the "tedious tasks" of flying.

Still, I always loved being airborne. I should'a had wings.

I had actually intended on going to college to be a pilot, but I had changed my mind at the last minute... mainly because I was thinking when I got older I wouldn't want to be living my life in hotel rooms away from family.

 

[ERJ-145CA]

So you guys ar eall pilots... I've got a private pilot's license (got it when I was 16 years old, actually) but haven't used it in probably a decade. I loved flying but it really gets cost prohibitie. That's why I ended up learning paragliding, it's more like soaring and less stress worrying about all the "tedious tasks" of flying.

Still, I always loved being airborne. I should'a had wings.

I had actually intended on going to college to be a pilot, but I had changed my mind at the last minute... mainly because I was thinking when I got older I wouldn't want to be living my life in hotel rooms away from family.

That's the tough part, I've got a 8 year old boy and 2 year old girl and at this point all I really want to do spend time with them. At my current seniority I work a lot of weekends but have a lot of weekdays off, which is good for skiing but my son is in school when I'm off frequently. I'm usually gone for 3 nights then home for 2 to 4 nights.

 

[hammer]

So you guys ar eall pilots... I've got a private pilot's license (got it when I was 16 years old, actually) but haven't used it in probably a decade. I loved flying but it really gets cost prohibitie. That's why I ended up learning paragliding, it's more like soaring and less stress worrying about all the "tedious tasks" of flying.

Still, I always loved being airborne. I should'a had wings.

I had actually intended on going to college to be a pilot, but I had changed my mind at the last minute... mainly because I was thinking when I got older I wouldn't want to be living my life in hotel rooms away from family.

I was able to afford earning my instrument and multi-engine ratings because I was a military dependent flying on the cheap at the Aero Club and I was able to use GI Bill money for some of the training. Had a CFII who was nuts about doing partial panel stuff. The training for the multi-engine was done in an old Aztec that could barely climb on one engine on a hot day.

I don't know how the new pilots from places like Daniel Webster College manage once they complete their training...

 

[snoseek]

Spend as little time working as possible without going broke.