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morgousky

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Coached and taught high school since 2009. Got sick of baby sitting your kids and not being able to paddle that ***. These public schools are crazy today, epeciallly in my area.

So quit that and now part owner of a tanker hazmat business. Doing well and loving it. Make an average of more than double in salary, and at times triple it. I wish I could sell my degrees.
 

wildcatadam6

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Sales. I work about 30 hours a week and it's relatively low stress for great coin. As Hank said, it's better than manual labor.
 

snguy

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Own several satellite uplink trucks and production gear.
Spent most of the fall listening to national reporters plot on how to take out Trump and hide Hillary's flaws.
 

Lexie's Dad

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Semi-professional race car driver and amateur tattoo artist.

Or Bank Secrecy Act Officer for a medium-small community bank. Teach 2 online economics classes per semester and 1 ITV finance class for fun and extra cash.

I like my bosses and the people at work. I like the challenge of the job. Hard to say I really enjoy it though.
 

faithful fan

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Work in printing. Print the boxes for garbage bags, oatmeal and other misc stuff. Okay work but used to print book covers, dvd sleeves and video game booklets. Enjoyed that much more.
 
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allabouttheUK

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Full-time IT ****. It's what I've done for almost 20 years. Also do the weekend warrior gig. Might make it full time again in the next year or so.
 
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morgousky

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Semi-professional race car driver and amateur tattoo artist.

Or Bank Secrecy Act Officer for a medium-small community bank. Teach 2 online economics classes per semester and 1 ITV finance class for fun and extra cash.

I like my bosses and the people at work. I like the challenge of the job. Hard to say I really enjoy it though.

tattoos eww....
 

BlueVelvetFog

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Hey man I just carry the **** from point A to Point B. Thats it. It's a nice take and I don't ask questions. That's all I know. Quit asking!!
 

dgtatu01

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Actuary, I write a bunch of code.to do data analysis and predict claims costs for Humana. Love my job, used to adjust auto injury claims for Allstate. That job was the pits. People that are hurt in car wrecks are depressing.
 

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Actuary, I write a bunch of code.to do data analysis and predict claims costs for Humana. Love my job, used to adjust auto injury claims for Allstate. That job was the pits. People that are hurt in car wrecks are depressing.
What specific degree lands an actuarial gig these days?
 

Lexie's Dad

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Actuary, I write a bunch of code.to do data analysis and predict claims costs for Humana. Love my job, used to adjust auto injury claims for Allstate. That job was the pits. People that are hurt in car wrecks are depressing.
I learned about actuaries when I was finished or almost finished with school. Was always a highly ranked career.
 

allabouttheUK

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Nah, I'm a machine! eat healthy, don't drink or smoke, walk 5 miles a day, swim about 5 days a week. Just waiting to get hit by a car, or killed by a bull shark...LOL

Nah. You'll probably die of a massive heart attack while seated, or lung cancer that you don't even know you have...GOD's funny like that.

Just kiddin ace. Wish I had that kind of discipline
 
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BankerCat12

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Work for a local bank. Business development/private banking. I am mainly dealing with residential lending but also originate commercial loans and deposit gathering. It's a sales job.

I like what I do and the people I work with/for. They let me do my own thing and no micromanaging. Golf membership is a nice perk. I haven't filled out a sales call sheet in 6 years.

All that being said, I would take the huge paycut and teach basic family finance to HS kids if it was in their curriculum. It's needed, that's for sure.
 

29er

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I live my life in the city. Its no easy way out. The days moving just to fast for me.
 
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sg24_

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Work in finance and in youth/family ministry. Get paid for one and not the other. Like one and not the other.

Between both, usually have around 14-16 hour days 6 days a week. It is starting to catch up with me. O the seventh day usually get in around 9 hours. Most of the time spent outside the office is visiting and phone calls or counseling. Barely have time to poop. In both areas people always try to take advantage of you. Learned and still learning to have thick skin. Spring time though I cut back because of my kids sports. I never have time for much.

Sleep is not a luxury. Most of the time it's worrying over some kid's life who is not my own child. 95% of my time is dealing with kids whose parents chose drugs over them. Also deal with a lot of kids in poverty. You really don't realize how many hungry kids are nearby.
 
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I am a sports information director at a D3 school. It's like marketing and PR, but I do a whole bunch of other **** because D3, we don't have a department for every task like they do at the D1s. I enjoy some of it, very much dislike other parts. A lot of hours, 50-60+ hours a week with many night and weekend hours is fairly normal from September to whenever the teams seasons are over in the spring. Looking to get out into something with more reasonable hours.
 

dgtatu01

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Work in finance and in youth/family ministry. Get paid for one and not the other. Like one and not the other.

Between both, usually have around 14-16 hour days 6 days a week. It is starting to catch up with me. O the seventh day usually get in around 9 hours. Most of the time spent outside the office is visiting and phone calls or counseling. Barely have time to poop. In both areas people always try to take advantage of you. Learned and still learning to have thick skin. Spring time though I cut back because of my kids sports. I never have time for much.

Sleep is not a luxury. Most of the time it's worrying over some kid's life who is not my own child. 95% of my time is dealing with kids whose parents chose drugs over them. Also deal with a lot of kids in poverty. You really don't realize how many hungry kids are nearby.
I do this too. Unpaid pastor role at a small local church in a part of the Louisville area dealing with drugs. One of the young men I have spent time with over several years and who has been in and out of jail 3 times has finally cleaned up. He did it on his own this time and has been clean for 5 months or so. He is finally focused on the right things faith, his family, his future so keep your head up and keep fighting. The world needs people like you out there. I told someone the other day that I want to hit death with an empty gas tank. No reason to leave energy out there on the table when there are so many people to serve, so many places to go and see, and so much stuff to learn.