Let's level the field, for fun's sake... you have no savings account and 6 months to get a non-Internet related job.
If you want, your first position can be a stepping stone, but it has to be realistic for you. (You can't be a carpenter, if you don't know how to swing a hammer, but you can be an apprentice. If you can bang nails, well, then carpenter I guess is an option for you.)
What would you do? Just curious.
I think I'd like to work on a ranch. Or maybe get involved with a hunting/fishing charter service and build it up. Something where I stay active and outside for another 10 years or so.
I don't think I would stay in the cities.
This may sound odd, but I would probably start a cross state recycling business, taking advantage of some arbitrage opportunities.
great question but, damn, i'm drawing a blank ...which is sort of unsettling. I've been thinking of getting into money management.
I'd find work at a non-profit...probably doing something training dogs for the disabled. Even if all I did was clean out dog pens and feed to start with.
The only thing that really really drives me is to be able to give back to others.
Money never has done it for me...except to give it out...and I wish money *did* do it for me. I wish I could get motivated by it. I often wonder what the hell is wrong with me that it just doesn't give me the motivation that it gives everyone else.
Not everyone Heather. :)
I believe A man is expected to feed his family, so that has an impact.
But thats a tough one... as I need to bring in a crust. My mind wanders about what business makes enough to support me, and nothing much does.... I think farming.
I think I would enjoy it, and while the pay would be poor and the hours long, I think I could get a job if only for that fact.
Potentially I might be able to rent a farm of my own eventually.
Something outdoors for sure - maybe something like a park ranger, Cape Town is almost one large national park!
A Bum?
Before internet I was doing hotel management then delivering workplace training. Too old for the hotel game now, so I guess I'd go back to teaching.
However that involves lots of working away from home and now that I have a family I'd probably end up getting someone else to do the actual work ;)
Beer brewing. I'd have to learn how to do it commercially.
taking it right back in time to when i started, i would have just went to uni and went on a course for bioinformatics or similar (I was 18)
nowadays, it's very hard to say, but probably a desk job.
No way would I ever go back into an office job.
If we are assuming that the internet is not an option, but that computer technology still was, I would do programming of some kind.
If that was out, then I would need to find a job that kept me well away from talking to 'normal' people - long distance lorry driver (but not the serial killer type - at least not to start with, anyway)
what I'd like to do: snowboard instructor in an Austrian or Italian ski resort
what I'd probably do: something analytical in financial markets
>computer technology
anything you want, but the truck driver job is more along the lines I was thinking. I love driving. (Not city driving.)
>i'm drawing a blank
My point exactly. My own brain just kinda sputtered and quit. It all started with that job I posted in Spain. My mind started hopping from 'I don't ever want to work at a bank'... to physical labor, to working on a ship, to baja racing support team, something in Australia or New Zealand... still playing around with the idea.
>love driving
I am in the process of getting my CDL. Dad needs an extra licensed driver for the semi. It's really not that difficult after you learn how to shift. (And yes, I knew how to shift a car or regular dump truck, but learning how to shift a semi is a WHOLE different ball game...)
Mountain guide/ski instructor, probably eventually moving into local travel agency for active sports.
Got the qualifications and actually do a bit of summer guiding (walking) to get away from computer.
(As Rooftop said, a bum. I used to treasure an ancient sweatshirt from those days that read 'Real Skiers Don't Have Real Jobs'.)
>> drawing a blank
I'm the opposite, I have loads of things I'd like to do, although no savings account makes things harder, because most of mine would take money to setup.
I'd like to be a baker, or a house-party cook, or see if I make a living from chickens, bees and selling a bit of produce at farmers markets, or I'd love to teach people about sustainable energy and general tree-hugging-hippy-shit stuff (as someone I know so eloquently calls it).
Not sure if I'd have the skills for it, but an interiors stylist sounds fun too - basically shopping on other peoples money and hunting down props fo pubs and photoshoots.
Or wine taster? Do you need a chief beer taster Brad?
>Do you need a chief beer taster Brad?
Yes. Feedback is important. ;)
I couldn't go back to an office job either.