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how do you feel about what you do for a living?
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Mine is more like a Vacation. I am a retired Army vet who still works with training soldiers. Very fulfilling and the rewards are great. Monitarily it could be better like my last job but, I like the way my life is balanced more so now than before.
Thanks for asking the question. I think too many are chasing the all mighty $ with the hopes of achieving more when, quality of life is what they should be searching for. I was one of them until I woke up. I was always wanting to be "the boss" and chasing after that next promotion until, I took a look at it one day and realized that the stress was killing me. I am happy to say that I am stress free mostly, and really started to enjoy life.
Thanks for asking the question. I think too many are chasing the all mighty $ with the hopes of achieving more when, quality of life is what they should be searching for. I was one of them until I woke up. I was always wanting to be "the boss" and chasing after that next promotion until, I took a look at it one day and realized that the stress was killing me. I am happy to say that I am stress free mostly, and really started to enjoy life.
I am beginning my career with a job in B2B advertising sales. I like it just fine. I am good at it, I like helping my clients, and the money is right.
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Side note: If anybody is looking to do work with commercial property managers, I publish media for BOMA Georgia. We represent over 150 million square feet of office space in Atlanta, and our members include CBRE, Hines, Cushman & Wakefield, etc.
there are times I wish I had listened to my father and joined the Air Force... He was in for 30 years and retired in his mid 50s with a very nice pension.. The one thing that turned me off from the military was the constant moving..
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That was actually part of what I enjoyed - going to a new place every 3-4 years...
A job...something you do merely for a check, basically just getting paid for your time and not very rewarding.. there is little balance in family and work in fact more often then not the scale is tilted towards work because the more hours you work the more you make..
I put the needs of my family ahead of what I would really like to do for a living because law enforcement and antique furniture just don't pay enough.
I put the needs of my family ahead of what I would really like to do for a living because law enforcement and antique furniture just don't pay enough.
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My brother was career Army. Retired (LTC) and doing very well. His son, my nephew was in the core at A&M. Went to flight school (flew the Kiowa) and was sent in for the initial invasion of Iraq right after he got married. The way his service credit rolled up he could have retired at 42 I believe it was. Can't remember what his likely rank would have been but I think at least LTC if not full Col. At the time he was struggling with his decision to leave after his 6 years was up (due to flight school) I was near what would have been his retirement age and it sounded like an incredibly attractive no brainer. Then I remembered... nobody is shooting at me.
He did get out and is doing very well in his career.
I have to agree with the Enjoyed moving around. I tried to limit mine to every 5 or 6 years though. Especially when my 2 girls were teenagers. Now looking back I retired from the Army at 38 years old after 20 years of service. Sure I have aches and pains that I probably should not have but, now that I have been retired from the Army for 14 years. I would not trade it for anything. Life experiences alone were worth it.
as a kid it stunk..lol..leaving friends every 2 to 3 years..
I was 37 when I retired from the Air Force and while it's not a huge pension, the wife & I have medical benefits for life. My closest friends are still the folks I served with and I have been retired for 22 years...
