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Best career to allow free-time for skiing

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je_t.aime_canard
Posts: 79 - Karma: 790
aerospace engineering student

what career has:
a) decent pay scale progression
b) opportunities to work hybrid
c) hours either condensed or with decent pto

have been thinking of working at a vc firm or hedge fund, idk why but seems more appealing than staying in engineering
Jan 8 2025 9:44AM
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profa_212
Posts: 8989 - Karma: 37,109
1) Marry Rich
2) Crab fisherman
3) Teacher/lecturer/professor. Preferrable to be college rather than high/middle/elementary
3) Various healthcare professions: Nursing, PA, Doc etc give you the money and often have options for working 3 12s or others.
4) look into various govt jobs. Health Dept, enviro dept, corrections, DOT etc etc etc. Many offer hybrid or WFH and many around me are 4 day work weeks. Decent pay great benifits for the most part.



Honestly though, as an engineer you can hit all of your criteria in that field after a few years. Work your way up and almost every engineer I know gets great PTO or 4 day weeks with opportunities to be Hybrid or WFH.
Jan 8 2025 10:00AM
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CalumSKI
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literally any career where you work for yourself lol
make your own hours and just ski when ur not working
Jan 8 2025 10:12AM
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KungKalmar
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Start your own business, preferably dropshipping or social media manager. After you have made your first dollars you take the next step. Rent a lambo, few luxury clothes and a rolex for a day. Start making tiktoks about how you escaped the matrix. Then start selling a side hustle course for idiots. After gathering some following and more money you can take the 3rd step. Crypto rug pull. Advertise your new shitcoin as the next bitcoin in Tiktok which will get you enough stupid people to perform a rug pull. At this point you should have few million bucks in your pocket. Now you can start skiing. WOOHOO! It's all about taking advantage of stupid people. The sad truth about this is that millions of retards have fallen into things like that.

Something in the world of finance does sound appealing.
Jan 8 2025 10:21AM
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je_t.aime_canard
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profa_2122) Crab fisherman


how do i fish for crab in the mountains?
Jan 8 2025 10:27AM
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OregonDead
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Fishing sea captain dude gets the most days for sure so the crab fisherman thing is totally valid. Guy I know had a schedule where he could take the entire winter off every winter for decades and in the summers he went to AK. Because of the cost of insurance he became a school janitor when he retired from fishing. That gig seems pretty chill too since he doesn't have to get to work until the afternoon so he still skis a full 1/2 day every morning before work
Jan 8 2025 12:47PM
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SlushSeason
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Aerospace engineering is not it. Remote/hybrid jobs are not common and hours are generally not very flexible.
The exception is if you get a friday-sunday weekend support job for aircraft production or maintenance. Those generally make you work 10-12 hours/day, 3 days/week, so you can ski mon-thurs. The tradeoff is your social life will suck and you'll never get promoted because you'll never see your boss.
Crab Fishing is the best option
Jan 8 2025 3:40PM
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CantCork
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There’s always a lot of engineering roles for hire at defense contractors. They almost all do a 9/80 schedule. You work 9 hrs a day but get every other Friday off. That’s what I do and it’s not bad.
Jan 8 2025 5:38PM
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Biffbarf
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Be a union operator at some sort of plant (power/chemical/petroleum/etc). Terrible hours but also phenomenal opportunities to ski and great pay. Usually some iteration of one day on one day off, two on three off,etc all 12hr days and nights but if you're close to the hill you can get mad laps in.
Jan 8 2025 6:31PM
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theabortionator
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Only fans
Jan 9 2025 3:04AM
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freestyler540
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Sailing! I work as an engineering officer. Super diverse job; operate, maintain and repair a floating city.
Work for me is from June to November, sometimes a bit earlier. Last year I grossed 71,000 CAN for about 5 month work. Then found a nice place to live in mountains to ski all winter. Also the company pays for travels.
Jan 9 2025 6:13AM
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SendyMcSendyface
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OF
Jan 9 2025 10:54AM
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je_t.aime_canard
Posts: 79 - Karma: 790
theabortionatorOnly fans


SendyMcSendyfaceOF


you guys wanna buy pics of my feet after a toe bang?
Jan 9 2025 11:01AM
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SmokedGouda
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je_t.aime_canardyou guys wanna buy pics of my feet after a toe bang?

Fresh company idea! We can market to the podiatrists of the world and get hella chicks bruuhh.
Jan 10 2025 12:32AM
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Lemuel
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The marina / boatyard path has worked out well for me.
Jan 10 2025 3:05PM
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theabortionator
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je_t.aime_canardyou guys wanna buy pics of my feet after a toe bang?


I have no money but if you can make feet picture hustle work send it. Yolo
Jan 10 2025 5:49PM
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WoFlowz
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A girl who ik from coaching is a PA and works three 12 hour shifts then spend her other days coaching or working at a ski shop. Any other time is spent skiing! She frequently takes vacations as well.

My dad skis 2-4 days a week and he’s a Federal legal council, works remotely and makes good money. Could make more but have less flexibility in the private sector. My mom on the other hand is a mid-tier director for a hospital/health care system and gets 1-2 days off a week if she’s lucky, wouldn’t go that route if I were you.

Got another buddy who’s a Market Analyst for a boutique investment/private equity firm and he skis all the damn time, has the money for it, and goes on some rad trips.
Jan 12 2025 9:39PM
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Slowbro
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je_t.aime_canardhow do i fish for crab in the mountains?


Go to Crab Mountain
Jan 12 2025 11:33PM
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