@Will posted:The one thing you haven't said is what your old job was. And you haven't mentioned what your income was or skill sets are, other than repairing trains. A lot of posters have suggested tradesman jobs for you, but I don't think you were looking for career ideas. I think you have enjoyed a respite from the corporate world, and I totally get that. The corporate world can be pretty dehumanizing.
I think your last post- that you will keep your hobby a hobby- is probably a good call. Turning a hobby into a job can take the pleasure out of it- the reason you started it in the first place.
Glad to hear you got your batteries recharged and some fresh perspective, though. Good luck with the new job search.
Hi Will, for the last 5 years I worked in operations for an insurance company and before that I worked in a call center for 4 years, however I haven't always worked in a corporate job. Right after high school I started working in factories doing assembly. After doing that for a few years I landed a job as a service technician at a medical equipment company repairing various things like power wheelchairs, hospital beds etc. I did that for 6 years and that's where I learned all my electro-mechanical skills. After that I became a service technician for Sears doing laundry repairs in peoples homes. I only did that a year because a friend of mine who worked for the Minnesota Commercial Railroad got me a job working 12:00am to 8:30am as a warehouseman in the trans-load center. It was an extremely dangerous job unloading massive steel coils from train cars with a ceiling crane and stacking them into rows to be loaded onto incoming semi trucks. The reason I took the job besides the fact that I wanted to say that I worked for the railroad was that I actually drove an ALCO switcher on a nightly basis to pick up the new cars full of steel that were dropped off by the main line and brought the empty ones back up. It was an amazing experience to say the least but I could only do it for a year before the hours and fear of being crushed got to me. I attached a pic of the actual switcher I drove. So i've done alot of things in my career and i'm interested to see what comes up next for me.
