What field are you in?

[GMDino]

Sales in the construction/mining industry.

I like the place where I work.  I have a lot of fringe benefits like working very close to home and working 8-5 Monday thru Friday.  The employees are good and the boss is good.  Like any sales job it gets stressful and I have another boss that can be a royal pain in the neck (all the bosses are in sales too...very small company).

This was not my chosen profession.  And I insist that it is not a career but a job...but I've been there 19 years which is WAY longer than any other job I ever had.  I seemed to switch every three years or so.  Always to move up.

I've made three careers out of one skill:  I can talk.

I was a Radio DJ. Working boards and then afternoons and then morning drive.  Always in small towns.  I had no desire to move.

When the gigs stopped paying I started moving furniture and worked my way up in three years to managing my own store for the company.  We took that store from 49th to top 10 in three months.  But that company went from a private ownership to publicly traded and I saw the handwriting on the wall.

I pretty much fell into my current job through a friend of the family.  I had no experience but the owner was a wonderful man who worked for everything he had.  He took me in and taught me all he could.  The family friend got fired three years in to my working there.  The owner passed away tragically a couple years later.  But the family kept the business open and its been 13 years since then and we are still operating.

I doubt I'll retire from there.  Probably find something back in radio or media once I reach closer to retirement age.  At least that is what I want to do if everything else works out.

I also did a lot of wedding and event videography and my old radio partner and I ran a trivia night show at a couple local bars for awhile.  I do video editing and whatever else comes down the pike to make a buck here and there.

My heart will always be in radio though.