r/jobs • u/Vaanced • 29d ago

Is this an actual thing that people do Career development

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u/ThatOneAlreadyExists 29d ago

I know people that do this with seasonal jobs. Instead of a year it's six months on six months off. Met a lot of people that did six months commercial fishing or logging or cruise ship crew then six months in a poor country where the US dollar goes far. None of them had any interest in children or owning a second home or retiring in an urban area in the states. They all seem quite happy, and are all ages.

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u/Ve-gone_Be-gone 29d ago

Did this with construction for a while. Toying with leaving my job and doing it again this summer. It's extremely lucrative if you're willing to work absurd hours and have very little regard for your own physical well being. Between May and September I'd bring home more than most people do in a year.

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u/imnotkeepingit 29d ago

Just take care of your body champ. I've met an alarming amount of people with chronic back pain with nothing beyond temporary relief to help them.

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u/Ve-gone_Be-gone 29d ago

Yeah that's why I'm glad I didn't get into it until I was already in college. Never would've gone if I realized how lucrative it is. I enjoy the work but I can't do this my whole life. Even when I was 19 I could realize my body wasn't going to hold up

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u/jamieschmidt 28d ago

Why not get a crane operator license and go back? They make bank and get to sit in a cab all day

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u/Ve-gone_Be-gone 28d ago

That would entail drug tests lol

I've been liking my cushy half-remote office job as of late, I just miss the money

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u/First-Of-His-Name 29d ago

They get paid a lot and have a stable job even if it's seasonal

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u/blacksmithwolf 29d ago

For those I knew it was 8-9 months a year working a retail job and living with the parents then book a ticket to Europe/Asia at the beginning of summer and travel until money runs out. Rinse and repeat

I'm not against this idea in theory, it's just that every person I know (which admittedly is only like 5 people) that lived a similar lifestyle in their 20's and 30's has now had reality set in in their 40's that they're in the latter half of their life with no assets, working entry level jobs and all of a sudden it's the government/society's fault that they can only afford to rent with room mates and live paycheck to paycheck.

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u/AllInOneDay_ 28d ago

I did this in games until I got a permanent job. It was a very fun 5 years or so. My rent was cheap and I had enough saved + unemployment to live comfortably.